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Football and Oral History in Brazil
This book examines the popularity of football in Latin America and the importance of sound archives in a country in which orality is the basis of important social relations. The development of modern sports in the region is connected to wider national and state-building processes. In this sense, this volume aims to provide a historical overview of the making of the interface between these two important areas of social life in this main country of South American continent and its role in the construction of the political history of the sport in the region. Providing unedited angles and unexpected approaches, the authors provide a panorama of the historical development and contemporary intersection of football in Oral History field, and vice versa. The history of Brazilian society is barely known outside the region, so this volume seeks to tell this story, showing how innovation was key in the development of this sports modality, and overcoming traditional sources based on Journalism and Media. This is a book that will appeal to those within the fields of Sport History and Latin American Studies.
Routledge Handbook of the Business of Women's Sport
Combining knowledge from sport management, marketing, media, leadership, governance, and consumer behavior in innovative ways, this book goes further than any other in surveying current theory and research on the business of women’s sport around the world, making it an unparalleled resource for all those who aspire to work in, or understand, women’s sport. Featuring international perspectives, with authors from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania, and insightful, in-depth profiles of real leaders within different sectors of women's sport in the global sport industry, the Routledge Handbook of the Business of Women's Sport offers an integrated understanding of the ways...
Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality
The Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality brings together important new work from 68 leading international scholars that, collectively, demonstrates the intrinsic interconnectedness of sport, gender and sexuality. It introduces what is, in essence, a sophisticated sub-area of sport sociology, covering the field comprehensively, as well as signalling ideas for future research and analysis. Wide-ranging across different historical periods, different sports, and different local and global contexts, the book incorporates personal, ideological and political narratives; varied conceptual, methodological and theoretical approaches; and examples of complexities and nuanced ways of understanding the gendered and sexualized dynamics of sport. It examines structural and cultural forms of gender segregation, homophobia, heteronormativity and transphobia, as well as the ideological struggles and changes that have led to nuanced ways of thinking about the sport, gender and sexuality nexus. This is a landmark work of reference that will be a key resource for students and researchers working in sport studies, gender studies, sexuality studies or sociology.
International Perspectives on Sport for Sustainable Development
This book brings together examples and cases from across the world to discuss how sport has and can further contribute to the UN 2030 Sustainable Development agenda. It discusses the major steps that international bodies have taken so far and can further take in the progressive integration of sport for sustainable development. Contributors from 21 countries take up at least one of the 17 UNO Sport for Development and Peace goals, and present and analyse examples of national, regional or local policies using sport as a lever for sustainable development. From traditional games to major competitions, from gender equality to social development and developing governmental transparency, the chapte...
Women and Sport in Latin America
This multidisciplinary book draws on sociology, cultural studies, anthropology and history, to explore the diversity, challenges and achievements of Latin American women in sport. It offers an in-depth analysis of women’s sport in ten countries across Latin America, insights into the sport activities of indigenous peoples, and the contributions of Latin American women to sport living outside of the region. The book also provides a comprehensive overview of international developments in gender and sport research, policy development and theory, and addresses sport participation at many levels including in school-based physical education, community and high performance contexts.
The Bitter-sweet Awakening
There has been increasing recognition of the importance of the impacts of mega sporting events and in 2001 the IOC initiated its Olympic Games Global Impact Project. Here is a broad-ranging analysis of the impacts of one particular Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The Classicist
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No Fiesta on the Eastern Front
Set in western Russia in 1941, this novel follows the fortunes of a group of veterans from the Spanshi Civil War now fighting on the German side against Stalin's Soviet Russia. The hero, Arturo, is an idealist, a lapsed poet who longs to prove himself on the battlefield.
Cancer Research
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