An atlas that charts and profiles the world's major competitive sports and the profits that flow from their commercial development. It maps major sporting events, follows financial ebbs and flows, notes political uses and abuses, highlights media attention, and provides case studies of global superstars.
The Men, the Myths and the Money
The book explores FIFA's evolution from its founding in 1904 by six European sporting organizations into a major player in the global consumer and cultural industry. It highlights recent crises that have plagued the organization, leading to increased scrutiny and media attention. The narrative delves into the complexities of FIFA's operations and the controversies surrounding it, painting a vivid picture of a once-revered institution facing significant challenges in the modern era.
Beautifully designed and illustrated A-Z of all the major competitive sports, with comprehensive sections on the politics of international sporting events (FIFA, discrimination, scandals, etc) and the economics of sport (media, regulatory bodies, sponsorship, gambling, etc) plus a gazetteer of each country's sporting profile.
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In FIFA and the Contest for World Football Sugden and Tomlinson provide the first full-length study of FIFA (the Federation Internationale de Football Association) and its role in framing and controlling world football. Interviewing more than seventy influential leaders world-wide and drawing on exclusive documentary sources, the authors demonstrate FIFA's importance in twentieth-century sport, and in an increasingly global consumer culture. The first part of the book covers the origins and organizational characteristics of FIFA, and of the European and South American federations. The second part considers how new and powerful players have emerged in FIFA in the wake of the collapse of empires. The book includes analyses of football's contributions to the growth of nationalism and anti-imperialism; the use of football by ruthless and sometimes corrupt officials and political despots; and its expansion under the influence of increasingly prominent commercial paymasters. Football's role in Africa, Asia and the USA is also illuminated, and FIFA's global mission and rhetoric evaluated. The book is a valuable addition to the politics and social history of sport, and to the sociology of the global system and the changing world order. It will be of interest to students and researchers in the areas of sport studies, cultural studies and the sociology of popular culture, and to everyone concerned with the social organization of one of the world's most popular sports.
Principles, Power and Possibilities
The book delves into the intricate workings of sporting international non-governmental organizations (SINGOs) like the IOC, FIFA, IAAF, and FIA, highlighting their significant influence on global sports governance. It explores their rise, structural frameworks, organizational behaviors, and the interplay between these entities and international politics, offering insights into their complex operations and power dynamics in the contemporary sports landscape.
The definitive A-Z guide to sports studies, containing over 1,100 authoritative entries. This wide-ranging dictionary covers the social, political, economic, and cultural theory of sport and includes biographies, web links, and appendices. An essential reference work for sports students, and for anyone with an interest in sport.
Sport is a cultural institution that stands at the interface between political and civil society. In divided communities, sport has been an agent of separation, sectarian hatred and violence, but also a highly effective tool for conflict resolution, reconciliation and peace-building. In this important study, John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson draw on their extensive international experience of working with divided communities to develop a methodological and theoretical model for peace-building in sport. The book showcases original case studies from three regions of the world in which sport has played a prominent role in social deconstruction and Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine and South Africa. Combining a wealth of primary and secondary data, the authors chart the rise of the contemporary Sport for Development and Peace movement (SDP) and outline an important new practice-based framework for understanding, researching and working to achieve positive social change in the SDP sector. This is essential reading for any student, researcher or practitioner with an interest in the sociology of sport, sport development, international development, peace studies or conflict resolution.
Reporting data and case-studies - not just from Britain but also from Australia, Canada, the United States and Germany - this volume is offered as a modest contribution to a continuing debate on the continuities apparent in gendered sport and leisure cultures, and the impact of some of the most notable challenges of those continuities.
This volume offers a reflective, multi-disciplinary and partly inter-disciplinary collection of complementary articles concerning ethics, sport and leisure: I. ethical issues and ethics in sport and sports practiceII. ethical issues in research in sports science andIII. ethical issues in research in the sociology of sport and leisure.