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Ethics and Sport in Europe
Defending ethics in sport is vital in order to combat the problems of corruption, violence, drugs, extremism and other forms of discrimination it is currently facing. Sport reflects nothing more and nothing less than the societies in which it takes place. However, if sport is to continue to bring benefits for individuals and societies, it cannot afford to neglect its ethical values or ignore these scourges. The major role of the Council of Europe and the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS) in addressing the new challenges to sports ethics was confirmed by the 11th Council of Europe Conference of Ministers responsible for Sport, held in Athens on 11 and 12 December 2008. A political im...
Routledge Handbook of the Global South in Sport for Development and Peace
This book explores the field of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP), putting Global South voices and perspectives at the centre of the analysis. Covering a wide range of thematic and methodological areas that inform existing and emerging discourses in SDP, it represents an unparalleled resource for researchers and practitioners working in this area. Arranged into geographical sections covering Africa, Asia, South America, North America and Oceania, the book presents original research in Global South countries or by Global South researchers and practitioners, sometimes in collaboration with colleagues from the Global North. It highlights practices and theories created, developed, interprete...
Sailing and Social Class
This book explores the sociology of sailing and yachting. Drawing on original research, and employing a theoretical framework based on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, the book argues that sailing is, still, an upper-middle-class activity that has much to tell us about the wider sociology of leisure and sport. The book examines the historical foundations of blue-water sailing as established by naval and colonial shipping, to trace the roots of contemporary sailing and yachting culture. It also examines archives of sailing narratives and cruising guides, as well as the children’s books of Arthur Ransome, arguing that this archival material offers a social rather than a psychological interpretat...
The Game
This book is a multifaceted reflection on sport. It is part memoir, outlining Tadhg Coakley’s time as a player and fan of sport and how it has shaped his life. It is also a book of essays critiquing several aspects of sport, both good and bad, and showing its influence in the wider world. It is also a work of auto-fiction, wherein Coakley uses his novelistic abilities to chart narratives, personal and public. It is, finally, a work of scholarship, brilliantly interweaving the author’s view of a life spent inside and outside the white lines with the cultural discourse of previous writers and thinkers on the many themes explored. The book is an exploration and explanation of what sport mea...
Sport and prisons in Europe
Improve the well-being of prisoners in detention, enable them to change their behavior and attitudes, develop their ability to live together, learn to respect others and abide by the rules, and thus facilitate their reintegration into society, these are the objectives of a prison sports policy. There has been growing recognition of the value of sport by the prison system. Its effects are highly beneficial to those in detention and to prison life in general. However, looking at the objectives through to the challenges, we can see that the link between sport and prison is a complex one, and in order to understand it better and to see what lessons can be learned, an in-depth thinking process is...
Sport and Violence: Rethinking Elias
The aim of this book, in discussing Elias’s theory, is not to refute it. Tendentiously, the theory works with its weaknesses and strong points and it has been enriched by a number of authors over time. The objective of this volume is to discuss the blind spots and, more simply, what is too often taken for granted: namely the obvious pacifying effect of sports and/or produced by sports. This analysis has been guided by two perspectives: the sociological one which questions the "naturalization" of sport which is also the naturalization of the "wildlings" which have to be civilized, and the other which comes from philosophical anthropology and attempts to comprehend the long term characteristics of this union – or disunion – of sport and violence.
Ethique et sport en Europe
La 4e de couverture indique : "Défendre l’éthique sportive est vital pour remédier aux problèmes de la corruption, de la violence, de la drogue, des extrémismes et autres discriminations. Le sport reflète ni plus ni moins les sociétés dans lesquelles il s'inscrit. Cependant, si le sport doit rester porteur de bénéfices pour l'individu et les sociétés, il ne peut se permettre de négliger ses valeurs éthiques ou ignorer ces fléaux. Le rôle primordial du Conseil de l'Europe et de l'Accord partiel élargi sur le sport (APES) pour relever les nouveaux défis de l'éthique sportive a été confirmé par la 11e Conférence du Conseil de l'Europe des ministres responsables du sport...
Football Fandom in Europe and Latin America
This book combines pieces of work on Europe and Latin America, the two continents where football arouses the most ardent passions among its spectators. Curiously, an undertaking to compare on a large scale the forms extreme fandom takes in these two geographical areas is still lacking. A situational analysis of the scientific literature devoted to the subject over the last two or three decades represents a step in this direction, making a scattered store of knowledge accessible. It thus answers a need to clarify regional differences in identities and in the practices of supporters.
Sports et prisons en Europe
Améliorer le bien-être des prisonniers en détention, leur permettre de modifier leurs comportements et leurs attitudes, développer leur capacité à vivre ensemble, d'apprendre à respecter les autres et de se conformer aux règles, et faciliter ainsi leur réinsertion dans la société, tels sont les objectifs d'une politique sportive carcérale. Le sport jouit d’une reconnaissance dans le système pénitentiaire. Ses effets sont tout à fait bénéfiques à la fois pour les personnes en détention et pour la vie carcérale en général. Mais, entre objectifs et enjeux, l’articulation « sport et prison » est complexe et nécessite, pour mieux la comprendre et en tirer les meilleur...
