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

This book assesses association football's history and development in Ireland from the late 1870s until the early twenty-first century. The chapters were originally published in a special issue of Soccer & Society.

This book introduces innovative research methods and approaches can be applied to the sport discipline. It was originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society

Football-led health improvement is an important part of the public health effort. Through the contributions of policy makers, programme providers and researchers, this text provides insights into a range of issues surrounding the role of football as a vehicle for health improvement for different groups.

This book examines the extent to which the question of ethics underpins the contemporary landscape of sport governance. The chapters originally published in a special issue in Sport in Society.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

The spread of COVID-19 and the consequent pandemic since early 2020 have brought about unprecedented changes in all spheres of global life, creating a new sense of (in)security with social distancing, physical isolation, quarantine and lockdown becoming buzzwords to combat the disease. As in all spheres of life, the first wave of the pandemic posed serious challenges to the world of soccer, with diverse and intriguing responses across the globe.This book documents the early impressions and initial responses of various stakeholders of the soccer world to the challenges of COVID-19 in 2020. It reveals how the process of confrontation, negotiation, adjustment and overcoming against such challenges necessitated and inspired novel responses and strong improvisations from soccer bodies to players, referees to spectators, and journalists to sponsors. This process has revealed abrupt as well as radical changes in the organization, rules, spectatorship and telecast of the game, thereby affecting the game's cultural dimensions, commercial prospects and political implications. The volume points out that the way soccer has adjusted to the 'new normal' standard of the 'COVID Regime' has elicited newer meanings and nuanced representations of the game.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Soccer & Society.

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.

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 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.

In 1999, the International Olympic Committee approved far-reaching reforms to the appointment and terms of its members, the selection of host cities for the Olympic and Winter Olympic Games, the events on the Olympic Program, and the reporting of decisions and financial information. The reforms were initiated in response to the deep crises of legitimacy it faced because of the Salt Lake City doping scandal and ongoing accusations that it turned a blind eye to doping. This book assesses the implementation and effectiveness of those reforms ten years after. It draws upon the perspectives of Olympic scholars, Olympic athletes, and IOC members, including those who were directly involved in the reform process, and makes a number of recommendations about how the process of Olympic reform could be maintained and strengthened. As such, it provides an insightful and telling report card on the modern Olympic Movement in the first decade of the 21st century, and the presidency of Jacques Rogge. This book was originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

This book presents a critical examination of youth sport policies and management, from the grassroots to the elite levels in a variety of countries around the world. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Sport in Society.

This book critically 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. It was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

Not only does this book deal with some of the most important driving factors of sport's global attractiveness, but it also tackles important positive and negative impacts of sport as a global business on local and global communities of sport's (potential) fans and participants. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

This book seeks to explore the changing representation and consumption of lifestyle sport in the twenty-first century. It will be of interest to students and researchers in subject areas such as sociology, sport, film, media, geographies, leisure studies and cultural studies. This book was previously published as a Special Issue of Sport in Society.