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  • Women, Soccer and Transnational Migration

    Edited by Sine Agergaard, Nina Tiesler ...
    Estimated participation figures of almost 30 million worldwide make soccer the most prominent team sport amongst girls and women. However, making a living as a female player is only deemed possible in approximately 20 out of around 150 FIFA-listed women’s soccer countries. This has led to a situation where highly skilled sports women have to migrate from their homelands to find employment with a ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Globalised Football

    Nations and Migration, the City and the Dream

    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    When studying the social phenomena in and around football, five major aspects of globalisation processes become evident: international migration, the global flow of capital, the syncretistic nature of tradition and modernity in contemporary culture, new experiences of time and space and the revolution in information technologies.In an exploration of these themes the collection provides insight ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture

    The globalizing influence of professional sportsProfessional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow them. This book examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon of global sports, in which professional ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Sport

    A Critical Sociology

    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

    $24.00 USD

  • The Olympics: The Basics

    Series series The Basics
    The Olympics: The Basics is an accessible, contemporary introduction to the Olympic movement and Games. Chapters explain how the Olympics transcend sports, engaging us with a range of contemporary philosophical, social, cultural and political matters, including:peace development and diplomacymanagement and economicscorruption, terror and activismthe rise of human enhancementethics and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Sport and Recreation in Canadian History

    Edited by Carly Adams ...
    Serving as a foundation for critical discussion about the importance of the past, Sport and Recreation in Canadian History covers the historical events, people, and moments that shape Canadian sport in the present and future. While this text focuses on sport and recreation practices on these lands now claimed by Canada, it is set within a larger historical context of interconnecting social and ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Sport Policy

    Edited by Ian Henry, Ling-Mei Ko ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    It is difficult to fully understand the role that sport plays in contemporary global society without understanding how and why governments, NGOs and other organizations formulate and implement policy relating to sport. The Routledge Handbook of Sport Policy is the only book to offer a comprehensive overview of current perspectives, techniques and approaches to the analysis of sport policy around ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games

    by Jules Boykoff ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
    The Olympic Games have become the world’s greatest media and marketing event—a global celebration of exceptional athletics gilded with corporate cash. Huge corporations vie for association with the "Olympic Image" in the hope of gaining a worldwide marketing audience of billions.In this provocative critical study of the contemporary Olympics, Jules Boykoff argues that the Games have become a ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Globalization and Football

    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    This timely book provides an engaging, clear view of the interrelationships within key globalization processes and the international sport of football.Intelligently combining the conceptual and methodological aspects of global studies with the specific cultural conditions of the ′beautiful game′ Giulianotti and Robertson illuminate its social history and diffusion, as well as wider cultural, ... Read more

    $92.69 USD

  • Sports Governance, Development and Corporate Responsibility

    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    The call for sport organizations and organizers to take up social responsibilities is reflected in a wide variety of sport-related practices. This book critically examines sport-related social interventions in different cultural settings, such as promoting local community-building by sport. Social constructions of peace, integration and managing diversity are studied from the perspective of sport ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics

    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Sport is frequently considered to be an aspect of popular culture that is, or should be, untainted by the political. However, there is a broad consensus among academics that sport is often at the heart of the political and the political is often central to sport. From the 1936 Olympic Games in Nazi Germany to the civil unrest that preceded the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, sport and politics have ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Olympic Education

    An international review

    A fundamental component of the Olympic ideal is the concept of Olympic education. This is the notion that sport can help children and young people develop essential life skills. Olympic Education: An international review is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of the diffusion and implementation of Olympic education programmes around the world.The book includes 28 chapters with 21 ... Read more

    $68.99 USD