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.
The 1935 Australian Cricket Tour of India: Breaking Down Social and Racial Barriers
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By Megan Ponsford
January 29, 2024
The first Australian cricket tour to India possesses an inherent intrigue that, for inexplicable reasons, has fallen into obscurity. Megan Ponsford rectifies this through her investigation of the uneasy relationships between Australia, British India and Indian nationalism during the interwar period...
The Potential of Community Sport for Social Inclusion: Exploring Cases Across the Globe
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By Hebe Schaillée, Reinhard Haudenhuyse, Lieve Bradt
January 29, 2024
Social inclusion is a pressing issue confronting all levels of sport today, and community sport in particular. Sport is being promoted as an inclusive environment in which people of all backgrounds and abilities can participate and access a range of social and health benefits. Moreover, sport is ...
The Professionalization of Action Sports: The Changing Roles of Athletes, Industry and Media
1st Edition
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By Guillaume Dumont, Holly Thorpe
January 29, 2024
Action sports have undergone dramatic growth, commercialization, and institutionalization over recent decades. This book uncovers the social, political, economic and organizational dynamics of their professionalization. After sketching some of the main transformations at stake in the field, the ...
Face to Face: Enduring Rivalries in World Soccer
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By Kausik Bandyopadhyay
September 25, 2023
While rivalry is embedded in any sporting event or performance, soccer, the world’s most popular mass spectator sport, has been an emblem of such rivalries since its inception as an organized sport. Some of these rivalries grow to become long-term and perennial by their nature, extent, impact and ...
Moments, Metaphors, Memories: Defining Events in the History of Soccer
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By Kausik Bandyopadhyay, Souvik Naha
September 25, 2023
As the most popular mass spectator sport across the world, soccer generates key moments of significance on and off the field, encapsulated in events that create metaphors and memories, with wider social, cultural, psychological, political, commercial and aesthetic implications. Since its inception ...
The Ultras: A Global Football Fan Phenomenon
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By Mark Doidge, Martin Lieser
September 25, 2023
Over the last 50 years, the ultras have become the most widespread, outspoken and spectacular form of football fandom across the globe. Whilst the ultras phenomenon began in Italy, then spread across Southern Europe into Northern Europe, it is now the dominant style of fandom in North Africa, South...
Bearing Light: Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement
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By John J. Macaloon
June 30, 2021
In recent decades, five to ten times as many persons have turned out for the Olympic flame relay as have watched Olympic sports contests live. Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement: Bearing Light, the first anthropological analysis of the contemporary torch relay, exposes and ...
FIFA World Cup and Beyond: Sport, Culture, Media and Governance
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By Kausik Bandyopadhyay, Souvik Naha, Shakya Mitra
March 31, 2021
Soccer, the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, has long been a site which articulates the complexities and diversities of the everyday life of the nation. The imaging and prioritization of the game as a ‘national’ or an ‘international’ event in public opinion and the media also play a ...
Extraordinary Sportswomen
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By Susanna Hedenborg, Gertrud Pfister
June 30, 2020
As in many other fields, in sports too, women were latecomers and considered as the ‘other sex’ – at least until the twenty-first century. When sport developed in its modern forms towards the second half of the nineteenth century, women were (and to a certain degree still are) considered too weak ...
From Olympic Administration to Olympic Governance
1st Edition
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By Emmanuel Bayle, Jean-Loup Chappelet
February 14, 2019
Lausanne, the Swiss city IOC (International Olympic Committee) President Juan Antonio Samaranch honored with the title "Olympic capital" in 1994, is now the administrative capital of world sport. The past century has presented Olympism with many challenges and that continues to be the case today; ...
Football, Community and Sustainability
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By Chris Porter, Anthony May, Annabel Kiernan
February 07, 2019
A lack of ‘sustainability thinking’ is evident at the heart of many of the problems that football faces today; from the huge amounts of money that clubs seem compelled to spend on what are often short-term gains – and the speculation, debt and market-centred ideology that goes with it – ...
Junior and Youth Grassroots Football Culture: The Forgotten Game
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By Jimmy O'Gorman
January 17, 2019
Football is ubiquitously acknowledged as ‘The Global Game’ and/or ‘The People’s Game’ – everyday all-encompassing terms familiar to anyone with an interest in football which illustrate, albeit nebulously, the game’s international reach and popularity. Yet much academic and popular attention has ...