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  • Governing Post-Winter Olympic Games Legacies

    Salt Lake City 2002, Vancouver 2010, PyeongChang 2018

    by Jinsu Byun, Becca Leopkey, Mathew Dowling ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive analysis of post-Games legacy governance including stakeholder relationships, institutional conditions, and policy environments, while also empirically exploring the modes of governance employed by select cases of the Winter Olympic Games. This work offers insights to help practitioners develop and manage the governance of legacy more effectively. Theoretical and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Management of Sports Development

    Edited by Vassil Girginov, Mathew Dowling ...
    Now in a fully revised and significantly expanded new edition, Management of Sports Development is a complete introduction to the theory, policy and practice of sports development. With a focus on professional knowledge and managerial competencies, this book defines conceptually and semantically the field of sports development and explains how a clear vision, managed processes of change and ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Agency and Institutions in Sport

    Edited by Mathew Dowling, Jonathan Robertson, Marvin Washington, Becca Leopkey, Dana Ellis ...
    This book offers a unique insight into the role of individuals and organisations in shaping institutional arrangements within the context of sport. Institutional approaches can be used to examine the complex relationships between sport organisations and their broader environment and can help explain some of the most fundamental questions about the nature of how sport is organised including why are ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Sport Policy Across the United Kingdom

    A Comparative Analysis

    Edited by Mathew Dowling, Spencer Harris, Chris Mackintosh ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
    This book provides a comparative analysis of sport and physical activity policies, processes, and practices across the home nations (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland) of the United Kingdom.Drawing upon in-depth analysis by internationally recognised experts within the sport policy and management field, and applying a novel analytical framework, this book offers the first ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Sport Participation and Olympic Legacies

    A Comparative Study

    Edited by Spencer Harris, Mathew Dowling ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport Politics and Policy
    This book examines claims that the Olympic Games are a vehicle to inspire and increase mass sport participation. It focuses on the mass sport participation legacy of the most recent hosts of the summer Olympics, including Atlanta, Sydney, Athens, Beijing, London, Rio, and Tokyo.It is organised by host city/country and applies an analytical framework to each, addressing the socio-political context ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • 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

    $73.99 USD

  • Intersectional Feminism: A Decolonial Guide to Hood Feminism and Liberation

    by Boreas En. M. L. Saage ...
    "Intersectional Feminism: A Decolonial Guide to Hood Feminism and Liberation" offers a comprehensive exploration of contemporary feminist thought that centers the experiences of marginalized communities. This thoughtful guide bridges theoretical frameworks with practical applications, making complex concepts accessible without oversimplification.The book begins by tracing the historical ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Irish Business and Society

    Governing, Participating and Transforming in the 21st Century

    Edited by John Hogan, Paul F. Donnelly, Brendan K. O'Rourke ...
    A collection of stimulating essays exploring the wide-ranging debates surrounding the relationship between business and society in 21st century Ireland.Wide-ranging, diverse and thought-provoking contributions from leading business researchers, economists, sociologists and political scientists from Ireland and abroad probe five central themes: the making and unmaking of the Celtic Tiger; ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Sport Meets Business

    Capabilities, Challenges, Critiques

    Edited by Ulrik Wagner, Klaus Nielsen, Rasmus K. Storm ...
    Written by European professors and focusing on the specificities of European sport, When Sport Meets Business analyses the growing commercialisation of professional sport in recent years and explains how it has developed into a major global industry.Structured into four sections, the book covers the key issues in the Business of professional sport:The New Sport Environment – Analysing the ... Read more

    $78.29 USD

  • Sociology of Higher Education

    Contributions and Their Contexts

    by Patricia J. Gumport ...
    "Outstanding . . . it presents a comprehensive state of the field, and it explores the role of sociological research in guiding higher education practice." — ChoiceIn this volume, Patricia Gumport and other leading scholars examine the sociology of higher education as it has evolved since the publication of Burton Clark's foundational article in 1973. They trace diverse conceptual and empirical ... Read more

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  • A Contemporary History of Social Work

    Learning from the Past

    by Terry Bamford ...
    Drawing on lessons from the recent history of social work to identify how and why it has lost its privilege and influence, this book challenges social work students to understand why social work has failed to maintain its position as a driver of social reform. Bamford looks forward to a new model of practice that places a commitment to put social justice back at the heart of professional practice ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Key Concepts in Governance

    by Mark Bevir ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    ′A comprehensive, multidisciplinary examination of the concepts embodied in governance and their wide-ranging applications and implications. An important read and reference for students and academics in the social sciences, particularly those engaged in public policy studies′ - Professor Carolyn J. Heinrich, University of Wisconsin-Madison′An authoritative short survey for which students and ... Read more

    $67.49 USD