The Other Sport Mega-Event: Rugby World Cup 2011
Author:   StevenJ. Jackson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780415737081


Pages:   120
Publication Date:   23 January 2014
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   StevenJ. Jackson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.362kg
ISBN:  

9780415737081


ISBN 10:   0415737087
Pages:   120
Publication Date:   23 January 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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1. Rugby World Cup 2011: sport mega-events between the global and the local 2. Definitely maybe: continuity and change in the Rugby World Cup 3. Collective identity and contested allegiance: a case of migrant professional Fijian rugby players 4. Rugby World Cup 2011: sport mega-events and the contested terrain of space, bodies and commodities 5. (Not) a stadium of four million: speaking back to dominant discourses of the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand 6. The culture of alcohol sponsorship during the 2011 Rugby World Cup: an (auto)ethnographic and (con)textual analysis 7. Playing the shell game: the Faustian bargain for Dunedin’s stadium

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Steven Jackson is a Professor in the School of Physical Education, Sport & Exercise Sciences at the University of Otago, New Zealand and Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, RSA. Currently the past-President of the International Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA), his research focuses on globalization, media and national identity.

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