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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


The Politics of Sport Community, Mobility, Identity

The Politics of Sport: Community, Mobility, Identity

1st Edition

Edited By Paul Gilchrist, Russell Holden
May 10, 2013

Sport is an essential part of community structure, membership and identity. Whether on the field of play, in stadia, or on the streets, sport has consistently brought together disparate individuals to share culture, values and memories. Nowadays these relationships are being rewritten through the ...

Towards a Social Science of Drugs in Sport

Towards a Social Science of Drugs in Sport

1st Edition

Edited By Jason Mazanov
May 10, 2013

The debate around the role of drugs in sport is vibrant. There is a wealth of evidence from the hard end of science, telling us how drugs work, how drug testing works, and how many athletes have fallen foul of the system. The evidence from social science is still building momentum. For example, ...

Forty Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008 To Remember is to Resist

Forty Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008: To Remember is to Resist

1st Edition

Edited By Russell Field, Bruce Kidd
February 28, 2013

1968 was a year of protest in civil society (Prague, Paris, Chicago) and a year of protest in sport. After a world-wide campaign, the anti-apartheid movement succeeded in barring South Africa from the Olympic Games, while US athletes from the Olympic Project for Human Rights used the ...

Global Sport Business Community Impacts of Commercial Sport

Global Sport Business: Community Impacts of Commercial Sport

1st Edition

Edited By Hans Westerbeek
November 28, 2012

Global Sport Business: The Community Impact of Commercial Sport involves a range of pressing issues that come with the arrival of sport as a commodity in the world economy. It can be argued that, throughout the past two centuries, sport has always been recognized as both a frivolous pursuit of ...

Who Owns Football? Models of Football Governance and Management in International Sport

Who Owns Football?: Models of Football Governance and Management in International Sport

1st Edition

Edited By David Hassan, Sean Hamil
October 19, 2012

The commercialization of sport since the 1990s has had a number of consequences. The market forces that have defined commercialization, notably pay-per-view television, whilst initially welcomed as important new sources of revenue, have also had the unanticipated consequences of de-stabilizing many...

The Social Impact of Sport Cross-Cultural Perspectives

The Social Impact of Sport: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Ramón Spaaij
September 05, 2012

This book critically examines the ways in which sports contribute to, or inhibit, social well-being, the directions these changes take and the conditions necessary for sport to have beneficial outcomes. The themes addressed in the book demonstrate the diversity and versatility of the social impacts...

The Making of Sporting Cultures

The Making of Sporting Cultures

1st Edition

By John Hughson
February 03, 2012

The Making of Sporting Cultures presents an analysis of western sport by examining how the collective passions and feelings of people have contributed to the making of sport as a ‘way of life’. The popularity of sport is so pronounced in some cases that we speak of certain sports as ‘national ...

South Africa and the Global Game Football, Apartheid and Beyond

South Africa and the Global Game: Football, Apartheid and Beyond

1st Edition

Edited By Peter Alegi, Chris Bolsmann
January 20, 2012

Firmly situating South African teams, players, and associations in the international framework in which they have to compete, South Africa and the Global Game: Football, Apartheid, and Beyond presents an interdisciplinary analysis of how and why South Africa underwent a remarkable transformation ...

Why Minorities Play or Don't Play Soccer A Global Exploration

Why Minorities Play or Don't Play Soccer: A Global Exploration

1st Edition

Edited By Kausik Bandyopadhyay
January 20, 2012

Soccer, the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, has always remained a marker of identities of various sorts. Behind the façade of its obvious entertainment aspect, it has proved to be a perpetuating reflector of nationalism, ethnicity, community or communal identity, and cultural ...

Sport in Australian National Identity Kicking Goals

Sport in Australian National Identity: Kicking Goals

1st Edition

By Tony Ward
March 18, 2010

For many Australians, there are two great passions: sport and ‘taking the piss’. This book is about national identity – and especially about Australia’s image as a sporting country. Whether reverent or not, any successful national image has to reflect something about the reality of the country. But...

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