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  • What Is FIFA For?

    by Alan Tomlinson ...
    Series series What Is It For?
    A wide-ranging look at football’s powerful but controversial governing body.Football is the world’s most popular sport and truly a global phenomenon. As a result, it attracts huge sums of money from its advertisers, sponsors and broadcasters, much of which flows to FIFA, the sport’s international governing body. So, given its decidedly chequered history, the question of what FIFA is for is crucial ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association)

    The Men, the Myths and the Money

    by Alan Tomlinson ...
    Founded in 1904 by representatives of the sporting organisations of six European nations then expanding into the Americas, Asia and Africa FIFA has developed to become one of the most high profile and lucrative businesses in the global consumer and cultural industry. Recent years however have been characterised by a series of crises leaving the organisation open to critique and exposure, and ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Understanding International Sport Organisations

    Principles, power and possibilities

    by Lincoln Allison, Alan Tomlinson ...
    The governance of international sport is dominated by the SINGOs (sporting international non-governmental organisations). The IOC, FIFA, IAAF and the FIA wield global influence, but how exactly do such complex organisations operate? This important book examines the rise of the SINGOs, their structures, organisational behaviour and their power in the context of modern sport and international ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Understanding Sport

    A socio-cultural analysis

    by John Horne, Alan Tomlinson, Garry Whannel, Kath Woodward ...
    Series series CRESC
    In the decade or more since publication of the first edition of Understanding Sport, both sport and wider global society have undergone profound change. In this fully updated, revised and expanded edition of their classic textbook, John Horne, Alan Tomlinson, Garry Whannel and Kath Woodward offer a critical and reflective introduction to the relationship between sport and contemporary society and ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Education, Sport and Leisure

    Connections and Controversies

    by Graham McFee, Alan Tomlinson ...
    presents topical and trenchant thinking on cultural and curricular issues in education, sport, and leisure. It underlines the need for critical evaluations of the changing role of the teacher and of the development of a revised physical education curriculum, among other topics. ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Watching the Olympics

    Politics, Power and Representation

    Edited by John Sugden, Alan Tomlinson ...
    Global sporting events involve the creation, management and mediation of cultural meanings for consumption by massive media audiences. The apotheosis of this cultural form is the Olympic Games. This challenging and provocative new book explores the Olympic spectacle, from the multi-media bidding process and the branding and imaging of the Games, to security, surveillance and control of the Olympic ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Power Games

    A Critical Sociology of Sport

    Edited by John Sugden, Alan Tomlinson ...
    Critical and radical perspectives have been central to the emergence of the sociology of sport as a discipline in its own right. This ground-breaking new book is the first to offer a comprehensive theory and method for a critical sociology of sport. It argues that class, political economy, hegemony and other concepts central to the radical tradition are essential for framing, understanding and ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • German Football

    History, Culture, Society

    Edited by Alan Tomlinson, Christopher Young ...
    This topical book provides unprecedented analysis of football's place in post-war and post-reunification Germany.The expert team of German and British contributors offers wide-ranging perspectives on the significance of football in German sporting and cultural life, showing how it has emerged as a focus for an expression of German national identity and pride in the post-war era.Some of the themes ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Football, Corruption and Lies

    Revisiting 'Badfellas', the book FIFA tried to ban

    by John Sugden, Alan Tomlinson ...
    World football is in crisis. The corruption scandal engulfing FIFA is arguably the biggest story in the history of modern sport and a watershed for sport governance. More than a decade ago, John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson laid the foundations for subsequent investigations with the publication of Badfellas, a groundbreaking work of critical sport sociology that exposed the systematic corruption at ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Sport and Peace-Building in Divided Societies

    Playing with Enemies

    by John Sugden, Alan Tomlinson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    Sport is a cultural institution that stands at the interface between political and civil society. In divided communities, sport has been an agent of separation, sectarian hatred and violence, but also a highly effective tool for conflict resolution, reconciliation and peace-building.In this important study, John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson draw on their extensive international experience of working ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Consumption, Identity and Style

    Marketing, meanings, and the packaging of pleasure

    Edited by Alan Tomlinson ...
    Series series Comedia
    First Published in 1990. This is a book about the meaning of our lives as consumers. It is about leisure, lifestyle, and markets in today’s consumer culture. In 1986 one measure of people’s use of time in Britain identified television watching as the major activity for both men and women outside paid employment and sleeping. ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • The Olympic Legacy

    Social Scientific Explorations

    Edited by Alan Tomlinson ...
    Series series Contemporary Issues in Social Science
    This comprehensive collection provides an overview of social scientific perspectives on Olympic legacy, using specialist analyses and selected cases to illuminate the recurring anthropological, political, and sociological dimensions of the legacy debate. Drawing upon research conducted on the Beijing, Vancouver, Athens, London and Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, it identifies the recurrent rhetoric ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD