African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives

Tendai Chari, Nhamo A Mhiripiri

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Culture and Sport
• This edited collection examines the ways in which football in Africa is intimately bound up with deeper social, cultural and political currents, using... Lees meer

Sport, Politics and Society in the Arab World

M Amara

• Paperback | Engels | Global Culture and Sport
• This book explores the significance of sport in the understanding of past and current societal dynamics in the Arab world. It examines sport in relati... Lees meer

Sport Under Communism

M Dennis, J Grix

• Paperback | Engels | Global Culture and Sport
• Based on original Stasi and Communist Party archival sources, this book uncovers why East Germany was for two decades running one of the most successf... Lees meer

Interdisciplinary Analyses of Professional Basketball

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Culture and Sport
• This edited collection conceptualizes professional basketball not just as a sport but as an historically, culturally, and economically embedded entity... Lees meer

Sport and Physical Culture in Global Pandemic Times

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Culture and Sport
• This book provides a definitive and comprehensive contribution to the expanding body of research related to sport/physical culture and the COVID-19 gl... Lees meer

The Global Gym

J Andreasson, T Johansson

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Culture and Sport
• Both by participating in the everyday life of fitness professionals, gym-goers and bodybuilders, and by analyzing fitness blogs and other sources, The... Lees meer

Discourses of Olympism

D Chatziefstathiou, I Henry

• Paperback | Engels | Global Culture and Sport
• This book evaluates the moral project of Olympism, analzying the changing value positions adopted in relation to the ideology of Olympism across the p... Lees meer

Sport, Politics and Society in the Arab World

M Amara

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Culture and Sport
• This book explores the significance of sport in the understanding of past and current societal dynamics in the Arab world. It examines sport in relati... Lees meer

The Olympic Games and the Environment

J Karamichas

• Paperback | Engels | Global Culture and Sport
• This book examines the environmental credentials of Olympic Host cities and the opportunities afforded by hosting the Games towards the ecological mod... Lees meer

Physical Activity and Sport in Later Life

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Culture and Sport
• This volume addresses key issues such as the cultural and discursive context in which physical activity is discussed; the process of becoming physical... Lees meer

Sport, Protest and Globalisation

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Culture and Sport
• This volume is built around three assumptions - first, that for huge numbers people around the world, including many sport lovers, there are more impo... Lees meer

Sport Under Communism

M Dennis, J Grix

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Culture and Sport
• Based on original Stasi and Communist Party archival sources, this book uncovers why East Germany was for two decades running one of the most successf... Lees meer

Gender, Politics and Change in Mountaineering

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Culture and Sport
• This book is the first edited collection to offer an intersectional account of gender in mountaineering adventure sports and leisure. It provides orig... Lees meer

Sport and International Development

Roger Levermore, Aaron Beacom

• Paperback | Engels | Global Culture and Sport
• 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 r... Lees meer

The History and Politics of Sport-For-Development

Simon C Darnell, Russell Field, Bruce Kidd

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Culture and Sport
• 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 a... Lees meer

International Diplomacy and the Olympic Movement

Aaron Beacom

• Paperback | Engels | Global Culture and Sport
• This book explores the relationship between diplomatic discourse and the Olympic Movement, charting its continuity and change from an historical persp... Lees meer

Global Sport-For-Development

Daryl Adair

• Paperback | Engels | Global Culture and Sport
• This book provides a critical approach to sport-for-development, acknowledging the potential of this growing field but emphasising challenges, problem... Lees meer

The London Olympics of 2012

Stephen Wagg

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Culture and Sport
• 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' li... Lees meer

Rugby Union and Globalization

J Harris

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Culture and Sport
• 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 ... Lees meer

Football (Soccer) in Africa

• Paperback | Engels | Global Culture and Sport
• This volume provides an analysis of the history, origins, and development of football in Africa. It brings together an edited assemblage of essays tha... Lees meer

Sport and Challenges to Racism

• Paperback | Engels | Global Culture and Sport
• With an international line-up of contributors, this book examines challenges to racism in and through sport. It addresses the different agents of chan... Lees meer

Sport, Promotional Culture and the Crisis of Masculinity

Sarah Gee, Steven Jackson

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Culture and Sport
• This book captures the contested terrain of contemporary masculinity and explores a range of conceptualisations, with a specific focus on the role of ... Lees meer

Olympic Games, Mega-Events and Civil Societies

• Paperback | Engels | Global Culture and Sport
• This volume explores sporting mega-events, their social, political, and cultural characters, the value systems that they inscribe and draw on, the cla... Lees meer

Global Sport-For-Development

Daryl Adair

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Culture and Sport
• In recent years, sport has been used as an instrument through which wider development objectives are pursued. This includes sport as a means to create... Lees meer