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Social Capital and Sport Governance in Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 222

Social Capital and Sport Governance in Europe

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-09-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book critically presents the mechanisms and structures in a selection of sport federations within a variety of European countries that illuminate the varied relationships between not-for-profit sport federations, their members, governments and the citizens they represent.

Reflections on Sociology of Sport
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 190

Reflections on Sociology of Sport

In this tenth celebratory volume, ten recognized and influential sport scholars from around the world reflect on their respective academic journeys within the subfield Sociology of Sport.

Sports and Christianity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 310

Sports and Christianity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This interdisciplinary text examines the sports-Christianity interface from Protestant and Catholic perspectives. In addition to a "systematic review of literature," the contributors, who include many of the pioneers in the field, address a wide range of topics. These include biblical athletic metaphors, disability, evangelism, professionalism and celebrity, humility, the Vatican's perspective on sport and genetic enhancement technologies.

Power, Pain and Professional Cycling
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 213

Power, Pain and Professional Cycling

This insightful book presents a sociological study of professional cycling, examining developments in the sport since its emergence in the late 19th century. John Connolly thoroughly explores key aspects of professional cycling including the emergence of professionalism, organisational structure, doping, gender, and recent American involvement in the sport.

Sports Diplomacy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

Sports Diplomacy

This book analyzes the place and role of sport within public diplomacy, including theoretical conceptualizations of the category of sports diplomacy as a sub-category of public diplomacy and empirical research of selected examples of the use of sport within public diplomacy. The empirical part of the book refers to three approaches to sports diplomacy and concerns the utilization of sport by states in order to shape relations with other states, the role of sport in building the international image of a state and the diplomatic subjectivity of international sports organizations. In reference to the first two approaches, the book uses comparative case study was in order to make observations and generalizations concerning sports diplomacy. Apart from that, the book includes a detailed study of the diplomatic subjectivity of the International Olympic Committee.

Diplomatic Games
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 497

Diplomatic Games

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is the nation's oldest civil rights organization, having dedicated itself to the fight for racial equality since 1909. While the group helped achieve substantial victories in the courtroom, the struggle for civil rights extended beyond gaining political support. It also required changing social attitudes. The NAACP thus worked to alter existing prejudices through the production of art that countered racist depictions of African Americans, focusing its efforts not only on changing the attitudes of the white middle class but also on encouraging racial pride and a sense of identity in the black community. Art for Equality ex...

Host Cities and the Olympics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 194

Host Cities and the Olympics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Rather than interpreting the Olympics as primarily a sporting event of international or national significance, this book understands the Games as a civic project for the host city that serves as a catalyst for a variety of urban interests over a period of many years from the bidding phase through the event itself. Traditional Olympic studies have tended to examine the Games from an outsider's perspective or as something experienced through the print media or television. In contrast, the focus presented here is on the dynamics within the host city understood as a community of interacting individuals who encounter the Games in a variety of ways through support, opposition, or even indifference...

Sport, Animals, and Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 307

Sport, Animals, and Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-12-17
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book advances current literature on the role and place of animals in sport and society. It explores different forms of sporting spaces, examines how figures of animals have been used to racialize the human athlete, and encourages the reader to think critically about animal ethics, animals in space, time and place, and the human-animal relationship. The chapters highlight persistent dichotomies in the use of and collaboration with animals for sport, and present strategies for moving forward in the study of interspecies relations.

Anthropology and Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Anthropology and Law

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-05-02
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

An introduction to the anthropology of law that explores the connections between law, politics, and technology From legal responsibility for genocide to rectifying past injuries to indigenous people, the anthropology of law addresses some of the crucial ethical issues of our day. Over the past twenty-five years, anthropologists have studied how new forms of law have reshaped important questions of citizenship, biotechnology, and rights movements, among many others. Meanwhile, the rise of international law and transitional justice has posed new ethical and intellectual challenges to anthropologists. Anthropology and Law provides a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of law in the post-...

Sport, Public Broadcasting, and Cultural Citizenship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 338

Sport, Public Broadcasting, and Cultural Citizenship

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-08-15
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book examines the political debates over the access to live telecasts of sport in the digital broadcasting era. It outlines the broad theoretical debates, political positions and policy calculations over the provision of live, free-to-air telecasts of sport as a right of cultural citizenship. In so doing, the book provides a number of comparative case studies that explore these debates and issues in various global spaces.