The Professionalization of Action Sports

Dumont, Guillaume; T

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
• Action sports have undergone dramatic growth, commercialization, and institutionalization over recent decades. This book uncovers the social, politica... Lees meer

Australia's Asian Sporting Context, 1920s - 30s

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
• This book examines Australia's sporting relationships with the Asian region during the interwar period. Until now, Australia's sporting relationships ... Lees meer

Legacies of Great Men in World Soccer

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
• Soccer, the world's most popular mass spectator sport, gives birth to great achievers on the field of play all the time. While some of them become her... Lees meer

Mediated Football

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
• Football has become one of the most mediated cultural practices in modern Western societies, providing players, officials and spectators with implicit... Lees meer

Towards a Social Science of Drugs in Sport

• Paperback | Engels | 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 dr... Lees meer

Major Sporting Events

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
• Sport has long been used as a tool for political gain and many major sporting events are now often framed as a panacea to help combat issues such as r... Lees meer

Numbers and Narratives

Wray Vamplew

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
• This volume argues for a more quantitative, economic and theoretical approach to sports history. The author notes that sport can have peculiar economi... Lees meer

The Ultras

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
• Over the last 50 years, the ultras have become the most widespread, outspoken and spectacular form of football fandom across the globe. Whilst the ult... Lees meer

Moments, Metaphors, Memories

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
• As the most popular mass spectator sport across the world, soccer generates key moments of significance on and off the field, encapsulated in events t... Lees meer

Olympic Reform Ten Years Later

• Paperback | Engels | 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 f... Lees meer

Fan Culture in European Football and the Influence of Left Wing Ideology

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
• Drawing on the varied traditions of fan cultures across Europe, this book examines how football carries with it the possibility of promoting the voice... Lees meer

Security and Sport Mega Events

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
• This edition stresses some critical reflectons regarding security policies before and during Sport Events in our contemporary era of generalized insec... Lees meer

Youth Sport and Social Capital

Sean F Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
• This book examines the youth sport parent experience through the lens of social capital, a cornerstone social science concept of the past 30 years. So... Lees meer

Special Olympics

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
• This book brings together academic work on Special Olympics and specifically on the social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in vario... Lees meer

The Making of Sporting Cultures

John Hughson

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
• The Making of Sporting Cultures presents an analysis of western sport by examining how the collective passions and feelings of people have contributed... Lees meer

Sport, Music, Identities

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
• Despite the close and longstanding links between sport and music, the relationships between these two significant cultural forms have been relatively ... Lees meer

Legacies of Great Men in World Soccer

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
• Soccer, the world's most popular mass spectator sport, gives birth to great achievers on the field of play all the time. While some of them become her... Lees meer

Global and Transnational Sport

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
• The eight chapters in this book explore more than 150 years of the development of several modern sports - baseball, basketball, cricket, football, han... Lees meer

Why Minorities Play or Don't Play Soccer

• Hardcover | Engels | 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 obvi... Lees meer

Junior and Youth Grassroots Football Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
• Football is ubiquitously acknowledged as 'The Global Game' and/or 'The People's Game' - everyday all-encompassing terms familiar to anyone with an int... Lees meer

The Olympic Movement and the Sport of Peacemaking

• Hardcover | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
• Sport and peacemaking have evolved. It is no longer the case that the Olympic Games and war games exist in isolation from each other. Increasingly, po... Lees meer

Sport and Disability

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
• Inclusion is primarily discussed in education. With the increasing number of member states of the United Nations ratifying the Convention on the Right... Lees meer

Reflections on Process Sociology and Sport

Joseph Maguire

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
• The book focuses on the distinctive contribution that Joseph Maguire has made to process sociology and the study of sport. Maguire's work over the pas... Lees meer

Football in Asia

• Paperback | Engels | Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
• This book is the first comprehensive study on history, culture, and business of football in Asia. Football has been a symbol of the modern invention, ... Lees meer