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Sport and Human Rights

About the Book Series

The Sport and Human Rights book series aims to encourage and promote high-quality research on one of the most important issues in contemporary sport: sport’s impact on human rights. Featuring the work of established and emerging scholars and practitioners from around the world, from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and employing a spectrum of methodological approaches, the series examines the positive and negative human rights impacts that sport can have, from mega-events to grassroots, but also explores sport’s potential to be a force for good and to have a positive impact on human rights and society.

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The Routledge Handbook of Mega-Sporting Events and Human Rights

The Routledge Handbook of Mega-Sporting Events and Human Rights

1st Edition

Edited By William Rook, Daniela Heerdt
May 06, 2025

The Routledge Handbook of Mega-Sporting Events and Human Rights is the first book to explore in depth the topic of mega-sporting events (MSEs) and human rights, offering accounts of adverse human rights impacts linked to MSEs while considering the potential for promoting human rights in and through...

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