Sport and Social Movements: From the Local to the Global
In: Globalizing Sport Studies
Intro -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Contents -- Globalizing Sport Studies Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Tables -- A Chronology of Sport and Social Movements -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1 Analysing Sport and (Global) Social Movements -- Competing approaches to the study of social movements -- From old to global social movements and alter-globalization -- The importance of studying sport and social movements within alter-globalization -- 2 From Workers' Sport to Alter-Sport and Global Workers' Rights -- Uniting workers through sport or providing sport for workers -- From sport for all to alter-global sport -- Sports mega-events as a platform for promoting workers' and human rights -- Conclusion -- 3 Women's Movements and Sport -- The complex contours of studying the global women's movement -- The women and sport 'movement' -- Unresolved tensions between the global women's movement and sport -- 4 Rights Movements and Sport -- Human rights as a dominant discourse -- Making sense of rights movements and sport -- The politics of 'race' and sport: The American civil rights movement and the anti-apartheid movement -- Disability rights -- LGBT rights -- Conclusion -- 5 Sport and the Global Peace Movement -- History and features of the global peace movement -- Connecting sport to the peace movement -- Sport and peace education -- 6 Sport and the Environmental Movement -- A brief history of environmental movements -- The Olympic games, sport and environmental sustainability -- Environmental movements and sport -- Sport and corporate environmentalism -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- References -- eCopyright.