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.
Disability in the Global Sport Arena: A Sporting Chance
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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
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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 ...
The Politics of Sport: Community, Mobility, Identity
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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
1st Edition
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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
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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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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
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
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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 ...