University of Kabianga

Social and cultural diversity in a sporting world /

Social and cultural diversity in a sporting world / edited by Chris Hallinan, Steven Jackson. - 1st ed. - Bingley, UK : Emerald, 2008. - viii, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Research in the sociology of sport, v. 5 1476-2854 ; . - Research in the sociology of sport ; v. 5. .

Includes bibliographical references.

The difference within : diversity as a key conceptual framework / A game of two halves : understanding wport-based social inclusion / African footballers in Europe / Religion and athletic bodies : western representations of Islamic veils and Muslim athletes / Equality issues within partially sighted football in England / The sum of all fears : reconciling sport and sexuality / Japanese educational sport and the reproduction of identity / An open letter from rugby boys in no-voice-land : reflections on rugby and race by South Africa's 2007 schoolboy players / Shalosh, Shtayim, Echad, Maccabi : Jewish junior girls basketball / Pacific (White) multiculturalism : rugby, Pacific peoples, and the egalitarian myth in New Zealand / Games of self-respect : a colony at the Olympics / Exercise prescription and the clinical governance of Social and ethnic bodies / Cross-cultural dimensions of sporting goods consumption / Chris Hallinan and Steven Jackson -- Tim Crabbe -- Bente Ovedie Skogvang -- Brendon Tagg -- Jessica Macbeth -- Roger LeBlanc -- Brent McDonald and Hiroshi Komuku -- Cora Burnett -- Michael Burke and Chris Hallinan -- Andrew Grainger -- Boria Majumdar and Nalin Metha -- Lone Friis Thing -- Fabien Ohl and Marijke Taks.

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Sports--Sociological aspects.
Multiculturalism.

GV706.5 / .S636 2008

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