| Sport, Protest and Globalisation: Stopping Play 2016 Edition Contributor(s): Dart, Jon (Editor), Wagg, Stephen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1137464917 ISBN-13: 9781137464910 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science - Technology & Engineering | Manufacturing - Sports & Recreation | Sociology Of Sports |
| Dewey: 306.483 |
| LCCN: 2016956277 |
| Series: Global Culture and Sport |
| Physical Information: 1.13" H x 8.52" W x 6.37" (1.28 lbs) 373 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |