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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Cultures of Alternative Mobilities Routes Less Travelled
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Securing and Sustaining the Olympic City Reconfiguring London for 2012 and Beyond
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Taylor & Francis Ethnographies of the Videogame Gender Narrative and Praxis
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Taylor & Francis Sport Power and Society
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Taylor & Francis Race Youth Sport Physical Activity and Health
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Taylor & Francis Fan Activism Protest and Politics
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Taylor & Francis Sport Welfare and Social Policy in the European Union
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Taylor & Francis Designing the Olympics
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Taylor & Francis Families Young People Physical Activity and
Book SynopsisThe family is an important site for the transmission of knowledge and cultural values. Amidst claims that young people are failing to follow health advice, dropping out of sport and at risk of an ever-expanding list of lifestyle diseases, families have become the target of government interventions. This book is the first to offer critical sociological perspectives on how families do and do not function as a pedagogical site for health education, sport and physical activity practices. This book focuses on the importance of families as sites of pedagogical work across a range of cultural and geographical contexts. It explores the relationships between families, education, health, physical activity and sport, and also offers reflections on the methodological and ethical issues arising from this research. Its chapters discuss key questions such as: how active living messages are taken up in families; how parents perceive the role of educTable of Contents1: FAMILY MATTERS: AN INTRODUCTION Section 1: Family, Practice and Pedagogy 2. THE ABSENT BODY: BIO-SOCIAL ENCOUNTERS WITH THE EFFECTS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ON THE WELLBEING OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE 3. LEARNING ABOUT SEXUALITY ‘BETWEEN’ HOME AND SCHOOL: A NEW MATERIALIST READING 4. CHALLENGING THE MYTH THAT ‘THE PARENTS DON’T CARE’: FAMILY TEACHINGS ABOUT EDUCATION FOR ‘EDUCATIONALLY DISENGAGED’ YOUNG PEOPLE 5. CLOSE TO HOME: WHAT KIND OF FAMILY SHOULD WE BECOME? Section 2: Family’s Health and Physical Activity 6. PARENTS AS PAWNS IN FITNESGRAM’S WAR ON OBESITY 7. 'THE FAMILY THAT EATS TOGETHER STAYS TOGETHER': GOVERNING FAMILIES, GOVERNING HEALTH, GOVERNING PEDAGOGIES 8. MANUFACTURING (PARENTAL) CONSENT: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE HPVV INFORMED CONSENT PROCESS IN ONTARIO, CANADA 9. HEALTH AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY MESSAGES AMONG ETHNIC MINORITY GROUPS: SOUTH ASIAN FAMILIES 10. ‘PEDAGOGISED FAMILIES’ HEALTH AND PHYSICAL CULTURE; INTERSECTIONALITY OF RACE AND SOCIAL CLASS 11. EARLY YEARS LEARING (EYL), CLASS AND ABILITY 12. WHO CARES? PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, FAMILIES AND CHILDREN IN CARE Section 3: Family Physical Education and Youth Sport 13. TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVES ON THE SCHOOL-FAMILY-HEALTH NEXUS 14. FAMILIES, YOUTH AND EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITY: IMPLICATIONS FOR PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SCHOOL SPORT 15. THE SWEDISH MODEL FOR SPORT, RECREATION AND HEALTH IN TIMES OF CHANGE – A SUSTAINABLE CONTRACT WITH THE FAMILY OF SPORT? 16. FAMILY NARRATIVES OF PE, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND SPORT: CONTINGENT STORIES 17. FAMILIES, DISABILITY AND SPORT 18. SPORT PARENT ROLES IN FOSTERING POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of the Tourist Experience
Book SynopsisRoutledge Handbook of the Tourist Experience offers a comprehensive synthesis of contemporary research on the tourist experience. It draws together multidisciplinary perspectives from leading tourism scholars to explore emergent tourist behaviours and motivations.This handbook provides up-to-date, critical discussions of established and emergent themes and issues related to the tourist experience from a primarily socio-cultural perspective. It opens with a detailed introduction which lays down the framework used to examine the dynamic parameters of the tourist experience. Organised into five thematic sections, chapters seek to build and enhance knowledge and understanding of the significance and meaning of diverse elements of the tourist experience. Section 1 conceptualises and understands the tourist experience through an exploration of conventional themes such as tourism as authentic and spiritual experience, as well as emerging themes such as tourism as Table of ContentsSection 1: Dimensions of the Contemporary Tourist Experience 1. Tourism, the Tourist Experience and Postmodernity: Theory, Application and Research 2. Experiencing Tourism: Experiencing Happiness? 3. The Emotional Dimension of the Tourist Experience 4. Building the Orchestra Model of Tourist Experience, Integration, and Examples 5. The Inter-Relationship Between Tourist Satisfaction and Tourist Experiences: How Does One Contribute to the Other? 6. Evolving Authenticity into the Magical Realm of Fantasy-Based Third-Order Simulacra 7. Tourist Experiences: Liminal, Liminoid or Just Doing Something Different? 8. Finding Flow in the Travel Experience 9. Tourist Experiences as Attention Products 10. Tourist Experience: A Semiotic Perspective 11. Performing Beyond the View: Embodiment and Tourist Experiences 12. Tourism: A Spiritual Experience? Section 2: Tourist Demand and Motivation 13. The Ulysses Factor Revisited: Consolidating the Travel Career Pattern Approach to Tourist Motivation 14. The Experienced Tourist – Proposing a New Tourist Typology 15. Tourist Motivation: A Critical Overview Section 3: Tourist Roles and Experiences 16. Traveller, Tourist and the ‘Lost Art of Travelling’: The Debate Continues 17. Mass Tourism and Personal Experiences 18. Backpacker Tourist Experiences: Temporal, Spatial and Cultural Perspectives 19. Volunteer Tourism: ‘It's No Use Going Back to Yesterday, Because I Was a Different Person Then’ 20. Feelin’ Groovy: Exploring Slow(ness) in Tourism Experience 21. Ecotourist Experience: Myth or reality? 22. Is It Just the Music? Understanding the Atmosphere in Festivalgoers’ Experience at British Rock Music Festivals 23. The Film-Induced Tourism Experience 24. Remembrancing, Remembrance Gangs, and Co-opted Encounters: Loading and Reloading Dark Tourism Experiences 25. Frontier Tourism: Transcendence Through Trial 26. Creating Wellness Tourism Experiences 27. Seeking the Unusual But Sustainable: Scuba Diving Experience 28. Religious Tourism: A Spiritual or Touristic Experience? 29. The Contemporary Cruise Tourist Experience 30. Key Components of Sport Tourist Experiences 31. Photography and the Tourist Experience: From Cameras to Smartphones 32. Accessible Tourist Experiences Section 4: The Tourist Experience and Place 33. Marketing a Sense of Place to Tourists: A Critical Perspective 34. The Importance of Built Heritage in the English Seaside Experience 35. Island Tourist Experiences 36. Delivering Appealing and Competitive Rural Wine Tourism Experiences 37. Wilderness Tourism: Nature-Based Tourist Experiences in Wild Places Section 5: Creating and Mediating the Tourist Experience 38. Designing the Tourist Experience: A Marketing Perspective 39. Tourist Experience: A Marketing Perspective 40. Value Co-Creation in Tourism Eco-Systems: Operant and Operand Resources 41. Place-Based Education, Cemetery Visitation and the Tourist Experience 42. Service Experiences and Innovation in the Hospitality Industry 43. Tour Guides as Mediators of Commemoration, Education and Holiday Making: The Anthropology of the Dark Tourism Experience in Berlin 44. Experience Design in the Smart Tourism Destination
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Critical Issues in Football
Book SynopsisShowcasing some of the most important current research in football studies, this book demonstrates the value of social theory and sociology in helping us to better understand the world's favourite sport.This book sheds critical new light on key issues in contemporary football, with each chapter using a different theoretical lens, drawing on the work of key thinkers from Elias and Foucault to Hall and Maffesoli. It explores issues and topics central to the study of modern football, including homophobia, feminist-informed coaching practice, the racialised experiences of black professional footballers, the concussion crisis and the role of identity in online football communities. It also looks ahead at the issues that are likely to define the research agenda in football studies in years to come.This is fascinating reading for any student or researcher with an interest in football, the sociology of sport, social theory or social issues in wider society.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Examining Critical Issues in Football Through Sociological Theory STUART WHIGHAM, WILL ROBERTS, ALEX CULVIN, AND DANIEL PARNELLPART IEstablished Social Theories and Football 1 Tottenham Hotspur, Fan Identity and Figurational Sociology: ‘Yid Army’ BONITA LUNN2 How an Ethos of Amateurism Can Support the Integration of an Ecological Approach to Learning and Development in Football Academies: Too Much Too Early? WILL ROBERTS, MARTYN ROTHWELL, HAYDN MORGAN, JAMES VAUGHAN, AND CARL WOODS3 The McDonaldisation of Football’s Formal Coach Education?: Creating the McCoach ANTHONY BUSH AND SHAUN WILLIAMSPART IIEmerging Social Theories and Football 4 Desire, Drive and the Melancholy of English Football: ‘It’s (not) Coming Home’ JACK BLACK5 An Alternative Lens for Grassroots Sport: De-schooling Football ANDREW PITCHFORD, BEN MORELAND, DEBBIE SAYERS, AND WILL ROBERTS6 Negotiating Identity Conflict Through Football: Experiences of People Living with Type 1 DiabetesCHRISTOPHER BRIGHT AND GYŐZŐ MOLNÁR7 Professional Knowledge Development in Performance Pathways: A Futsal Case Study Through the Lens of Practice Architectures SIÔN KITSON, PETE VALLANCE, AND SIMON PHELANPART IIISocial Theories of Gender and Sexuality in Football 8 Experiences of Female Football Referees: Using the Lack of Fit Model to Explore Gender Stereotypes in Football in EnglandLAURA GRUBB, TOM WEBB, AND MIKE RAYNER9 Critical Feminism and Football Pundits: Calm Down… It’s Just a Woman Talking Football ALI BOWES, MOLLY MATTHEWS, AND JESS LONG10 Towards the Application of Feminist-Informed Pedagogical Principles into Coaching Practice: Personal Narratives and Implications for Football Coaches ADI ADAMS, ALICE HUNTER, AND ELLIE GENNINGS11 English (Men’s) Football, Masculinity and Homophobia: From Hegemonic to Inclusive Masculinity JAY WILLSON AND RORY MAGRATHPART IVSocial Theories of ‘Race’ and Ethnicity in Football 12 The Racialised Construction of Black Professional Footballers in Engl(ish) Football: Love the Game, Hate the PlayerJASON ARDAY13 Black Professional Football Players, Social Capital and Social Change: A Case Study of Marcus Rashford’s Child Poverty Campaign KEON RICHARDSON14 ‘Pogba x Stormzy’ and the Politics of Race and Representation: An Introduction to Stuart Hall and British Cultural Studies MICHAEL HOBSON
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Punching Up in StandUp Comedy
Book SynopsisPunching Up in Stand-Up Comedy explores the new forms, voices and venues of stand-up comedy in different parts of the world and its potential role as a counterhegemonic tool for satire, commentary and expression of identity especially for the disempowered or marginalised.The title brings together essays and perspectives on stand-up and satire from different cultural and political contexts across the world which raise pertinent issues regarding its role in contemporary times, especially with the increased presence of OTT platforms and internet penetration that allows for easy access to this art form. It examines the theoretical understanding of the different aspects of the humour, aesthetics and politics of stand-up comedy, as well as the exploration of race, gender, politics and conflicts, urban culture and LGBTQ+ identities in countries such as Indonesia, Finland, France, Iran, Italy, Morocco, India and the USA. It also asks the question whether, along with contestiTrade Review‘The current times are such that one must stand up and be counted, stare straight into the eyes of the nefarious powers that be, throw punchlines well above one's weight, and laugh out loud. And this is what this very timely book teaches and beseeches us to do. A must-read for all those who, even in these grim times, believe that truth must be spoken to power, and that too with a smile, nay a guffaw!’—Professor Saugata Bhaduri, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.‘This intricate analysis of punching up is timely and fascinating. The contributors use diverse methods and approaches to explore what it means to punch up across a range of contexts. The international focus is particularly welcome, with discussion of both established stand-up comedy scenes and more recent additions to stand-up’s increasingly global presence. A brilliant book.’—Dr Sophie Quirk, University of Kent, UK."The current times are such that one must stand up and be counted, stare straight into the eyes of the nefarious powers that be, throw punchlines well above one's weight, and laugh out loud. And this is what this very timely book teaches and beseeches us to do. A must-read for all those who, even in these grim times, believe that truth must be spoken to power, and that too with a smile, nay a guffaw!"Professor Saugata Bhaduri, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India"This intricate analysis of punching up is timely and fascinating. The contributors use diverse methods and approaches to explore what it means to punch up across a range of contexts. The international focus is particularly welcome, with discussion of both established stand-up comedy scenes and more recent additions to stand-up’s increasingly global presence. A brilliant book."Dr Sophie Quirk, University of Kent, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I Punching In and Punching Up: Origins, Limits and Possibilities 1 The History of Moroccan Stand-Up Comedy: From Storytelling to Charged Humour; 2 Standing Up for Speaking Up: Stand-Up Comedy in the Indonesian Context; 3 The Jamel Comedy Club: (Mis)understanding Stand-Up Comedy’s Relationship with Urban Culture in France; 4 Stand-Up Comedy as Escape: Caste and Media Infrastructure in Mumbai; 5 Voices from the Comedy Contact Zone: Regarding Performative Strategies Toward Race and the Transnational Body; Part II Gendered Experiences and Stand-Up Comedy 6 Humour as Antihistamine in the Discourse of Persian Stand-Up Comedy: Female Stand-Up Comedians in Iran; 7 Asserting Cultural Citizenship through Situated Comedy: Female Comedians in India; 8 Notes on Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette, Adorno’s Kulturindustrie and Feminism; Part III Comics and the Audience: Connections, Ethics and Efficacy? 9 Awkward Connections: Stand-Up Comedy as Affective Arrangement; 10 The Revolution Will Be a Joke: Semiotic Ideologies of Ethics and Efficacy in Stand-Up Comedy; 11 Standing Up for a Cause: The Cathartic and Persuasive Power of Stand-Up Comedy; 12 Which Direction Do We Punch? The Powers and Perils of Humour against the New Conspiracism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Evaluation in Sport and Leisure
Book SynopsisThis book presents a critical assessment of evaluation theory and practice in sport and leisure. It considers established and emerging forms of evaluation; examines typologies, issues, contexts and processes; and asks how evaluation practice can be improved in the future.The book seeks to uncover some of the tensions and dilemmas that are present in choosing and applying evaluation strategies. It considers the relationship between evaluation, context and evaluator to discern how and why a particular strategy is employed. It also highlights how power relationships affect and effect the evaluation process itself as well as those involved in conducting evaluations. The book encourages the reader to challenge accepted methodologies in evaluation, whilst acknowledging the central importance of evaluation and evidence for our understanding of the social impact and value of sport and leisure.This book is important reading for any student, researcher, practitioner or policy ma
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sport Forced Migration and the Refugee Crisis
Book SynopsisDrawing on original research, this book looks at what sport can tell us about the social processes, patterns and outcomes of forced migration and the ''refugee crisis''.Adopting a systems theory framework and examining different sport disciplines, performance levels and settings, it represents a significant contribution to our understanding of one of the most urgent social issues facing the modern world. The book explores four key aspects of sport's intersection with forced migration. Firstly, it looks at how the media covers sport in relation to the ''refugee crisis'', specifically coverage of refugee elite athletes. Secondly, it examines the adaptation of sport organisations to the ''refugee crisis'', including the culture, programmes and structures that promote or obstruct sport for refugees. Thirdly, the book looks at sport in refugee sites, and how sport can be used as therapy, an escape or empowerment for refugees but also how it can reinforce the divisions between stafTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. State of the Art Research on Forced Migration and Sport 3. Definitions of Key Terms in Forced Migration and Sport 4. The ‘Refugee Crisis’ 5. Systems Theoretical Framework 6. Methodical Approaches of the Projects 7. Results of the Projects 8. Overarching Discussion of the Results 9. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis The 2023 FIFA Womens World Cup
Book SynopsisThis book offers a critical examination of the 2023 FÃdÃration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Womenâs World Cup, being held in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Drawing on perspectives from sociology, history, political science, and management, it sheds new light on the development of womenâs soccer and on womenâs sport more broadly.This book examines the politics of the build-up to the tournament, including the bidding process, as well as how the tournament has been represented in the media, the governance structures of the tournament itself, and policy proposals designed to leave an enduring legacy for women and girls in sport. The 2023 FIFA Womenâs World Cup is the first Womenâs World Cup to be held in the Southern Hemisphere and the first to be held with an expanded 32-team format. This book shows why the 2023 FIFA Womenâs World Cup represents a unique opportunity to enhance our understanding of womenâs football, gender-oriented sport development initiati
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Methodological Advancements in Social Impacts of
Book SynopsisThis book offers a fresh perspective of on some of the cutting-edge methodological approaches being used among scholars conducting work on social impacts of tourism. These works are international in focus, spanning across Europe (e.g., Austria, Croatia, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, and Turkey) and Asia (e.g., Hong Kong, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Turkey). The authors employ qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods designs and some of the notable focus areas include comparative studies of residents' perspectives of tourism (i.e., involving impacts of various forms of tourism and community children's perceptions of tourism); statistical techniques such as multigroup invariance analysis and fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis; and the employment of novel measurement tools such as the implicit association test involving residents' implicit stereotypes of visitors from multiple countries and the utilization of the human-scale development to identify Table of ContentsIntroduction: Methodological advancements in social impacts of tourism research 1. Do residents differentiate between the impacts of tourism, cruise tourism, and Airbnb tourism? 2. Towards advancing theory and methods on tourism development from residents’ perspectives: Developing a framework on the pathway to impact 3. The effect of minority residents’ attitudes and emotional solidarity on ethnic neighborhood tourism: a multigroup invariance analysis 4. Assessing explicit and implicit stereotypes in tourism: self-reports and implicit association test 5. Interferences generated on the well-being of local communities by the activity of online platforms for tourist accommodation 6. Towards sustainable tourism development in a mature destination: measuring multi-group in variance between residents and visitors’ attitudes with high use of accommodation-sharing platforms 7. Social impacts of mega-events: a systematic narrative review and research agenda 8. Exploring the neglected voices of children in sustainable tourism development: a comparative study in six European tourist destinations
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Taylor & Francis Social Class Physical Education and Community Sport
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Sport and the Environment
Book SynopsisThe natural environment is a central issue in both academic and wider societal discourse. The global sport industry is not immune from this discussion and has to confront its responsibility to reduce its impact on the natural environment. This book goes further than any other in surveying both the challenges and the opportunities presented to the sports industry as it engages with the sustainability agenda, exploring the various ways in which sport scholars can integrate sustainability into their research. With a multidisciplinary sweep, including management, sociology, law, events, and ethics, this is a ground-breaking book in the study of sport. Drawing on cutting-edge research, it includes over thirty chapters covering all the most important themes in contemporary sport studies such as: climate change, sustainability, and corporate social responsibility ethics, governance, and the law event management, tourism, and pollutiTrade Review"This handbook serves as an important text for sport and/or environmental management graduate students and is a valuable reference for sustainability practitioners, operations professionals, and communications executives at sports leagues, teams and venues. It provides rigorously researched examples of a wide variety of environmentally-focused initiatives that can be built upon by teams and venues currently sitting on the green-sports side lines. It lays the groundwork for more refined and meaningful green-sports scholarship and textbooks in the future." - Lew Blaustein, GreenSportsBlog.com "This handbook serves as an important text for sport and/or environmental management graduate students and is a valuable reference for sustainability practitioners, operations professionals, and communications executives at sports leagues, teams and venues. It provides rigorously researched examples of a wide variety of environmentally-focused initiatives that can be built upon by teams and venues currently sitting on the green-sports side lines. It lays the groundwork for more refined and meaningful green-sports scholarship and textbooks in the future." - Lew Blaustein, GreenSportsBlog.com "This text would serve students well in an undergraduate survey course on sport and the environment and as a supplemental text for graduate facility management, event management, sociology, and governance courses. Overall, the text offers a much-needed foundational text to promote more robust knowledge of sport and the environment and how to leverage that knowledge to create a more synergistic relationship between the two." - Joyce Olushola Ogunrinde, University of Houston, Journal of Sport Management "The chapters in this book show the variety of environmental issues and initiatives in sports. While many highlight how sport organization, facilities, participants and supporters still act in unsustainable ways, there is a translation of an abundance of positive examples. I read this volume as one of many signs that sport can no longer escape issues of environmental impact, sustainability and climate change." - David Svensson, Chalmers University of Technology, idrottsforum.org Table of ContentsForewords [Russell S. Seymour] [Geert Hendriks] Section I: Foundations of Sport and Environmental Sustainability 1. An introduction to environmental sustainability and sport [Brian P. McCullough and Timothy B. Kellison] 2. Robustness of the sport and environment sustainability literature and where to go from here [Cheryl Mallen] 3. Economics, sport, and the environment: Incentives and intersections [Allen R. Sanderson and Sabina L. Shaikh] 4. Ethical foundations for sustainability in sport [Danny Rosenberg] 5. Climate change and the future of international events: A case of the Olympic and Paralympic Games [Lisa M. DeChano-Cook and Fred M. Shelley] 6. Sport-environmental sustainability (sport-ES) education [Greg Dingle and Cheryl Mallen] Section II: Management and Marketing 7. Organizational capacity and sport, the environment, and sustainability: Making the case for capacity building [Julie Stevens] 8.The Olympics: Institutionalization and standardization of sustainability [Jon Helge Lesjø and Erlend Aas Gulbrandsen] 9. Environmental sustainability rhetoric in sport [Michael E. Pfahl] 10. Marketing sustainability through sport: The importance of target market insights [Galen T. Trail and Brian P. McCullough] 11. Using sustainability to attract new partnerships [Lana L. Huberty] 12. Sponsors as meso level actors in sport: Understanding individual decisions as foundational to sustainability in food and drink [T. Bettina Cornwell and Joerg Koenigstorfer] 13. Corporate social responsibility campaigns and sports sponsorship: Employee responses [Martin R. Edwards] 14. Vancouver, green capital: The green business branding strategy of the host city of an Olympic Games [Joseph Weiler and Patrick Weiler] Section III: Facilities and Operations 15. Assessing the environmental impact of economic activity surrounding major sport events [Andrea Collins and Annette Roberts] 16. Environmental certifications of sport facilities and events [Sheila N. Nguyen] 17. Resident input and mega event legacies: Environmental concerns [Kyriaki Kaplanidou] 18. Third-party assurance of sustainability reporting: The case of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Game [Eleni Theodoraki] 19. Implementing environmental sustainability in athletic training operations [Kelly Potteiger] Section IV: Event Management 20. Sport venue sustainability: The role of local context and stakeholder engagement [Kathryn L. Heinze and Sara Soderstrom] 21. Sustainable behaviors and the tailgater [Andy Gillentine] 22. Tailgating and air quality [Jonathan M. Casper and Kyle S. Bunds] 23. STOKE certified: Initiating sustainability certification in surf tourism [Danny O’Brien and Jess Ponting] Section V: Sociocultural Approaches 24. Sustainability, greenwashing, and the light green approach to sport environmentalism [jay johnson and Adam Ehsan Ali] 25. Sport participation to create a deeper environmental identity with pro-environmental behaviors [Vinathe Sharma-Brymer, Tonia Gray, and Eric Brymer] 26. Sport and interspecies equity-based sustainability [Melanie Sartore-Baldwin] 27. Water and sports facilities: Usage, issues, and solutions [Kyle S. Bunds] 28. Physical activity, self-organized sport, and sustainable urban development [Karin Book] Section VI: Law and Governance 29. Going green: Environmental review, design, and operation of sports facilities [Alex Porteshawver] 30. A little green: The European Union’s efforts to promote environmental sustainability in sport [Arnout Geeraert] 31. Environmental sustainability and governance in the 2012 London Games [Vassil Girginov] 32. Law and norms in sustainability developments in the major American sports leagues [Matthew T. Bodie and Lucas D. Jackson] 33. Steady-state economics and stadiums: Using the date of ecological maturity to conceptualize and govern sport facility construction [Christopher M. McLeod and John T. Holden] 34. Epilogue: A pragmatic perspective on the future of sustainability in sport [Timothy B. Kellison and Brian P. McCullough]
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Football Corruption and Lies
Book SynopsisWorld football is in crisis. The corruption scandal engulfing FIFA is arguably the biggest story in the history of modern sport and a watershed for sport governance. More than a decade ago, John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson laid the foundations for subsequent investigations with the publication of Badfellas, a groundbreaking work of critical sport sociology that exposed the systematic corruption at the heart of world football. It was a book that FIFA and Sepp Blatter tried to ban.Now re-issued to combine the original contents of Badfellas with new chapters covering the current crisis, this book points to the ways in which FIFA's new administration can learn from the Blatter story. The prequel traces the course of Sugden and Tomlinson's game-changing investigation into FIFA, while the sequel updates the FIFA story from 2002 onwards and provides a chronology of crises and scandals within the FIFA narrative.Demonstrating the vital importance of critical investiTrade Review'A brave, evidenced and sustained account of the governing body of world football, FIFA. If you care about the fate of the most popular game in the world and want to understand what could be done to move on from 2015 read this book. Two of the most intrepid voices, who both understand how football can operate in the humanitarian arena, have re-issued and extended a book of uncommon power and uncompromising argument.' - Grant Jarvie, former acting University Principal and Chair of Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK'Long before the FBI swooped on FIFA, John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson were on the case. Combining critical sociology with gonzo journalism, they pursued corrupt and ethically bankrupt practices in association football’s governing body with the stubborn tenacity of ethnographically-inspired investigative newshounds. This book documents the many twists and turns of a strange road trip, bringing their feisty 2003 book Badfellas back into the spotlight that FIFA’s lawyers had tried hard to extinguish. Detailing recent developments leading to the fall of the house of Blatter and his associates, the authors unflinchingly appraise the challenges facing genuine reformers of football governance.' - David Rowe, Professor of Cultural Research, Western Sydney University, Australia'Without the pioneering work and brilliant forensic journalism of Badfellas and their subsequent books, it is a frightening possibility that the discredited Blatter regime which blighted FIFA for so long, could still be in place. They started the ball rolling and all true lovers of the game should thank John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson for the part they played in exposing football’s greatest ever scandal.' - Mike Collett, Reuters Global Soccer Editor, UK'Long before FIFA became synonymous with an unsavory mélange of corruption and greed, John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson were on the case. In their pioneering and prescient book Football, Corruption and Lies: Revisiting ‘Badfellas’, the Book FIFA Tried to Ban, Sugden and Tomlinson take us on a rollicking ride through the grisly annals of FIFA, full of shady characters, backroom deals, and Machiavellian mayhem. Blending gumshoe investigative work with toothy sociological analysis, they untangle the history of brazen chicanery that paved a platinum-plated path for ‘Blattergate’ in 2015. Through a rich sequel and coda that detail the great unravel at FIFA in 2015, they bring us full circle, all the while sifting the sins from the spin. Sepp Blatter and his phalanx of lawyers tried to ban the original Badfellas from distribution in Switzerland, where FIFA is headquartered, but their heyday is passé. Sugden, Tomlinson, and their ilk have won the day. Insightful and incisive, Football, Corruption and Lies is a must read for anyone interested in the history of FIFA’s profligacy, the modern-day malaise in which it is mired, and possible pathways forward.' - Jules Boykoff, Professor of Political Science, Pacific University in Oregon, USA'Football, Corruption and Lies is a brilliant rejuvenation of Badfellas. In its original form, the book was a courageous exposé of the septic nature of FIFA’s leadership and governance. This updated rendition prompts reflection as to how such corruption flourished and, moreover, why it fell to a handful of academics and supportive journalists to reveal a festering underbelly of deceit, profiteering and bullying. The book’s new sections, which evaluate the fall from grace of Blatter and his acolytes, are just as poignant. With the Badfellas having been marched off by the FBI, FIFA is in no position to try to ban Football, Corruption and Lies.' - Daryl Adair, Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Technology Sydney, AustraliaTable of ContentsPreface to 2016 Edition/Re-issuePrequel: Badfellas Begins – Critical sociology and the purging of FIFABadfellas: FIFA Family at WarPreface [2003]1. Blattergate - Blatter consolidates power 2. The Blazer-and-Slacks Brigade – FIFA’s amateur roots 3. Goodbye, Colonel Blimp – Shifting political landscapes4. The Big Man - Havelange and the transformation of FIFA5. The Predator and the Protégé – Doing the business for FIFA 6. The Bounty Hunter – The American way 7. The Big Boss – Eastern horizons8. A Rumble in the Jungle – Johansson and the scramble for Africa9. From Protégé to President – Blatter takes the throne 10. The Politics of the Belly – Garnering votes and gaining loyalty11. Tout Heaven – Tickets, markets and corruption12. The Best Club in the World – Cocooning the FIFA Family13. Bidding wars – Winners and losers in the World Cup hosting game14. The Terminator – Blatter cleans out FIFA House15. Fifaland – Imagining world football’s futureSequel: Badfellas on the RunCoda: The End of a Dynasty - Badfellas re-formed?AcronymsCast ListIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Tennis
Book SynopsisTennis is one of the world's most popular sports, as levels of participation and spectatorship demonstrate. Moreover, tennis has always been one of the world's most significant sports, expressing crucial fractures of social class, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity - both on and off court. This is the first book to undertake a survey of the historical and socio-cultural sweep of tennis, exploring key themes from governance, development and social inclusion to national identity and the role of the media. It is presented in three parts: historical developments; culture and representations; and politics and social issues, and features contributions by leading tennis scholars from North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The most authoritative book published to date on the history, culture and politics of tennis, this is an essential reference for any course or program examining the history, sociology, politics or culture of sport.Table of Contents1. Introduction to the History and Historiography of Tennis, Part I: Historical Developments (Commercialization, Professionalization and the Creation of Tennis Celebrities; Globalization and Internationalization of Tennis), 2. From Folk Game to Elite Pastime: Tennis and its Patrons, 3. Grass Roots: The Development of Tennis in Britain, 1918–1978, 4. Coaching and Training in British Tennis: A History of Competing Ideals, 5. Golden Years and Golden Stars: International Women’s Tennis between the Wars, 6. A Transcendent Game Plan: Bill Tilden’s Rhetorical Strategy in Defying the USLTA, 7. Fred Perry and the Amateur-professional Divide in British Tennis Between the Wars, 8. Boris Becker and Steffi Graf: German tennis, Media Images and National Identity, 9. The Female Hero through the Cultural Lens: Comparing Framing of Li Na in Chinese and Western Media, 10. The World’s Game? Globalization and the Cultural Economy of Tennis, 11. Jeu de Paume, Lawn Tennis and France’s National Identity from the 1870s to the Musketeers Era, 12. Lawn Tennis in Ireland: The Untold History, 1870-1914, 13. Socio-cultural Transformations of Tennis in the Czech Republic, 14. A Brief Historical, Political and Social Analysis of Argentine Tennis, 15. Indian Tennis: Past Perfect, Present Continuous, Future Tense, 16. Tennis in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region, Part II: Culture and Representations (Gender, Race, Class, the Arts and Media), 17. Fashioning Competitive Lawn Tennis: Object, Image, and Reality in Women’s Tennis Dress 1884-1919, 18. Wimbledon Women: Elite Amateur Tennis Players in the Mid-Twentieth Century, 19. Beyond the "Kournikova Phenomenon": Race and Beauty in a ‘Colorblind’ Culture, 20. Making Work out of Play: The Troubling Gender Performances of Bill Tilden, 21. Your Racquet Should Do the Talking: Masculinity and Top - Class Tennis, 1930s to the Early Twenty First Century, 22. "You’ve Come a Long Way Baby" but When Will You Get to Deuce? The Media (Re)presentation of Women‘s Tennis in the Post Open Era, 23. Veiled Hyper-Sexualization: Deciphering Strong is Beautiful as Collective Identity in the WTA’s Global Ad Campaign, 24. Warriors of the Court: Richard "Pancho" González, Rosie Casals and the History of U.S. Latino/as in Tennis, 25. Historical Changes in Playing Styles and Behavioural Etiquette in Tennis: Reflecting Broader Shifts in Social Class and Gender Relations, 26. The Seductions of Modern Tennis: Technical Invention, Social Practice, Literary Discourse, 27. Understanding Competitive Tennis through Literature and the Visual Arts: Society, Celebrity and Aesthetics, 28. The Literature of Tennis, 29. International Tennis Art, 30. Tennis and the Media: A History of Shifting Attitudes toward Tennis Journalism and Broadcasting, 31. Exploring an Online Tennis Community, 32. Tennis & Social Media, Part III: Politics and Social Issues (Governance, Nationalism and Identity: Race, Gender, Class and Disability), 33. Tennis Governance: A History of Political Power Struggles, 34. Defending the Grand Slam: Government Intervention, Urban Renewal and Keeping the Australian Open, 35. Tennis and the Olympics: An Historical Examination of their On-Off Relationship since 1896, 36. The Wimbledon Effect: The Tennis Championships as Changing National Symbol, 37. Andy Murray and the Borders of National Identities: (Re)Claiming a Tennis Champion, 38. Racial Politics in the History of American Tennis, 39. Arthur Ashe: Politics, Racism and Tennis, 40. The Original 9: The Social Movement That Created Women’s Professional Tennis, 1968-1973, 41. Giving All Women the Chance: The Battle of the Sexes in Popular Culture, 42. Break Point: Renée Richards and the Significance of Sex and Gender in Women’s Tennis, 43. Venus and Serena are "Doing It" for Themselves: Theorizing Sporting Celebrity, Marxism and Black Feminism for the Hip-Hop Generation, 44. Wheelchair Tennis: Historical Development and Narratives of Play, 45. A History of Social Exclusion in British Tennis: From Grass Roots to the Elite Level
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Surfing Sex Genders and Sexualities
Book SynopsisSex, gender and sexuality have played an important role in shaping the culture of surfing and are central themes in the study of sport and movement cultures. Rooted in a rich precolonial history, surfing has undergone a modern transformation shaped by visual culture, commodification, sportization, mediatization and globalization, arguably all linked to sex, gender and sexuality. Using the physical culture of surfing as its focus, this international collection discusses the complex relationships between surfing, sex/es, gender/s and sexuality/ies. This book crosses new theoretical, empirical and methodological boundaries by exploring themes and issues such as indigenous histories, exploitation, the marginalized, race, ethnicity, disability, counter cultures, transgressions and queering. Offering original insights into surfing's symbolism, postcolonialism, patriocolonial whiteness and heteronormativity, its chapters are connected by a collective aspiration to document sex/es, gTrade Review"In this collection of essays, contributors use surfing as the lens through which to examine sex, genders, and sexualities (SGS) from an international perspective. This book represents a significant contribution to the sparse critical SGS scholarship on surfing … This text will interest those in the fields of surfing/sport studies, sociology, and gender studies, among others. Summing Up: Recommended." - A. Curtis, Lake Erie College, CHOICE May 2019Table of ContentsForeword [Jayne Caudwell] 1. Surfing, Sex/es, Gender/s and Sexuality/ies [lisahunter] 2. E Hua E: Surfing and Sexuality in Hawaiian Society [Ian ʻAkahi Masterson] 3. Surfing, Sponsorship and Sexploitation: The Reality of Being a Female Professional Surfer [Roslyn Franklin and Lorelei Carpenter] 4. Multiple Marginalization?: The Representation and Experience of Bodyboarding in Japan [Eri Mizuno] 5. "Mexicans Don’t Surf": An Intersectional Analysis of Mexican American’s Experiences with Sport [Cassie Comley] 6. Social Uses of the Beach and Relationships with Transgressive Bodies: Being a Female Surfer in Morocco [Christophe Guibert] 7. A Tale of Two Surf Contests: Gender, Sex and Competitive Surfing in South Africa During the Late 1970s and Early 1990s [Glen Thompson] 8. Stories of Surfing: Surfing, Space and Subjectivity/Intersectionality [Rebecca Olive, Georgina Roy and Belinda Wheaton] 9. Queering Surfing from Its Heteronormative Malaise: Public Visual Pedagogy of Circa 2014 [lisahunter] 10. Surfing Ali‘I, Kahuna, Kupua and Akua: Female Presence in Surfing’s Past [Ian ʻAkahi Masterson] 11. (Counter)Cultural Changes in Surfing and Surfing Scholarship: Towards Diverse, Intersectional, Liminal, Complex and Queer Activism Dialogues [lisahunter]
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Physical Activity Policy
Book SynopsisPhysical activity, inactivity and their relationship to health are serious concerns for governments around the world. This is the first book to critically examine the policy and practice of physical activity from a multi-disciplinary, social-scientific perspective. Moving beyond the usual biophysical and epidemiological approaches, it defines and explores the key themes that are shaping the global physical activity debate.Unrivalled in its scale and scope, it presents the latest data on physical activity from around the world, including case studies from Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia. Drawing on social, economic and behavioural sciences, it covers contexts from the global to the local and introduces the dominant ideas which inform the study of physical activity. Its 41 chapters examine the use of different forms of evidence in policymaking, the role of organisations in advocating physical activity, and the practical realities of public health interventions.Table of ContentsPART 1: Policy Issues in Physical Activity THEME A: Policy Concepts and Contexts 1. Concepts and Theories in Physical Activity Policy [Joe Piggin] 2. Putting Physical Activity on the Policy Agenda [Catherine Woods and Nanette Mutrie] 3. The Global Physical Inactivity Pandemic: An Analysis of Knowledge Production [Joe Piggin and Alan Bairner] 4. Is Exercise Medicine? [Dominic Malcolm and Emma Pullen] 5. Sport and Physical Activity for Health and Wellbeing: Choice and Competing Outcomes [Paul Downward] 6. The Imperative of Physical Activity in Public Health Policy and Practice [Louise Mansfield] THEME B: Evidence and Policy 7. The Interpretation and Misinterpretation of Biomedical Evidence to Inform Physical Activity Guidelines [Mike Weed] 8. Only Connect: How Social Science Can Improve Physical Activity Guidance [Tess Kay] 9. The Use of Behavioural Evidence in PA Policy: Is PA Policy Evidence Based? [Fiona Gillison and Fay Beck] 10. Tracing Translations: The Journey from Evidence to Policy to Physical Activity Promotion Campaigns [Jessica Lee, Benjamin Williams and Bernadette Sebar] 11. Measuring Physical Activity [Dale Esliger, Andrew Kingsnorth and Lauren Sherar] THEME C: Policy Communities and Physical Activity 12. Physical Activity and Mental Health: A Focus on Depression [Guy Faulkner and Markus Duncan] 13. Neighbourhood Accessibility and Active Travel [Hugh Barton, Michael Horswell and Paul Millar] 14. The Environment, Physical Activity, Recreation and the Outdoors [Barbara Humberstone, Heather Prince and Lois Mansfield] 15. Sport Policy [Pippa Chapman] 16. Young People, Physical Activity and ‘Active Play’ Promotion in Canada [Stephanie Alexander] 17. Education, Physical Education and Physical Activity Promotion [Andy Smith, Ken Green and Miranda Thurston] PART 2: Practices THEME D: People, Places and Physical Activity 18. Physical Activity and Ageing [Cassie Phoenix and Emmanuelle Tulle] 19. Girls, Women and Physical Activity [Philippa Velija and Louise Mansfield] 20. Disability and Physical Activity [Toni Williams and Brett Smith] 21. Physical Activity, Families and Households [John Day] 22. Workplace Physical Activity: Theory, Policy and Practice [David McGillivray] 23. Physical Activity in Schools [Jordan Smith, David Lubans and Rodney Lyn] 24. Physical Activity in Prisons [Mark Norman] THEME E: Understanding and Evaluating Practices and Programmes 25. Employing Voluntary Sports Organisations in the Implementation of Physical Activity Policy [Anna Aggestål and Josef Fahlén] 26. Physical Activity Opportunities for Young People: A Case Study of StreetGames [Carolynne Mason] 27. Schools, Corporations and Promotion of Physical Activity to Fight Obesity [Darren Powell and Michael Gard] 28. The Olympic Games and Physical Activity Promotion [Paul Bretherton and Billy Graeff] 29. The Role of Evaluation in School Sport Policy, Provision and Participation: Change4Life School Sports Clubs [Abby Foad and Michelle Secker] 30. Linking Physical Activity and Health Evaluation to Policy: Lessons from UK Evaluations [Andy Pringle, Jim McKenna and Stephen Zwolinsky] 31. Modelling the Cost Effectiveness of Physical Activity Interventions: The Case of GP Based Interventions [Nana Anokye] 32. Cycling: A Path to Physical Activity through Transportation, Sport and Leisure [Richard J. Buning and Heather J. Gibson] 33. ‘Will to Win’: The Darker Side of Elite Swimming [Jenny McMahon] PART 3: International Perspectives on Physical Activity Policy and Practice THEME F: Physical Activity Policy and Practice Around the World 34. The Arab Region [Mahfoud Amara] 35. Australia [Margaret Heffernan, Constantino Stavros, Kate Westberg, Angela Dobele and Aaron Smith] 36. Brazil [Thiago Hérick de Sá, Marco Almeida and Danielle Keylla Alencar Cruz] 37. The European Union [Mads de Wolff] 38. India [Aman Dhall] 39. South Africa [Tracey Kolbe Alexander and Vicki Lambert] 40. The United Kingdom [Emily Knox] 41. The United States of America [Sean Bulger, Emily Jones and Eloise Elliott]
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Ethics of Sports Technologies and Human Enhancement
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Taylor & Francis Inc Sport in a Changing World
Book SynopsisThis book shows how the dynamic interplay of a powerful "golden triangle" of sports, media, and business interests with social, cultural, economic, and political forces shapes sport in a changing world. This edition is a condensed and updated version of the first edition, with an emphasis on current social issues in sport. It also has more global content. The golden triangle concept is more developed and applied more extensively. Other key themes of the first edition—power, status, and inequality—are also more developed. New "Stop and Think Questions" have been added to challenge students to think about the meaning of what they have read. The book is now divided into five sections. The new sections highlight sociology and the sociology of sport; inequality and diversity; globalization and social deviance; major social contexts of sport, including the high school, college, and professional levels; and power, political economy, and global sports.Table of ContentsPart I. Sociology and the Sociology of Sport 1. A Sport Sociologist’s Perspective of Sport Part II. Social Organization of Sport 2. Social Stratification, Class, and Mobility in Sport 3. Diversity and Inequalities in Sport Part III. Building, Spreading, and Disrupting Sport in the Golden Triangle 4. Globalization, Mass Media, and Sports Culture 5. Sport, Social Deviance, and Social Problems Part IV. Social Contexts of Sport 6. Youth and High School Sports 7. College Athletics 8. Professional Sports Part V. Power, Political Economy, and Global Sports 9. Politics, Economics, and Sport in a Changing World
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Cambridge University Press Games Learning and Society Learning and Meaning in the Digital Age Learning in Doing Social Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Republicans Buy Sneakers Too How the Left Is
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The University of Chicago Press Midnight Basketball Race Sports and Neoliberal
Book SynopsisMidnight basketball may not have been invented in Chicago, but the City of Big Shoulders home of Michael Jordan and the Bulls is where it first came to national prominence. And it's also where Douglas Hartmann first began to think seriously about the audacious notion that organizing young men to run around in the wee hours of the night all trying to throw a leather ball through a metal hoop could constitute meaningful social policy. Organized in the 1980s and '90s by dozens of American cities, late-night basketball leagues were designed for social intervention, risk reduction, and crime prevention targeted at African American youth and young men. In Midnight Basketball, Hartmann traces the history of the program and the policy transformations of the period, while exploring the racial ideologies, cultural tensions, and institutional realities that shaped the entire field of sports-based social policy. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the book also brings to life the actual, on-the-ground
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The University of Chicago Press Seductive Journey American Tourists in France
Book SynopsisFor centuries the pleasures of France have been legendary, casting a magic spell on innumerable travellers. This text explains why so many Americans have visited France and tells in detail what they did when they got there.
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University of Chicago Press Leisure Settings Bourgeois Culture Medicine the
Book SynopsisExploring the links between class identity and vacationing, the text looks at the popularity of France's health resorts in the 19th century. It shows how spas were promoted as an ordered equivalent to the busy lives of the bourgeoisie, and this premier vacation made and was made by the bourgeoisie.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Baths and Curing in the Old Regime 2: Producing Leisure: Economics, Class Formation, and the Sejour for Sale 3: Respectability Emplaced 4: Medicine and the Rhythming of Bourgeois Rest 5: Social Benefits of Spa Consumption Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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MO - University of Illinois Press Rooting for the Home Team
Book SynopsisExamines how various American communities create and maintain a sense of collective identity through sports.Trade ReviewCo-winner, North American Society for Sport History Book Award, Anthology, 2014. "This collection points to some of the ways to rewrite sport's meanings and shows how and why doing so matters, academically, emotionally, and as part of the politics of the everyday beyond the commodified, commercialized and financial worlds of late capitalist sport-as-culture-industry."--Sport in History "This fine anthology shows the confluence of sport, identity, and community in a variety of settings. Outstanding essays by skilled writers."--Ronald A. Smith, author of Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform"These accessible, illustrative essays—written by scholars of sport studies, American studies, and history—are stories about teams and times, voice and victories, pride and privilege. In sum, the book emphasizes the functional aspects of sports—the fact that through sports people feel connected to one another. Recommended."--Choice"The book offers unexpected insight into how sports communities are used to shore up a mythologized American past."--Journal of Sport HistoryTable of ContentsContributors: Amy Bass, Susan Cahn, Mark Dyreson, Michael Ezra, Elliott J. Gorn, Christopher Lamberti, Allison Lauterbach, Catherine M. Lewis, Shelley Lucas, Daniel A. Nathan, Michael Oriard, Carlo Rotella, Jaime Schultz, Mike Tanier, David K. Wiggins, and David W. Zang.
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Back Bay Books 12 Tom Brady and His Battle for Redemption
Book SynopsisThe thrilling behind-the-scenes account of how the NFL''s most sensational scandal culminated in sports history''s greatest comeback, featuring dozens of exclusive interviews with Patriots players -- including Tom Brady himself. In January 2015, rumors circulated that the New England Patriots -- a team long suspected of abiding by the if you ain''t cheating you ain''t trying philosophy -- had used under-inflated footballs in their playoff victory against the Indianapolis Colts. As evidence began to build, however, a full on NFL investigation was launched, exploding an unsubstantiated rumor into an intense scandal that would lead news coverage for weeks. As shockwaves rippled throughout the NFL system, the very legitimacy of one of the league''s most popular teams and their star quarterback began to erode, even as the Patriots and Brady went on to win that year''s Super Bowl. But as the celebrations gave way to the offseason, the investigation only inte
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Little Brown and Company Raise a Fist Take a Knee Race and the Illusion
Book SynopsisBased on dozens of shocking interviews with some of the most influential names in sports, this is the urgent and revelatory examination of racial inequality in professional athletics America has been waiting for.Commentators, coaches, and fans alike have long touted the diverse rosters of leagues like the NFL and MLB as sterling examples of a post-racial America. Yet decades after Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists in a display of Black power and pride, and years after Colin Kaepernick shocked the world by kneeling for the national anthem, the role Black athletes and coaches are expected to perform—both on and off the field—still can be determined as much by stereotype and old-fashion ideology as ability and performance.Whether it’s the pre-game moments of resistance, the lack of diversity among coaching and managerial staff, or the consistent undervaluation of Black quarterbacks, racial politics impact every aspect of every
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Random House USA Inc Fathers Daughters Sports Featuring Jim Craig
Book SynopsisAn inspiring anthology of sports short stories for any father, daughter or parentThank heavens for Title IX. That dusty piece of 1970s legislation not only made an entire generation of American women fitter and stronger and more self-confident, but it also gave fathers throughout the country a greater opportunity to bond with their daughters. The evidence fills the covers of this collection of essays by a stellar roster of sports journalists, champion athletes, and celebrated writers. In the Introduction, basketball star Rebecca Lobo recalls how her dad’s advice continued to ring in her ears long after she last played hoops with him on the gravel driveway of their Massachusetts home. Sportswriting legend Dan Shaughnessy celebrates his daughters’ eye-opening softball exploits. Chris Evert recounts how her tennis coach father, Jimmy, taught her coolness under fire. Bill Simmons proudly bequeaths his love of the NBA to his preschool-aged daughter. Doris
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WW Norton & Co The Age of Football
Book SynopsisA monumental exploration of soccer and society in our time—by its preeminent historian.Trade Review"Superb.… Goldblatt provides vignettes and beautifully crafted case studies, country by country, of contemporary politics and economics, told through, and around, the global game." -- TLS"Reading David Goldblatt, you don’t just understand football better. You understand the world a bit better, too. The breadth of his research is unmatched, and the writing is always a pleasure." -- Simon Kuper, best-selling coauthor of Soccernomics"Scintillating." -- Barney Ronay - Guardian"A globe-trotting magnum opus." -- Tobias Jones - Sunday Times"Essential reading not just for fans of the sport, but also for students of geopolitics." -- Kirkus (starred review)"Next time people tell you politics has no place in football, tell them to read David Goldblatt’s The Age of Football." -- Cas Mudde, University of Georgia"[Goldblatt] writes about soccer with the expansive eye of a social and cultural critic." -- David Runciman - Wall Street Journal
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Barcelona Complex
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Random House Publishing Group Stugotzs Personal Record Book
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Human Kinetics Publishers Sport and Public Policy
Book SynopsisSport and Public Policy: Social, Political, and Economic Perspectives is the only text that examines some of the most compelling policy issues affecting the sports world from an interdisciplinary perspective—including economics, history, urban planning, not-for-profit administration, public health communications, political science, and philosophy. Table of ContentsPart I. The Structure of Professional Sports Chapter 1.Cooperation Amidst Competition: The Nature of Sport Leagues Nathaniel Sampson and Gerard C.S. Mildner Why League Cooperation Is Necessary Downside of Cooperation Organized Baseball: Evolution of a Cartel Antitrust Law Interpretations and Baseball Antitrust and Other Leagues: Are All Sports Equal? Effect of Public Policy on the Balance of Power Future Trends Conclusion Chapter 2. Beyond the Major Leagues: Lessons from the Organization of International Sports Gerard C.S. Mildner Organization of Soccer, the World Sport Women’s Soccer: The Trial of a Single-Entity League Rugby: The Contest over Professionalism, Nations, and Clubs Cricket: The Broadcaster’s Leagues Lessons for American Sports Future Trends Conclusion Chapter 3. Why Professional Athletes Make So Much Money Zenon X. Zygmont The NHL’s Missing Season Wage Determination in Professional Sports Free Agency Evaluating Player Productivity Is it Possible to Pay too Much? Future TrendsConclusion Part II. Professional Sports, Cities, and Public Finance Chapter 4. Economic Impact of Sport Stadiums, Teams and Events Charles A. Santo Public Cost of Big-Time Sports Economic Magnitude of Sports in Perspective Promoting Sport Investment Through Economic Impact Analysis Sources of Exaggeration in Economic Impact Analysis Ex Post Facto Empirical Evaluations Policy Implications on Predicted Economic Impacts Conclusion Chapter 5. Cities, Stadiums, and Subsidies: Why Cities Spend So Much on Sports Charles A. Santo Evolution of Major League Sport Facility Development Political Economy of Sport Facility Development Importance of Consumption Benefits Future Trends Conclusion Chapter 6. Community Ownership of Professional Sport Teams and the Role of Social Entrepreneurship Dorothy Norris-Tirrell and Susan Tomlinson Schmidt Identifying Community Ownership Alternatives Using the Nonprofit-Charitable Purpose Structure: The Memphis Redbirds Baseball Foundation Future Trends Conclusion Part III. Amateur Athletics, Participation, and Public Health Chapter 7.Influences of Urban Form on Physical Activity Jennifer Dill and Lynn Weigand Importance and Decline of Physical Activity in the United States How Urban Growth Has Made Us Less Active Public Policies to Increase Physical Activity Do These Strategies Work? Future Trends Conclusion Chapter 8. MLB’s Mixed Messages: African American Participation in Baseball David C. Ogden Myth and Semiotics Analyzing MLB’s Messages Moving from Political Speech to Myth Challenging Myth Policy Implications for Myth Making Future Trends Conclusion Chapter 9.Contradictions and Conflicts: Ethical Dilemmas Inherent in Big-Time College Sports Richard Southall, Mark S. Nagel, John Amis,and Crystal Southall College Sports Today National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Corporatization in College Sports Institutional Logics Case Study: 2006 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Broadcasts Future Trends Conclusion Chapter 10. Sport, Doping, and Public Policy Bryan E. Denham Mediated Doping Representations and the Formation of Public Policy Sporting Competition and the Formation of Regulatory Bodies Media Representations, Government Hearings, and Public Policy in the 21st Century Future Trends Conclusion Part IV. Sports and Globalization Chapter 11. Political Economy of the Olympic Games Gregory Andranovich, Matthew J. Burbank, and Charles H. Heying Globalization, the New Economy, and Political Economy Political Economy and the Olympic Games Los Angeles: The Market Matters Most Atlanta: The State Matters Most Mexico City: Civil Society Matters Most Future Trends Conclusion Chapter 12. American Baseball and the Global Labor Market: Resistance and Hegemony in the Caribbean Charles A. Santo Globalization of American Professional Baseball Shared History and Parallel Development of Caribbean Baseball Dominican Dependency, Underdevelopment, and Exploitation Cuban Nationalism and Resistance Movement Along the Spectrum Future Trends Conclusion Chapter 13. Expanding Global Consumer Market for American Sports: The World Baseball Classic Mark S. Nagel, Matt T. Brown, Dan A. Rascher, and Chad D. McEvoy Baseball’s Worldwide Development The Consumption of MLB in the United States The Creation of the World Baseball Classic World Baseball Classic Revenue Sources Future TrendsConclusion
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McClelland & Stewart Inc. The Battle of Alberta The Historic Rivalry
Book SynopsisAn up-close look at the rivalry between the Calgary Flames and the Edmonton Oilers, told from the perspective of those that were there. Sports writer and on-air personality Mark Spector pays tribute to the province's hockey heyday with a unique blend of humour and homage. I hated every single guy on the Oilers, 'cause they all hated me. --Tim Hunter, the Calgary Flames In the 1980s, the province of Alberta was home to the two best hockey teams in the NHL. Aptly dubbed Death Valley due to the sheer talent and ability of its players, the province not only begat rivalry with other NHL teams, but also sparked fierce competition within its own borders. Thus began The Battle of Alberta, the historic struggle between the Edmonton Oilers and the Calgary Flames. In The Battle of Alberta, veteran sports journalist Mark Spector presents homage to Albertan hockey, and the tw
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The University Press of Kentucky We Will Win The Day
Book SynopsisExamines the history of black activist athletes.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Democracy in Action White Allies The Press and the People Deep Down in Dixie The Ban and the Banner African American Athletes and Activism The Revolt of the Black Athlete Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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Rutgers University Press SportsWorld An American Dreamland
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Robert Lipsyte is one of the most significant sports journalists of my lifetime. SportsWorld features the insight, prescience, social conscience, and willingness to break from the pack that set Lipsyte apart." -- Bob Costas"Robert Lipsyte is our best guide to the dramatic, wondrous, and ultimately all-absorbing culture of American sports. Brilliantly written and sharply articulated, this classic text is an insightful and important journey into the heart of American sports and by extension, American society." -- Gay Talese * bestselling author and journalist *"Bob Lipsyte's underappreciated masterpiece. Ahead of its time in every way. Nothing less than the most important sports book ever written." -- Dave Zirin * Sports Editor, The Nation *“An incisive, intelligent, beautifully written book.” * Newsday *“Mr. Lipsyte is a brilliant writer. He can turn a phrase as effortlessly as Earl the Pearl spinning, faking left, then right, to sink a fallaway jumper. He is as erudite in his references . . . as Bill Bradley. He is a phrase maker and a wit.” -- Anatole Broyard * The New York Times * “You will never look at a sports event in quite the same way again.” -- Paul D. Zimmerman * Newsweek *"It is in that other thing, the simple and wonderful act of playing, that Lipsyte, despite his withering analysis of the country’s sports obsession, finds hope: 'Yet for all the cynicism and oppression and betrayal, the rhythms of sport, the sensations, and the emotions, are often the most intense and pleasurable ever experienced.'" * New Yorker *"Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Trump's War on Black Jocks" by Robert Lipsyte, mention of book * TomDispatch *"I'd like to believe that all of us, even overserved, media-saturated fans, are more willing to follow Lipsyte's example in believing that 'sports matters event if there is something the matter with sports.'" * Bookforum *"A very readable book!" * Idrottsforum *"What We Can Learn From Sports Fandom’s Moral Drift," by Robert Lipsyte * The Nation *Table of ContentsContents Introduction to the 2017 Edition Introduction to the Original Edition Chapter 1. Welcome to SportsWorld Chapter 2. Please Rise for Our National Pastime Chapter 3. Sport of the Sixties: Instant Replay ... Replay ... Replay ... Chapter 4. The Heavyweight Crown Prince of the World Chapter 5. Sport of the Seventies: Sly, Midnight Moves Chapter 6. The Rack Page Chapter 7. The Body Biz Chapter 8. Designated Heroes, Ranking Gods, All-Star Holy Persons Chapter 9. The Last American Dream Index
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British Museum Press Perfect Bodies
Book SynopsisBy presenting rigorous situated histories of changing training regimen in different cultures, this collection of papers collectively challenge orthodox notions of the perfect body and its pursuit. The introductory essay by the editor compares and contrasts the different methods and ideals.
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MP-OSU Oregon State Universi Canyon Mountain Cloud Absence and Longing in
Book SynopsisPart memoir, part scholarly exploration of the psychological and societal dimensions of ""place-creation"", Canyon, Mountain, Cloud details the author's experience working and living in several American parks and protected areas.
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MP-MTB University of Manitoba Press Undressed Toronto From the Swimming Hole to Sunnyside How a City Learned to Love the Beach 18501935
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sport in Industrial America 18501920
Book SynopsisSport in Industrial America, 1850-1920 presents the second edition of Stephen A. Riess's well-loved synthesis of the development of sport during one of the most transformational times in the nation's history. New edition maintains the book's acclaimed level of research, analysis, and readability Explores topics including urbanization, ethnicity, class, sport in educational institutions, women in sport, and sport's role in manifesting city, regional, and national pride. Includes an entirely new chapter on the globalization of American sport Includes a new bank of photographs and images. Features a newly revised and updated Bibliographical Essay Trade Review“Sport in Industrial America could serve well as a textbook for sport studies or a supplement for courses in US history for the period the book covers. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers, upper-division undergraduate students, graduate students, and research faculty.” (Choice, 1 September 2013)Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 CHAPTER ONE: Urbanization, the Technological Revolution, and the Rise of Sport 13 Urban Reform and the Ideology of Sport 16 Sport and Urban Space 22 Sport and the Promotion of Public Pride 28 The Technological Revolution and the Rise of Sport 30 Sport and the Communications Revolution 30 Sport and the Transportation Revolution 35 Lights, Camera, Action 38 Technological Innovations and Sports Equipment 39 Conclusion 44 CHAPTER TWO: Sport and Class 45 Sport and the American Elite 47 The Elite Sports Club 50 Thoroughbred Racing and the Jockey Clubs 51 The Athletic Club 53 Women and the Elite Sports Clubs 56 The Country Club 57 Sport and the Middle Class 59 Middle-Class Sports Clubs 63 Middle-Class Women 67 Working-Class Sport 70 The Working-Class Saloon 75 Track-and-Field 77 Blue-Collar Baseball 79 Industrial Sport 81 Working-Class Women’s Sport 84 Conclusion 85 CHAPTER THREE: Sport, Ethnicity, and Race 87 The Old Immigrants 88 British Americans 88 Irish Americans 90 German Americans 99 The New Immigrants 103 Jewish Americans 105 Native Americans 112 African Americans 114 Asian Americans 122 Conclusion 123 CHAPTER FOUR: Sport and the Educational Process 125 Sport and Higher Education 126 Men’s Intercollegiate Athletics 126 Football: The Big Game 129 The Football Crisis of 1905–1906 and the Rise of the NCAA 137 Women’s Collegiate Athletics 141 Secondary School Sport 144 Adult-Directed Youth Sport 147 Conclusion 152 CHAPTER FIVE: Baseball and the Rise of Professional Sport 153 Thoroughbred Racing 159 The Racetracks 159 Reformers Close the Tracks 162 Professional Baseball 166 The Rise of the National League 168 Baseball in the Early Twentieth Century 175 The Ballparks 181 The Ballplayers 186 The Game in the Dead Ball Era 186 The Black Sox Scandal 189 Conclusion 192 CHAPTER SIX: American Sport in the International Arena 195 The Cultural Diffusion of Sport 196 Sports and the Borderlands 198 The Baseball Tours 201 Hawaii 205 China 206 Japan 208 The Philippines and American Imperialism 212 American Sport in the Caribbean 215 Cuba 215 The United States and the Olympic Games 219 The 1900 and 1904 Olympics and the Intercalated Games of 1906 221 The London Olympics of 1908 227 The 1912 Olympics at Stockholm 228 The Inter-Allied Games and the 1920 Olympics 230 Conclusion 231 Bibliographical Essay 234 Index 273 Photographs follow pages 44 and 194
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Mariner Books Sprawlball
Book SynopsisFrom the leading expert in the exploding field of basketball analytics, a stunning infographic decoding of the modern NBA: who shoots where, how well, and why. Says Nate Silver: If you want to understand how the modern NBA came to be, you'll need to read this book. The field of basketball analytics has leaped into overdrive thanks to Kirk Goldsberry, whose spatial and visual analyses of players, teams, and positions have helped us all understand who really is the most valuable player at any position. SprawlBall combines stunning visuals, in-depth analysis, behind-the-scenes stories, and gee-whiz facts to chart a modern revolution. Since the introduction of the three-point line, the game has changed drastically, with players like Steph Curry and James Harden leading the charge. In chapters like The Geography of the NBA, The Interior Minister (LeBron James), The Evolution of Steph Curry, and The Investor (James Harden), Goldsberry explains why today's on-court p
£999.99
Johns Hopkins University Press From Playgrounds to PlayStation
Book SynopsisAlong the way, he shows readers how technology enables the forms, equipment, and devices of play to evolve constantly, both reflecting consumer choices and driving innovators and manufacturers to promote toys that involve entirely new kinds of play-from LEGOs and skateboards to beading kits and videogames.Trade ReviewAn engaging social history of play... Pursell's text helps inform readers how capitalist structures focus as much on leisure as they do work or politics to cement their structures in US culture. Choice [From Playgrounds to PlayStation] is a fascinating read, and the mixture of facts, anecdotes, quotes, and other sources of research makes it quite an impressive work. PsycCRITIQUES Pursell's account is masterful in its ability to draw a wide range of cultural sources, sometimes from unexpected quarters, into a unified yet nuanced historical narrative. Journal of American History A most engaging read...one that no scholar or layperson interested in the parallel development and interplay of technology and leisure activities can ignore without missing out on a significant contribution. Australasian Journal of American Studies ... The real strength of this book is his striking detail in analyzing the technologies that have shaped play, especially his frequent and imaginative use of sources like patent records and advertising, too often neglected in histories of play and leisure. Journal of the History of Childhood and YouthTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Toys for Girls and Boys2. The Safe and Rational Playground3. From Pleasure Gardens to Fun Factories4. The Hobbyist5. Games and Sports6. Extreme and (Sometimes) Impolite Sports7. Electronic GamesConclusionNotesSuggestions for Further ReadingIndex
£30.15
Sagamore Publishing Pastimes: The Context of Contemporary Leisure
Book SynopsisThis sixth edition reflects almost 40 years of scholarship as well as professional and personal practice in recreation, parks, and tourism. The text has become one of the most widely adopted titles in university courses worldwide. In this new edition of the book, the phenomenon of leisure is presented through new research findings and contemporary societal dilemmas to suggest that leisure is one of the most interesting, relevant, and exciting subjects of study today. The book reflects a wide range of material from the disciplines of leisure studies, sociology, psychology, economics, political science, anthropology, geography, the humanities, and media and cultural studies. Indeed, more than a textbook, this is very much a point of view. Leisure is presented as a human phenomenon that is individual and collective, vital and frivolous, historical and contemporary, factual and subjective, and good and bad. As a learning tool, this sixth edition teaches more. It contains updated and new illustrations of concepts through field-based cases, biographical features, exploratory activities, and research studies. In the first part, leisure is defined as a condition of humanity. Its meanings are traced through the humanities and history, as well as in todays connotations. The benefits of leisure are presented, ranging from freedom to pleasure to risk to spirituality, and leisures benefit to healthful well-being is demonstrated. As well, part one of the text presents theories for explaining leisure behavior. Part Two discusses leisure as a cultural mirror -- its societal context. Chapters include leisure and anthropology, geography, technology, popular culture, and taboo recreation. Finally, in Part Three, the functional side of leisure is explored in terms of its instrumental relationship to work, money, time, and equity. Leisure systems of public, private, and commercial sponsorship are described to confirm leisures utility. Instructor resources and a website for student resources available.
£84.60
Penguin Putnam Inc The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer
Book SynopsisThe definitive book about soccer, from the author of The Games: A Global History of the Olympics. There may be no cultural practice more global than soccer. Rites of birth and marriage are infinitely diverse, but the rules of soccer are universal. No world religion can match its geographical scope. The single greatest simultaneous human collective experience is the World Cup final. In this extraordinary tour de force, David Goldblatt tells the full story of soccer's rise from chaotic folk ritual to the world's most popular sport-now poised to fully establish itself in the USA. Already celebrated internationally, The Ball Is Round illuminates soccer's role in the political and social histories of modern societies, but never loses sight of the beauty, joy, and excitement of the game itself.
£28.50
