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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “sven d wolfe”
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  • Winters of Discontent

    The Winter Olympics and a Half Century of Protest and Resistance

    by Russell Field, Adam Berg, Christine O’Bonsawin, Jules Boykoff, Sven D. Wolfe, Liv Yoon, Jan O. Tangen, Bieke Gils, Keiko Ikeda0, Tyrel Eskelson1 ...
    Series series Sport and Society
    Every four years, the Winter Olympics become a focal point for activism and resistance. But in the modern era, mere bids to host the Games have sparked fierce opposition from groups motivated by local or global concerns. Russell Field edits a collection that charts the evolution of protest around the Winter Games and illuminates the issues at the heart of anti-Olympic activism.The essays ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Hard Edge of Soft Power

    Mega-Events, Geopolitics, and Making Nations Great Again

    Edited by Sven Daniel Wolfe ...
    Series series Mega Event Planning
    This open access book explores the linkages between geopolitics and hosting mega-events. It encompasses and transcends the international and domestic dimensions of soft power to unpack how mega-events shape cities and societies through notions of unity and greatness, but also investigates local developments beneath the Potemkin surface of the global spectacle. Drawing on a global range of case ... Read more

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  • The Human City

    Urbanism for the Rest of Us

    by Joel Kotkin ...
    The author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism and The New Class Conflict challenges conventions of urban planning.Around the globe, most new urban development has adhered to similar tenets: tall structures, small units, and high density. In The Human City, Joel Kotkin―called "America's uber-geographer" by David Brooks of the New York Times―questions these nearly ubiquitous practices, suggesting that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dictating the Agenda

    The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics

    by Alexander Cooley, Alexander Dukalskis ...
    This is a story not just of the limits of liberal influence across the world, but of how authoritarian governments came to dictate the global agenda by repurposing the very actors, tools, and norms that once afforded US-backed liberalism such global prominence. Following the end of the Cold War, the world experienced a remarkable wave of democratization. Over the next two decades, numerous ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Cities and Economies

    by Yeong-Hyun Kim, John Rennie Short ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    Cities and Economies explores the complex and subtle connections between cities and economies. The rise of the merchant city, the development of the industrial city and the creation of the service-dominated urban economy are all explored, along with economic globalization and its effects on cities in both developed and developing economies. This book provides a thorough examination of the role of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Geopolitical Economy of Sport

    Power, Politics, Money, and the State

    Edited by Simon Chadwick, Paul Widdop, Michael M. Goldman ...
    This is the first book to define and explore the geopolitical economy of sport – the intersection of power, politics, money, and state interests that both exploit and shape elite sport around the world.Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the global response, and the consequent ramifications for sport have put the geopolitical economy of sport front and centre in both public debate and academic thinking. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Globalization and Football

    by Richard Giulianotti, Roland Robertson ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    This timely book provides an engaging, clear view of the interrelationships within key globalization processes and the international sport of football.Intelligently combining the conceptual and methodological aspects of global studies with the specific cultural conditions of the ′beautiful game′ Giulianotti and Robertson illuminate its social history and diffusion, as well as wider cultural, ... Read more

    $92.69 USD

  • Mega-events and social change

    Spectacle, legacy and public culture

    by Maurice Roche ...
    The spectacle of major cultural and sporting events can preoccupy modern societies. This book is concerned with contemporary mega-events, like the Olympics and Expos. Using a sociological perspective Roche argues that mega-events reflect the major social changes which now influence our societies, particularly in the West, and that these amount to a new ‘second phase’ of the modernization process. ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • The Neutrality Paradox in Sport

    Governance, Politics and Human Rights after Ukraine

    by Hans Erik Næss ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, sanctions were implemented that banned Russia from most international sports. As a result, sport governing bodies (SGBs) have made a marked shift in their tradition of neutrality, to a point of no return. In light of this, this book asks what is next for SGBs. It provides an analysis of the root problem that sport governing bodies have had with ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Global Metropolitan

    Globalizing Cities in a Capitalist World

    by John Rennie-Short ...
    Series series Questioning Cities
    Exploring the connections between globalization and urbanization, this notable book places particular emphasis on understanding the economic function of global cities, the political process of globalizing cities, and the cultural significance of cosmopolitan cities.The book explores the meaning of the globalizing project in cities:the maintaining, securing and increasing of urban economic ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Sport and Foreign Policy in a Globalizing World

    Edited by Steven J. Jackson, Steven Haigh ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    Globalization is effecting a close convergence of sport and foreign policy. In order to respond to novel social, political, cultural and economic pressures, states are increasingly turning to sport as a foreign policy instrument; and they cannot ignore the corresponding influence that global sport has on their core interests. This book is devoted to exploring this relationship in detail. Although ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Forty Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008

    To Remember is to Resist

    Edited by Russell Field, Bruce Kidd ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    1968 was a year of protest in civil society (Prague, Paris, Chicago) and a year of protest in sport. After a world-wide campaign, the anti-apartheid movement succeeded in barring South Africa from the Olympic Games, while US athletes from the Olympic Project for Human Rights used the medals podium to decry the racism of North America. Meanwhile, students in Mexico demonstrated against social ... Read more

    $70.99 USD