Introduction: ethical concerns in sport governance Souvik Naha and David Hassan 1. Beyond governance: the need to improve the regulation of international sport Jean-Loup Chappelet 2. Sport and politics in a complex age David Hassan 3. Sport mega-events, the ‘non-West’ and the ethics of event hosting Suzanne Dowse and Thomas Fletcher 4. Gulf autocrats and sports corruption: a marriage made in heaven James M. Dorsey 5. Towards responsible policy-making in international sport: reforming the medical-scientific commissions Bruce Kidd 6. Canada 2015: perceptions and experiences of the organisation and governance of the Women’s World Cup Carrie Dunn 7. ‘Trust me I am a Football Agent’. The discursive practices of the players’ agents in (un)professional football Seamus Kelly and Dikaia Chatziefstathiou 8. Motorsport volunteerism: a form of social contract? David Hassan and Chris Harding
Biography
Souvik Naha is a Guest Lecturer in History at West Bengal State University, Kolkota, India. He has edited Global and Transnational Sport: Ambiguous Border, Connected Domains (2018) and, with Kausik Bandyopadhyay and Shakya Mitra, FIFA World Cup and Beyond: Sport, Culture, Media and Governance (2018). He is the editor of Soccer & Society.
David Hassan has published 15 books and 175 other research outputs. He was awarded a Distinguished Research Fellowship from Ulster University, UK, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to research. He has held several leadership roles at the University, including Head of School, Head of Research Graduate School, Provost of the Belfast and Jordanstown campuses, and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Life and Health Sciences (Global Engagement).
