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The Political Economy of Sport

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series

Editors: Nauright, John; Schimmel, Kimberly S.

DOI: 10.1057/9780230524057

ISBN: 978-1-349-41624-0

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Sep 29, 2015

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

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Sport and International Political Economy: An Introduction

Schimmel, Kimberly S.

Pages: 1 –15

[This collection of case studies represents an attempt to capture key aspects of the profound transformations occurring at the beginning of the twenty-first century in sport in advanced capitalist societies. As even a casual observer may recognize, the phenomenon of modern sport bears little...
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Playing an Aerial Game: The New Political Economy of Soccer

Giulianotti, Richard

Pages: 19 –37

[Association football, otherwise known as soccer, is without question the world’s most popular sport. Globally soccer is played and watched by more people than any other game. While the American professional basketball (NBA) and football/gridiron (NFL) leagues struggle to cultivate a massive...
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Recapturing Olympic Mystique: The Corporate Invasion of the Classroom

Magdalinski, Tara; Schimmel, Kimberly S.; Chandler, Timothy J. L.

Pages: 38 –54

[Since the inception of the modern Olympic Games, there has existed a philosophy of ‘Olympism’ that purports to promote the ideals and spirit of sport as represented by the Olympic Games. Among the guiding principles that underpinned the original Olympic Charter prepared by founder Baron Pierre...
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Global Struggles, Local Impacts: Rugby League, Rupert Murdoch’s ‘Global Vision’ and Cultural Identities

Falcous, Mark

Pages: 57 –84

[The profound local impacts of the reconfiguration of the global media sports economy were demonstrated by tumultuous changes within British rugby league during the 1990s. Entwined with wider configurations of the media industries, the attempted global takeover of the sport by Rupert Murdoch in...
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The Media Sport Cultural Complex: Football and Fan Resistance in Australia

Phillips, Murray G.; Hutchins, Brett; Stewart, Bob

Pages: 85 –103

[The control of spectator sports both in Australia and internationally increasingly has moved away from sports administrators and towards media executives. This shift in control can be illustrated most clearly by seeing spectator sport as part of a ‘media sport cultural complex’ (Rowe, 1999)....
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Paradoxes of Material Culture: The Political Economy of Surfing

Booth, Douglas

Pages: 104 –125

[This chapter analyses the material bases of surfing culture (including surfboards, wetsuits, clothing, accessories, magazines, books, memorabilia, videos, competitions, tourism and surfing schools),1 which is worth an estimated US$4 billion each year (Gliddon, 2002: 20). In particular, it...
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Selling Places: Hallmark Events and the Reimaging of Sydney and Toronto

Hall, C. Michael

Pages: 129 –151

[Image is a key concept of the twenty-first century. Whether one is restructuring, reimaging, deconstructing, reconstructing, promoting, advertising or just being a dedicated follower of fashion, the role of image is highly important. Sports, tourism and urban development are three areas of human...
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Public Policy, Sports Investments and Regional Development Initiatives in Japan

Manzenreiter, Wolfram; Horne, John

Pages: 152 –182

[Japan is the world’s greatest repository of wealth, its ‘high savings and under-consumption’ has supported ‘the US’s low-savings, high-debt regime’ for the past decade and more (McCormack, 2002: 5). Yet, since the beginning of the 1990s, the Japanese economy has been stuck in the doldrums. A...
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The ‘Green’ Games Sydney 2000 Played

Waitt, Gordon

Pages: 183 –207

[According to the Olympic Charter, increased understandings of cooperation, solidarity, tolerance and environmental sustainability are all social outcomes of hosting an Olympic Games. This chapter explores one of these claims, environmental sustainability, in the context of Sydney 2000’s ‘green’...
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Conclusion: The Political Economy of Sport in the Twenty-first Century

Nauright, John

Pages: 208 –214

[During the period of producing this volume there have been numerous challenges to existing sport cultures and structures as well as a multitude of sporting ‘scandals’. Examples are widespread and include sexual exploitation of women in the recruiting process and murder in American university...

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