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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “verity postlethwaite”
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  • Handbook of Sport and Japan

    Edited by Helen Macnaughtan, Verity Postlethwaite ...
    Series series Handbooks on Japanese Studies
    The Handbook of Sport and Japan presents a fascinating collection of established and new scholarship, a valuable text for readers who want to use sport as lens to look more closely into a nation. The handbook draws on a diversity of perspectives, disciplines and experiences all of which respond to the challenge of including sport in the study of Japan. The chapters in the handbook convey what ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Critical Perspectives on the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup

    Events, Issues, and Controversies

    Edited by Adam Beissel, Julie E. Brice, Verity Postlethwaite, Andrew Grainger ...
    Series series Women, Sport and Physical Activity
    This book offers an in- depth examination of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup (2023 FWWC) hosted in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. The 2023 FWWC was a landmark event in the history of women’s sport, in terms of audience, revenue, spectacle, and global reach, and has assumed wider significance beyond sport as a result of the controversial events immediately after the final game.Featuring the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup

    Politics, Representation, and Management

    Edited by Adam Beissel, Verity Postlethwaite, Andrew Grainger, Julie E. Brice ...
    Series series Women, Sport and Physical Activity
    This book offers a critical examination of the 2023 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Women’s World Cup, being held in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Drawing on perspectives from sociology, history, political science, and management, it sheds new light on the development of women’s soccer and on women’s sport more broadly.This book examines the politics of the build-up ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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    by Andy Miah, Beatriz Garcia ...
    Series series The Basics
    The Olympics: The Basics is an accessible, contemporary introduction to the Olympic movement and Games. Chapters explain how the Olympics transcend sports, engaging us with a range of contemporary philosophical, social, cultural and political matters, including:peace development and diplomacymanagement and economicscorruption, terror and activismthe rise of human enhancementethics and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Sport and Corporate Social Responsibility

    Edited by Juan Luis Paramio Salcines, Kathy Babiak, Geoff Walters ...
    Series series Foundations of Sport Management
    As the role of sport in society becomes ever more prominent and as sports organisations become increasingly influential members of the global community, so it has become more important than ever for sport to consider its wider social responsibilities.The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Corporate Social Responsibility is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of theories and concepts of CSR ... Read more

    $95.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Sport Policy

    Edited by Ian Henry, Ling-Mei Ko ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    It is difficult to fully understand the role that sport plays in contemporary global society without understanding how and why governments, NGOs and other organizations formulate and implement policy relating to sport. The Routledge Handbook of Sport Policy is the only book to offer a comprehensive overview of current perspectives, techniques and approaches to the analysis of sport policy around ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Sport Fans and Fandom

    Edited by Danielle Sarver Coombs, Anne C. Osborne ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This is the first book to explore the full significance of sport fans and fandom from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, across different sports, communities and levels of engagement. It gives a comprehensive overview of the undeniable economic and cultural influence of sport industries for which fans are the driving force.The book examines different theoretical and methodological ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Sport Governance

    International Case Studies

    Edited by Ian O'Boyle, Trish Bradbury ...
    Series series Foundations of Sport Management
    Governance has become a hugely important issue within sport. Issues of corruption and ‘bad governance’ have become synonymous with some aspects of sport and closer scrutiny than ever before is being applied to ensure organisations are following international best practice in respect to how they are governed. As sport organisations are required to become more professional and to adopt a more ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Sports Governance, Development and Corporate Responsibility

    Edited by Barbara Segaert, Marc Theeboom, Christiane Timmerman, Bart Vanreusel ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    The call for sport organizations and organizers to take up social responsibilities is reflected in a wide variety of sport-related practices. This book critically examines sport-related social interventions in different cultural settings, such as promoting local community-building by sport. Social constructions of peace, integration and managing diversity are studied from the perspective of sport ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Sport Policy in Canada

    Edited by Lucie Thibault, Jean Harvey ...
    Series series Droit, technologie et médias | Law, Technology and Media
    Sport Policy in Canada provides the first and most comprehensive analysis of the new Canadian Sport Policy adopted in 2012. In light of this new policy, the authors, top scholars in the field, provide detailed accounts of the most salient sport policies and programs, while also discussing issues and challenges facing policy makers. In Canada and around the world, the last decades have known a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Managing Sport

    Social and Cultural Perspectives

    Edited by David Hassan, Jim Lusted ...
    Series series Foundations of Sport Management
    Contemporary sport is shaped by wider society. Today those managing sport must be aware of the broader social and cultural context within which it exists if their effectiveness is to be established and their careers defined. This book is the first of its kind to contextualise the wider social and cultural environment of sport management and explain the key issues and practical implications of this ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Quest for Social Justice in Sport

    by Helen Jefferson Lenskyj ...
    Series series Emerald Studies in Sport and Gender
    Although social justice initiatives in education and the workplace have decades-long histories, sport has been slow to follow. In the areas of sport policies, sport practices and sport scholarship, liberal/reform approaches dominate, while the structural roots of injustice - racism, colonialism, misogyny, disablism, homophobia and transphobia - remain largely unchanged.Use and misuse of sport ... Read more

    $49.19 USD