Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
About the Book Series
The social, cultural (including media) and political study of sport is an expanding area of scholarship and related research. While this area has been well served by the Sport in the Global Society series, the surge in quality scholarship over the last few years has necessitated the creation of Sport in the Global Society: Contemporary Perspectives. The series will publish the work of leading scholars in fields as diverse as sociology, cultural studies, media studies, gender studies, cultural geography and history, political science and political economy. If the social and cultural study of sport is to receive the scholarly attention and readership it warrants, a cross-disciplinary series dedicated to taking sport beyond the narrow confines of physical education and sport science academic domains is necessary. Sport in the Global Society: Contemporary Perspectives will answer this need.
Cricket in the 21st Century
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By Souvik Naha, Dominic Malcolm
April 14, 2025
This book examines the ways in which cricket has reflected and reproduced some of the social and political tensions of the twenty-first century. Cricket’s struggle for global recognition and the shifting concerns about cricket’s perceived ‘character’ provide two of the most significant ...
Special Olympics: Inclusion Debates and Equity in Sport
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By Florian Kiuppis, Daniela Schwarz
April 14, 2025
This book brings together academic work on Special Olympics and specifically on the social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in various sport contexts and other areas of life, by ways of both empirical research and theoretically informed papers. Inclusion in sport is a topic that ...
The Champions? Thirty Years of the UEFA Champions League
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By Mark Doidge, Yağmur Nuhrat, Radosław Kossakowski
March 18, 2025
Covering the impact on domestic leagues, clubs, fans, and players, this book is an interdisciplinary exploration of 30 years of the Champions League and how it has impacted football. The year 1992 has become a key year in the development of football. Not only was the Premier League formed in this ...
Eric Dunning and the Sociology of Sport
1st Edition
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By Dominic Malcolm, Ivan Waddington
January 30, 2025
This book celebrates the life and career of Eric Dunning. Eric Dunning was a pioneer of the sociology of sport, firstly known for his ground-breaking theoretical work with Norbert Elias, and his study of the development of football. Subsequently he published seminal work on amateurism, ...
Forced Migration and Sport: Critical Dialogues across International Contexts and Disciplinary Boundaries
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By Ramón Spaaij, Carla Luguetti, Nicola De Martini Ugolotti
January 30, 2025
This book aims to extend and deepen conversations among scholars, policymakers, and practitioners about the role of sport in relation to contexts and issues of forced migration. The chapters in this volume critically analyse and interrogate the implications of existing approaches, practices, and ...
The Sport Mega-Events of the 2020s: Governance, Impacts and Controversies
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By Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen, Joel Rookwood, Daniel Parnell
January 30, 2025
This book explores various social, cultural, political and economic issues through the lenses of various sport mega-events in the twenty-first century, including the Olympic Games, and the World Cup and European Championships in football. In a time where sport mega-events are closely followed by ...
Why Fans Matter?: Fans and Identities in the Soccer World
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By Kausik Bandyopadhyay
November 29, 2024
This book explores the meanings, significances, and impacts of the complex identities that soccer fans, especially those of men's soccer, represent worldwide. The chapters in this volume construct and reconstruct fandom in terms of diverse fan affiliations from local to global level, and from ...
Football’s Past Revisited: Further Investigations into the Early Development of the Game
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By Graham Curry
October 28, 2024
This book delves into the complex, yet fascinating evolution of football. From a relatively unruly mob game played on festival days, the game was adopted, codified and 'civilised' by the major English Public Schools and then diffused into the wider society to become a codified, modern sports-form. ...
The League of Ireland: An Historical and Contemporary Assessment
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By Conor Curran
August 26, 2024
2021 saw the centenary of the formation of the League of Ireland, the Republic of Ireland’s primary professional association football league. This new collection draws on the work of a number of leading historians of Irish soccer and seeks to examine a number of previously under-researched aspects ...
COVID-19 and the Soccer World
1st Edition
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By Kausik Bandyopadhyay
May 27, 2024
The spread of COVID-19 and the consequent pandemic since early 2020 have brought about unprecedented changes in all spheres of global life, creating a new sense of (in)security with social distancing, physical isolation, quarantine and lockdown becoming buzzwords to combat the disease. As in all ...
Interrelationships Between Sport and the Arts
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By Jonathan Long, Doug Sandle
May 27, 2024
This multidisciplinary collection examines different dimensions of the interrelationships between sport and the arts. It is a consequence of the Fields of Vision initiative that challenges their typical separation into distinct realms. Whether at school or in the highest realms of public life ...
Sport and Nationalism: Theoretical Perspectives
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By Stuart Whigham
February 08, 2024
Sport and Nationalism: Theoretical Perspectives aims to advance the academic study of the interconnections between sport and nationalism by, firstly, reviewing the current ‘state of play’ in this field of study and, secondly, highlighting the potential for the development of future ...