Kenyan Running

African Affairs- An excellent monograph on the phenomenal success of Kenyan middle distance running which will be of interest to a wide readership including everyone with a serious interest in athletics from all over the world, scholars with a specialist interest in socio-cultural studies of sport and specialists in African Studies. Provides an exemplar for future scholarly work in comparative studies of sport and studies of the sports globalisation process. ...lavishly illustrated book... The Geographical Journal International Review for Sociology of Sport- The book is an excellent example of the virtues of a multidisplinary approach to the cultural and social of sport...an excellent study The Sports Historian- An excellent account of the emergence and development of Kenyan athletics. This carefully crafted text demonstrates, time and again, the socio-cultural determinants of sporting success...the authors provide a series of astutue historical geographical insights...This is a book that can rightfully claim to be both imaginative and path-breaking

Audience measurement · Globalization · Kenya · Media studies · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports Analytics and Performance · Sports, Gender, and Society · Athlétisme · Coureurs · Course à pied · Runners (Sports) · Running · Social aspects · Social aspects of Running · Social aspects of Track and field · Social life and customs · Sports · Track and field