Sport, Protest and Globalisation: Stopping Play
Jon Dart (Ed.)
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Description for Sport, Protest and Globalisation: Stopping Play
Hardback. Editor(s): Dart, Jon; Wagg, Stephen; Manganyi, N. Chabani. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 374 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 217 x 28. Weight in Grams: 654.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Global Culture and Sport Series
Number of Pages
373
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137464910
SKU
V9781137464910
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99-15
About Jon Dart (Ed.)
Jon Dart is Senior Lecturer in the Carnegie Faculty, Leeds Beckett University, UK. He has published on topics such as the political economy of sport and social media, sports fandom and sports policy in the Middle East. He has a particular interest in future of the relationship between sport and the social sciences within UK higher education institutions. ... Read more
Reviews for Sport, Protest and Globalisation: Stopping Play
This new text ... responds to the need to appreciate and comprehend the capacity of sport to alter social, economic and political agendas through the vehicle of public protest. ... In addressing a gap in the existing literature of sports studies and sport sociology, Wagg and Dart perform a vital service for academics, students and the lay-reader. (Russell Holden, ... Read more