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This book uses boxing as a vehicle for exploring social, cultural and political change in a global context. It considers to what degree and in what ways boxing reflects social transformations, and how it contributes to those transformations. Woodward provides new ways of thinking critically about our everyday assumptions and social world.

This book investigates the integration of media and sport over the last century. At a time when the stability of the Western media sport order is under challenge, it analyzes a range of key structures, practices and issues, whose ramifications extend far beyond the fields of play and national contexts in which sport events take place.

'Japanese Women and Sport' aims to explore both why and how in the past century athletics have stood out as an arena in which excellence by Japanese women is so actively encouraged.

Contemporary mega-events like Olympics and Expos, together with the organisations which control them, can be risky and controversial projects. This book interprets how they reflect, mark and influence, deeper social changes in the media, cities and global geopolitics. -- .

An ethnographic study exploring the role of cricket in maintaining cultural connections between Canadians and other members of the Caribbean diaspora. -- .

This book draws on a decade of research undertaken with young people and adults living and working in urban communities in Zambia to extend existing understandings of global sport for development. -- .

This book builds on a theoretical model for analysis of the role of global social movements in sport. The book takes the theoretical model further but also provides some empirical answers to the questions raised, focusing on select global social movements.

Globalizing Cricket examines the global role of the sport's key points of development, the diffusion of cricket through colonization, and its impact on the changing notions of English national identity.