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  • Olympic Reform Ten Years Later

    Edición de Heather Dichter, Bruce Kidd ...
    Series series 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 for the Olympic and Winter Olympic Games, the events on the Olympic Program, and the reporting of decisions and financial information. The reforms were initiated in response to the deep crises of legitimacy it faced because of the Salt Lake City ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

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  • Watching the Olympics

    Politics, Power and Representation

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Sport

    A Critical Sociology

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $24.00 USD

  • The Olympics: The Basics

    de Andy Miah, Beatriz Garcia ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Learning Culture through Sports

    Perspectives on Society and Organized Sports

    de Doug Abrams, Cheryl Cooky, Rylee Dionigi, Keith Harrison, Jackson Katz, Kyle Kusz, Carwyn Jones, Mary McDonald, Leanne Norman, Genevieve Rail, Barbara Ravel, Ellen Staurowsky, Cheria Thomas, Sanford S. Williams, Jay Coakley, Angela J. Hattery, C. Richard King, Richard Lapchick, Earl Smith ...
    In today's culture, sports wield a weight influence; this influence, however, is rarely examined. Similar to the first edition, this second edition of Learning Culture Through Sports provides coaches, educators, parents, and others dealing with students and athletes with an engaging and critical context for probing the sociological basis of this influence. The book's sections each address a ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Special Admission

    How College Sports Recruitment Favors White Suburban Athletes

    de Kirsten Hextrum ...
    Series series The American Campus
    Honorable Mention - 2022 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book AwardSpecial Admission contradicts the national belief that college sports provide upward mobility opportunities. Kirsten Hextrum documents how white middle-class youth become overrepresented on college teams. Her institutional ethnography of one elite athletic and academic institution includes over 100 hours of ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended

    Political, Cultural, Economic and Educational

    Edición de J A Mangan, Mark Dyreson ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's most significant sporting event. Indeed, they deserve much credit for globalizing sport beyond the boundaries of the Anglo-American universe, where it originated, into broader global realms. By the 1930s, the Olympics had become a global mega-event that occupied the attention of the media, the interest of the public and the ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • College Athletes’ Rights and Well-Being

    Critical Perspectives on Policy and Practice

    Edición de Eddie Comeaux ...
    Addressing major policy issues and athletes’ well-being in collegiate sports.College athletes are at the very center of emerging campus debates over their legal, financial, and academic role. Amid ongoing litigation and pressure from internal and external stakeholders, many policy makers and university leaders are scrambling to determine the nature of this role. This timely and comprehensive ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Globalizing Sport

    How Organizations, Corporations, Media, and Politics are Changing Sport

    de George H. Sage ...
    Sport is enjoyed by millions of people across the world, and both watching and playing sport constitutes a major part of modern leisure time. But sport is also a huge worldwide industry. In Globalizing Sport, George Sage invites readers to explore a deeper understanding of the global dynamics of sport - not only competitions but of the big businesses of money, media coverage, athletic apparel and ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Sport Policy

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $91.99 USD

  • Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap

    Hockey’s Agents of Change

    Edición de Cheryl A. MacDonald, Jonathon R.J. Edwards ...
    Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap challenges hockey’s norms, pushes its boundaries, and provides new ways of conceptualizing its role in North American culture. The editors of this engaging interdisciplinary collection use the metaphor of the neutral zone trap to explore the ways that hockey’s culture and structures work to exclude marginalized people. The book features both personal and scholarly ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD