Research on Sport Space and Sport Geography of Contemporary Western Academic Circles

The literature was reviewed to examine the academic research of contemporary Western academic circles.Which is more representative is that:Maguire,in the context of Britain and American,discussed the relationship between sports and space and place;Bourdieu carried a clear reference to the existence of a sport field in the France context;John Bale adopted modern cultural geography landscape approach to review sport landscape as a text of human sport.They represented contemporary Western scholars,who had conducted extensive research issues related to the sport space.The "space" is a basic,broad concepts,clarify sport being on the spatial and temporal dimension;"field" displays a "social relationship" within "space","landscape" is a comprehensive overview of the new form of contemporary sport.These concepts do not come from the background of the same subject,but their common point is the issues of sport being space.Regardless of the concept of the space,field,or place,landscape,the focus of researchers is actually concerned about the "human being" in the sport space.