Hakutulokset: Sarja Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
yhteensä 98 hakutulosta
Football Supporters and the Commercialisation of Football
As football clubs have become luxury investments, their decisions increasingly mirror those of any other business organisation. Football supporters have been encouraged to express …
Mediated Football
Football has become one of the most mediated cultural practices in modern Western societies, providing players, officials and spectators with implicit and often hidden discourses …
COVID-19 and the Soccer World
The spread of COVID-19 and the consequent pandemic since early 2020 have brought about unprecedented changes in all spheres of global life, creating a new sense of (in)security …
Football, Community and Social Inclusion
This special issue addresses the complex reality of English community football organisations, including Football in the Community (FitC) schemes, which have been attending to …
Sport, Race and Ethnicity
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 …
The Making of Sporting Cultures
The Making of Sporting Cultures presents an analysis of western sport by examining how the collective passions and feelings of people have contributed to the making of sport as a …
Forced Migration and Sport
This book aims to extend and deepen conversations among scholars, policymakers, and practitioners about the role of sport in relation to contexts and issues of forced migration.The …
Cricket, Migration and Diasporic Communities
Ever since different communities began processes of global migration, sport has been an integral feature in how we conceptualise and experience the notion of being part of a …
Indigenous People, Race Relations and Australian Sport
The Indigenous peoples of Australia have a proud history of participation and the achievement of excellence in Australian sports. Historically, Australian sports have provided a …
The Olympic Movement and the Sport of Peacemaking
Sport and peacemaking have evolved. It is no longer the case that the Olympic Games and war games exist in isolation from each other. Increasingly, policymakers, peacekeepers, …
Face to Face
While rivalry is embedded in any sporting event or performance, soccer, the world’s most popular mass spectator sport, has been an emblem of such rivalries since its inception as …
Global and Transnational Sport
The eight chapters in this book explore more than 150 years of the development of several modern sports – baseball, basketball, cricket, football, handball, ice hockey and lacrosse …