Barbara Segaert Marc Theeboom Christiane Timmerman
The call for sport organizations and organizers to take up social responsibilities is reflected in a wide variety of sport-related practices. This book critically examines sport-related social interventions in different cultural settings, such as promoting local community-building by sport. Social constructions of peace, integration and managing diversity are studied from the perspective of sport and play, and the power position of global sport organizations with corporate features is discussed from the perspectives of good governance, legal issues and fair trade. Referring to Foucault's...
The call for sport organizations and organizers to take up social responsibilities is reflected in a wide variety of sport-related practices. This boo...