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, Migration and Diasporic Communities
1st Edition
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By Thomas Fletcher
June 07, 2017
Ever since different communities began processes of global migration, sport has been an integral feature in how we conceptualise and experience the notion of being part of a diaspora. Sport provides diasporic communities with a powerful means for creating transnational ties, but also shapes ideas ...
Football, Community and Social Inclusion
1st Edition
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By Daniel Parnell, David Richardson
June 07, 2017
This special issue addresses the complex reality of English community football organisations, including Football in the Community (FitC) schemes, which have been attending to social agendas, such as social inclusion and health promotion. The positioning of football as a key agent of change for this...
Legacies of Great Men in World Soccer: Heroes, Icons, Legends
1st Edition
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By Kausik Bandyopadhyay
June 07, 2017
Soccer, the world’s most popular mass spectator sport, gives birth to great achievers on the field of play all the time. While some of them become heroes and stars during their playing career, transforming themselves into national as well as global icons, very few come to be remembered as all-time ...
The Social Science of Sport: A Critical Analysis
1st Edition
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By Bo Carlsson, Susanna Hedenborg
June 07, 2017
In this book questions about definitions and demarcations of sport science are discussed. Not the least the many normative ideas of sport as good or as bad are problematized in relation to the academic field. These ideas permeate sport science in ways that are not seen in other academic fields like...
Sport, Race and Ethnicity: The Scope of Belonging?
1st Edition
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By Katie Liston, Paddy Dolan
May 31, 2017
Analyses of racialisation processes within and beyond sport would be incomplete without a consideration of ethnicity and ethnic identities. Why? Because ethnicity, as a concept and as a focus for research, captures better the diverse experiences of social groups and the scope of belonging. Ethnic ...
Moral Panic in Physical Education and Coaching
1st Edition
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By Heather Piper, Dean Garratt, Bill Taylor
May 24, 2017
This book focuses on sports coaching and sports teaching and how touching young sports participants has been redefined as dubious and dangerous. Coaches are constrained by a framework of regulations and guidelines which create anxiety, and many coaches now question the risks and benefits of their ...
Reflections on Process Sociology and Sport: 'Walking the Line'
1st Edition
By Joseph Maguire
May 24, 2017
The book focuses on the distinctive contribution that Joseph Maguire has made to process sociology and the study of sport. Maguire’s work over the past three decades highlights how process sociology has a unique perspective on the relationship between sport, culture and society, and to the body, ...
Sport, Memory and Nationhood in Japan: Remembering the Glory Days
1st Edition
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By Andreas Niehaus, Christian Tagsold
May 22, 2017
This book clarifies and verifies the role sport has as an alternative marker in understanding and mapping memory in Japan, by applying the concept of lieux de mémoire (realms of memory) to sport in Japan. Japanese history and national construction have not been short of sports landmarks since the ...
Gender, Media, Sport
1st Edition
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By Susanna Hedenborg, Gertrud Pfister
May 16, 2017
Despite the position that sport occupies at the centre of public attention, and despite the billions of consumers and immense coverage which it attracts from around the globe, it seems that the media prioritise coverage of only a very small fraction of sporting events, and a few prominent athletes....
Exploring the cultural, ideological and economic legacies of Euro 2012
1st Edition
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By Peter Kennedy, Christos Kassimeris
May 10, 2017
European National football came together in the summer of 2012 for the 14th occasion. This book sets out to examine the enduring social tensions between supporters and authorities, as well as those between local, national and European identities, which formed the backdrop to the 14th staging of the...
Fan Culture in European Football and the Influence of Left Wing Ideology
1st Edition
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By Peter Kennedy, David Kennedy
May 10, 2017
Drawing on the varied traditions of fan cultures across Europe, this book examines how football carries with it the possibility of promoting the voices of the disenfranchised and the marginalised, and so the basis for nurturing solidarity against exploitation current in modern capitalist society....
Sport and Citizenship
1st Edition
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By Matthew Guschwan
March 29, 2017
Citizenship has become a widely significant and hotly contested academic concept. Though the term may seem obvious, citizenship carries a range of subtle social and political meanings. This volume explores citizenship as it relates to sport, on the micro and macro level of analysis and in a variety...