Athletes are on the move. In some sports this involves labour, movement from one country to another within or between continents. In other sports, athletes assume an almost nomadic migratory lifestyle, constantly on the move from one sport festival to another. In addition, it appears that sport migration is gaining momentum and that it is closely interwoven with the broader process of global sport development taking place in the late twentieth century.

Sport is often at the centre of battles for rights to inclusion linked to class, race and gender, and this book explores struggles centred on disability in different cultural settings in Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. It challenges oversights and assumptions about the ‘normal’ body, and describes how individual and organizational transformations can occur through sport. The abilities of a person are recognised and placed centre stage - instead of the individual being forgotten, excluded, or placed at the margins simply because they have a disability. National, regional and global change is part of the shift to the rights based approach reflected in the 2006 UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Making sport inclusive affects the accessibility of facilities, funding, the media, policies, programs, organisations, sponsors and spectators, and at the same time changes the cultural values of the wider society. It also raises issues about competition access and eligibility for ‘different’ and technologically enhanced ‘cyborg’ bodies, and for those most socially disadvantaged. Addressing these questions which ultimately touch on the real meaning of sport can lead to profound changes in people’s attitudes, and how sport is organized locally and globally. Growth in the influential global organisations of the Paralympic Games, Special Olympics and Deaflympics is examined, as is the approach to disability in sport in both advantaged and resource poor countries. The embodied lives of persons with disabilities are explored utilizing new theoretical models, perspectives and approaches. This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

Scientific Study from the year 2012 in the subject Sport - Sport Economics, Sport Management, , language: English, abstract: This study looks at global sports and more specifically at global soccer from historical, cultural, economic, social, strategic/tactical and civilization perspectives. Sports as a global management phenomenon and practice are contextualized in a global transcultural management framework. Its aim is the optimum use of cultural diversity and to create awareness of divisive dimensions in global sports, while it offers a consistenet approach to the integration of divisive tendencies in the global world of sports. This will in turn sustainably affect other domains of the globalizing world.

Scientific Study from the year 2012 in the subject Sport - Sport Economics, Sport Management, , language: English, abstract: A ten-dimensional global sports study covering: 1. THE NATION AS THE DOMINANT FORCE: THE CULTURAL AMBIVALENCE INHERENT IN THE OLYMPIC GAMES AND IN GLOBAL SPORTS 2. THE SOCIO-HISTORICAL ASPECT 3. THE CULTURAL IMPERATIVE OF GLOBAL SPORTS 4. SOCCER FROM AN ECONOMIC AND A POLITICAL STANDPOINT 5. SOCCER FROM A SOCIOPSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE 6. CULTURAL STRATEGY, TACTICS AND STYLES OF SOCCER 7. THE WESTERN CULTURAL BIAS WITH REGARD TO THE CULITVATION OF HUMAN BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT AND COMPLEMENTARY APPROACHES TO HUMAN INTEGRITY AND WHOLENESS 8. ORIENT AND OCCIDENT: EAST-WEST SYNERGY 9. A UNIVERSAL CULTURE OF COMMUNICATION FOR THE GLOBAL ERA 10 A UNIVERSAL TOOL FOR INTERNATIONAL DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT: THE TRANSCULTURAL PROFILER

During the past few years the world has seen widespread geopolitical change. Throughout sport has remained a significant thread in the fabric of culture. This thought-provoking book offers an international collection of writings exploring the effects of sport on culture and the role of sport as a cultural barometer.

International journal for the application of formal methods to history.

From ancient Egyptian archery and medieval Japanese football to contemporary American baseball, sports have been shaped by - and in turn have helped shape - the culture of which it is part. This work traces this evolution across continents, cultures, and historical epochs to construct a single comprehensive narrative of the world's sports.

"Includes entries on: individual sports, from football to fencing and polo to pigeon racing; the London Marathon, the Grand National, the Isle of Man TT races, the Olympic Games, the F.A. Cup, Test Matches, the Boat Race, Wimbledon, Wembley Stadium and much more; key issues such as fair play, gender, racism, commercialization, professionalism, alcohol and drugs; the sociology, psychology and language of sport; and sport in drama, film, literature and the visual arts."--BOOK JACKET.

Contains articles that provide information on topics related to sports around the world, covering college sports, the culture of sports, sporting events, health and fitness, nations, media, the sports industry, types of sports, sports theories, and sport in society; arranged alphabetically from Academics to Dance.