Sport in the Global Society
Sport in Films
1st Edition
Edited
By Emma Poulton, Martin Roderick
November 25, 2009
Sport offers everything a good story should have: heroes and villains, triumph and disaster, achievement and despair, tension and drama. Consequently, sport makes for a compelling film narrative and films, in turn, are a vivid medium for sport. Yet despite its regularity as a central theme in ...
Modern Sport – The Global Obsession
1st Edition
Edited
By Boria Majumdar, Fan Hong
October 15, 2009
Sport has become more than a simple physical expression or game – it now pervades all societies at all levels and has become bound up in nationalism, entertainment, patriotism and culture. Now a global obsession, sport has infiltrated into all areas of modern life and despite noble ideals that...
Sport, Nationalism and Orientalism: The Asian Games
1st Edition
Edited
By Fan Hong
October 15, 2009
The first book to focus solely on the Asian Games, this is an analysis of the Oriental rival to the Olympics in terms of its geopolitical, economic, sociological, historical, racial and aesthetic context, looking at its birth, growth and maturation from 1913 up until 2006. Written by a team of ...
Drugs, Alcohol and Sport: A Critical History
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Dimeo
October 13, 2009
The use of alcohol and drugs seems contradictory to the popular ideal of sport as a healthy moral and physical pursuit, and yet it has been present in sports culture since clubs first became the focus for competitive games and social gatherings. Charting the changing patterns of the use of drugs ...
Sport in South Asian Society: Past and Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Boria Majumdar, J A Mangan
October 13, 2009
A detailed study of sports' arrival, spread and advance in colonial and post-colonial South Asia. A selection of articles addresses critical issues of nationalism, communalism, commercialism and gender through the lens of sport. This book makes the point that the social histories of ...
Muscular Christianity and the Colonial and Post-Colonial World
1st Edition
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By John J. Macaloon
February 23, 2009
This Volume explores the enormous impact the ethos of Muscular Christianity has had an on modern civil society in English-speaking nations and among the peoples they colonized. First codified by British Christian Socialists in the mid-nineteenth century, explicitly religious forms of the ideology ...
Sport and American Society: Exceptionalism, Insularity, ‘Imperialism’
1st Edition
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By Mark Dyreson, J A Mangan
February 23, 2009
A special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport, this collection of provocative essays explores the many faces of sport in America. Drawing upon insights from anthropology, history, philosophy and sociology and with reference throughout to politics and economics, the ...
America's Game(s): A Critical Anthropology of Sport
1st Edition
Edited
By Benjamin Eastman, Sean Brown, Michael Ralph
February 20, 2009
This insightful volume considers how to locate America in the sporting world: in the traditions and rituals of a national pastime or in the baseball academies run by American professional teams in the Dominican Republic? With the athletes that carry a flag in Olympic ceremonies or among the ...
Cricket, Race and the 2007 World Cup
1st Edition
Edited
By Boria Majumdar, Jon Gemmell
February 20, 2009
Cricket has been subject to a number of changes over the last twenty years. We can no longer talk of a sport particular to an out-dated English way of life. Cricket has become global and has to exist within the global environment. Primarily the world game has become commercialised. This collection ...
Fringe Nations in World Soccer
1st Edition
Edited
By Kausik Bandyopadhyay, Sabyasachi Mallick
February 20, 2009
Soccer is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, gaining huge media coverage and reaching all levels of society in countries all around the world. More than just entertainment, soccer has proved to be a reflection of national, cultural, community and ethnic identity as well as an ...
Football Fans Around the World: From Supporters to Fanatics
1st Edition
Edited
By Sean Brown, Boria Majumdar
October 21, 2008
This volume investigates the way in which football supporters around the world express themselves as followers of teams, whether they be professional, amateur or national. The diverse geographical and cultural array of contributions to this volume highlights not only the variety of how fans express...
Sport, Culture and History: Region, nation and globe
1st Edition
By Brian Stoddart
October 21, 2008
In addition to being an internationally recognised pioneer of sports history, Brian Stoddart has also been a leading thinker and influence in the field. That influence has crossed several areas of history, sociology, business, politics and media aspects of sports studies, and has drawn deeply upon ...