The Greening of Golf

Sport, Globalization and the Environment

Brad Millington, Brian Wilson

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Manchester University Press
24 September 2019

Sociology: sport & leisure; Sport & leisure industries; Sporting events, tours & organisations; Golf

Series: Globalizing Sport Studies

Golf is a major global industry. The sport is played by more than 60 million people worldwide and there are more than 32,000 courses in 140 countries across the globe. This book looks at the power relationships in and around golf, examining whether the industry has demonstrated sufficient leadership on environmental matters to be trusted to make weighty decisions with implications for public and environmental health. The first comprehensive study of the varying responses to golf-related environmental issues, it is based on extensive empirical work, including research into historical materials and interviews with stakeholders in golf such as course superintendents, protesters and health professionals. The authors examine golf as a sport and as a global industry, drawing on and contributing to literatures pertaining to environmental sociology, global social movements, institutional change, corporate environmentalism and the sociology of sport. -- .

By: Brad Millington, Brian Wilson
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 367g
ISBN: 9781526143662
ISBN 10: 1526143666
Series: Globalizing Sport Studies
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 24 September 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part I: Introduction and tools for seeing golf sociologically 1. Introduction: approaching golf and environmental issues 2. Light green to dark green: how to make sense of responses to environmental problems Part II: Background and history 3. Waging a war on pests: golf comes to America 4. Golf in consumer culture and the making of Augusta National syndrome Part III: The light-greening of golf 5. The turn to responsible golf and the roots of golf's light-green movement 6. Environmentalism incorporated: professionalization and post-politics in the time of responsible golf 7. Light-green regulation? Environmental managerialism and golf's conspicuous exemption Part IV: The dark-greening of golf 8. Anti-golfers across the world unite! Global and local forms of resistance to golf-course development 9. Organic golf 'on the fringe': the potential and challenges of a chemical-free golf alternative Part V: Conclusion 10. Reflections, recommendations and minor utopian visions for a game we love Index -- .

Brad Millington is Lecturer in the Department for Health at the University of Bath Brian Wilson is Professor in the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia, Canada