Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: tomlinson alan

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  • FOOTBALL, CORRUPTION AND LIES
    JOHN SUGDEN / ALAN TOMLINSON
    World football is in crisis. The corruption scandal engulfing FIFA is arguably the biggest story in the history of modern sport and a watershed for sport governance. More than a decade ago, John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson laid the foundations for subsequent investigations with the publication of Badfellas, a groundbreaking work of critical sport sociology that exposed the system...

    $1,160.00

  • THE OLYMPIC LEGACY
    ALAN TOMLINSON
    This comprehensive collection provides an overview of social scientific perspectives on Olympic legacy, using specialist analyses and selected cases to illuminate the recurring anthropological, political, and sociological dimensions of the legacy debate. Drawing upon research conducted on the Beijing, Vancouver, Athens, London and Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, it identifies the...

    $1,420.00

  • SPORT AND PEACE-BUILDING IN DIVIDED SOCIETIES
    JOHN SUGDEN / ALAN TOMLINSON
    Sport is a cultural institution that stands at the interface between political and civil society. In divided communities, sport has been an agent of separation, sectarian hatred and violence, but also a highly effective tool for conflict resolution, reconciliation and peace-building. In this important study, John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson draw on their extensive international e...

    $1,260.00

  • UNDERSTANDING INTERNATIONAL SPORT ORGANISATIONS
    LINCOLN ALLISON / ALAN TOMLINSON
    The governance of international sport is dominated by the SINGOs (sporting international non-governmental organisations). The IOC, FIFA, IAAF and the FIA wield global influence, but how exactly do such complex organisations operate? This important book examines the rise of the SINGOs, their structures, organisational behaviour and their power in the context of modern sport and ...

    $1,580.00

  • FIFA (FÉDÉRATION INTERNATIONALE DE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION)
    ALAN TOMLINSON
    Founded in 1904 by representatives of the sporting organisations of six European nations then expanding into the Americas, Asia and Africa FIFA has developed to become one of the most high profile and lucrative businesses in the global consumer and cultural industry. Recent years however have been characterised by a series of crises leaving the organisation open to critique and...

    $1,460.00

  • SPORT AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF MODERN EUROPE
    ALAN TOMLINSON
    In the modern era, sport has been an important agent, and symptom, of the political, cultural and commercial pressures for convergence and globalization. In this fascinating, inter-disciplinary study, leading international scholars explore the making of modern sport in Europe, illuminating sport and its cultural and economic impacts in the context of the supra-state formations ...

    $920.00

  • UNDERSTANDING SPORT
    JOHN HORNE / ALAN TOMLINSON / GARRY WHANNEL / KATH WOODWARD
    In the decade or more since publication of the first edition of Understanding Sport, both sport and wider global society have undergone profound change. In this fully updated, revised and expanded edition of their classic textbook, John Horne, Alan Tomlinson, Garry Whannel and Kath Woodward offer a critical and reflective introduction to the relationship between sport and conte...

    $1,420.00

  • WATCHING THE OLYMPICS
    SUGDEN, JOHN / TOMLINSON, ALAN
    Global sporting events involve the creation, management and mediation of cultural meanings for consumption by massive media audiences. The apotheosis of this cultural form is the Olympic Games. This challenging and provocative new book explores the Olympic spectacle, from the multi-media bidding process and the branding and imaging of the Games, to security, surveillance and co...

    $1,280.00

  • CONSUMPTION, IDENTITY AND STYLE
    ALAN TOMLINSON
    First Published in 1990. This is a book about the meaning of our lives as consumers. It is about leisure, lifestyle, and markets in today’s consumer culture. In 1986 one measure of people’s use of time in Britain identified television watching as the major activity for both men and women outside paid employment and sleeping. ...

    $1,040.00