Bøger i Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives serien

This volume brings together a range of articles into the ultras style of football fandom. It is designed to be an introduction; a first account of ultras for the uninitiated.

The present volume brings into focus some of the most fascinating and enduring rivalries in the world of soccer. It attempts to encapsulate, analyse and reconstruct those rivalries in a historical perspective.

This book examines the initial growth of clubs in Dublin and the Free State League's early turbulent history, while the impact of Irish players and administrators on the development of soccer clubs at home and abroad is also assessed. It was originally published as a special issue of Soccer & Society.

This book is a significant new contribution to understanding both sports and the arts, not just in their separate contexts, but also in amalgam. It represents a valuable resource for researchers and advanced students of Sports, Visual Art, Literature, History, Sociology and Social Theory, and Cultural Studies.

This book documents the early impressions and initial responses of various stakeholders of the soccer world to the challenges of COVID-19 in 2020.

This book brings together a team of scholars from across the globe whose research addresses the complex relationship between community sport and social inclusion.

This extended ethnological research offers a rare case study of continuity and change in the Olympic torch relay, a leading transnational and trans-cultural ritual form. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

The present volume brings into focus some of the most fascinating and enduring rivalries in the world of soccer. It attempts to encapsulate, analyse and reconstruct those rivalries in a historical perspective.

This path-breaking collection of essays provides an introduction to a variety of dimensions of women's participation in African sports. Several key concepts are addressed in the book. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

This book traces the history of negotiations between specific cultures in Asia and modern sport cultures from the West. Highly original and clearly written, this textbook will be required reading for students of sport studies, Asian studies, sociology, and cultural studies. This book was published as a special issue of S

This book demonstrates the diversity of current research occurring in the area of Christianity and social scientific perspectives on sport in order to bridge divisions between various social science disciplines and theology or religious studies. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue in Sport in Soci

This volume brings together a range of articles into the ultras style of football fandom. It is designed to be an introduction; a first account of ultras for the uninitiated.

The book offers diverse perspectives and discourses on the FIFA World Cup, and throws light on the changing dimensions of football and sports culture in terms of identity, race, ethnicity, gender, fandom and governance. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Sport in Society.

Presents an analysis of western sport by examining how the collective passions and feelings of people have contributed to the making of sport as a 'way of life'. This book is suitable for students and academics within humanities disciplines such as cultural studies, history and sociology.

Examines national identity - and especially Australia's image as a sporting country. This book traces the ebb and flow of Australia's sporting passions since the period when Archer won the first Melbourne Cup in 1861.

In this book extraordinary sportswomen's lives and accomplishments are presented and analysed. These women were rebels in a sport context and did not comply with a contemporary gender role. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Sport in Society.

Sport, Outdoor Life and the Nordic World explores the Nordic model of sport and outdoor life with respect to such issues as sport facilities, mountain guiding, women and ethnic minorities, urban planning, anti-doping, health, elite sport coaching and leadership, and the globalization of sport.

This book examines the controversies and challenges that Olympism faces, 100 years after the establishment of the IOC¿s (International Olympic Committee) headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.It was originally published as a special edition of Sport in Society.

Compiled by an international collaboration between an interdisciplinary network of academics and football industry practitioners, this book provides an insight into contemporary football. This book was originally published as a special issue of Sport & Society.

As there appears to be an ever widening gap between the grassroots and elite levels of the sport, this book brings together, for the first time, a collection of research articles dedicated solely to youth and junior grassroots football. This book was originally published as a special issue of Soccer & Society.

This volume outlines existing research relating to gender in physical culture. The empirically-driven case studies demonstrate, on the one hand, how boundary 'work' has taken and is taking place at the level of media, institutions, communities and individuals.

Scholars working in the academic field of sport studies have long debated the relationship between sport and gender. Modern sport forms, along with many related activities, have been shown to have historically supported ideals of male superiority, by largely excluding women and/or celebrating only men''s athletic achievements. While the growth of women''s sport throughout the 20th and 21st centuries has extinguished the notion of female frailty, revealing that women can embody athletic qualities previously thought exclusive to men, the continuation of sex segregation in many settings has left something of a discursive ''back door'' through which ideals of male athletic superiority can escape unscathed, retaining their influence over wider cultural belief systems. However, sex-integrated sport potentially offers a radical departure from such beliefs, as it challenges us to reject assumptions of male superiority, entertaining very different visions of sex difference and gender relations to those typically constructed through traditional models of physical culture. This comprehensive collection offers a diverse range of international case studies that reaffirm the contemporary relevance of sex integration debates, and also articulate the possibility of sport acting as a legitimate space for political struggle, resistance and change. This book was originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society.