Suitable for students and researchers on terrorism, this title examines the key trends, features and dimensions of lone wolf terrorism worldwide. It offers insights to those working to prevent or minimize the effects of terrorism and political violence.
Suitable for students and researchers on terrorism, this title examines the key trends, features and dimensions of lone wolf terrorism worldwide. It o...
Can sport serve as a vehicle for social mobility of disadvantaged social groups? How and to what extent are different forms of social capital created through sport participation? Sport and Social Mobility: Crossing Boundaries takes up these questions through a critical examination of the ways in which sport facilitates or inhibits upward social mobility. Drawing on four case studies, the book provides a rich sociological analysis of people's lived experiences of sport in diverse social, cultural and political contexts, ranging from sport-for-development programs in Brazil and the Netherlands...
Can sport serve as a vehicle for social mobility of disadvantaged social groups? How and to what extent are different forms of social capital created ...
Social exclusion is one of the most pressing challenges in post-industrial societies, encompassing economic, social, cultural and political dimensions. This important new book critically examines the relationship between sport and social exclusion, from global and cross-cultural perspectives.
The book analyses sport and social exclusion by focusing on three key questions:
How does social exclusion affect participation in sport? How is social exclusion (re)produced, experienced, resisted, and managed in sport? How is sport used to combat social exclusion and promote...
Social exclusion is one of the most pressing challenges in post-industrial societies, encompassing economic, social, cultural and political ...
This title critically examines the ways in which sport and peacekeeping, through the Olympic Games, are being played out at global, national and local levels.
This title critically examines the ways in which sport and peacekeeping, through the Olympic Games, are being played out at global, national and local...
Football has become one of the most mediated cultural practices in modern Western societies, providing players, officials and spectators with implicit and often hidden discourses about race/ethnicity, national identity and gender. This book provides new and critical insights into how mediated football as a contested cultural practice influences, and is influenced by, discourses and stereotypes about race/ethnicity, nation and gender that operate at the local, national and global level. It analyzes both contemporary media representations and the ways these representations are negotiated,...
Football has become one of the most mediated cultural practices in modern Western societies, providing players, officials and spectators with impli...