Overview
- Examines sport and political protest at a global level
- Offers transnational and interdisciplinary case studies
- Covers social protests relating to race, environmentalism, social injustice and gender
Part of the book series: Global Culture and Sport Series (GCS)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Reviews
“This new text … responds to the need to appreciate and comprehend the capacity of sport to alter social, economic and political agendas through the vehicle of public protest. … In addressing a gap in the existing literature of sports studies and sport sociology, Wagg and Dart perform a vital service for academics, students and the lay-reader.” (Russell Holden, idrottsforum.org, September, 2017)
“Sport, Protest and Globalisation is a rich, wide-ranging compendium chockfull of sport-induced political dissent from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. … this book is a must read for those interested in the power of sport and the capacity of activists to leverage sport for progressive social change. Sport, Protest and Globalisation is a significant contribution to both social movement studies and sports studies. The book has potential use as a textbook for undergraduate courses in both fields.” (Jules Boykoff, Social Movement Studies, April, 2017)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jon Dart is Senior Lecturer in the Carnegie Faculty, Leeds Beckett University, UK. He has published on topics such as the political economy of sport and social media, sports fandom and sports policy in the Middle East. He has a particular interest in future of the relationship between sport and the social sciences within UK higher education institutions.
Stephen Wagg is Professor in the Carnegie Faculty, Leeds Beckett University, UK. He has written widely on the politics of sport, as well as on the politics of childhood and of comedy. His latest book is The London Olympics of 2012: Politics, Promises and Legacy (Palgrave, 2015) and he edited The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies (Palgrave, 2012) with Helen Jefferson Lenskyj.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sport, Protest and Globalisation
Book Subtitle: Stopping Play
Editors: Jon Dart, Stephen Wagg
Series Title: Global Culture and Sport Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46492-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-46491-0Published: 17 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-69078-7Published: 05 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-46492-7Published: 08 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2662-3404
Series E-ISSN: 2662-3412
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 373
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sociology of Culture, Political Sociology