Sport in the Global Society
Women, Sport and Society in Modern China: Holding up More than Half the Sky
1st Edition
By Dong Jinxia
October 30, 2002
Drawing on Chinese sources hitherto unavailable in the West including official documents and interviews with top athletes, the author explores the rise of Chinese super sportswomen and their relationship with politics, culture and society before and during the Cultural Revolution and through ...
Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art
1st Edition
By Matthias Röhrig Assunção
October 01, 2002
Originally the preserve of Afro-Brazilian slaves, the marginalized and the underclasses in Brazilian society, capoeira is now a mainstream sport, taught in Brazilian schools and practised by a range of social classes around the world. Some advocates now seek Olympic recognition for Capoeira. This ...
Sport in Asian Society: Past and present
1st Edition
Edited
By Fan Hong, J.A. Mangan
September 30, 2002
Linking sport to the emergence and growth of modern Asian society this collection of essays offers a lucid, original and highly readable history of politics, culture and sport in the world's most populous region....
British Football & Social Exclusion
1st Edition
By Stephen Wagg
September 01, 2002
This book takes stock of British football at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is written by a range of concerned academics and writers, all of whom have an active relationship with the contemporary football world. The book assesses the changes that have occurred in many areas of ...
Sport, Media, Culture: Global and Local Dimensions
1st Edition
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By ALINA BERNSTEIN, Neil Blain
June 29, 2002
An examination of the central features of the sport-media phenomenon, focusing on Europe and the USA. The book analyses such issues as new media technology; gender, ethnicity and local dimensions of collective identity; women in American basketball advertising; and cult football radio in Scotland....
Reformers, Sport, Modernizers: Middle-class Revolutionaries
1st Edition
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By Roberta J Park
May 01, 2002
A record of the role of selected middle-class individuals across Europe who made notable contributions to the early evolution of modern sport and who saw success in modern sport as an expression of human qualities to be admired, applauded and encouraged. They viewed sport, sometimes ...
Football, Europe and the Press
1st Edition
By Liz Crolley, David Hand
April 01, 2002
This book examines the construction of national, regional, and group identities in the football journalism of five European countries: England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Notions of the respective national stereotypes are explored in each of the countries studied....
Africa, Football and FIFA: Politics, Colonialism and Resistance
1st Edition
By Paul Darby
January 01, 2002
This book explores the role of FIFA in brokering the development of football in Africa and its relationship with that continent's football associations and regional governing body. Africa is no longer on the periphery of world football but the economic disparities between the first and the third ...
Sport in Latin American Society: Past and Present
1st Edition
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By Lamartine DaCosta, Roberta J Park
November 01, 2001
This work deals with the infancy, adolescence and maturity of sport in Latin American society. It explores ways in which sport illuminates cultural migration and emigration and indigenous assimilation and adaptation....
Australian Beach Cultures: The History of Sun, Sand and Surf
1st Edition
By Douglas Booth
October 01, 2001
Australians are surrounded by beaches. But this enclosure is more than a geographical fact for the inhabitants of an island continent; the beach is an integral part of the cultural envelope. This work analyzes the history of the beach as an integral aspect of Australian culture....
Sport and Memory in North America
1st Edition
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By Stephen G. Wieting
September 29, 2001
Cultures and nations remember themselves with select bodily images, evocative rituals and texts. This volume illustrates how sport is used in the creation, maintenance and now global dissemination of a nation's cherished values. Carefully drawn cases of sport in North America - American baseball ...
Amateurism in Sport: An Analysis and Defence
1st Edition
By Lincoln Allison
September 07, 2001
We often decry "amateurism", yet one can do things "for the love of it" rather than for money. It can also show that an economic system which has more voluntary, unpaid activity is a more efficient system. This work examines amateurism's rationale, its history, ethics and economics....