Overview

Sport governance no longer stirs public opinion only when scandals surface; it has become a persistent concern for a number of stakeholders, such as the media, sport followers, and corporates that produce and sponsor sport. Contemporary sport governance is characterised by tension between sport’s potential for commercial benefit on the one hand and moral education and social development on the other. The perceived incompatibility of these two aspects has led to intense conversations in the media, administrative circles, and the public sphere about the need for ethics to be the key element of governance. The chapters in this volume explore the contemporary forms of governance that is structured by sport’s extensive transnational networks, shifts in what the stakeholders mentioned above understand by ‘ethics’, and the emergence of new stakeholders. They identify as the two major directions of contemporary sport governance the growing significance of the non-West, especially in relation to event hosting, and the need for controlling the behaviour of emergent interest groups. The latter is a complex constellation of athletes, officials, supporters, lawyers, and politicians who share power and collectively determine corporate and non-profit governance, legal aspects, and regulatory mechanisms from within their subjective locations. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue in Sport in Society.

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Author:   Souvik Naha (West Bengal State University, India) ,  David Hassan (University of Ulster, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.390kg
ISBN:  

9781138319318

ISBN 10:   1138319317
Pages:   116
Publication Date:   29 August 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: ethical concerns in sport governance Souvik Naha and David Hassan 1. Beyond governance: the need to improve the regulation of international sport Jean-Loup Chappelet 2. Sport and politics in a complex age David Hassan 3. Sport mega-events, the ‘non-West’ and the ethics of event hosting Suzanne Dowse and Thomas Fletcher 4. Gulf autocrats and sports corruption: a marriage made in heaven James M. Dorsey 5. Towards responsible policy-making in international sport: reforming the medical-scientific commissions Bruce Kidd 6. Canada 2015: perceptions and experiences of the organisation and governance of the Women’s World Cup Carrie Dunn 7. ‘Trust me I am a Football Agent’. The discursive practices of the players’ agents in (un)professional football Seamus Kelly and Dikaia Chatziefstathiou 8. Motorsport volunteerism: a form of social contract? David Hassan and Chris Harding

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Souvik Naha is a Guest Lecturer in History at West Bengal State University, Kolkota, India. He has edited Global and Transnational Sport: Ambiguous Border, Connected Domains (2018) and, with Kausik Bandyopadhyay and Shakya Mitra, FIFA World Cup and Beyond: Sport, Culture, Media and Governance (2018). He is the editor of Soccer & Society. David Hassan has published 15 books and 175 other research outputs. He was awarded a Distinguished Research Fellowship from Ulster University, UK, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to research. He has held several leadership roles at the University, including Head of School, Head of Research Graduate School, Provost of the Belfast and Jordanstown campuses, and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Life and Health Sciences (Global Engagement).

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