Routledge handbook of sport and politics / edited by Alan Bairner, John Kelly and Jung Woo Lee.

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English
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1st ed.
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2017.
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1 online resource ([712] p.)

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Sport is frequently considered to be an aspect of popular culture that is, or should be, untainted by the political. However, there is a broad consensus among academics that sport is often at the heart of the political and the political is often central to sport. From the 1936 Olympic Games in Nazi Germany to the civil unrest that preceded the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, sport and politics have remained symbiotic bedfellows. The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics goes further than any other book in surveying the complex, embedded relationships between sport and politics. With sections addressing ideologies, nation and statehood, corporate politics, political activism, social justice, and the politics of sports events, it introduces the conceptual foundations that underpin our understanding of the sport-politics nexus and examines emergent issues in this field of study. Including in-depth case studies from North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, this is an essential reference for anybody with an interest in the social scientific study of sport.
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Contents
  • Pt. I Sport and the study of politics : Introduction to Pt. I
  • 1 Governance and governmentality of sport / Jonathan Grix and Spencer Harris
  • 2 Sport policy-making / Barrie Houlihan
  • 3 Sport as a foreign policy and diplomatic tool / Udo Merkel
  • 4 Sport and political ideologyAlan Bairner
  • Pt. II Sport, politics and ideologies : Introduction to Pt. II
  • 5 Sport and fascism / Daphné Bolz
  • 6 Sport and communism: the examples of North Korea and Cuba / Jung Woo Lee and Alan Bairner
  • 7 Sport and conservatism / Lincoln Allison
  • 8 The social criticism of sport: a “radical” liberal approach / William J. Morgan
  • 9 Sport and the Swedish Welfare state / Susanna Hedenborg and Tomas Peterson
  • 10 Feminist politics and sport / Mary Louise Adams
  • Pt. III Sport, nation and statehood : Introduction to Pt. III
  • 11 Sport and politics in the Arab World / Mahfoud Amara
  • 12 Football and identity politics in Ghana / Paul Darby
  • 13 Sport and politics in the United States / Michael Butterworth
  • 14 Sport and language politics in Canada / Christine Dallaire and Jean Harvey
  • 15 Their skin in the game: the Basques, the Catalans and the ‘body politic’ of the Spanish national football team / Mariann Vaczi
  • 16 Sport in a divided Northern Ireland: past and present / David Hassan
  • 17 Sport and politics in Great Britain / Kevin Jefferys
  • 18 Sport, the 2014 Commonwealth Games and the Scottish Referendum / Grant Jarvie
  • Pt. IV Sport, corporate politics and the global community : Introduction to Pt. IV
  • 19 Sport, spectacle and the politics of late capitalism: articulating the neoliberal order / David Andrews
  • 20 The contemporary politics of sports mega-events / John Horne
  • 21 FIFA: “For the game. For the world”? The world governing body’s escalating crisis of credibility / Alan Tomlinson
  • 22 Political issues in international sport / Thomas Zeiler
  • 23 Western militarism and the political utility of sport / John Kelly
  • Pt. V Sport, political activism and social justice : Introduction to Pt. V
  • 24 Sport for development and peace: alignment, administration, power / Jacob Naish
  • 25 The politics of sexuality and sport / Nigel Jarvis
  • 26 Gender politics in sport for development and peace / Megan Chawansky and Hillary Kipnis
  • 27 “Race”, sport and politics / Kevin Hylton and Alexandra J. Rankin-Wright
  • 28 The implementation of indigenous knowledge and cultural practices within elite-level sport / Bevan Erueti
  • 29 Sport and sustainability / Will Atkinson
  • 30 Sport activism and protest / Mick Totten
  • 31 ‘Countercultural’ sport / Paul Gilchrist
  • 32 The politics of sport and social enterprise / Gavin Reid
  • Pt. VI Politics and sporting events: Introduction to Pt. VI
  • 33 The Berlin Olympics, 1936 / David Clay Large and Joshua J. H. Large
  • 34 Latin America’s first Olympics: Mexico 1968 / Keith Brewster and Claire Brewster
  • 35 The Rome and Munich Olympics, 1960, 1972 / Eva Maria Gajek
  • 36 The Moscow Olympics, 1980: competing in the context of the Cold War and state dirigisme / Olga Chepurnaya
  • 37 Politics and sporting events: Beijing Olympics, 2008 / Dong Jinxia
  • 38 The politics of sports mega events in South Korea: a diachronic approach / Jung Woo Lee
  • 39 Brazil, politics, the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup / John Horne and Gabriel Silvestre
  • 40 How does a loser win? Taiwan and global sport / Tzûhsuan Chen
  • 41 The politics of the CommonWealth Games / Stuart higham
  • 42 The politics of international cricket / Dominic Malcolm and Devra aldman
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Handbook of sport and politics
ISBN
  • 0-367-89684-2
  • 1-315-76193-9
  • 1-317-64666-5
OCLC
960040406
Doi
  • 10.4324/9781315761930
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