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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society |
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Cover; Half title; Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 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 |
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6 Transforming methodological nationalism: the case of sports scholarship and policy towards migrants and descendants7 Love Fighting Hate Violence: an anti-violence programme 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 |
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12 Transforming informal communities through discourse intervention: RioOnWatch, favelas and the 2016 Olympic Games13 Putting the P in SDP: sport and peace-building in divided societies รข#x80;#x93; 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 age; 16 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 |
| Summary |
"Sport sociology has a responsibility to engage critically with the accepted wisdom of those who govern and promote sport. This challenging collection of international research is a clear call for enacting the transformation of sport. The contributing authors argue that is not enough to merely advocate for change. Rather, they insist that scholars need to take an active political stance when conducting research with the explicit purpose of attempting to transform the practices, structures, and the ways in which knowledge is produced about sport. By exposing and challenging the power relations which perpetuate discrimination and inequality within sport, it becomes possible to catalyse wider societal changes. 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 hierarchies and institutional structures of contemporary sport. Transforming Sport: Knowledges, Practices, Structures provides valuable insights for all students and scholars interested in the sociology of sport and its transformative potential."--Provided by publisher |
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Sports -- Sociological aspects.
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Sports -- Sociological aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Burdsey, Daniel, editor
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Doidge, Mark, editor
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| ISBN |
9781315167909 |
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1315167905 |
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