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  • Reimagining Global Philanthropy

    The Community Bank Model of Social Development

    by Kirk Bowman, Jon Wilcox ...
    Well-meaning Westerners want to find ways to help the less fortunate. Today, many are not just volunteering abroad and donating to international nonprofits but also advancing innovations and launching projects that aim to be socially transformative. However, often these activities are not efficient ways of helping others, and too many projects cause more harm than good.Reimagining Global ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Global Pitch

    Why Soccer Matters in a Changing World

    by Professor Kirk Bowman, Dr. Felipe Arocena, Dr. Alberto Fuentes ...
    Why does a simple game inspire such passion across continents, shape national identities and illuminate some of society's most enduring questions? Drawing on examples from around the world, this engaging study uses football as a lens through which to examine politics, economics, sociology, culture and international relations. From inequality and migration to democracy, gender, nationalism and ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • Lessons from Latin America

    Innovations in Politics, Culture, and Development

    by Kirk Bowman, Felipe Arocena ...
    Since the early 1980s, Latin American countries have been innovative in a range of policy and cultural experiences, including health care, voting, pensions, and multiculturalism. And yet, their policy innovations are rarely found in textbooks. This book addresses that gap, providing a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of both the history of "looking down" at Latin America and the political, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Soccer, Globalization, and Innovation

    The Beautiful Game in the 21st Century

    Edited by Kirk Bowman, John B. Boyd ...
    Series series Critical Research in Football
    This is the first book to focus on innovation as a response to globalization in soccer in the context of the global development of the world’s most popular sport.Concentrating on social innovation and on innovations in governance and organization in soccer’s traditional heartlands and also at its global periphery, the book explores some of the most important contemporary themes in the social ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Borders and Border Politics in a Globalizing World

    by Malcolm Anderson, Frederick Baker, Richard W. Butler, Cheng Dalin, Norris Clement, Timothy J. Dallen, Daniel J. Dzurek, Catherine Elton, Brian Erskine, David Fitzgerald, Thomas L. Friedman0, Paul Ganster1, John Gay3, Roger Gibbins4, Pascal O.Girot5, J D. Hargreaves6, Michael Ignatieff7, Pirjo Jukarainen8, Robert Mattes9, David A. McDonald0, Anssi Paasi1, Alan Sweedler2, Fion de Vletter3, John J. Wilkes4, Lovemore Zinyama5, Professor Kirk Bowman7 ...
    Series series The World Beat Series
    Borders represent an intriguing paradox as globalization continues to leap barriers at a vigorous pace, merging economies and cultures through world trade, economic integration, the mass media, the Internet, and increasingly mobile populations. At the same time, the political boundaries separating peoples remain pervasive and problematic. Borders and Border Politics in a Globalizing World offers a ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Soccer vs. the State

    Tackling Football and Radical Politics

    by Gabriel Kuhn ...
    Soccer has turned into a multi-billion-dollar industry. Professionalism and commercialization dominate its global image. Yet the game retains a rebellious side, maybe more so than any other sport co-opted by moneymakers and corrupt politicians. From its roots in working-class England to political protests by players and fans, and a current radical soccer underground, the notion of football as the ... Read more

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  • The Olympics: The Basics

    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

  • The Geopolitical Economy of Sport

    Power, Politics, Money, and the State

    Edited by Simon Chadwick, Paul Widdop, Michael M. Goldman ...
    This is the first book to define and explore the geopolitical economy of sport – the intersection of power, politics, money, and state interests that both exploit and shape elite sport around the world.Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the global response, and the consequent ramifications for sport have put the geopolitical economy of sport front and centre in both public debate and academic thinking. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Globalization and Football

    by Richard Giulianotti, Roland Robertson ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    This timely book provides an engaging, clear view of the interrelationships within key globalization processes and the international sport of football.Intelligently combining the conceptual and methodological aspects of global studies with the specific cultural conditions of the ′beautiful game′ Giulianotti and Robertson illuminate its social history and diffusion, as well as wider cultural, ... Read more

    $92.99 USD

  • Continental Perspectives on the Geopolitical Economy of Football

    Edited by Simon Chadwick, Paul Widdop, Michael M. Goldman ...
    This book explores continental perspectives on football's new geopolitical economy, examining how sport, politics, and the global economy have emerged in different parts of the world.Against a backdrop of international conflict and the rise of powerful new state actors in world sport, the book delves into countries and cases that explore how football investments and events have become instruments ... Read more

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  • Mega-event Cities: Urban Legacies of Global Sports Events

    by Valerie Viehoff, Gavin Poynter ...
    Mega-events represent an important moment in the life of a city, providing a useful lens through which we may analyse their cultural, social, political and economic development. In the wake of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC’s) concerns about ’gigantism’ and wider public concerns about rising costs, it was imperative in the C21st to demonstrate the long term benefits that arose for the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • What Is FIFA For?

    by Alan Tomlinson ...
    Series series What Is It For?
    A wide-ranging look at football’s powerful but controversial governing body.Football is the world’s most popular sport and truly a global phenomenon. As a result, it attracts huge sums of money from its advertisers, sponsors and broadcasters, much of which flows to FIFA, the sport’s international governing body. So, given its decidedly chequered history, the question of what FIFA is for is crucial ... Read more

    $13.99 USD