Transforming Sport (eBook, PDF)

Knowledges, Practices, Structures
Redaktion: Carter, Thomas F.; Doidge, Mark; Burdsey, Daniel

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on a diversity of topics including sport for development and peace, transnational feminism, disability sport, refugees and football activism, FIFA, the Olympics, sports journalism and digital sports media, this book makes a case for sport sociology as an agent of positive change in the institutional hierarchies of contemporary sport.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351684385
• Artikelnr.: 50918784

Autorenporträt

Thomas F. Carter is Principal Lecturer in the Anthropology of Sport at the University of Brighton, UK. His research increasingly focuses on questions of citizenship, personhood and humanity as it emerges out of his earlier work on the political economy of sport and the interlocutions of space, movement, and bodies around the world but most especially in Cuba. He is the author four books, the most recent of which explores how running makes us human Daniel Burdsey is a Reader and Deputy Head of School (Research and Enterprise) in the School of Sport and Service Management at the University of Brighton, UK. His current research focuses on ageing and physical culture in British Asian communities; social and cultural aspects of the contemporary English seaside and coast, especially the connections between race, whiteness, migration and 'new' spaces of multiculture; and sport, decoloniality and anti-racist resistance Mark Doidge is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Sport and Service Management at the University of Brighton, UK. His current research focuses on the role of sport in supporting refugees and asylum seekers, both in camps and in host communities. Dr Doidge's research also focuses on European football and political activism amongst football fans across Europe. He is Director of the Anti-Discrimination Division of Football Supporters Europe, and a member of refugee groups in Brighton, including the Hummingbird Project, Sanctuary on Sea, and Migrant and Refugee Solidarity

Inhaltsangabe

1. 'Something has got to be done about this': Transforming Sport, Selves
and Scholarship Part I: Knowledges 2. Refugees United: The Role of Activism
and Football in Supporting Refugees 3. Agency and Intention Without
Individualism: Some Methodological Pre-requisites? 4. Coming Out of
Containment: Feminist Methodological Considerations for Researching Women
in Sport 5. "The Point, However, Is to Change It": Critical Social Sciences
and the Olympic Games 6. Transforming Methodological Nationalism: The Case
of Sports Scholarship and Policy Towards Migrants and Descendants 7. Love
Fighting Hate Violence: An Anti-Violence Program for Martial Arts and
Combat Sports Part II: Structures 8. In Whose Humanity? 9. FIFA: Ethics,
Voice and Organisational Power Plays 10. Exploring the Growth of the
Commonwealth Games 11. Transforming Power Relationships Within Grassroots
and Professional Football to Engender Social Change: Re-Visiting the
Exclusion of British Asians Part III: Practices 12. Transforming Informal
Communities Through Discourse Intervention: RioOnWatch, Favelas and the
2016 Olympic Games 13. Putting the P in SDP: Sport and Peace-Building in
Divided Societies: The Origins and Evolution of Critical Proactivism 14.
Earnest Travellers: Bodies (that) Matter in Transnational Feminist Research
15. Sports Journalism and Cultural Authority in the Digital Age16. Sport
Media Texts and Audiences: A Critical Overview of Issues, Interactions and
Interventions 17. Through the Lens of Hillsborough: The Truth, Archival
Remixes and Critical Sociology 18. Transformation, Advocacy and Voice in
Disability Sport Research