Sport in the Global Society
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
Edited
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
Edited
By J A Mangan
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
Edited
By Lamartine DaCosta, J A Mangan
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
Edited
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....
Soccer in South Asia: Empire, Nation, Diaspora
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Dimeo, James Mills
September 01, 2001
The place of football in the colonial and post-colonial past is explored and both British and Portuguese influences on the development of the game are considered. Contemporary issues such as the impact of the professional league in India and the role of UK Asians in the organization of the Indian ...
Europe, Sport, World: Shaping Global Societies
1st Edition
By J. A. Mangan
May 01, 2001
The sports of Europe and the United States were imitated and assimilated and became symbols of national and cosmopolitan identity. This work examines the national and international importance of sport and its role in shaping post-millennium global culture....
Rain Stops Play: Cricketing Climates
1st Edition
By Andrew Hignell
April 30, 2001
A geographical history of cricket in England and Wales in a global context....