Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

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1. 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
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. Sport: Race, Ethnicity and Identity

   Building Global Understanding

   Edited by Daryl Adair

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   Sport has long been a paradoxical environment with respect to issues of 'race', ethnicity, and identity. For much of the twentieth century, sports around the world were enclaves of difference. Whites and non-whites, for example, were separated on the sports field as they were in many ways off the...

   Published February 12th 2012 by Routledge
4. South Africa and the Global Game

   Football, Apartheid and Beyond

   Edited by Peter Alegi, Chris Bolsmann

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   Firmly situating South African teams, players, and associations in the international framework in which they have to compete, South Africa and the Global Game: Football, Apartheid, and Beyond presents an interdisciplinary analysis of how and why South Africa underwent a remarkable transformation...

   Published January 8th 2012 by Routledge
5. Why Minorities Play or Don't Play Soccer

   A Global Exploration

   Edited by Kausik Bandyopadhyay

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   Soccer, the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, has always remained a marker of identities of various sorts. Behind the façade of its obvious entertainment aspect, it has proved to be a perpetuating reflector of nationalism, ethnicity, community or communal identity, and cultural...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
6. The Politics of Sport

   Community, Mobility, Identity

   Edited by Paul Gilchrist, Russell Holden

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   Sport is an essential part of community structure, membership and identity. Whether on the field of play, in stadia, or on the streets, sport has consistently brought together disparate individuals to share culture, values and memories. Nowadays these relationships are being rewritten through the...

   Published October 3rd 2011 by Routledge
7. Women's Football in the UK

   Continuing with Gender Analyses

   Edited by Jayne Caudwell

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   This book examines the complex ways in which girls and women experience football cultures in Britain. It extends current debate surrounding women and football (namely, how gender has functioned to shape women’s experiences of playing the game), by focusing on organisational, administrative and...

   Published September 28th 2011 by Routledge
8. Towards a Social Science of Drugs in Sport

   Edited by Jason Mazanov

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   The debate around the role of drugs in sport is vibrant. There is a wealth of evidence from the hard end of science, telling us how drugs work, how drug testing works, and how many athletes have fallen foul of the system. The evidence from social science is still building momentum. For example,...

   Published September 11th 2011 by Routledge
9. Governance, Citizenship and the New European Football Championships

   The European Spectacle

   Edited by Wolfram Manzenreiter, Georg Spitaler

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   Over the past decade, European football has seen tremendous changes impacting upon its international framework as well as local traditions and national institutions. Processes of Europeanization in the fields of economy and politics provided the background for transformations of the production and...

   Published July 7th 2011 by Routledge
10. Sport in the City

    Cultural Connections

    Edited by Michael Sam, John Hughson

    Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

    Sport is seen as an increasingly important aspect of urban and regional planning. Related programmes have moved to the forefront of agendas for cities of the present and future. This has occurred as the barriers between so-called ‘high’ and ‘popular’ culture continue to disintegrate. Sport is now a...

    Published June 15th 2011 by Routledge