Sport and Politics
Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7506-8664-8 (ISBN)
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"Sport and Politics" is the first book on the market to address this previously much ignored relationship between sport and politics, in a comprehensive and coherent manner. Although there are books in existence which seek to address this relationship, none of these is comprehensive in scope, starting out as they do with very specific ideas about the nature of politics and touching only on particular aspects of this relationship. Those studies which do offer broader perspectives are edited collections which lack a sustained narrative thread. Written by a leading expert in sport politics, this radical and comprehensive treatment of this growing area is set to break new ground in the study of sport and politics. Students studying a range of courses including sports studies, sport science and sport politics will find this an essential tool for understanding this previously under-published area."Sport and Politics" begins with three main propositions that politicians use sport, that sport reflects political conditions and that sport itself contributes to political culture for good or for ill.
From these propositions the book develops into a fully rounded and complete treatment of the area. International in scope, the book will draw on examples from UK and Ireland, Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, South Korea and India. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive and critical analysis of the relationship between sport and politics. It is a vital reading for all students studying politics within sports studies, sport science and sport politics courses. It presents an up-to-date and complete treatment of this growing area, using international examples from UK and Ireland, Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, South Korea and India.
Alan Bairner is Professor of Sport and Social Theory, Loughborough University, UK. He graduated in 1973 from the University of Edinburgh with a degree in Politics. In 1974 he was awarded a Postgraduate Certificate in Secondary Education (Modern Studies and History) from Moray House College of Education in Edinburgh. From 1974-7 he studied at the University of Hull from where he graduated with a PhD, having completed a thesis on the political and social theory of Antonio Gramsci. He joined the staff of the Ulster Polytechnic (subsequently the University of Ulster) in 1978 working initially in the School of History, Philosophy and Politics and thereafter in the School of Applied Medical Sciences and Sports Studies where he held the title of Professor in Sports Studies from 2000-3. He took up his present position on 1 October 2003. In 2006 he was the Donald deFrayne Macintosh Visiting Scholar at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He has taught broadly in the areas of political theory and political ideology as well as the politics and sociology of sport. His principal research interests are focused on the relationship between sport and the formation of identity with particular reference to national identities and masculinities. He has written extensively on sport, politics and society in Ireland. He has also published on the relationship between sport and national identity in Canada, Scotland, Sweden and the United States. He is currently preparing a monograph on sport, politics and society. He is the co-author (with John Sugden) of Sport, Sectarianism and Society in a Divided Ireland (Leicester University Press, 1993), joint editor (with John Sugden) of Sport in Divided Societies (Meyer and Meyer, 1999), author of Sport, Nationalism, and Globalization: European and North American Perspectives (State University of New York Press, 2001) and editor of Sport and the Irish. Histories, Identities, Issues (University College Dublin Press. 2005). He is a member of the editorial boards of the Sociology of Sport Journal, Football Studies and Soccer and Society. He has advised both the Sports Council for Northern Ireland and the Irish Football Association on community relations issues and from 2000-1 he was a member of the ministerial advisory group that was set up to develop a strategy for the future of association football in Northern Ireland.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.2.2009 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrated |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7506-8664-2 / 0750686642 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7506-8664-8 / 9780750686648 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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