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Olympic Women and the Media
International Perspectives
AvP. Markula
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
558 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 newspaper reporting in Asia, Europe and the USA.
Sport under Communism
Behind the East German 'Miracle'
AvM. Dennis,J. Grix
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
1 255 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
AvJ. Karamichas
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
558 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 London 2012.
Rugby Union and Globalization
An Odd-Shaped World
AvJ. Harris
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
558 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
AvJ. Long,K. Spracklen
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
558 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 challenge to sport today.
International Diplomacy and the Olympic Movement
The New Mediators
AvAaron Beacom
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
1 108 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 the increasing range of stakeholders engaged in the Olympic bid, disability advocacy and the mainstreaming of the Paralympic Games and the evolution of the Olympic boycott. The work addresses the increasing engagement of a number of non-state actors, in particular the IOC and the IPC, as indicative of the diffusion of contemporary diplomacy. At the same time it identifies the state as continuing in the role of primary actor, setting the terms of reference for diplomatic activity beyond the pursuit of its own policy interests. Its historical investigation, based around a UK case study, provides insights into the characteristics of diplomatic discourse relating to the Games, and creates the basis for mapping the future trajectory of diplomacy as it relates to the Olympic Movement.
Olympic Games, Mega-Events and Civil Societies
Globalization, Environment, Resistance
AvG. Hayes,J. Karamichas
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
558 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 societies to them.
Global Football League
Transnational Networks, Social Movements and Sport in the New Media Age
AvP. Millward
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
558 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 Manchester United football clubs.
Discourses of Olympism
From the Sorbonne 1894 to London 2012
AvD. Chatziefstathiou,I. Henry
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
1 329 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 international relations.
Sport, Politics and Society in the Arab World
AvM. Amara
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
558 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 international relations in post-colonial context.
Football and National Identities in Spain
The Strange Death of Don Quixote
AvA. Quiroga
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
574 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
AvRoger Levermore,Aaron Beacom
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
558 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 engaging with communities.
Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice
AvH. Thorpe
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
558 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 contemporary contexts.
Global Sport-for-Development
Critical Perspectives
AvDaryl Adair,N. Schulenkorf
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
558 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
AvStephen Wagg
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
558 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 as exploring its media coverage and legacy.
Global Gym
Gender, Health and Pedagogies
AvJ. Andreasson,T. Johansson
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
542 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 local and global gym and fitness context.
Identity and Nation in African Football
Fans, Community and Clubs
AvC. Onwumechili,G. Akindes
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
574 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
AvTendai Chari,Nhamo A. Mhiripirim. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
558 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 political currents.
Physical Activity and Sport in Later Life
Critical Perspectives
AvEmmanuelle Tulle,Cassandra Phoenix
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
542 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
AvChristopher R. Matthews,Alex Channon
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
1 329 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 such as boxing, wrestling, and mixed martial arts.
History and Politics of Sport-for-Development
Activists, Ideologues and Reformers
AvSimon C. Darnell,Russell Fieldm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
998 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 underpinnings of sport-for-development from the mid-19th through the early 21st centuries. Including both archival research and extensive interviews with more than 15 individuals who were central to the institutions and movements that shaped sport as a force for development, this book will be of particular interest to the growing number of scholars, students, practitioners, advocates and activists interested in the possibilities and limitations of sport-for-development.
Women in Action Sport Cultures
Identity, Politics and Experience
AvHolly Thorpe,Rebecca Olive
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
1 108 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 strategies to negotiate space alongside their male peers in the waves, skate parks and cityscapes, on mountains and climbing walls, along trails, as well as around rinks. This international collection features contributions from a group of leading and emerging researchers, many of whom are passionate action sport participants themselves. With authors representing a range of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives including cultural studies, sociology, performance studies, media studies, sport for development, and education, this book offers the first collective focus on women in action sports cultures in the past, present and into the future. Ultimately, the book offers a vivid and powerful illustration of the new and ongoing struggles facing women in contemporary sporting cultures, as well as the various strands of activism, agency and politics being performed in the surf, on the slopes, and at the crag. The book will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of sociology of sport and physical culture, gender studies, youth cultures, sport history, and pedagogy and education.
Sport, Protest and Globalisation
Stopping Play
AvJon Dart,Stephen Wagg
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
1 108 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 contrary to the still-popular belief that sport and politics don't mix, sport often provides an ideal theatre for the enacting of political protest. The book contains studies of a range of protests, stretching back to the death of suffragist Emily Davison at the Derby of 1913 and encompassing subsequent protests against the exclusion of women from the sporting arena; the Berlin Olympics of 1936; Western imperialism; the Mexico Olympics, 1968; the state racism of apartheid in South Africa; the effect of the global golf industry on ecosystems; Israeli government policy; resistance to the various attempts to bring the Olympic Games to Canadian and American cities; the cutting of welfare benefits fordisabled British citizens; class privilege in the UK; Russian anti-gay laws; and high public spending on sport mega-events in Brazil. The collection will be of interest to scholars and students with an interest in Sports Studies, History, Politics, Geography, Cultural Studies and Sociology.
Sport, Promotional Culture and the Crisis of Masculinity
AvSarah Gee,Steven Jackson
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
833 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 on how the production and representation of sport-related advertising and marketing contribute to the shifting and contested nature of masculinity and its alleged crisis. Drawing upon conceptual and empirical examples spanning across sport celebrity, professional sport leagues, beer advertising and indigenous cultures, the authors explore the links between sport, masculinity, promotional and consumer culture. Collectively, the chapters illustrate how advertising and promotional campaigns continue to circulate representations of particular forms of hegemonic masculinity while also accommodating new forms.Sport, Promotional Culture and the Crisis of Masculinity will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of sociology of sport, media studies, marketing, gender and masculinity studies.
Olympic Women and the Media
International Perspectives
AvP. Markula
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
558 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 newspaper reporting in Asia, Europe and the USA.
Sport under Communism
Behind the East German 'Miracle'
AvM. Dennis,J. Grix
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
1 255 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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
AvJ. Karamichas
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
558 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 London 2012.
Rugby Union and Globalization
An Odd-Shaped World
AvJ. Harris
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
558 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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
AvJ. Long,K. Spracklen
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
558 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 challenge to sport today.
International Diplomacy and the Olympic Movement
The New Mediators
AvAaron Beacom
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
1 219 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 the increasing range of stakeholders engaged in the Olympic bid, disability advocacy and the mainstreaming of the Paralympic Games and the evolution of the Olympic boycott. The work addresses the increasing engagement of a number of non-state actors, in particular the IOC and the IPC, as indicative of the diffusion of contemporary diplomacy. At the same time it identifies the state as continuing in the role of primary actor, setting the terms of reference for diplomatic activity beyond the pursuit of its own policy interests. Its historical investigation, based around a UK case study, provides insights into the characteristics of diplomatic discourse relating to the Games, and creates the basis for mapping the future trajectory of diplomacy as it relates to the Olympic Movement.

Global Culture and Sport Series – serie

Olympic Women and the Media

Sport under Communism

Olympic Games and the Environment

Rugby Union and Globalization

Sport and Challenges to Racism

International Diplomacy and the Olympic Movement

Olympic Games, Mega-Events and Civil Societies

Global Football League

Discourses of Olympism

Sport, Politics and Society in the Arab World

Football and National Identities in Spain

Sport and International Development

Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice

Global Sport-for-Development

London Olympics of 2012

Global Gym

Identity and Nation in African Football

African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives

Physical Activity and Sport in Later Life

Global Perspectives on Women in Combat Sports

History and Politics of Sport-for-Development

Women in Action Sport Cultures

Sport, Protest and Globalisation

Sport, Promotional Culture and the Crisis of Masculinity

Olympic Women and the Media

Sport under Communism

Olympic Games and the Environment

Rugby Union and Globalization

Sport and Challenges to Racism

International Diplomacy and the Olympic Movement