Sport and social movements : : from the local to the global / / Jean Harvey [and four others].

• Superior document: Globalizing sport studies
• TeilnehmendeR: Harvey, Jean,; Horne, John,; Safai, Parissa,; Darnell, Simon C.,; Courchesne-O'Neill, Sébastien,
• Place / Publishing House: London ;, New Delhi ;, New York : : Bloomsbury,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Globalizing sport studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (209 pages)

"Sport and Social Movements: From the Local to the Global is the first book-length treatment of the way social movements have intersected and continue to intersect with sportraits It traces the history of various social movements associated with labour, women, rights (civil, racial, disability and sexual), peace and the environment and their relationship to sport and sports mega-events such as the Olympic Games. Based on research conducted by a multinational team of authors, the book includes a valuable chronology of social movements, illustrations of key episodes in the development of the relationships between sport and different social movements and an agenda for future research and scholarship. Written in a clear and comprehensive style it is suitable for all levels of higher education, researchers and the general reader who want to know more about the role that sport has played in the development of social movements and campaigns for social justice."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Contents -- Globalizing Sport Studies Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Tables -- A Chronology of Sport and Social Movements -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1 Analysing Sport and (Global) Social Movements -- Competing approaches to the study of social movements -- From old to global social movements and alter-globalization -- The importance of studying sport and social movements within alter-globalization -- 2 From Workers' Sport to Alter-Sport and Global Workers' Rights -- Uniting workers through sport or providing sport for workers -- From sport for all to alter-global sport -- Sports mega-events as a platform for promoting workers' and human rights -- Conclusion -- 3 Women's Movements and Sport -- The complex contours of studying the global women's movement -- The women and sport 'movement' -- Unresolved tensions between the global women's movement and sport -- 4 Rights Movements and Sport -- Human rights as a dominant discourse -- Making sense of rights movements and sport -- The politics of 'race' and sport: The American civil rights movement and the anti-apartheid movement -- Disability rights -- LGBT rights -- Conclusion -- 5 Sport and the Global Peace Movement -- History and features of the global peace movement -- Connecting sport to the peace movement -- Sport and peace education -- 6 Sport and the Environmental Movement -- A brief history of environmental movements -- The Olympic games, sport and environmental sustainability -- Environmental movements and sport -- Sport and corporate environmentalism -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- References -- eCopyright.