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  • Football and Community in the Global Context

    Studies in Theory and Practice

    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    Football clubs across the world continue to embody many of the collective symbols, identifications and processes of connectivity which have long been associated with the notion of ‘community’. In recent years, however, the very term ‘community’ has become the focus of renewed interest within popular discourse and amongst academics, politicians and policy makers. It has become something of a ‘buzz’ ... Read more

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  • New Perspectives on Sport and 'Deviance'

    Consumption, Peformativity and Social Control

    The everyday makeup of contemporary sport is increasingly characterised by a perceived explosion of 'deviance' - violence, drug taking, racism, homophobia, misogyny, corruption and excess. Whereas once these behaviours may have been subject to the moral judgments of authority, in the face of dramatic socio-cultural change they become more a matter of populist consumer gaze.In addressing these ... Read more

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    Sport in the Service of Religion

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    Ways of Imagining the World

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