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  • Combating Online Abuse in Sports

    The Game Beyond the Screen

    Edited by Theo Lynn, Gary Sinclair, Katie Liston, David Hassan ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Online abuse in sport has become a pervasive global challenge, affecting athletes, teams, officials, and sporting communities across all levels of competition. Despite growing awareness, scholarly attention has largely concentrated on hate speech, leaving other critical forms of abuse underexplored. This open access edited collection addresses this gap by offering a comprehensive examination of ... Read more

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  • The Palgrave Handbook of Globalization and Sport

    Edited by Joseph Maguire, Katie Liston, Mark Falcous ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This handbook illustrates the utility of global sport as a lens through which to disentangle the interconnected political, economic, cultural, and social patterns that shape our lives. Drawing on multidisciplinary perspectives, it is organized into three parts. The first part outlines theoretical and conceptual insights from global sport scholarship: from the conceptualization and development of ... Read more

    $409.99 CAD

  • Sport, Race and Ethnicity

    The Scope of Belonging?

    Edited by Katie Liston, Paddy Dolan ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    Analyses of racialisation processes within and beyond sport would be incomplete without a consideration of ethnicity and ethnic identities. Why? Because ethnicity, as a concept and as a focus for research, captures better the diverse experiences of social groups and the scope of belonging. Ethnic identities contribute to the way race and racism is constructed and experienced in sport, and to the ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

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  • Sport

    A Critical Sociology

    by Richard Giulianotti ...
    In this new edition of his acclaimed book, Richard Giulianotti provides a critical sociological interpretation of modern sport. As global festivals such as the Olympic Games and football’s World Cup demonstrate, sport’s social, political, economic and cultural significance is becoming ever more apparent across the world.Ten years after its original publication, the text has been completely revised ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Social Impact of Sport

    Cross-Cultural Perspectives

    Edited by Ramón Spaaij ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    This book critically examines the ways in which sports contribute to, or inhibit, social well-being, the directions these changes take and the conditions necessary for sport to have beneficial outcomes. The themes addressed in the book demonstrate the diversity and versatility of the social impacts sport can potentially achieve as well as the variable benefits of sport in different social contexts ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Ethics and Governance in Sport

    The future of sport imagined

    Edited by Yves Vanden Auweele, Elaine Cook, Jim Parry ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    What is, or what should be, the function of sport in a globalized, commercialized world? Why does sport matter in the 21st century? In Ethics and Governance in Sport: the future of sport imagined, an ensemble of leading international experts from across the fields of sport management and ethics calls for a new model of sport that goes beyond the traditional view that sport automatically encourages ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Midnight Basketball

    Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy

    by Douglas Hartmann ...
    Midnight basketball may not have been invented in Chicago, but the City of Big Shoulders—home of Michael Jordan and the Bulls—is where it first came to national prominence. And it's also where Douglas Hartmann first began to think seriously about the audacious notion that organizing young men to run around in the wee hours of the night—all trying to throw a leather ball through a metal hoop—could ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Well-Being and Creative Careers

    What Makes You Happy Can Also Make You Sick

    by Mark Deuze ...
    Series series Global Health Humanities
    The media and creative industries thrive on passion, but that passion often comes at a cost. Behind the glamour of journalism, filmmaking, games, music, advertising and online content creation lies a growing crisis – one of burnout, anxiety, substance abuse and exhaustion. Why do so many creative professionals report feeling both deeply fulfilled and profoundly unwell?Mark Deuze investigates the ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Who We Are

    Critical Reflections on Human Diversity in Canada

    by Paul U. Angelini ...
    Rethinking Who We Are takes a non-conventional approach to understanding human difference in Canada. Contributors to this volume critically re-examine Canadian identity by rethinking who we are and what we are becoming by scrutinizing the “totality” of difference. Included are analyses on the macro differences among Canadians, such as the disparities produced from unequal treatment under Canadian ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Decolonizing Solidarity

    Dilemmas and Directions for Supporters of Indigenous Struggles

    by Clare Land ...
    In this highly original and much-needed book, Clare Land interrogates the often fraught endeavours of activists from colonial backgrounds seeking to be politically supportive of Indigenous struggles. Blending key theoretical and practical questions, Land argues that the predominant impulses which drive middle-class settler activists to support Indigenous people cannot lead to successful alliances ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The PerformanceStat Potential

    A Leadership Strategy for Producing Results

    by Robert D. Behn ...
    Series series Brookings / Ash Center Series, "Innovative Governance in the 21st Century"
    It started two decades ago with CompStat in the New York City Police Department, and quickly jumped to police agencies across the U.S. and other nations. It was adapted by Baltimore, which created CitiStat-the first application of this leadership strategy to an entire jurisdiction. Today, governments at all levels employ PerformanceStat: a focused effort by public executives to exploit the power ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Cities and Economies

    by Yeong-Hyun Kim, John Rennie Short ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    Cities and Economies explores the complex and subtle connections between cities and economies. The rise of the merchant city, the development of the industrial city and the creation of the service-dominated urban economy are all explored, along with economic globalization and its effects on cities in both developed and developing economies. This book provides a thorough examination of the role of ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD