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1. 'Critical Support' for Sport

   A Festschrift for Bruce Kidd

   By Bruce Kidd

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   During more than forty years, Bruce Kidd has combined careers as an internationally ranked athlete, coach, sports administrator, professor and dean with critical scholarly and popular writing about sport, often on the issues in which he has been directly involved. Frequently called ‘the conscience...

   To Be Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Olympic Reform Ten Years Later

   Edited by Heather Dichter, Bruce Kidd

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   In 1999, the International Olympic Committee approved far-reaching reforms to the appointment and terms of its members, the selection of host cities for the Olympic and Winter Olympic Games, the events on the Olympic Program, and the reporting of decisions and financial information. The reforms...

   Published April 1st 2012 by Routledge
3. Forty Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008

   "To Remember is to Resist"

   Edited by Russell Field, Bruce Kidd

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   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 ...

   Published September 6th 2010 by Routledge