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 Other Sport Mega-Event: Rugby World Cup 2011
1st Edition
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By Steven J. Jackson
September 08, 2015
The mention of sport mega-events conjures up images and memories of London 2012 or anticipation of FIFA 2014, the 2016 Rio Olympics and beyond. Indeed, the expanding annual calendar of sport mega-events, both in terms of the bidding process and the actual hosting of the event means that there is ...
Australia's Asian Sporting Context, 1920s – 30s
1st Edition
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By Sean Brawley, Nick Guoth
July 22, 2015
This book examines Australia’s sporting relationships with the Asian region during the interwar period. Until now, Australia’s sporting relationships with the Asian region have been neglected by scholars of Australian and Asian sports history, and the broader field of Australia’s Asian context. ...
Twenty20 and the Future of Cricket
1st Edition
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By Chris Rumford
July 22, 2015
Cricket is a sport which is currently undergoing a rapid and dramatic transformation. Traditionally thought of as an English summer game, limited in appeal to Britain and its Commonwealth, cricket has, in the past a few years, achieved a global profile. This is largely due to the development of a ...
Global Perspectives on Football in Africa: Visualising the Game
1st Edition
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By Susann Baller, Giorgio Miescher, Ciraj Rassool
November 10, 2014
Football, in many ways, is a visual endeavour. From the visual experience within the stadium itself to worldwide media representations, from advertisements to football art and artefacts: football is much about seeing and being seen, about watching, making visual and being visualised. The FIFA World...
Olympic Reform Ten Years Later
1st Edition
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By Heather Dichter, Bruce Kidd
November 10, 2014
In 1999, the International Olympic Committee approved far-reaching reforms to the appointment and terms of its members, the selection of host cities for the Olympic and Winter Olympic Games, the events on the Olympic Program, and the reporting of decisions and financial information. The reforms ...
Sport: Race, Ethnicity and Identity: Building Global Understanding
1st Edition
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By Daryl Adair
November 10, 2014
Sport has long been a paradoxical environment with respect to issues of 'race', ethnicity, and identity. For much of the twentieth century, sports around the world were enclaves of difference. Whites and non-whites, for example, were separated on the sports field as they were in many ways off the ...
The Olympic Movement and the Sport of Peacemaking
1st Edition
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By Ramón Spaaij, Cindy Burleson
November 10, 2014
Sport and peacemaking have evolved. It is no longer the case that the Olympic Games and war games exist in isolation from each other. Increasingly, policymakers, peacekeepers, athletes, development workers, presidents of nations and others combine forces in an "integrated" approach towards peace. ...
The Consumption and Representation of Lifestyle Sports
1st Edition
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By Belinda Wheaton
June 19, 2014
Since their emergence in the 1960s, lifestyle sports (also referred to as action sport, extreme sports, adventure sports) have experienced unprecedented growth both in terms of participation and in their increased visibility across public and private space. book seeks to explore the changing ...
Disability in the Global Sport Arena: A Sporting Chance
1st Edition
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By Jill M. Le Clair
April 22, 2014
Sport is often at the centre of battles for rights to inclusion linked to class, race and gender, and this book explores struggles centred on disability in different cultural settings in Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. It challenges oversights and assumptions about the ‘normal’ ...
Bearing Light: Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement
1st Edition
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By John J. Macaloon
February 25, 2014
The Flame Relay and the Olympic Movement is the first book-length scholarly study in English of the contemporary Olympic flame relay. Reporting for the first time on years of intensive ethnographic research and organizational intervention, MacAloon literally follows the Olympic flame through twenty...
Sport in the City: Cultural Connections
1st Edition
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By Michael P. Sam, John Hughson
July 08, 2013
Sport is seen as an increasingly important aspect of urban and regional planning. Related programmes have moved to the forefront of agendas for cities of the present and future. This has occurred as the barriers between so-called ‘high’ and ‘popular’ culture continue to disintegrate. Sport is now a...
Governance, Citizenship and the New European Football Championships: The European Spectacle
1st Edition
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By Wolfram Manzenreiter, Georg Spitaler
May 31, 2013
Over the past decade, European football has seen tremendous changes impacting upon its international framework as well as local traditions and national institutions. Processes of Europeanization in the fields of economy and politics provided the background for transformations of the production and ...