This book examines the life and career of Michael Jordan, one of the greatest athletes in the history of sports, asking how he transcended his sport to become a canonical myth in popular culture.
This book examines the life and career of Michael Jordan, one of the greatest athletes in the history of sports, asking how he transcended his sport to become a canonical myth in popular culture.
This volume is built around three assumptions - first, that for huge numbers people around the world, including many sport lovers, there are more important things in life than sport; second, that the governance of sport is in many ways problematic and needs to be confronted; and, third, that contrary to the still-popular belief that sport and politics don't mix, sport often provides an ideal theatre for the enacting of political protest.
Young, white men have dominated action sports for many years, yet women have refused to accept positions on the margins of these unique sporting cultures.
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), exploring the role of gender, race, and sexuality in the continuing growth of the league.
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), exploring the role of gender, race, and sexuality in the continuing growth of the league.
In diesem Buch wird untersucht, wie die jüngere Fußballliteratur die entscheidenden politischen Entwicklungen im englischen Fußball nach der Veröffentlichung des "Taylor-Reports" 1989/90 verhandelt hat.
In diesem Buch wird untersucht, wie die jüngere Fußballliteratur die entscheidenden politischen Entwicklungen im englischen Fußball nach der Veröffentlichung des "Taylor-Reports" 1989/90 verhandelt hat.
In an era of buyouts by consortia and sovereign wealth funds, the relationship between football clubs and their fan communities has never been under such strain.
In an era of buyouts by consortia and sovereign wealth funds, the relationship between football clubs and their fan communities has never been under such strain.
Actiongeladenes Fußballbuch mit viel HerzDer 11-jährige Matti hat beim Fußballcamp wie ein Gladiator gekämpft, um in die erste Mannschaft aufgenommen zu werden – und wird am Ende mit den Worten aussortiert: »Für dich hat es leider nicht gereicht.
'Athletes first' is a slogan the International Olympic Committee often touts, but the reality is very different, as pre-eminent Olympics expert Jules Boykoff shows in this book.
'Athletes first' is a slogan the International Olympic Committee often touts, but the reality is very different, as pre-eminent Olympics expert Jules Boykoff shows in this book.
This book takes a close look at the experiences of migrant athletes, their precarious careers, and at what this can tell us about wider themes of globalisation, identity, race, gender, and the body.
This book examines the experiences of amateur players in women's football, challenging conventional discourses that centre male, masculine, and heterosexual identities and offering a new narrative that re-positions women's voices.
This book examines the experiences of amateur players in women's football, challenging conventional discourses that centre male, masculine, and heterosexual identities and offering a new narrative that re-positions women's voices.
This book takes a close look at the experiences of migrant athletes, their precarious careers, and at what this can tell us about wider themes of globalisation, identity, race, gender, and the body.
Im Kontext des koedukativen Sportunterrichts werden dem Kämpfen, Ringen und Raufen vielfältige Wirkweisen zum Abbau von Geschlechterstereotypen zugeschrieben.
Global and authoritative, this textbook maps modern, live experience media, the categories that thrive on real-time engagement and human connection - even in the age of synthetic content, AI and the Metaverse.
Filled with quizzes, stats and little known facts, plus illustrated and told with all the fun of a Tom Gates novel, the Football Superstars series is perfect for young readers five and up.
This is the first book to explore the meaning and significance of leisure in Chinese society, as well as the relationship between leisure and work that reveals so much about a society's cultural values.
