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Author: Deirdre Hynes
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-01-04
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 184888172X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013. From club-sponsored outreach initiatives to organisations that bring together a team's supporters, football clubs play a vital role in building and sustaining communities. This volume explores the significance and value of such activities, as well as the critical issues they raise.
Author: Deirdre Hynes
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9789004371972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: M. Amara
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-11-24
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 0230359507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the significance of sport in the understanding of past and current societal dynamics in the Arab world. It examines sport in relation to cultural, political and economic changes in the Arab World, including nation-state building, the formation of national identity and international relations in post-colonial context.
Author: Peter Kennedy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-16
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 1317981715
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs football clubs have become luxury investments, their decisions increasingly mirror those of any other business organisation. Football supporters have been encouraged to express their club loyalty by ‘thinking business’ - acting as consumers and generating money deemed necessary for their clubs to compete at the highest levels. In critical studies, supporters have been portrayed as passive or reluctant consumers who, imprisoned by enduring club loyalties, embody a fatalistic attitude to their own exploitation. As this book aims to show, however, such expressions of loyalty are far from hegemonic and often interface haphazardly with traditional ideas about what constitutes the ‘loyal fan’. While there is little doubt that professional football is experiencing commodification, the reality is that football clubs are not simply businesses, nor can they ever aspire to be organisations driven solely by expanding or protecting economic value. Rather, clubs hover uncertainly between being businesses and community assets. Football Supporters and the Commercialisation of Football explores the implications of this uncertainty for understanding supporter resistance to, and compromise with, commodification. Every club and its supporters exist in their own unique national and local contexts. In this respect, this book offers a Euro-wide comparison of supporter reactions to commercialisation and provides unique insight into how football supporters actively mediate regional, local and national contexts, as they intersect with the universalistic presumptions of commerce. This book was previously published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.
Author: Kelly D. Mosier
Publisher:
Published: 2012
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Hassan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1317996356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe commercialization of sport since the 1990s has had a number of consequences. The market forces that have defined commercialization, notably pay-per-view television, whilst initially welcomed as important new sources of revenue, have also had the unanticipated consequences of de-stabilizing many sporting competitions and institutions, undermining the financial future of clubs in their traditional role as key social and cultural institutions. This has been manifested in the paradox of chronic financial loss-making amongst professional sports’ clubs in an era of exponential revenue growth, a trend exemplified by the experience of Italy’s Series A and the English Premier League – both cases examined in detail in this book. But, at the same time, some traditional sporting organizations have sought with some success, to chart a middle way, retaining traditional sporting movement objectives whilst also embracing a form of commercialism. The Gaelic Athletic Association in Ireland, the supporter-owned FC Barcelona football club, and New Zealand rugby union, offer illustrative examples of such strategies examined in detail. This book explores the background to this clash of commercial and traditional sporting objectives, and debates the consequences for wider sports governance. This book was published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.
Author: Murray Books
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780980382983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe National Football League (NFL) is the largest and most prestigious professional American football league, consisting of thirty-two teams from American cities and regions. Each The league's teams are divided into two conferences: the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). conference is then further divided into four divisions consisting of four teams each, labeled North, South, East, and West. During the league's regular season, each team plays sixteen games over a seventeen-week period, generally from September to December. At the end of each regular season, six teams from each conference play in the NFL playoffs, a twelve-team single- elimination tournament that culminates with the NFL championship, the Super Bowl. Football is a complete history of the game, the players and the excitement. The book includes the rules of the game, tactics and how to play. Shaped as a football, the book is a must for all football fans.
Author: Daniel Parnell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-10-02
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 131751775X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis special issue addresses the complex reality of English community football organisations, including Football in the Community (FitC) schemes, which have been attending to social agendas, such as social inclusion and health promotion. The positioning of football as a key agent of change for this diverse range of social issues has resulted in an increase in funding support. Despite the increased availability of funding and the (apparent) willingness of football clubs to adopt such an altruistic position within society, there remains limited empirical evidence to substantiate football’s ability to deliver results. This book explores the current role of a football and football clubs in supporting and delivering social inclusion and health promotion to its community and seeks to examine the philosophical, political, environmental and practical challenges of this work. The power and subsequent lure of a football club and its brand is an ideal vehicle to entice and capture populations that (normally) ignore or turn away from positive social and/or health behaviours. The foundations of such a belief are examined, outlining key recommendations and considerations for both researchers and practitioners attending to these social and health issues through the vehicle of football. This book was originally published as a special issue of Soccer & Society.
Author: The Huntsville Times The Birmingham News (& The Mobile Press-Register)
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert A. Stebbins
Publisher: CABI
Published: 2004-04-07
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780851999210
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolunteerism is a topic of increasing importance in this age of budget cuts, declining employment and amid the threat posed by other competing leisure pursuits. There are both social and economic benefits of volunteering. As we are becoming more reliant on volunteers, there is a need for a better understanding of why people take up volunteering, and how to recruit, manage, motivate, and support volunteers most effectively. In order for organisations that host volunteers to achieve the most from their volunteers, they must understand how to give them the best "leisure" experience. This book examines critical aspects of contemporary volunteerism, from the perspective of a variety of volunteering contexts. It will appeal to academic researchers and students in disciplines such as leisure, recreation, tourism, management and sociology as well as practitioners in the voluntary sector (including volunteers), National and Local Government and those organising special events that depend on voluntary support.
