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'This handbook joins an increasingly crowded market of advanced primers devoted to introducing students to the critical study of sport as social and cultural phenomenon. As the writing and thinking in these pages demonstrates, Giulianotti has assembled a group of world-class contributors ... In sum, an outstanding and exhaustive collection ...It is required reading for early-career scholars seeking a survey of the theoretical foundations of the sociology of sport ... Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' - J. Newman, CHOICE

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Richard Giulianotti is Professor of Sociology at Loughborough University, UK, and also Professor II at Telemark University College, Norway. His main research interests are in the fields of sport, globalization, development and peace, sport mega-events, crime and deviance, cultural identities, and qualitative methods. He has headed several projects on these subjects, funded by the UK ESRC, European Commission, and Nuffield Foundation. He is author of the books Football: A Sociology of the Global Game (1999), Sport: A Critical Sociology (2005, revised 2015), Ethics, Money and Sport (with A.J. Walsh, 2007), Globalization and Football (with R. Robertson, 2009), and Hooligans e Oligarchi: L’invenzione del Calcio Globale (2015). He has guest co-edited special issues of British Journal of Sociology, Global Networks, and Urban Studies, edited a further dozen books, and published numerous articles in international journals and edited collections. His work has been translated and published in eleven languages

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