Sport, Globalisation and Identity
Sport can be a vehicle for the expression of identity, and also a factor in the shaping of identity. This book explores the complex interrelationships between nations, regions and states in the landscape of contemporary international sport, with a particular focus on identity.
Exploring important themes such as the geopolitics of sports events, contested identities, and ownership of sport and its impact on sporting cultures, the book presents contemporary and historical cases from around the world, including football in a divided Ireland; sport and the anti-Apartheid movement; Chinese sporting nationalism and soft power; and the role of sport media in the shaping of Catalan identity.
This is an important resource for students and researchers working in Sports Studies, Sports Journalism, Sports Management Studies, Sports Marketing, Football Studies, Sport and Identity Studies, Sociology of Sport Studies, and Cultural Studies.
Jim OBrien is Senior Lecturer at Solent University, Southampton, UK, where he teaches and develops the academic curriculum across the sports journalism and journalism degrees. He is also an author and researcher, with a particular interest in the history, politics, culture and mediatisation of Spanish football.
Russell Holden is an established Lecturer, writer, researcher and broadcaster specialising in the Sociology of Sport with a particular emphasis on the interconnection between sport and politics. In 2009 he launched In the Zone Sport and Politics Consultancy. In the Zone offers a unique range of services for academics, teachers, journalists and sport policy-makers on issues including the links between sport and nationalism, identity, human rights, gender and reconciliation.
Xavier Ginesta is Senior Lecturer at the University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC). He also collaborates with the Olympic Studies Centre at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain. His main research interests are sport management, communication and politics and sport place branding. He collaborates regularly with different media outlets as an expert in sport and politics and is a member of the Traducci Audiovisual, Comunicaci i Territori (TRACTE) research group at UVic-UCC.
Routledge Research in Sport Politics and Policy
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Laurence Chalip
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The Routledge Research in Sport Politics and Policy series aims to give shape to, and showcase, the burgeoning academic field of sport politics and policy. Highlighting the political nature of sport, the series shows how sport can illuminate our understanding of wider political themes such as, issues around governance; sport, foreign policy and soft power; and gender politics, or the use of sport as a development tool. The series embraces all areas of sport politics and policy, including domestic, international and comparative studies, and includes work by world-leading and emerging scholars.
Available in this series:
Sport Policy in China
Jinming Zheng, Shushu Chen, Tien-Chin Tan and Barrie Houlihan
Sport, Statehood and Transition in Europe
Comparative Perspectives from Post-Soviet and Post-socialist Societies
Edited by Ekain Rojo-Labaien, lvaro Rodrguez-Daz and Joel Rookwood
Sport, Globalisation and Identity
New Perspectives on Regions and Nations
Edited by Jim OBrien, Russell Holden and Xavier Ginesta
Sport, Globalisation and Identity
New Perspectives on Regions and Nations
Edited by Jim OBrien, Russell Holden and Xavier Ginesta
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Alina Bernstein is Senior Lecturer, School of Media Studies, College of Management Academic Studies (COMAS) and the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Raymond Boyle is Professor of Communications and Director of the Centre for Cultural Policy Research at the University of Glasgow, UK. He has written widely on sport and the media and teaches a communications module on the UEFA Certificate of Football Management (CFM).
Maria Jos Carvalho is Assistant Professor at the University of Porto, Faculty of Sport, and effective member of the Centre of Research, Education, Innovation and Intervention in Sport (CIFI2D), Porto, Portugal.
Christopher Faulkner is Associate Lecturer in the School of Sport and Exercise Science and the School of Humanities at the University of Worcester, UK. His research interests centre on professional sport, work, migration and life transitions.
Richard Irving is a PhD student within the Birkbeck, University of London Sport Business Centre, UK. He previously completed an MSc in Sport Management and the Business of Football at Birkbeck and works as a Network Manager for Community Owned Clubs at the Football Supporters Association.
Albert Junc is Senior Lecturer at the University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain. His main research interests include media and sport nationalism, sexual harassment in sport, physical activity and healthy environment, and education and values in sport.
Joaqun Marn-Montn is Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at the Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising at the University of Seville, Spain. His research has focused on the analysis of the relationship between communication and sports.
Ral Martnez-Corcuera is Lecturer at the University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, Spain. His research and teaching are in the fields of audiovisual media, hate speech and sports.
