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Para-Sites
Para-Sites, the penultimate volume in the Late Editions series, explores how social actors located within centers of power and privilege develop and express a critical consciousness of their own situations. Departing from the usual focus of ethnography and cultural analysis on the socially marginalized, these pieces probe subjects who are undeniably complicit with powerful institutional engines of contemporary change. In each case, the possibility of alternative thinking or practices is in complex relation to the subject's source of empowerment. These cases challenge the condition of cynicism that has been the favored mode of characterizing the mind-set of intellectuals and professionals, comfortable in their lives of middle-class consumption and work. In their effort to establish para-sites of critical awareness parallel to the levels of political and economic power at which they function, these subjects suggest that those who lead ordinary lives of modest power and privilege might not be parasites in relation to the systems they serve, but may be creating unique and independent critical perspectives.
Sport Development and Olympic Studies
In 2017 the Olympic Studies Centre of the German Sport University organized a workshop on Sport Development and Olympic Studies. This book resulted from the presentations and discussions they engendered around identifying new international collaborative research fields and deepening research on the Olympics, the Olympic Movement and sport development. The effective application of the hermeneutical method unifies the chapters. The interpretive strengths of this method sharpen the analytical perspective of the chapters, with the strict requirements for the use of primary sources meaning that the contributors have conducted extensive archival research. Assuring thematic coherence, the studies a...
Pool Ball Socks
A visionary and medium, Steve T. Sadaka’s first fictional novel, set in 2036, sheds light on an invisible entity affecting gang circles in his third book of the Life in the Face series. Pool Ball Socks is an action-packed thriller that follows Victor Smithers, an Ottawa civilian with a violent past. When a robbery attempt by some punks goes awry late at night in an abandoned park followed by a mafia visit two days later, an awakening of old habits throws the Nation’s Capital into months of violence and turmoil. With the cops on his tail and the mob after his gold, Victor leans on his Uncle Tom, a veteran with a lot of skills, and his girlfriend, Karen, who’s as smart and capable as she is beautiful. Can the experienced minds and technology of law enforcement in 2036 figure out their next moves? Will the truth be found? Or will the trio escape with their peace and liberty intact in this guaranteed thrill ride for adult suspense and action fans? Pool Ball Socks will entertain and leave you asking for more!
Encyclopedia of Sports Management and Marketing
This four-volume set introduces, on the management side, principles and procedures of economics, budgeting and finance; leadership; governance; communication; business law and ethics; and human resources practices; all in the sports context. On the marketing side this reference resource explores two broad streams: marketing of sport and of sport-related products (promoting a particular team or selling team- and sport-related merchandise, for example), and using sports as a platform for marketing non-sports products, such as celebrity endorsements of a particular brand of watch or the corporate sponsorship of a tennis tournament. Together, these four volumes offer a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the state of sports management and marketing today, providing an invaluable print or online resource for student researchers.
The Athletes’ Voice in History
This collection of essays is the third iteration in a series of publications dealing with Olympic studies that initially developed out of the tripartite relationship between Western University (Canada), Victoria University, Melbourne (Australia), and the German Sport University Cologne (Germany). However, for this collection, papers were solicited from around the world in order to approach the topic from different and much wider perspectives. To this end, this book combines a diverse range of scholarly analyses that seek to understand how the recognition of the voices of athletes have developed over many decades. In essence, the sequence of chapters in this book are based around three perspectives, namely: the lives and biographical profiles of athletes; the decision-making processes of, and for, athletes; and the formal and informal institutional representation of athletes. While the touchstone is primarily the voices of athletes associated with Olympic-related sports, consideration is also given to the actions and opinions of athletes expressed in other sporting spheres. This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.
Football, Power, and Politics in Europe
Football, Power, and Politics in Europe deals with the politics and policy-making in the field of football in a comparative perspective. Translated into English for the first time, this book systematizes political actors and their footprints not only in the field of sports, but in the political system as a whole—an approach unique in the broader literature on the societal dimension of sports. It offers an empirical analysis of power exercise with sociological means (field approach of Bourdieu) and helps us to understand the enormous relevance of football/soccer in European societies, shedding light on how (elected and non-elected) power holders use norms inherent to the field of football. While the analysis extends to various European countries and to the international arena, Germany and German football are in the centre of interest. Combining insights from political science, sociology, anthropology, and of course, sports studies, this book ultimately seeks to ask: How is political power exerted and controlled in a field where state institutions only have a limited leverage?
Gender, Sport and Leisure
This title provides a dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to targeted sports studies media & organisations. Gathering together the most cutting-edge data and real-life case studies from around the world - including Great Britain, Australia, Canada, Germany and the United States - this volume presents a unique insight into the issues and ......
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Two Players, One Goal?
This work outlines the historical, political, legal and institutional basis of the European unification process. It also describes and analyses the sport policy of the European Union, focusing on a number of topics such as the Bosman case.
