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International Diplomacy and the Olympic Movement
This book explores the relationship between diplomatic discourse and the Olympic Movement, charting its continuity and change from an historical perspective. Using the recent body …
African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives
This edited volume addresses key debates around African football, identity construction, fan cultures, and both African and global media narratives. Using the 2010 FIFA World Cup …
Sport and Challenges to Racism
With an international line-up of contributors, this book examines challenges to racism in and through sport. It addresses the different agents of change in the context of wider …
Global Sport-for-Development
This book provides a critical approach to sport-for-development, acknowledging the potential of this growing field but emphasising challenges, problems and limitations – …
Rugby Union and Globalization
In 1995 rugby union finally became a professional sport following more than a century as an amateur game. This book offers a critical analysis of the sport in the professional era …
Olympic Games, Mega-Events and Civil Societies
This volume explores sporting mega-events, their social, political, and cultural characters, the value systems that they inscribe and draw on, the claims they make on us and the …
Physical Activity and Sport in Later Life
This volume addresses key issues such as the cultural and discursive context in which physical activity is discussed; the process of becoming physically active; the role of care …
Sport, Protest and Globalisation
This volume is built around three assumptions - first, that for huge numbers people around the world, including many sport lovers, there are more important things in life than …
Identity and Nation in African Football
The 2010 South African World Cup launched African football onto the global stage. This volume brings together top scholars on African football to explore a range of issues such as …
Olympic Women and the Media
This book examines how women athletes were represented in international media coverage during the 2004 Olympic Games. Through feminist theorizing and qualitative textual analysis, …
Sport, Politics and Society in the Arab World
This book explores the significance of sport in the understanding of past and current societal dynamics in the Arab world. It examines sport in relation to cultural, political and …
The Global Gym
By participating in the everyday life of fitness professionals, gym-goers and bodybuilders, The Global Gym explores fitness centres as sites of learning. The authors consider how …