John Sugden, Alan Tomlinson

Sport and Peace-Building in Divided Societies (eBook, ePUB)

Playing with Enemies

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this book John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson draw on their extensive international experience of working with divided communities to develop a methodological and theoretical model for peace-building in sport. Featuring case studies from Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine and South Africa, it is essential reading for scholars of sport development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136292330
• Artikelnr.: 49268232

Autorenporträt

John Sugden is Professor of the Sociology of Sport at the University of Brighton, UK. He is well known for his work on the sociology of boxing; sport and peace-building in divided societies; his studies - with Alan Tomlinson - of the world governing body for football, FIFA; and for his investigative research into football's underground economy. Currently, John is a leading member of the Sport and Leisure Cultures research network at Brighton, and Director of the University of Brighton's flagship worldwide community relations project, Football4Peace

Alan Tomlinson is Professor of Leisure Studies, School of Humanities, at the University of Brighton, UK. He is a renowned scholar and researcher on the social history and sociology of sport, leisure and popular culture. Alan has researched the history and politics of FIFA since the mid-1980s, alongside studies on the political economy of the Olympics and the IOC. He is the author/editor of numerous books on sport, leisure and consumption, including Consumption, Identity and Style and FIFA: The Men, the Myths and the Money, and a long-term contributor to the soccer periodical When Saturday Comes

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword 1. The Question? 2. SDP in Never-Never Land: Sport and
Peace-Building in Northern Ireland 3. SDP in the Promised Land: Sport and
Peace-Building in Israel 4. SDP Over the Rainbow: Sport and Peace-Building
in South Africa 5. Can Sport Save the World? SDP in Cloud Cuckoo Land 6.
SDP Back Down to Earth: Epistemological Foundations of Critical Pragmatism
7. Critical Pro-Activism and the Ripple Effect Appendix: Materials
Underpinning the Football for Peace (F4P) Project