ISBN:
9780203106020
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9780415629645
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (223 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge research in sport, culture and society 16
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Sports Governance, Development and Corporate Responsibility
DDC:
306.483
Keywords:
SPORTS & RECREATION / Business Aspects
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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 and play, and the power position of global sport organizations with corporate features is discussed from the perspectives of good governance, legal issues and fair trade. Referring to Foucault's conce
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Sports Governance,development and Corporate Responsibility; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; Part I. Building Communities and Social Responsibility Rising Stakes on Sport's Social Role; 1. Sport and Peace Making-Initial Promises, Social Scientific; 2. In Africa for Fifa & Sons; 3. Constructing Peace and Fostering Social Integration: Sport and Play in Azerbaijan; 4. Sport Plus and Socially Vulnerable Youth-Opening the Black Box; 5. 'We Are a Very, Very Homogenous Group'-Ppromoting and Managing Social Diversity in Sports?
Description / Table of Contents:
6. Discourses on Integration and Interaction in a Martial Arts Club7. What Is the Development in Sport-for-development?; Part II. Sports Corporations at Play Doing Business in Sports-Who's Added Value?; 8. Sports Governance Between the Obsession with Rules and Regulation and the Aversion to Being Ruled and Regulated; 9. The Magicians of Sport-How the Greatest Corruption Scandal in the World of Sport Vanished Before We Knew It Existed; 10. A Governance Perspective on Sport Mega-Events the 2010 Football World Cup in South Africa as a Lubricant in Domestic and International Affairs?
Description / Table of Contents:
11. Popular Deception by Ioc and Fifa12. Football Academies and Player Migration in Developing Countries; 13. Rules of Law in the Business of Sport; Contributors; Name Index; Subject Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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