Böcker i Sport in the Global Society-serien

Stories of remarkable women who devoted their lives to the cause of women's physical liberation are told in this volume.

Many Americans know more about the stadiums that loom over their cityscapes or college campuses than they do about any other aspect of the nation's geography. This book explores the role of stadiums in shaping urban identities, determining the economics of intercollegiate athletics, influencing local and national politics.

Analyses of the power of Olympic legacies, positive and negative, and surveys the subject from Athens in 1896 to Beijing in 2008, and beyond.

The contributors to this collection argue that sport remains an understudied aspect of international relations, and that the growth of its importance should be seen in the complex interdependencies and global systems of governance.

Introducing themes of racial/political unification, commercialization, the media and globalization, this book explores the role of cricket and sport in each of the competing nations, with particular reference to the Cricket World Cup.

Linking sport to the emergence and growth of modern Asian society this collection of essays offers a lucid, original and highly readable history of politics, culture and sport in the world's most populous region.

The contributors to this collection of essays explore the symbolic meanings that have been attached to sport in Europe by considering some of the mythic heroes who have dominated the sporting landscapes of their own countries.

A detailed account of the central role of recreation in the lives of the working class in the north-east of England, showing how it was an essential relief from the hard living and working conditions of Victorian and Edwardian mining communities.

Charting the changing patterns of the use of drugs and alcohol since the nineteenth century, this book offers a critical history that relates substance consumption and regulation to social relations of power. It includes a discussion on the social construction of drug and alcohol use.

Analyzing how sports both contribute to, and undermine the human rights of participants, spectators and workers, this book examines controversial issues such as: sexual harassment, racism, freedom of movement, and sport as popular protest.

As the commercialization of sport grows, the need for regulation increases. This work looks at how the law is used in sports, in such areas as money, drugs, and the control of hooliganism.

A collection of essays, which explore the representation and interaction of sport/text/body in a variety of cultural forms in Latin America, Spain and the chicano population of the USA.

Discussing the popularization of Association Football, this book charts the diverse and changing face of this modern British game. It covers the global spread of the game from England and its domestication and appropriation in its new homes across the planet. It compares football's global experience with the attempts at globalizing baseball.

Demonstrates that Olympism and the Olympic movement in the modern context is socially relevant and politically important. This book focuses on national encounters with Olympism and the Olympic movement. It also demonstrates that the essence of Olympism and the Olympic movement is important only in so far as it affects societies surrounding it.

Examining football-related phenomena under the headings of nations and migration, myths and business, the city and the dream, this book shows how modernised football itself is object and subject in processes of both neo-liberal globalisation and counter hegemonic globalisation.

Football clubs across the world continue to embody many of the collective symbols, identifications and processes of connectivity which have long been associated with the notion of 'community'. This book brings together a range of key debates around contemporary understandings of 'community' in world football.

Examines the ways in which sport is used in films as a metaphor for other areas of social life. This book explores such themes and issues as: morality tales in which good triumphs over evil; the representation and ideological framing of social identities; the representation of key issues pertinent to sport; and, the meanings 'spoken' by films.

Globalization is effecting a close convergence of sport and foreign policy. In order to respond to social, political, cultural and economic pressures, states are turning to sport as a foreign policy instrument and they cannot ignore the corresponding influence that global sport has on their core interests. This book explores this relationship.

Published as an issue of the "International Journal of the History of Sport", this book presents a selection of the author's writings. It is of interest to scholars and students in Sports Studies, Physical Education, Health Studies, Sociology and Social Psychology.

Ireland and its inhabitants have often been described as being 'sports mad'. The significance of sport in Ireland though extends far beyond the achievements of such individuals. This book seeks to address the ways in which Irish ebullience for sport has manifested itself in those parts of the world that have relatively large Irish communities.

This book explores the impact Muscular Christianity's ethos has had on an English-speaking modern civil society. The papers include fascinating global case materials in a joint effort to outline a truly international, post-colonial sport history.

These essays provide a critical investigation of football cultures, examining local and national impacts of the game's new millennial order over five continents.

1. Sport and Globalisation: The Issues 2. Sport, Prestige and International Relations 3. Not for the Good of the Game: Crises and Credibility in the Governance of World Football 4. Olympic Survivals: The Olympic Games as a Global Phenomenon 5. Alternative Models for the Regulation of Global Sport.

Presents an investigation of how football supporters around the world express themselves as followers of teams. This book highlights how fans express themselves and their commonalities. It also presents a global picture of fan culture. It shows that the role of a football fan is laced with commonalities, irrespective of geography or culture.

Brings together international scholars with an interest in sport and politics and sinologists with an interest in China - past, present and future - to explore global reaction to the Beijing Olympics - China's anticipated moment of glory on the world stage.

Taking examples from United States and Canada, this text offers compassionate and critical accounts of the Native American sporting experience. It challenges popular images of indigenous athletes and athletics. It explores Native American participation in and appropriation of EuroAmerican sports.

A collection of essays considering the far-reaching influence of modern sport over all aspects of modern life across the globe, touching social politics, gender, religion and class. This book was previously published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

A selection of essays exploring the role of social institutions and political, economic and technological change in shaping the sport of middle class Victorians and Edwardians.

The contributions here cover the major socio-economic, political, cultural and sporting dimensions of the 1998 World Cup.