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Gambling and Sports in a Global Age
Language: en
Pages: 217
Authors: Darragh McGee
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-11-17 - Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

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This volume contains an Open Access chapter. Establishing a scholarly platform to inform interventions in research and policymaking, this book demonstrates the
Sport and Society in the Global Age
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Authors: Timothy Marjoribanks
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-16 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Are sports influenced by their social context? Can sport influence the social world? And how is sport changing in our increasingly globalized society? This thou
The Postcolonial Sporting Body
Language: en
Pages: 245
Authors: Veena Mani
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-09-30 - Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

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The Postcolonial Sporting Body considers the future not only of sport, but of global politics and identity in a world striving towards greater equity and decolo
Towards a Pacific Island Sociology of Sport
Language: en
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Authors: Yoko Kanemasu
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-10-10 - Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

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Extending the horizon of regional sport scholarship beyond the Global North, this volume offers an exciting opportunity for sociology of sport scholars to widen
Barbaric Sport
Language: en
Pages: 150
Authors: Marc Perelman
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-22 - Publisher: Verso Books

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Marc Perelman pulls no punches in this succinct and searing broadside, assailing the ‘recent form of barbarism’ that is the global sporting event. Forget th
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