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  • - 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.

  • - 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.

  • - 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.

  • - 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.

  • - 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.

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    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.

  • - 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.

  • - 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.

  • - 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.

  • - 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.

  • 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.

  • - The New Mediators
    af Aaron Beacom
    1.100,95 - 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.

  • - 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.

  • - 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.