The limits to "NASCAR Nation": Sport and the "recovery movement" in disjunctural times

Sociology of Sport Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 517-539

  Newman, Joshua I ^a   Beissel, Adam S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77950598556     PISSN: 07411235     EISSN: 15432785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/ssj.26.4.517     Document Type: Article

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