The Other Sport Mega-Event: Rugby World Cup 2011

ISBN-13: 9781138953895 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 120 str.

Steven J. Jackson;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

The ‘Other’ Sport Mega-event examines the 2011 Rugby World Cup as a contested terrain of politics, commerce and identity.

This book was published as a special issue of Sport and Society.

Spis treści

1. Rugby World Cup 2011: sport mega-events between the global and the local  2. Definitely maybe: continuity and change in the Rugby World Cup  3. Collective identity and contested allegiance: a case of migrant professional Fijian rugby players  4. Rugby World Cup 2011: sport mega-events and the contested terrain of space, bodies and commodities  5. (Not) a stadium of four million: speaking back to dominant discourses of the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand  6. The culture of alcohol sponsorship during the 2011 Rugby World Cup: an (auto)ethnographic and (con)textual analysis  7. Playing the shell game: the Faustian bargain for Dunedin’s stadium

O autorze

Steven Jackson is a Professor in the School of Physical Education, Sport & Exercise Sciences at the University of Otago, New Zealand and Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, RSA. Currently the past-President of the International Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA), his research focuses on globalization, media and national identity.