Sporting Peripheries

Peripheries of cohesive subsets

Network analysts have developed a number of techniques for identifying cohesive subgroups in networks. In general, however, no consideration is given to actors that do not belong to a given group. In this paper, we explore ways of identifying actors that are not members of a given cohesive subgroup, but who are sufficiently well tied to the group to be considered peripheral members. We then use...

Sporting Traditions

This book represents a delightful collection of essays on Welsh sport, in particular the Welsh sport of rugby union football and its place in Welsh society. Gareth Williams has provided sports historians with some of the best accounts of sport in the Principality over the years and 1905 And All That is no exception. Avid readers of sports history will recognise some of the articles, however, si...

Are Visual Peripheries Forever Young?

The paper presents a concept of lifelong plasticity of peripheral vision. Central vision processing is accepted as critical and irreplaceable for normal perception in humans. While peripheral processing chiefly carries information about motion stimuli features and redirects foveal attention to new objects, it can also take over functions typical for central vision. Here I review the data showin...

Relativization, Intonational Phrases and Rich Left Peripheries

Nature-driven Path for Peripheries

Peripheral countries or regions are frequently forced to follow globalisation processes and there is a danger for peripheries of losing their significant competitive advantage, the natural environment, which can be the basis of their future development. This paper argues that there are methods which can harmonise with Nature and, at the same time, be competitive. A new definition of competitive...