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71 produkter
Olympic Women and the Media
International Perspectives
Av P. Markula
Inbunden, 2009
552 kr
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This book examines how women athletes were represented in international media coverage during the 2004 Olympic Games. Through feminist theorizing and qualitative textual analysis, the contributors discuss sexualization, nationalism, success, failure and the [in]visibility of women athletes in …
Sport under Communism
Behind the East German 'Miracle'
Inbunden, 2012
1241 kr
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Based on original Stasi and Communist Party archival sources, this book uncovers why East Germany was for two decades running one of the most successful nations in the Summer and Winter Olympics, exploring how the central elite sports system was beset by internal tensions and disputes.
Olympic Games and the Environment
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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This book examines the environmental credentials of Olympic Host cities and the opportunities afforded by hosting the Games towards the ecological modernization of the host nation by using perspectives offered by environmental sociology. It also sets out projections for the environmental legacy of …
Rugby Union and Globalization
An Odd-Shaped World
Av J. Harris
Inbunden, 2010
552 kr
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In 1995 rugby union finally became a professional sport following more than a century as an amateur game. This book offers a critical analysis of the sport in the professional era and assesses the relationship between the local and the global in contemporary rugby union.
Sport and Challenges to Racism
Av J. Long, K. Spracklen
Inbunden, 2010
552 kr
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With an international line-up of contributors, this book examines challenges to racism in and through sport. It addresses the different agents of change in the context of wider socio-political shifts and explores issues of policy formation, practices in sport and anti-racism in sport, and the …
International Diplomacy and the Olympic Movement
The New Mediators
Av Aaron Beacom
Inbunden, 2012
1096 kr
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This book explores the relationship between diplomatic discourse and the Olympic Movement, charting its continuity and change from an historical perspective. Using the recent body of literature on diplomacy it explores the evolution of diplomatic discourse around a number of themes, in particular …
Olympic Games, Mega-Events and Civil Societies
Globalization, Environment, Resistance
Inbunden, 2011
552 kr
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This volume explores sporting mega-events, their social, political, and cultural characters, the value systems that they inscribe and draw on, the claims they make on us and the claims the organisers make for them, the spatial and ethical relationships they create, and the responses of civil …
Global Football League
Transnational Networks, Social Movements and Sport in the New Media Age
Av P. Millward
Inbunden, 2011
552 kr
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This book tackles issues of globalization in the English Premier League and unpicks what this means to fan groups around the world, drawing upon a range of sociological theories to tell the story of the local and global repertoires of action emanating from the popular protests at Liverpool and …
Discourses of Olympism
From the Sorbonne 1894 to London 2012
Av D. Chatziefstathiou, I. Henry
Inbunden, 2012
1314 kr
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This book evaluates the moral project of Olympism, analzying the changing value positions adopted in relation to the ideology of Olympism across the period from the 1890s to the present day. The book also analyzes discourses of Olympism concerned with youth, governance, sport for development and …
Sport, Politics and Society in the Arab World
Av M. Amara
Inbunden, 2011
552 kr
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This book explores the significance of sport in the understanding of past and current societal dynamics in the Arab world. It examines sport in relation to cultural, political and economic changes in the Arab World, including nation-state building, the formation of national identity and …
Football and National Identities in Spain
The Strange Death of Don Quixote
Av A. Quiroga
Inbunden, 2013
568 kr
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This book investigates the use of football to create, shape and promote Spanish, Catalan and Basque national identities and explores the utilization of soccer to foster patriotic feelings, exposing the often dark vested interests behind the propagation of national narratives through soccer.
Sport and International Development
Av Roger Levermore, Aaron Beacom
Inbunden, 2008
552 kr
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Investigating the capacity of sport to act both as a conduit for traditional development assistance activities and as an agent for change in its own right, this book argues that sport can contribute to the development process, particularly where traditional development approaches have difficulty in …
Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice
Av H. Thorpe
Inbunden, 2011
552 kr
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This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the global phenomenon of snowboarding culture. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it offers key insights into the sport, lifestyle, industry, media, gender relations, travel, and physical experience of snowboarding, in both historical and …
Global Sport-for-Development
Critical Perspectives
Av Daryl Adair, N. Schulenkorf
Inbunden, 2014
550 kr
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This book provides a critical approach to sport-for-development, acknowledging the potential of this growing field but emphasising challenges, problems and limitations – particularly if programs are not adequately planned, delivered or monitored.
London Olympics of 2012
Politics, Promises and Legacy
Av Stephen Wagg
Inbunden, 2015
550 kr
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Analysing the politics of the 2012 London Olympics, Stephen Wagg examines the framing of London's bid to host the Games, arguments about the Games' likely impact and the establishment of 'Fortress London' to protect the Games. The book asks who won, and who lost out, in this important event as well …
Global Gym
Gender, Health and Pedagogies
Av J. Andreasson, T. Johansson
Inbunden, 2014
536 kr
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By participating in the everyday life of fitness professionals, gym-goers and bodybuilders, The Global Gym explores fitness centres as sites of learning. The authors consider how physical, psychological and cultural knowledge about health and the body is incorporated into people's identity in a …
Identity and Nation in African Football
Fans, Community and Clubs
Inbunden, 2014
568 kr
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The 2010 South African World Cup launched African football onto the global stage. This volume brings together top scholars on African football to explore a range of issues such as gender, identity, nationalism, history, cyber-fandom, the media and fan radicalization.
African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives
The Legacy of the FIFA 2010 World Cup
Av Tendai Chari, Nhamo A. Mhiripiri m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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This edited volume addresses key debates around African football, identity construction, fan cultures, and both African and global media narratives. Using the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa as a lens, it explores how football in Africa is intimately bound up with deeper social, cultural and …
Physical Activity and Sport in Later Life
Critical Perspectives
Av Emmanuelle Tulle, Cassandra Phoenix
Inbunden, 2015
536 kr
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This volume addresses key issues such as the cultural and discursive context in which physical activity is discussed; the process of becoming physically active; the role of care settings in enabling physical activity; pleasure; gender; and place and space.
Global Perspectives on Women in Combat Sports
Women Warriors around the World
Av Christopher R. Matthews, Alex Channon
Inbunden, 2015
1314 kr
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This volume offers a wide-reaching overview of current academic research on women's participation in combat sports within a range of different national and trans-national contexts, detailing many of the struggles and opportunities experienced by women at various levels of engagement within sports …
History and Politics of Sport-for-Development
Activists, Ideologues and Reformers
Av Simon C. Darnell, Russell Field m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
987 kr
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This book focuses on the major social and political forces that have shaped the ways in which sport has been understood, organized, and contested in an effort to engender social change. Integrating the history of international development with the history of modern sport, the authors examine the …
Women in Action Sport Cultures
Identity, Politics and Experience
Av Holly Thorpe, Rebecca Olive
Inbunden, 2016
1093 kr
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Young, white men have dominated action sports for many years, yet women have refused to accept positions on the margins of these unique sporting cultures. Developing in a different context to many traditional sports, girls and women have adopted highly proactive approaches and developed unique …
Sport, Protest and Globalisation
Stopping Play
Av Jon Dart, Stephen Wagg
Inbunden, 2016
1093 kr
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This volume is built around three assumptions - first, that for huge numbers people around the world, including many sport lovers, there are more important things in life than sport; second, that the governance of sport is in many ways problematic and needs to be confronted; and, third, that …
Sport, Promotional Culture and the Crisis of Masculinity
Inbunden, 2017
824 kr
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This book captures the contested terrain of contemporary masculinity and explores a range of conceptualisations, with a specific focus on the role of the media and promotional culture within the context of sport. Asking whether sport is the final frontier of masculinity in society, the book focuses …
Olympic Women and the Media
International Perspectives
Av P. Markula
Häftad, 2009
551 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book examines how women athletes were represented in international media coverage during the 2004 Olympic Games. Through feminist theorizing and qualitative textual analysis, the contributors discuss sexualization, nationalism, success, failure and the [in]visibility of women athletes in …
Sport under Communism
Behind the East German 'Miracle'
Häftad, 2012
1239 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Based on original Stasi and Communist Party archival sources, this book uncovers why East Germany was for two decades running one of the most successful nations in the Summer and Winter Olympics, exploring how the central elite sports system was beset by internal tensions and disputes.
Olympic Games and the Environment
Häftad, 2013
551 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book examines the environmental credentials of Olympic Host cities and the opportunities afforded by hosting the Games towards the ecological modernization of the host nation by using perspectives offered by environmental sociology. It also sets out projections for the environmental legacy of …
Rugby Union and Globalization
An Odd-Shaped World
Av J. Harris
Häftad, 2010
552 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In 1995 rugby union finally became a professional sport following more than a century as an amateur game. This book offers a critical analysis of the sport in the professional era and assesses the relationship between the local and the global in contemporary rugby union.
Sport and Challenges to Racism
Av J. Long, K. Spracklen
Häftad, 2011
552 kr
Lägg i varukorg
With an international line-up of contributors, this book examines challenges to racism in and through sport. It addresses the different agents of change in the context of wider socio-political shifts and explores issues of policy formation, practices in sport and anti-racism in sport, and the …
International Diplomacy and the Olympic Movement
The New Mediators
Av Aaron Beacom
Häftad, 2012
1205 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book explores the relationship between diplomatic discourse and the Olympic Movement, charting its continuity and change from an historical perspective. Using the recent body of literature on diplomacy it explores the evolution of diplomatic discourse around a number of themes, in particular …
