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  • - From the Sorbonne 1894 to London 2012
    af Ian P. Henry & Dikaia Chatziefstathiou
    1.295,95 - 1.298,95 kr.

    This book evaluates the moral project of Olympism, analzying the changing value positions adopted in relation to the ideology of Olympism across the period from the 1890s to the present day. The book also analyzes discourses of Olympism concerned with youth, governance, sport for development and international relations.

  • af Longxi Li
    1.383,95 - 1.389,95 kr.

  • - Nobles, Nationalists and the IPL
    af Jon Gemmell
    1.567,95 kr.

    This book examines historically how cricket was codified out of its variant folk-forms and then marketed with certain lessons sought to reinforce the values of a declining landed interest.

  • af Laszlo Péter
    559,95 - 571,95 kr.

  • - Work, Play and Resistance In Sri Lanka
    af S. Janaka Biyanwila
    1.113,95 kr.

    This book reimagines the pleasures of sports and provides a critical perspective from the Global South. Analysing the spread of sports markets in Sri Lanka along with a range of struggles, the book highlights how the celebration of ¿sportive nationalism,¿ promoting sports markets in the Global South reinforces patriarchal ethno-nationalist authoritarian sports cultures.By explaining how the realm of social reproduction involving households and communities is integral for play and sports, the book challenges the market-driven ¿sports and development¿ agenda while arguing for a ¿sports commons.¿ By foregrounding issues of justice and care, the book highlights how struggles for recognition, redistribution and representation are central to reimagining sports within an alternative notion of work, play and resistance.

  • af Steven Jackson & Sarah Gee
    866,95 kr.

    This book captures the contested terrain of contemporary masculinity and explores a range of conceptualisations, with a specific focus on the role of the media and promotional culture within the context of sport.

  • - International Perspectives
     
    605,95 kr.

    This book examines how women athletes were represented in international media coverage during the 2004 Olympic Games. Through feminist theorizing and qualitative textual analysis, the contributors discuss sexualization, nationalism, success, failure and the [in]visibility of women athletes in newspaper reporting in Asia, Europe and the USA.

  • - Stopping Play
     
    1.113,95 kr.

    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 sport; and, third, that contrary to the still-popular belief that sport and politics don't mix, sport often provides an ideal theatre for the enacting of political protest.

  • - Identity, Politics and Experience
     
    1.115,95 kr.

    Young, white men have dominated action sports for many years, yet women have refused to accept positions on the margins of these unique sporting cultures.

  • - Women Warriors around the World
     
    1.301,95 kr.

    This volume offers a wide-reaching overview of current academic research on women's participation in combat sports within a range of different national and trans-national contexts, detailing many of the struggles and opportunities experienced by women at various levels of engagement within sports such as boxing, wrestling, and mixed martial arts.

  • - Critical Perspectives
     
    786,95 kr.

    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 settings in enabling physical activity; pleasure; gender; and place and space.

  • - Politics, Promises and Legacy
    af Stephen Wagg
    944,95 kr.

    Analysing the politics of the 2012 London Olympics, Stephen Wagg examines the framing of London's bid to host the Games, arguments about the Games' likely impact and the establishment of 'Fortress London' to protect the Games. The book asks who won, and who lost out, in this important event as well as exploring its media coverage and legacy.

  • - The New Mediators
    af Aaron Beacom
    1.105,95 - 1.202,95 kr.

    This book explores the relationship between diplomatic discourse and the Olympic Movement, charting its continuity and change from an historical perspective.

  • af Aaron Beacom & Roger Levermore
    715,95 - 834,95 kr.

    Investigating the capacity of sport to act both as a conduit for traditional development assistance activities and as an agent for change in its own right, this book argues that sport can contribute to the development process, particularly where traditional development approaches have difficulty in engaging with communities.

  • - Globalization, Environment, Resistance
     
    771,95 kr.

    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 claims the organisers make for them, the spatial and ethical relationships they create, and the responses of civil societies to them.

  • - Gender, Health and Pedagogies
    af Thomas Johansson & Jesper Andreasson
    608,95 - 839,95 kr.

    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 physical, psychological and cultural knowledge about health and the body is incorporated into people's identity in a local and global gym and fitness context.

  • - Passion and Politics in Red, White, Blue, and Green
     
    1.567,95 kr.

    The themes of nationhood, geography, citizenship, acculturation, identity, globalization, narrative and mythology reverberate throughout this book, especially with regard to how they shape place, identity, and culture.

  • - Globalization, Environment, Resistance
     
    990,95 kr.

    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 claims the organisers make for them, the spatial and ethical relationships they create, and the responses of civil societies to them.

  •  
    990,95 kr.

    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 socio-political shifts and explores issues of policy formation, practices in sport and anti-racism in sport, and the challenge to sport today.

  • - International Perspectives
     
    855,95 kr.

    This book examines how women athletes were represented in international media coverage during the 2004 Olympic Games. Through feminist theorizing and qualitative textual analysis, the contributors discuss sexualization, nationalism, success, failure and the [in]visibility of women athletes in newspaper reporting in Asia, Europe and the USA.

  • - The Legacy of the FIFA 2010 World Cup
    af Tendai Chari & Nhamo A. Mhiripiri
    682,95 - 944,95 kr.

    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 in South Africa as a lens, it explores how football in Africa is intimately bound up with deeper social, cultural and political currents.

  • - Fans, Community and Clubs
     
    839,95 kr.

    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 gender, identity, nationalism, history, cyber-fandom, the media and fan radicalization.

  • - Critical Perspectives
    af Daryl Adair
    748,95 - 944,95 kr.

    This book provides a critical approach to sport-for-development, acknowledging the potential of this growing field but emphasising challenges, problems and limitations - particularly if programs are not adequately planned, delivered or monitored.

  • - The Strange Death of Don Quixote
    af Alejandro Quiroga
    713,95 - 839,95 kr.

    This book investigates the use of football to create, shape and promote Spanish, Catalan and Basque national identities and explores the utilization of soccer to foster patriotic feelings, exposing the often dark vested interests behind the propagation of national narratives through soccer.

  • af John Karamichas
    640,95 - 786,95 kr.

    This book examines the environmental credentials of Olympic Host cities and the opportunities afforded by hosting the Games towards the ecological modernization of the host nation by using perspectives offered by environmental sociology. It also sets out projections for the environmental legacy of London 2012.

  • - Transnational Networks, Social Movements and Sport in the New Media Age
    af Peter Millward
    566,95 - 990,95 kr.

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  • - Fans, Community and Clubs
     
    713,95 kr.

    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 gender, identity, nationalism, history, cyber-fandom, the media and fan radicalization.

  • af Holly Thorpe
    737,95 - 990,95 kr.

    This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the global phenomenon of snowboarding culture. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it offers key insights into the sport, lifestyle, industry, media, gender relations, travel, and physical experience of snowboarding, in both historical and contemporary contexts.

  • af M. Amara
    704,95 - 737,95 kr.

    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 economic changes in the Arab World, including nation-state building, the formation of national identity and international relations in post-colonial context.

  •  
    880,95 kr.

    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 socio-political shifts and explores issues of policy formation, practices in sport and anti-racism in sport, and the challenge to sport today.