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Item Details
Title:
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SPORT, PROTEST AND GLOBALISATION
STOPPING PLAY |
Volume: |
2016 |
By: |
Jon Dart (Editor), Stephen Wagg (Editor), N. Chabani Manganyi (Editor) |
Format: |
Hardback |
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£89.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
1137464917 |
ISBN 13: |
9781137464910 |
Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
Pub. date: |
9 November, 2016 |
Edition: |
2016 ed. |
Series: |
Global Culture and Sport Series |
Pages: |
373 |
Synopsis: |
This volume is built around three assumptions - first, that for huge numbers people around the world, including many sport lovers, there are more important things in life than sport; second, that the governance of sport is in many ways problematic and needs to be confronted; and, third, that contrary to the still-popular belief that sport and politics don't mix, sport often provides an ideal theatre for the enacting of political protest. The book contains studies of a range of protests, stretching back to the death of suffragist Emily Davison at the Derby of 1913 and encompassing subsequent protests against the exclusion of women from the sporting arena; the Berlin Olympics of 1936; Western imperialism; the Mexico Olympics, 1968; the state racism of apartheid in South Africa; the effect of the global golf industry on ecosystems; Israeli government policy; resistance to the various attempts to bring the Olympic Games to Canadian and American cities; the cutting of welfare benefits for disabled British citizens; class privilege in the UK; Russian anti-gay laws; and high public spending on sport mega-events in Brazil.The collection will be of interest to scholars and students with an interest in Sports Studies, History, Politics, Geography, Cultural Studies and Sociology. |
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biography |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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