Transforming Sport: Knowledges, Practices, Structures (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society, 7, Band 7) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1138052248 ISBN 13: 9781138052246

Verlag: Routledge, 2018

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Drawing on a diversity of topics including sport for development and peace, transnational feminism, disability sport, refugees and football activism, FIFA, the Olympics, sports journalism and digital sports media, this book makes a case for sport sociology as an agent of positive change in the institutional hierarchies of contemporary sport.

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Thomas F. Carter is Principal Lecturer in the Anthropology of Sport at the University of Brighton, UK. His research increasingly focuses on questions of citizenship, personhood and humanity as it emerges out of his earlier work on the political economy of sport and the interlocutions of space, movement, and bodies around the world but most especially in Cuba. He is the author four books, the most recent of which explores how running makes us human

Daniel Burdsey is a Reader and Deputy Head of School (Research and Enterprise) in the School of Sport and Service Management at the University of Brighton, UK. His current research focuses on ageing and physical culture in British Asian communities; social and cultural aspects of the contemporary English seaside and coast, especially the connections between race, whiteness, migration and 'new' spaces of multiculture; and sport, decoloniality and anti-racist resistance

Mark Doidge is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Sport and Service Management at the University of Brighton, UK. His current research focuses on the role of sport in supporting refugees and asylum seekers, both in camps and in host communities. Dr Doidge's research also focuses on European football and political activism amongst football fans across Europe. He is Director of the Anti-Discrimination Division of Football Supporters Europe, and a member of refugee groups in Brighton, including the Hummingbird Project, Sanctuary on Sea, and Migrant and Refugee Solidarity

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138052248
• ISBN 13: 9781138052246
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 282
• Herausgeber: Carter Thomas F., Burdsey Daniel, Doidge Mark
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