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  • Sport and the Irish

    Histories, Identities, Issues

    Edited by Alan Bairner ...
    Consides the relationship between sport, national identities and gender in a contemporary Irish context. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Indigenous, Traditional, and Folk Sports

    Contesting Modernities

    Edited by Mariann Vaczi, Alan Bairner ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    This is the first book to focus on indigenous, traditional, and folk sports and sporting cultures. It examines the significance of sporting cultures that have survived the emergence and diffusion of western sports and have carved out a unique position not only in spite of modernity but also in response to it.Presenting case studies from around the world, including from Europe, Asia, Africa, and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Sport and Secessionism

    Edited by Mariann Vaczi, Alan Bairner ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    Sport and Secessionism examines how sporting cultures reflect, inform and sometimes frustrate secessionist movements around the world. Investigating a wide range of cases, the book explores key themes including nationalism, nation building, state-region antagonisms, independence movements, identity and ethnic politics, sovereignty and autonomy processes, all through the lens of sport.Sports are ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Sport and Body Cultures in East and Southeast Asia

    Edited by Friederike Trotier, Alan Bairner ...
    Despite a widely held, and not entirely erroneous, view that the cultures of East and Southeast Asia commonly favour the mind over the body or, at least mental activity rather than physical endeavour, this collection of essays sheds light on the wide range of diverse ways in which sport and body cultures feature in that part of the world. Contributors to the collection work in many different ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics

    Edited by Alan Bairner, John Kelly, Jung Woo Lee ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Sport is frequently considered to be an aspect of popular culture that is, or should be, untainted by the political. However, there is a broad consensus among academics that sport is often at the heart of the political and the political is often central to sport. From the 1936 Olympic Games in Nazi Germany to the civil unrest that preceded the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, sport and politics have ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Politics of the Olympics

    A Survey

    Edited by Alan Bairner, Gyozo Molnar ...
    Series series Europa Politics of ... series
    With the ever increasing global significance of the Olympic Games, it has never been more topical to address the political issues that surround, influence and emanate from this quadrennial sporting mega event. In terms of the most recent evidence of the politics of the Olympics, the 2008 Beijing Games were riddled with political messages and content from the outset, and provided a global stage for ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Sport in Taiwan

    History, Culture, Policy

    Edited by Alan Bairner, Tzu-hsuan Chen, Ying Chiang ...
    Series Book 2 - Sport in East and Southeast Asian Societies
    This is the first comprehensive study of sport in Taiwan to be published in English. It appears at a time when Taiwan has the attention of the global community to the greatest extent since the years following the creation of the People’s Republic of China and the formation by the Chinese Nationalist Party of an alternative seat of government for the Republic of China in Taiwan’s capital, Taipei. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • Softpower, Soccer, Supremacy

    The Chinese Dream

    Edited by J.A. Mangan, Peter Horton, Christian Tagsold ...
    Series Book 1 - Sport in East and Southeast Asian Societies
    Xi Jinping’s "Soccer Revolution" is unique: the most extensive politicization and geo-politicization of the Global Game. His purpose is to extend the global softpower projection of "the Middle Kingdom": an ancient Western imperial mantra ("bread and circuses") has been replaced by a modern Eastern "imperial" mantra ("rice and pitches"). The Asian Football Federation shares this "allopathic" vision ... Read more

    $117.39 USD

  • Documenting the Beijing Olympics

    Edited by D.P. Martinez, Kevin Latham ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    This book focuses on the processes of documenting the Beijing Olympics – ranging from the visual (television and film) to radio and the written word – and the meanings generated by such representations. What were the ‘key’ stories and how were they chosen? What was dramatised? Who were the heroes? Which ‘clashes’ were highlighted and how? What sorts of stories did the notion of ‘human interest’ ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Nineteenth-Century Britain

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Colin Matthew, Christopher Harvie ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half Celtic. By 1914, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Pop Culture

    The Culture of Everyday Life

    by Shirley Fedorak ...
    While usually associated with facets of commercial culture, pop culture can and must be analyzed as an important part of material, economic, and political culture. The author begins by defining popular culture, outlining criticisms, and examining the impact of globalization on pop culture. She then explores mass media and popular culture (soap operas, Egyptian melodramas, Afro-Cuban rap music, and ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • George Yeo On Bonsai, Banyan And The Tao

    by Asad-ul Iqbal Latif, Huay Leng Lee ...
    Since his undergraduate days in Cambridge, George Yeo has spoken and written much in and out of government. Many remember the things which he said or wrote years ago. This book is a compilation of some of his best speeches and writings which were selected by Asad Latif and Lee Huay Leng in consultation with him.The book has a rather unusual title because there are many aspects to George Yeo which ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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