This chapter examines the claim that Kenya is today the preeminent nation in African track and field, describing the relative and absolute production patterns of Kenyan track and field athletics, in both an African and a global context in order to reveal the extent and nature of Kenyan sports...

In this book, leading international sport studies scholars chart the patterns, policies and personal experiences of labour migration within and around sport, and in doing so cast important new light both on the forces shaping modern sport and on the role that sport plays in shaping the world...

This chapter highlights some of the broad patterns and structures that characterize global migration of athletes and others involved in the sports industry. Attention is also given to the enabling and constraining features of global sport that shape sports migration processes, and also to the...

This chapter deals with the relationship between sport and nationalism. A case study illustrative of the relationship between soccer and regional and national identity in late-20th-century Spain is presented. Two debating points are also considered: whether the Fédération Internationale de Football ...

This paper examines the ways in which feminism has influenced the sociology of sport and leisure. First, at an empirical level it has provided a greater understanding about the world of sport and leisure in terms of women's history, women's experiences of sport and leisure, women's participation...

This paper draws together research into dependency and world systems theories, and highlights how they relate to sport and leisure. Modernization theory has been used to account for aspects of global sports development and maintains that the long term trend is towards greater homogenization in...

Eric Dunning influenced the development of curricula and research agendas in sociology, history, social science and sports studies, internationally, in the UK and in Ireland. Dunning was also doctoral supervisor to, and academic colleague/mentor and friend of, both authors (at Leicester, Dublin and ...

This study examined sociocultural aspects of the identification, selection and development of elite soccer players as part of wider processes of globalization, particularly worker migration. Patterns of migration were identified among the 704 players who comprised the national squads of the 32...

This chapter examines: the historical development of media sport relations; power, control and ownership in media sport; race and ethnic relations in media sport; and gender relations in media sport. Two debating points are considered: whether sport depends on media; and whether media sport...

This article examines Scandinavian constructions and readings of potential football migrants from the African continent by providing an investigation of the dynamics and narratives surrounding African football teams' participation in three youth football tournaments. Drawing on Elias and Scotson's...