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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 the global levels.
Sport and Social Movements: From the Local to the Global is the first book-length treatment of the way social movements have intersected and continue to intersect with sport. It traces the history of various social movements associated with labour, women, peace, the environment and rights (civil, racial, disability and sexual), and their relationship to sport and sports mega-events such as the Olympic Games.
Based on research conducted by a multinational team of authors that draws on theories of social movements and new social movements, the book includes a valuable chronology of social movements, illustrations of key episodes in the development of the relationships between sport and different social movements and an agenda for future research and scholarship.
Written in a clear and comprehensive style it is suitable for all levels of higher education, researchers and the general reader who want to know more about the role that sport has played in the development of social movements and campaigns for social justice.
Jean Harvey is a Professor at the School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Canada. He is the Founding Director of the Research Centre for Sport in Canadian Society at the same university. He is the author of several books, journal articles, book chapters and editor of several special issues for different academic journals. His books include Not Just a Game: issues in Canadian Sport Sociology (University of Ottawa Press, 1988 , co-edited with Hart Cantelon) and Image-Building in Canadian Municipalities (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012, co-edited with Robert Young). His main areas of research are public sport policy and sport in the context of globalization.
John Horne is Professor of Sport and Sociology, with the School of Sport, Tourism and the Outdoors, at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.
Parissa Safai is an Associate Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science in the Faculty of Health at York University. Her research interests focus on the critical study of sport at the intersection of risk, health and healthcare. This includes research on sports' “culture of risk”, the development and social organization of sport and exercise medicine, as well as the social determinants of athletes' health. Her work has been published in such journals as the Sociology of Sport Journal, the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Sport History Review and the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin canadien?d'histoire de la médecine.
Simon Darnell is a Lecturer in Sport in the School of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University, UK. His main research focus is the social and political dimensions of sport-for-development. He also conducts research into international sport policy, with a focus on Cuba, as well as the role of sport in promoting global citizenship. He is the author of Sport for Development and Peace: A Critical Sociology (2012, Bloomsbury Academic). His work has also been published in the Sociology of Sport Journal, Development in Practice, and the Journal of Global Citizenship and Equity Education.
Sébastien Courchesne-O'Neill is a Doctoral Candidate in the School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Canada.
