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

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.

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.

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 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.

The authors of the book outline the realms of memory (lieux de memoire) in Japanese sport and clarify how memories of sport moments, heroes and places constitute an inventory for local and national identity. This book was originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

The essays in this book examine football as a key cultural site within Southeastern Europe. It will be of interest to all academics and policy makers concerned with matters of reconciliation and social and cohesion within the region. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

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.

This book assesses how the International Olympic Committee under President Jacques Rogge has tried to reform itself in the wake of the doping and bribing scandals of the 1990s, and how well the IOC meets the international standards for good governance and financial responsibility, transparency and accountability.This book was originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

This book is a multidisciplinary exploration into the development of modern sporting culture from global and transnational history perspectives. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Sport in Society.

This book discusses issues of diversity, capacity and equity in the colourful world of global sport and addresses international dimensions of sport, commonality and difference, as well as the special circumstances of sport and social relations in particular places. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

This book critically examines the ways in which sport and peacekeeping, through the Olympic Games, are being played out at global, national and local levels. It was published as a special issue of Sport in 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.

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.