Sport and Social Movements: From the Local to the Global

by Sebastien Courchesne-O'Neill, Parissa Safai, Jean Harvey, et al.

Book Overview

From neighborhood coalitions organizing against the building of a sport facility for professional sports teams subsidized by public funds, to global campaigns for equity for women in sport, to worldwide bans of apartheid regimes, sites and levels of protest, resistance and activism have been present throughout the history of sport. Contentious forms of collective actions are now ever more present in various forms at the local, the national and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474238289
• ISBN13: 9781474238281
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"