New Sport Management Reader (Paperback)

John Nauright

ISBN 10: 1935412019 / ISBN 13: 9781935412014

Published by Fitness Information Technology, Inc, U.S., Morgantown, WV, 2009

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Paperback. This book provides students and scholars with a selection of the state-of-the-art research and new conceptual thinking in the field of sport management by a diverse and prominent group of researchers. It is the first anthology to situate sport management within the broader frameworks of sport sociology and cultural studies, a process already begun in general business studies. The chapters that comprise this collection are divided into three sections: Part I challenges sport management students and scholars to engage with epistemologies and methodologies associated with critical theory to better contextualise their thinking and research. Part II features critically informed research focused within three key topical areas of sport management: marketing and sponsorship, consumption, and governance and policy development. Thirteen case studies provide wide-ranging examples of research on the global sports industry through which students, professors, and professionals alike can form cross-cultural analyses. Part III presents work on emerging themes such as economic development, human rights, media culture, and sports tourism. Conceived and developed as a clarion call for a more critical, reflexive approach to sport management education and practice, this book is designed to spark debate, discussion, and reflection and to better inform research questions and professional practice in the future. The book is essential reading for all students, scholars, and professionals interested in achieving a better understanding of the globalised nature of the sports industry and to improving future practice and research. Provides students and scholars with a selection of research and conceptual thinking in the field of sport management. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: New Sport Management Reader (Paperback)
• Publisher: Fitness Information Technology, Inc, U.S., Morgantown, WV
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1935412019
• ISBN 13: 9781935412014
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

The New Sport Management Reader provides readers with a selection of the state-of-the-art research and new conceptual thinking in the field of sport management by a diverse and prominent group of researchers. It is the first anthology to situate sport management within the broader frameworks of sport sociology and cultural studies, a process already begun in general business studies. Sport, like other phenomena we find in social life, is subject to the inequalities of race, gender, economics, and politics. Each of the chapters in this book rejects the purity and neutrality of sport; as such they add to our understanding of sport and the organizations that deliver it. . . . If we use the ideas of critical theory and expand the geographic scope of our research, we will be able to improve an expanding and rapidly growing area of study. -from the Foreword by Trevor Slack, associate professor, University of Alberta

About the Author

John Nauright is a professor of sport management and the director of the Academy of International Sport at George Mason University in Virginia. He is also visiting professor of sports studies at Aarhus University in Denmark. He received his Ph.D. from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of South Carolina. He is author and editor of numerous books in sport management and sport studies including The Political Economy of Sport; Making the Rugby World: Race, Gender, Commerce; Sport, Cultures and Identities in South Africa; and Global Sport Management (FiT, 2010). He has taught in Australia, Canada, Denmark, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

Steven Pope is the director of the International Center for Performance Excellence at West Virginia University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Maine and his B.A. and M.A. at Hope College and the University of Connecticut. He is author of Patriotic Games: Sporting Traditions in the American Imagination, 1876-1926; editor of The New American Sport History: Recent Approaches and Perspectives; and co-editor (with John Nauright) of The Routledge Companion to Sports History. He was a Leverhulme Research Fellow at De Montfort University (United Kingdom) in 2003 and served as program leader of American Studies at the University of Lincoln (United Kingdom) between 2004 and 2008.