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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.

70 Series Titles


A Social and Political History of Everton and Liverpool Football Clubs The Split, 1878-1914

A Social and Political History of Everton and Liverpool Football Clubs: The Split, 1878-1914

1st Edition

By David Kennedy
January 11, 2019

This book focuses on the advent of professional football in Liverpool and, in particular, the formation of Everton and Liverpool football clubs and their development prior to World War I. This book details the factors that led to the early dominance within Liverpool of Everton ...

Football Fandom in Italy and Beyond Community through Media and Performance

Football Fandom in Italy and Beyond: Community through Media and Performance

1st Edition

By Matthew Guschwan
January 11, 2019

Football fans are passionate and devoted followers. They are also creators and dissenters, performers and producers. This volume analyses football fandom through the media that fans use to construct fandom itself. Media is the lifeblood of modern life; it is the canvas on which ideas are spread, ...

Sex Integration in Sport and Physical Culture Promises and Pitfalls

Sex Integration in Sport and Physical Culture: Promises and Pitfalls

1st Edition

Edited By Alex Channon, Katherine Dashper, Thomas Fletcher, Robert Lake
January 11, 2019

Scholars working in the academic field of sport studies have long debated the relationship between sport and gender. Modern sport forms, along with many related activities, have been shown to have historically supported ideals of male superiority, by largely excluding women and/or celebrating only ...

Football and Health Improvement: an Emergent Field

Football and Health Improvement: an Emergent Field

1st Edition

Edited By Daniel Parnell, Andy Pringle
January 10, 2019

There is developing interest in the use of sporting settings as a channel to connect people to health improvement services and an emerging body of research highlights football as being associated with positive motivational and social elements that support the maintenance of a physically active ...

Gender in Physical Culture Crossing Boundaries - Reconstituting Cultures

Gender in Physical Culture: Crossing Boundaries - Reconstituting Cultures

1st Edition

Edited By Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Karin Grahn, Eva-Carin Lindgren
December 19, 2018

This volume outlines existing research relating to gender in physical culture. The introductory chapter employs Lamont and Molnàr’s (2002) idea of ‘boundaries’ as visible and invisible socially constructed borders that create social differences, as the theoretical framework for the book. Seven ...

Numbers and Narratives Sport, History and Economics

Numbers and Narratives: Sport, History and Economics

1st Edition

By Wray Vamplew
December 19, 2018

This volume argues for a more quantitative, economic and theoretical approach to sports history. The author notes that sport can have peculiar economics as in no other industry do rival businesses have to cooperate to produce a sellable output. He also demonstrates, via a case study of early ...

A Social and Cultural History of Sport in Ireland

A Social and Cultural History of Sport in Ireland

1st Edition

Edited By Richard McElligott, David Hassan
September 18, 2018

Sport has played a central role in modern Ireland’s history. Perhaps nowhere else has sport so infused the political, social and cultural development and identity of a nation. During this so-called ‘Decade of Centenaries’ in Ireland (2014 to 2024) recently there has been an exponential growth in ...

Football in Asia History, Culture and Business

Football in Asia: History, Culture and Business

1st Edition

Edited By Younghan Cho
September 10, 2018

This book is the first comprehensive study on history, culture, and business of football in Asia. Football has been a symbol of the modern invention, a catalyst of local, national and regional identities, all time favourite among kids and youths, and even a harbinger for cultural globalization and ...

Ethnicity and Race in Association Football Case Study analyses in Europe, Africa and the USA

Ethnicity and Race in Association Football: Case Study analyses in Europe, Africa and the USA

1st Edition

Edited By David Hassan
August 23, 2018

The relationship between association football, race and ethnicity has received increasing levels of attention from academics and commentators throughout the world over recent years. As their national professional leagues reflect the multicultural nature of most global developed societies so the ...

Football Supporters and the Commercialisation of Football Comparative Responses across Europe

Football Supporters and the Commercialisation of Football: Comparative Responses across Europe

1st Edition

Edited By Peter Kennedy, David Kennedy
January 24, 2018

As football clubs have become luxury investments, their decisions increasingly mirror those of any other business organisation. Football supporters have been encouraged to express their club loyalty by ‘thinking business’ - acting as consumers and generating money deemed necessary for their clubs ...

Mediated Football Representations and Audience Receptions of Race/Ethnicity, Nation and Gender

Mediated Football: Representations and Audience Receptions of Race/Ethnicity, Nation and Gender

1st Edition

Edited By Jacco van Sterkenburg, Ramón Spaaij
January 12, 2018

Football has become one of the most mediated cultural practices in modern Western societies, providing players, officials and spectators with implicit and often hidden discourses about race/ethnicity, national identity and gender. This book provides new and critical insights into how mediated ...

Managing Expectations and Policy Responses to Racism in Sport Codes Combined

Managing Expectations and Policy Responses to Racism in Sport: Codes Combined

1st Edition

Edited By Keir Reeves, Megan Ponsford, Sean Gorman
June 16, 2017

This volume presents research on policy responses to racism in sporting codes, predominantly Australian Rules football, in a global context. While the three guest editors are based in Australia, and their work pertains to the uniquely domestic game of Australian Rules football, the outcomes, ...

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