Sports global influence : a survey of society and culture in the context of sport / edited by Skye G. Arthur-Banning, Solomon Waliaula.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arthur-Banning, Skye, editor.

Waliaula, Solomon, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture--Study and teaching.

Culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2015]

Summary:

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2015. Evolving sport cultures have had the dual capacity of both illuminating the inner human experience while also connecting this experience to outer socio-economic institutional practices. The unique chapters of this book capture the processes that define this simultaneous centripetal and centrifugal motion of sport such the opportunity sport can provide for social change in a community, out to the bigger debates of global marketing and state legitimacy that accrue from sport. Stock discourses on sport such as sport commodification, mediatization, instrumentalization; social and physical capital of sport; and the rope of sport in the contours of geo-politics and international diplomacy are explored both in their theoretical framing and also in specific scenarios and locations. The collection of works span from Qatar to South Africa, the United States to England and provides a modern look at sport's interdisciplinary shape in the global context of society and culture.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Skye G. Arthur-Banning and Solomon Waliaula

Hosting the World Cup in Qatar: Managing Fans and Building Infrastructure in Double Time / Susan Dun

Legitimacy Earned or Conveyed? International Norms and the Olympic Games / Andrea Kathryn Talentino

Sport Psychology within the South African Primary School Curriculum / Andrew Lewis

Playing for Free: The Commodification of Jesus Shuttlesworth and the Big Business of Free Labour in the NCAA / Michael Carrier

Sport is Good? Looking at Sport Involvement through the Lens of Positive Psychology / Mary Sara Wells and Skye G. Arthur-Banning

Physical Capital and Intra-University Sports: A Binomial Analysis of Improvements / Peter Omondi Ochieng

The Impact of a Participant-Centred Sport for Social Change Intervention Pilot Project in the UK / Daniel Potter

Electronic Football Fandom as Performance / Solomon Waliaula

Transgender Women in Sports: Should They Be Allowed to Compete against Women / Franklin Abad.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-387-0

OCLC:

1239991842

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848883871 DOI