Social and cultural diversity in a sporting world
By: edited by Chris Hallinan, Steven Jackson
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Research in the sociology of sport -- v. 5; Research in the sociology of sport -- v. 5.
Publisher: Emerald
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bingley, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780762314560
Subjects: Sociological aspects; Multiculturalism; Sports
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The difference within : diversity as a key conceptual framework  -- Chris Hallinan and Steven Jackson; title: A game of two halves : understanding wport-based social inclusion  -- Tim Crabbe; title: African footballers in Europe  -- Bente Ovedie Skogvang; title: Religion and athletic bodies : western representations of Islamic veils and Muslim athletes  -- Brendon Tagg; title: Equality issues within partially sighted football in England  -- Jessica Macbeth; title: The sum of all fears : reconciling sport and sexuality  -- Roger LeBlanc; title: Japanese educational sport and the reproduction of identity  -- Brent McDonald and Hiroshi Komuku; title: An open letter from rugby boys in no-voice-land : reflections on rugby and race by South Africa's 2007 schoolboy players  -- Cora Burnett; title: Shalosh, Shtayim, Echad, Maccabi : Jewish junior girls basketball  -- Michael Burke and Chris Hallinan; title: Pacific (White) multiculturalism : rugby, Pacific peoples, and the egalitarian myth in New Zealand  -- Andrew Grainger; title: Games of self-respect : a colony at the Olympics  -- Boria Majumdar and Nalin Metha; title: Exercise prescription and the clinical governance of Social and ethnic bodies  -- Lone Friis Thing; title: Cross-cultural dimensions of sporting goods consumption -- Fabien Ohl and Marijke Taks.