Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

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1. Twenty20 and the Future of Cricket

   Edited by Chris Rumford

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   Cricket is a sport which is currently undergoing a rapid and dramatic transformation. Traditionally thought of as an English summer game, limited in appeal to Britain and its Commonwealth, cricket has, in the past a few years, achieved a global profile. This is largely due to the development of a...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
2. Global Sport Business

   Community Impacts of Commercial Sport

   Edited by Hans Westerbeek

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   Global Sport Business: The Community Impact of Commercial Sport involves a range of pressing issues that come with the arrival of sport as a commodity in the world economy. It can be argued that, throughout the past two centuries, sport has always been recognized as both a frivolous pursuit of...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Consumption and Representation of Lifestyle Sports

   Edited by Belinda Wheaton

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   Since their emergence in the 1960s, lifestyle sports (also referred to as action sport, extreme sports, adventure sports) have experienced unprecedented growth both in terms of participation and in their increased visibility across public and private space. book seeks to explore the changing...

   Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge
4. Football Supporters and the Commercialisation of Football

   Comparative Responses across Europe

   Edited by Peter Kennedy, David Kennedy

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   As football clubs have become luxury investments, their decisions increasingly mirror those of any other business organisation. Football supporters have been encouraged to express their club loyalty by ‘thinking business’ - acting as consumers and generating money deemed necessary for their clubs...

   Published October 25th 2012 by Routledge
5. Who Owns Football?

   Models of Football Governance and Management in International Sport

   Edited by David Hassan, Sean Hamil

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   The commercialization of sport since the 1990s has had a number of consequences. The market forces that have defined commercialization, notably pay-per-view television, whilst initially welcomed as important new sources of revenue, have also had the unanticipated consequences of de-stabilizing many...

   Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge
6. Reflections on Process Sociology and Sport

   'Walking the Line'

   By Joseph Maguire

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   The book focuses on the distinctive contribution that Joseph Maguire has made to process sociology and the study of sport. Maguire’s work over the past three decades highlights how process sociology has a unique perspective on the relationship between sport, culture and society, and to the body,...

   Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Social Impact of Sport

   Cross-Cultural Perspectives

   Edited by Ramón Spaaij

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   This book critically examines the ways in which sports contribute to, or inhibit, social well-being, the directions these changes take and the conditions necessary for sport to have beneficial outcomes. The themes addressed in the book demonstrate the diversity and versatility of the social impacts...

   Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge
8. Sport, Memory and Nationhood in Japan

   Remembering the Glory Days

   Edited by Andreas Niehaus, Christian Tagsold

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   This book clarifies and verifies the role sport has as an alternative marker in understanding and mapping memory in Japan, by applying the concept of lieux de mémoire (realms of memory) to sport in Japan. Japanese history and national construction have not been short of sports landmarks since the...

   Published July 22nd 2012 by Routledge
9. Disability in the Global Sport Arena

   A Sporting Chance

   Edited by Jill M. Le Clair

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   Sport is often at the centre of battles for rights to inclusion linked to class, race and gender, and this book explores struggles centred on disability in different cultural settings in Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. It challenges oversights and assumptions about the ‘normal’...

   Published May 2nd 2012 by Routledge
10. 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