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  • Sport, Culture and Society
    Grant Jarvie
    What can sport do to produce social change in our world today? It is impossible to fully understand contemporary society and culture without acknowledging the importance of sport. Sport is part of our social and cultural fabric, possessing a commercial power that makes it a potent force in the world, for good and for bad. It has helped to start wars and promote international re...
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    106,46 €

  • Class, Race and Sport in South Africa’s Political Economy (RLE Sports Studies)
    Grant Jarvie
    In recent years the interest in the patterns and policies of South African sport has grown. This book examines the increasingly complex issue of race, class and sport in the context of South African social relations. The author disputes evaluations made purely on the question of race, maintaining that it is important to examine the complex interaction between racial and class d...
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    133,37 €

  • Sport, Revolution and the Beijing Olympics
    Dong-Jhy Hwang / Grant Jarvie
    The 2008 Olympic Games will be held in Beijing but many human rights activists support a boycott. They liken the circumstances to previous governments that used the games to glorify their regimes - most notoriously the Nazis in 1936. What has led to this perception and is it fair? Sport, Revolution and the Beijing Olympics is a cultural history of sport in China and challenges ...
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    67,09 €

  • Sport, Revolution and the Beijing Olympics
    Dong-Jhy Hwang / Grant Jarvie / Mel Brennan
    The 2008 Olympic Games will be held in Beijing but many human rights activists support a boycott. They liken the circumstances to previous governments that used the games to glorify their regimes - most notoriously the Nazis in 1936. What has led to this perception and is it fair? Sport, Revolution and the Beijing Olympics is a cultural history of sport in China and challenges ...
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    206,90 €

  • Encyclopedia of British Sport
    Grant Jarvie / Richard William Cox / Wray Vamplew
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    120,56 €

  • Sport in the Making of Celtic Culture
    Grant Jarvie
    This text explores the place, meaning and content of Celtic sport: the place, passion and meaning of rugby in Wales; shinty in Scotland; and football in Brittany. It provides for an explanation of the links betweenn civic and ethnic nationalism in Irish sport, the role of the Gaelic Athletic Association in both Ireland and Scotland, and a critical evaluation of the part played ...
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    285,13 €

  • Sport and Leisure in Social Thought
    Grant Jarvie / Joseph Maguire
    This book examines all of the major traditions of social thought to clearly show their influence in our understanding of sport and leisure. Also shows how sport has contributed to our understanding of such themes as globalization and nationalism. ...
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    355,97 €

  • Sport, Racism And Ethnicity
    Grant Jarvie
    First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. ...
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    92,48 €