Sport in the Global Society
Sport and Foreign Policy in a Globalizing World
1st Edition
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By Steven J. Jackson, Steven Haigh
April 28, 2014
Globalization is effecting a close convergence of sport and foreign policy. In order to respond to novel social, political, cultural and economic pressures, states are increasingly turning to sport as a foreign policy instrument; and they cannot ignore the corresponding influence that global sport ...
The Politics of Sport in South Asia
1st Edition
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By Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty, Shantanu Chakrabarti, Kingshuk Chatterjee
December 11, 2013
Behind the spectacle of entertainment, sport is a subject with political issues at every level. These issues range from the social, with divisions created along gender and class lines, to the use of sport to pursue diplomatic and statecraft goals. In addition, some sports are positioned and ...
The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States: Cathedrals of Sport
1st Edition
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By Mark Dyreson, Robert Trumpbour
August 06, 2013
Many Americans know more about the stadiums that loom over their cityscapes or college campuses than they do about any other aspect of the nation’s geography. Stadiums serve as iconic monuments of urban and university identities. Indeed, the power of sport in modern American culture has produced ‘...
Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended: Political, Cultural, Economic and Educational
1st Edition
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By J A Mangan, Mark Dyreson
November 14, 2012
For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's most significant sporting event. Indeed, they deserve much credit for globalizing sport beyond the boundaries of the Anglo-American universe, where it originated, into broader global realms. By the 1930s, the Olympics had become a ...
The Cultural Bond: Sport, Empire, Society
1st Edition
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By J.A. Mangan
December 01, 2011
The contributors to this volume examine the aspects of the cultural associations, symbolic interpretations and emotional significance of the idea of empire and, to some extent, with the post-imperial consequences. Collectively and cumulatively, their view is that sport was an important instrument ...
The Lady Footballers: Struggling to Play in Victorian Britain
1st Edition
By James Lee
October 20, 2010
This book tells the story of ‘the Lady Footballers’. It covers their 1895 and 1896 tours through the eyes of the largely unsympathetic British press. It explains gender issues of the time, and the financial problems that doomed this experiment. Despite increasing opportunities in sport for British...
Beijing 2008: Preparing for Glory: Chinese Challenge in the 'Chinese Century'
1st Edition
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By J A Mangan, Dong Jinxia
August 10, 2010
Beijing 2008: Preparing for Glory - Chinese Challenge in the 'Chinese Century' brings together international scholars with an interest in sport and politics and sinologists with an interest in China - past, present and future - to explore global reaction to the Beijing Olympics - China's ...
Sporting Cultures: Hispanic Perspectives on Sport, Text and the Body
1st Edition
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By David Wood, P. Louise Johnson
December 21, 2009
The essays that comprise this book mark new territory in the study of sport in the Hispanic world, a key site of cultural experience for the populations of Latin America, the United States and the Iberian Peninsula. The scope of the volume is the exploration of the representation and interaction of...
American Sports: An Anthropological Approach
1st Edition
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By Alan Klein
December 14, 2009
This collection illustrates the expansiveness of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of sport. While rooted in anthropology, these essays consider American sports in their social, economic, cultural and political aspects, charting their evolution. The book draws from history, sociology, and ...
Sport in Films
1st Edition
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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
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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
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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 ...