Sport and Social Movements. From the Local to the Global
By: Jean Harvey, John Horne, Parissa Safai, Simon Darnell, Sebastien Courchesne-O’Neill
About Sport and Social Movements
From neighborhood coalitions organizing against the building of a sport facility for professional sports teams subsidized by public funds, to global campaigns for equity for women in sport, to worldwide bans of apartheid regimes, sites and levels of protest, resistance and activism have been present throughout the history of sport. Contentious forms of collective actions are now ever more present in various forms at the local, the national and the global levels.
Sport and Social Movements: From the Local to the Global is the first book-length treatment of the way social movements have intersected and continue to intersect with sport. It traces the history of various social movements associated with labour, women, peace, the environment and rights (civil, racial, disability and sexual), and their relationship to sport and sports mega-events such as the Olympic Games.
Based on research conducted by a multinational team of authors that draws on theories of social movements and new social movements, the book includes a valuable chronology of social movements, illustrations of key episodes in the development of the relationships between sport and different social movements and an agenda for future research and scholarship.
Written in a clear and comprehensive style it is suitable for all levels of higher education, researchers and the general reader who want to know more about the role that sport has played in the development of social movements and campaigns for social justice.
Table Of Contents
Acknowledgements
Contents page
List of Tables
Chronology
List of Acronyms
Introduction
Chapter 1 Analyzing Sport and (Global) Social Movements
Chapter 2 From Workers Sport to Alter Sport and Global Workers Rights
Chapter 3 Women’s Movements and Sport
Chapter 4 Rights Movements and Sport
Chapter 5 Sport and the Global Peace Movement
Chapter 6 Sport and the Environmental Movement
Conclusion
References
