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Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

Series Editor: Boria Majumdar

The social, cultural (including media) and political study of sport is an expanding area of scholarship and related research. While this area has been well served by the Sport in the Global Society series, the surge in quality scholarship over the last few years has necessitated the creation of Sport in the Global Society: Contemporary Perspectives. The series will publish the work of leading scholars in fields as diverse as sociology, cultural studies, media studies, gender studies, cultural geography and history, political science and political economy. If the social and cultural study of sport is to receive the scholarly attention and readership it warrants, a cross-disciplinary series dedicated to taking sport beyond the narrow confines of physical education and sport science academic domains is necessary. Sport in the Global Society: Contemporary Perspectives will answer this need.

New and Published Books

21-26 of 26 results in Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

  1. Governance, Citizenship and the New European Football Championships

    The European Spectacle

    Edited by Wolfram Manzenreiter, Georg Spitaler

    Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

    Over the past decade, European football has seen tremendous changes impacting upon its international framework as well as local traditions and national institutions. Processes of Europeanization in the fields of economy and politics provided the background for transformations of the production and...

    Published July 7th 2011 by Routledge

  2. Documenting the Beijing Olympics

    Edited by D.P. Martinez, Kevin Latham

    Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

    This book focuses on the processes of documenting the Beijing Olympics – ranging from the visual (television and film) to radio and the written word – and the meanings generated by such representations. What were the ‘key’ stories and how were they chosen? What was dramatised? Who were the heroes?...

    Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge

  3. Australian Sport

    Antipodean Waves of Change

    Edited by Kristine Toohey, Tracy Taylor

    Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

    Australia is only a small player in the world’s political and economic landscapes, yet, for many decades, it has been considered to be a global powerhouse in terms of its sporting successes. In conjunction with this notion, the nation has long been portrayed as having a preoccupation with sport....

    Published November 16th 2010 by Routledge

  4. The Changing Face of Cricket

    From Imperial to Global Game

    Edited by Dominic Malcolm, Jon Gemmell, Nalin Mehta

    Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

    For cricket enthusiasts there is nothing to match the meaningful contests and excitement generated by the game’s subtle shifts in play. Conversely, huge swathes of the world’s population find cricket the most obscure and bafflingly impenetrable of sports. The Changing Face of Cricket attempts to...

    Published March 24th 2010 by Routledge

  5. The Containment of Soccer in Australia

    Fencing Off the World Game

    Edited by Christopher Hallinan, John Hughson

    Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

    According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, outdoor soccer was the second most popular organized sport for Australian children after swimming. It far outstripped the popularity of the three other football codes that are played in Australia – rugby league, rugby union and Australian Rules...

    Published March 23rd 2010 by Routledge

  6. Sport in Australian National Identity

    Kicking Goals

    By Tony Ward

    Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

    For many Australians, there are two great passions: sport and ‘taking the piss’. This book is about national identity – and especially about Australia’s image as a sporting country. Whether reverent or not, any successful national image has to reflect something about the reality of the country. But...

    Published March 18th 2010 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. Governance, Citizenship and the New European Football Championships: The European Spectacle
    Edited by Wolfram Manzenreiter, Georg Spitaler
    To Be Published May 31st 2013
  2. The Olympic Movement and the Sport of Peacemaking
    Edited by Ramón Spaaij, Cindy Burleson
    To Be Published July 2nd 2013
  3. Indigenous People, Race Relations and Australian Sport
    Edited by Christopher J. Hallinan, Barry Judd
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  4. Global Sport Business: Community Impacts of Commercial Sport
    Edited by Hans Westerbeek
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  5. Who Owns Football?: Models of Football Governance and Management in International Sport
    Edited by David Hassan, Sean Hamil
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  6. The Social Impact of Sport: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
    Edited by Ramón Spaaij
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  7. Governance, Citizenship and the New European Football Championships: The European Spectacle
    Edited by Wolfram Manzenreiter, Georg Spitaler
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  8. Forty Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008: "To Remember is to Resist"
    Edited by Russell Field, Bruce Kidd
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  9. Why Minorities Play or Don't Play Soccer: A Global Exploration
    Edited by Kausik Bandyopadhyay
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  10. Sport in the City: Cultural Connections
    Edited by Michael Sam, John Hughson
    To Be Published August 15th 2013

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