Books in the Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives series

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.

Presents an analysis of how and why South Africa underwent a remarkable transformation from a pariah in world sport to the first African host of a World Cup in 2010. This title examines the importance of football in South African society, revealing how the black oppression transformed a colonial game into a force of cultural and social liberation.

This book analyzes contemporary media representations and the ways in which they are interpreted and used by football media audiences. It was originally published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.

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.

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.

Examines the ways in which sports contribute to, or inhibit, social well-being, the directions these changes take and the conditions necessary for sport to have beneficial outcomes. This book demonstrates the diversity and versatility of the social impacts sport can potentially achieve as well as the variable benefits of sport in social contexts.

A study in English of the contemporary Olympic flame relay. It tells what organizational challenges, intercultural conflicts, and global-local negotiations compose the backstage of the Olympic Movement's most popular and deceptively straightforward ritual.

Deals with some of the most important driving factors of sports' global attractiveness. This book tackles positive and negative impacts of sport as a global business on local and global communities of sports' fans and participants.

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.

Provides an overview of the various ways in which social scientists have analyzed cricket's cultural impact. This book addresses historical and contemporary issues such as gender equality, global sports development, the impact of cricket mega-events, and the influence of commercial and television interests culminating in the Twenty20 revolution.

Sport is seen as an increasingly important dimension of civic planning programmes and has moved to the forefront of agendas for cities. This book examines sport within contexts of urban regeneration and looks at the place of sport within planning agendas for 'cities of culture'. It addresses the role of sport stadiums in city 're-imaging'.

The commercialization of sport since the 1990s has had a number of consequences. This book explores the background to this clash of commercial and traditional sporting objectives, and debates the consequences for wider sports governance.

Looks at why minorities choose to participate in, or stay away from, soccer, thereby linking the issue to the status of the minorities in the political, social, cultural or economic life of a nation.

From the Mexico Olympics of 1968 to the events surrounding the Olympic torch relay leading up to Beijing 2008, sport has been a site for political and human rights struggles. This book captures the memories of important historical actors involved and presents the latest scholarly analyses of past and present these efforts.

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.

This book explores the social, cultural and political role of football in Africa by focusing on the issue of visibility in and outside the football arena.It was published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.

Contains articles that provide an overview of Australian sporting cultures and their impacts on the global community. This book examines how changes to the structure and logic of sport have impacted on sports' practice and administration.

A critique of Indigenous Australian participants in Australia sports.

From the Mexico Olympics of 1968 to the events surrounding the Olympic torch relay leading up to Beijing 2008, sport has been a site for political and human rights struggles. This book captures the memories of important historical actors involved and presents the latest scholarly analyses of past and present these efforts.

Published as a special issue of "Soccer and Society", this collection of trans disciplinary studies on the UEFA Finals traces back the contribution of some of Europe's greatest football spectacle to the production of European spaces, identities and boundaries.

Women's and girls' involvement in football continues to be a cause for celebration and concern. This book explores this double-edged status by focusing on administration, coaching and organising of the game, alongside particular issues surrounding ethnicity and sexuality. This book was published as a special issue of the Soccer and Society.

This book explores organizational and individual transformations for the inclusion of persons with disabilities in sport. It helps us understand how this small event involving only sixteen disabled British veterans led to the globalized 136-member 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing.This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.