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Sport in Latin America
The forthcoming Olympics in Rio in 2016, and the FIFA World Cup in Brazil in 2014, highlight the profound importance of sport in Latin America. This book is the first to offer a broad survey of the way that sport is managed, governed and organized across the Latin American region, drawing on cutting-edge contemporary scholarship in management, policy, sociology and history. The book explores key themes in Latin American sport, including the role of public institutions; the relationship between sport policy and political regimes; the structure and significance of national governing bodies and professional leagues; the impact of sporting mega-events (including the Olympics and World Cup), and ...
Sport in Latin America
The forthcoming Olympics in Rio in 2016, and the FIFA World Cup in Brazil in 2014, highlight the profound importance of sport in Latin America. This book is the first to offer a broad survey of the way that sport is managed, governed and organized across the Latin American region, drawing on cutting-edge contemporary scholarship in management, policy, sociology and history. The book explores key themes in Latin American sport, including the role of public institutions; the relationship between sport policy and political regimes; the structure and significance of national governing bodies and professional leagues; the impact of sporting mega-events (including the Olympics and World Cup), and ...
Sporting Performances
Sporting Performances is the first anthology to tackle sports and physical culture from a performance perspective; it serves as an invitation and provocation for scholarly discourse on the connections between sports and physical culture, and theatre and performance. Through a series of intriguing case studies that blur the lines between the realms of politics, sports, physical culture, and performance, this book assumes that sporting performances, much like theatre, serve as barometers, mirrors, and refractors of the culture in which they are enmeshed. Some of the topics include nineteenth-century variety show pugilists, athletes on Broadway, sumo wrestlers, rhythmic gymnasts, and Strava ent...
Educación Física en América Latina
El campo académico y profesional conocido tradicionalmente como Educación Física y en algunas partes de Latinoamérica como Ciencias del Deporte o Cultura Física, es uma construcción social. Como cualquier otro territorio de la práxis educativa, expone las disputas y tensiones entre discursos, prácticas y experiencias hegemónicas y de resistencias que caracterizan a la sociedad de la cual hacen parte. Ha guiado en todo momento la investigación, el reconocimiento del carácter diverso y plural de nuestros países, enfatizando que el conocimiento como práctica y construcción social se halla permeado por intereses variados. Se puede afirmar así, que este como manifestación de la vi...
A Beauty that Hurts
When A Beauty That Hurts first appeared in 1995, Guatemala was one of the world’s most flagrant violators of human rights. An accord brokered by the United Nations brought a measure of peace after three decades of armed conflict, but the country’s troubles are far from over. George Lovell revisits Guatemala to grapple once again with the terror inflicted on its Maya peoples by a military-dominated state.
Formação Profissional em Educação Física na América Latina:
Importante contribuição para a Formação de Professores de Educação Física na América Latina. A ideia de uma cooperação acadêmica implica no reconhecimento mútuo, mas também numa valorização do que somos e do que fazemos (...). Desde o campo acadêmicoprofissional conhecido tradicionalmente como Educação Física em alguns países, em outros como Cultura Física, ou Ciências da Atividade Física e do Esporte ou tão somente como Ciências do Esporte, buscamos construir referências para este horizonte de diálogo acadêmico e de constituição de proposições críticas para políticas e projetos de formação profissional.
Inclusive Green Growth
Inclusive Green Growth: The Pathway to Sustainable Development makes the case that greening growth is necessary, efficient, and affordable. Yet spurring growth without ensuring equity will thwart efforts to reduce poverty and improve access to health, education, and infrastructure services.
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