Sport and social movements : from the local to the global
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Sport and social movements : from the local to the global
(Globalizing sport studies)
Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"First published in 2014. Paperback edition first published 2015"
Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-165) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
From neighborhood coalitions organizing against the building of a sport facility for professional sports teams subsidized by public funds, to global campaigns for equity for women in sport, to worldwide bans of apartheid regimes, sites and levels of protest, resistance and activism have been present throughout the history of sport. Contentious forms of collective actions are now ever more present in various forms at the local, the national and the global levels.
Sport and Social Movements: From the Local to the Global is the first book-length treatment of the way social movements have intersected and continue to intersect with sport. It traces the history of various social movements associated with labour, women, peace, the environment and rights (civil, racial, disability and sexual), and their relationship to sport and sports mega-events such as the Olympic Games.
Based on research conducted by a multinational team of authors that draws on theories of social movements and new social movements, the book includes a valuable chronology of social movements, illustrations of key episodes in the development of the relationships between sport and different social movements and an agenda for future research and scholarship.
Written in a clear and comprehensive style it is suitable for all levels of higher education, researchers and the general reader who want to know more about the role that sport has played in the development of social movements and campaigns for social justice.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Contents page
List of Tables
Chronology
List of Acronyms
Introduction
Chapter 1 Analyzing Sport and (Global) Social Movements
Chapter 2 From Workers Sport to Alter Sport and Global Workers Rights
Chapter 3 Women's Movements and Sport
Chapter 4 Rights Movements and Sport
Chapter 5 Sport and the Global Peace Movement
Chapter 6 Sport and the Environmental Movement
Conclusion
References
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