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Champions? Thirty Years Of The Uefa Champions League

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 Covering the impact on domestic leagues, clubs, fans, and players, this book is an interdisciplinary exploration of 30 years of the Champions League and how it has impacted football. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Soccer & Society.
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Why Fans Matter? - Fans And Identities In The Soccer World

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 This book explores the meanings, significances, and impacts of the complex identities that soccer fans, especially those of men's soccer, represent worldwide. The chapters in this volume construct and reconstruct fandom in terms of diverse fan affiliations from local to global level, and from national to transnational spaces.
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Football'S Past Revisited - Further Investigations Into The Early Development Of The Game

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 This book delves into the complex, yet fascinating evolution of football - from being a relatively unruly mob game played on festival days, to getiing adopted, codified and 'civilised' by the major English Public Schools, then diffused into the wider society to become a codified, modern sports-form.
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Sport And Nationalism - Theoretical Perspectives

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 This book aims to advance academic study of the interconnection between sport and nationalism by reviewing the current â€˜state of playâ€™. It will be beneficial to students, researchers and professionals with an interest in sport. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
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Cricket In The 21st Century

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 This book examines the ways in which cricket has reflected and reproduced some of the social and political tensions of the twenty-first century. The chapters in this volume employ cricket as a useful conceptual tool to analyse the dynamics underwriting interactions between races, sexes, classes, and polities.
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Special Olympics - Inclusion Debates And Equity In Sport

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 The book brings academic work on Special Olympics and social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities, through empirical research and theoretically informed papers. It contributes to participatory approaches to research.
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Sport Mega-Events Of The 2020s - Governance, Impacts And Controversies

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 The book explores various social, cultural, political and economic issues through the lenses of various sport mega-events in the twenty-first century. This is a resource for students and researchers situated in sociology, sport management, event management, political science, sport studies, sport business, urban studies and leisure studies.
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Eric Dunning And The Sociology Of Sport

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 This book celebrates the life and career of Eric Dunning. Eric Dunning was a pioneer of the sociology of sport, firstly known for his ground-breaking theoretical work with Norbert Elias, and his study of the development of football. The chapters in this book were originally published in Sport in Society.
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Forced Migration And Sport - Critical Dialogues Across International Contexts And Disciplinary Boundaries

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 This book aims to extend and deepen conversations among scholars, policymakers, and practitioners about the role of sport in relation to contexts and issues of forced migration. Chapters critically analyse and interrogate the implications of existing approaches, practices, and research around sport and forced migration across five themes.
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League Of Ireland - An Historical And Contemporary Assessment

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 This book examines the initial growth of clubs in Dublin and the Free State Leagueâ€™s early turbulent history, while the impact of Irish players and administrators on the development of soccer clubs at home and abroad is also assessed. It was originally published as a special issue of Soccer & Society.
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Interrelationships Between Sport And The Arts

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 This book is a significant new contribution to understanding both sports and the arts, not just in their separate contexts, but also in amalgam. It represents a valuable resource for researchers and advanced students of Sports, Visual Art, Literature, History, Sociology and Social Theory, and Cultural Studies.
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Professionalization Of Action Sports - The Changing Roles Of Athletes, Industry And Media

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 Action sports have undergone dramatic growth, commercialization, and institutionalization over recent decades. This book uncovers the social, political, economic and organizational dynamics of their professionalization.
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Covid-19 And The Soccer World

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 This book documents the early impressions and initial responses of various stakeholders of the soccer world to the challenges of COVID-19 in 2020.
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Potential Of Community Sport For Social Inclusion - Exploring Cases Across The Globe

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 This book brings together a team of scholars from across the globe whose research addresses the complex relationship between community sport and social inclusion.
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1935 Australian Cricket Tour Of India - Breaking Down Social And Racial Barriers

by Megan Ponsford

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 Megan Ponsford investigates the uneasy relationships between Australia, British India and Indian nationalism during the interwar period, using the 1935/36 tour as a case study.
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Moments, Metaphors, Memories - Defining Events In The History Of Soccer

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 The present volume attempts to document, identify and analyse some of the defining events in the history of soccer from interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives.
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Face To Face - Enduring Rivalries In World Soccer

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 The present volume brings into focus some of the most fascinating and enduring rivalries in the world of soccer. It attempts to encapsulate, analyse and reconstruct those rivalries in a historical perspective.
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Ultras - A Global Football Fan Phenomenon

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 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.
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Bearing Light: Flame Relays And The Struggle For The Olympic Movement

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 The first book-length study in English of the contemporary Olympic flame relay, The Flame Relay and the Olympic Movement will be a revelation to those who have wondered what organizational challenges, intercultural conflicts, and global-local negotiations compose the backstage of the Olympic Movementâ€™s most popular and deceptively strai
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Christianity And Social Scientific Perspectives On Sport

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 This book demonstrates the diversity of current research occurring in the area of Christianity and social scientific perspectives on sport in order to bridge divisions between various social science disciplines and theology or religious studies. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue inÂ Sport inÂ Soci
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Being Disabled, Becoming A Champion

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 Being Disabled, Becoming a Champion is an accessible presentation of current European research on the most recent evolutions in sports for people with disabilities. This book was originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
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Sport, Outdoor Life And The Nordic World

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 Sport, Outdoor Life and the Nordic World explores the Nordic model of sport and outdoor life with respect to such issues as sport facilities, mountain guiding, women and ethnic minorities, urban planning, anti-doping, health, elite sport coaching and leadership, and the globalization of sport.
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Youth Sport And Social Capital - Bleachers And Boardrooms

by Sean F. Brown

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 This book examines the youth sport parent experience through the lens of social capital, a cornerstone social science concept of the past 30 years. This book was originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
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Global Markets And Global Impact Of Sports - Sportsworld

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 This book is an up-to-date and wide-ranging book examining how sport impacts society, media, politics and economics around the world. It revisits globalization and sport discussions, explores theories and case studies of sport in global society. The chapters originally published in special issues in Sport in Society.
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