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Giving the game away: football, politics and culture on five continents
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ISBN: 071851887X Year: 1995 Publisher: London Leicester University Press

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Cricket and national identity in the postcolonial age
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ISBN: 1134227191 1280314842 9786610314843 020301460X 9780203014608 9780415363488 0415363489 0415363489 0415484898 9780415484893 6610314845 9781134227143 9781134227181 9781134227198 1134227183 Year: 2005 Publisher: London Routledge

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Bringing together leading international writers on cricket and society, this important new book places cricket in the postcolonial life of the major Test-playing countries. Exploring the culture, politics, governance and economics of cricket in the twenty-first century, this book dispels the age-old idea of a gentle game played on England's village greens. This is an original political and historical study of the game's development in a range of countries and covers:* cricket in the new Commonwealth: Sri Lanka, Pakistan, the Caribbean and India* the cricket cultures of Aus

British football and social exclusion
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ISBN: 1135763933 1280225122 0203495314 9786610225125 9780203495315 9780714682044 0714682047 0714682047 0714652172 9781135763930 9781280225123 6610225125 9781135763886 9781135763923 9780714652177 1135763925 Year: 2004 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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This book takes stock of British football at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is written by a range of concerned academics and writers, all of whom have an active relationship with the contemporary football world. The book assesses the changes that have occurred in many areas of football culture and the political and academic debates that have accompanied these changes.English football in particular, it seems, is 'fat city'. The Premiership, now eight years old, has, via satellite television, become a globalised phenomenon: there are Liverpool supporters in Bangladesh,


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The football world : a contemporary social history
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ISBN: 0710806205 Year: 1984 Publisher: Brighton Harvester press

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Soccer --- Soccer --- Social aspects --- History


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Key concepts in sports studies
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ISBN: 1446269078 1282956353 9786612956355 1446202259 Year: 2009 Publisher: Los Angeles : SAGE,

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Clear, well researched entries explain the key concepts in the debates surrounding the social significance and social dynamics of sport.

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Sports --- Social aspects.

Giving the game away : football, politics and culture on five continents
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ISBN: 071851677X Year: 1995 Publisher: London Leicester university press

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Thatcher's children?: politics, childhood and society in the 1980s and 1990s
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ISBN: 0750704624 Year: 1996 Publisher: London Routledge

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Sport, Protest and Globalisation : Stopping Play
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ISBN: 1137464917 1137464925 Year: 2016 Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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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. The book contains studies of a range of protests, stretching back to the death of suffragist Emily Davison at the Derby of 1913 and encompassing subsequent protests against the exclusion of women from the sporting arena; the Berlin Olympics of 1936; Western imperialism; the Mexico Olympics, 1968; the state racism of apartheid in South Africa; the effect of the global golf industry on ecosystems; Israeli government policy; resistance to the various attempts to bring the Olympic Games  to Canadian and American cities; the cutting of welfare benefits for disabled British citizens; class privilege in the UK; Russian anti-gay laws; and high public spending on sport mega-events in Brazil. The collection will be of interest to scholars and students with an interest in Sports Studies, History, Politics, Geography, Cultural Studies and Sociology.

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