Olympic Games are sold to host city populations on the basis of legacy commitments that incorporate aid for the young and the poor. Yet little is known about the realities of marginalized young people living in host cities. Do they benefit from social housing and employment opportunities? Or do they fall victim to increased policing and evaporating social assistance? This book answers these questions through an original ethnographic study of young people living in the shadow of Vancouver 2010 and London 2012.
Setting qualitative research alongside critical analysis of policy documents,...
Olympic Games are sold to host city populations on the basis of legacy commitments that incorporate aid for the young and the poor. Yet little is k...
Sport is a geographic phenomenon. The physical and organizational infrastructure of sport occupies a prominent place in our society. This important book takes an explicitly spatial approach to sport, bringing together research in geography, sport studies and related disciplines to articulate a critical approach to sports geography . Critical Geographies of Sport illustrates this approach by engaging directly with a variety of theoretical traditions as well as the latest research methods.
Each chapter showcases the merits of a geographic approach to the study of sport ranging...
Sport is a geographic phenomenon. The physical and organizational infrastructure of sport occupies a prominent place in our society. This important...
This challenging new study examines gender and sexuality in relation to the roving colonialism of sport mega-events. Built around four case studies in postcolonial and settler colonial contexts the Olympics in Vancouver, London and Sochi and soccer fans in the Egyptian revolution the book examines sporting 'homonationalism' and anti-colonial resistance.
The first part discusses different moments of homonationalism in sport. The second part explores how indigenous and anti-colonial protests against mega-sport events lead to different views about gender and sexuality politics...
This challenging new study examines gender and sexuality in relation to the roving colonialism of sport mega-events. Built around four case studies...
The experiences of ethnic 'Other' females have - until recently - been widely overlooked in the study of sport. There continues to be a need to produce critical scholarship about ethnic 'Other' girls and women in sport and physical culture, in order to represent their complex, multifarious and dynamic lived realities. This international collection of critical essays provides compelling insight into the lived realities of ethnic 'Other' females in sport.
Throughout the book, contributors either draw on the political consciousnesses of 'Other' feminisms, or privilege the voices of...
The experiences of ethnic 'Other' females have - until recently - been widely overlooked in the study of sport. There continues to be a need to pro...
This book explores strength sports as a site of political contestation and a platform for insurgent gender practices. It contributes to our understanding of key themes in the study of sport, such as feminism, power, the body and identity.
This book explores strength sports as a site of political contestation and a platform for insurgent gender practices. It contributes to our understand...
