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SOcIOLOgy
Norbert Elias and
Modern Sociology
Knowledge, Interdependence,
Power, Process
Eric Dunning and
Jason Hughes
• Focuses on
Elias’s sociology
of knowledge,
exploring in
particular his
vision of how
sociology might
proceed in a
more ‘scientific’ manner in order to
advance a sociological break from
philosophical modes of theorising
• Positions Elias’s approach within the
context of more general debates within
sociology, including a comparison
of Elias’s work with that of Anthony
giddens, Michel Foucault and Pierre
Bourdieu
• Advances an original line of argument
concerning the twin ‘crises’ of
sociology as a subject and the human
world at large
This book aims to bring the sociology
of Elias to a new and wider audience
offering accessible accounts of some of
his key ideas.
ErIc DuNNINg is Professor Emeritus in the
Department of Sociology at the university of
Leicester, uK, and visiting Professor at the
chester centre for research into Sport and
Society, uK.
JASON HugHES is Senior Lecturer in Sociology
and Deputy Head of the School of Social
Sciences at Brunel university, uK.
uK December 2012 uS February 2013
224 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781780932255 - £65.00 / $120.00
PB 9781780932262 - £19.99 / $29.95
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Beyond Black
celebrity and race in Obama’s America
Ellis Cashmore
Localizing Global Sport
for Development
Tess Kay, Davies
Banda, Ruth
Jeanes and Iain
Lindsey
• One of the
first research
books
to track the
implementation
of sport
for development policies from an
international policy context through
delivery to impact at grass-roots level
• Sport is increasingly prominent within
international development and aid
programmes. The sport-fordevelopment
(SAD) sector is very much
in the ascendant
This book explores a case study of
sport for development to provide a
model for the development of sport for
development research through holistic
and localized analyses.
TESS KAy is Senior research Fellow and Deputy
Director of The Institute of youth Sport,
Loughborough university, uK.
DAvIES BANDA is Senior Lecturer in Sport Policy
and Development, york St. John university, uK.
ruTH JEANES is research Fellow in youth Sport
in university of central Lancaster, uK.
IAIN LINDSEy is a Faculty Member at Edge Hill
university, uK.
uK November 2012 uS January 2013
224 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781780931890 - £50.00 / $90.00
globalizing Sport Studies
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• Original and highly topical
• Of interest across a range of courses —
sociology cultural studies, media studies
and communications
• widely published, high-profile author
This book argues that the primacy of the
market in our celebrity obsessed culture
has engendered a new variety of African
American celebrity. cashmore’s claim is that though glamorous
and powerful, such figures are unreliable indicators of Black
America.
ELLIS cASHMOrE is Professor of culture, Media and Sport, Staffordshire
university, uK.
uK July 2012 uS September 2012
224 Pages 138 x 216 mm 5.4 x 8.5 inches
PB 9781780931494 - £18.99 / $29.95
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MHealthy Messaging
using Mobile Telephones to
Support Healthy Behaviours in the
Developing world
Jonathan Donner
and Patricia
Mechael
• Important
research for
a wide range
of research
institutions as
well as NgOs
• contains
significant field-level data charting
the operation of mobile phones in
improving healthcare and health
awareness
The topic of prevention, well being,
and health promotion within mHealth is
particularly ripe for deeper exploration.
This is a focused edited volume with
contributions from leading researchers
and practitioners identifying best practice
in using mobile technologies to promote
healthy behaviours (and reduce unhealthy
ones) in resource-constrained settings
with a special focus on developing
countries.
JONATHAN DONNEr is a researcher at the
Technology for Emerging Markets group,
Microsoft research India.
PATrIcIA MEcHAEL is Director of Strategic
Application of Mobile Technology for Public
Health and Development, center for global
Health and Economic Development at the Earth
Institute, columbia university, uSA.
uK September 2012 uS November 2012
256 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
PB 9781780932293 - £25.00 / $44.95
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Globalizing Cricket
codification, colonization and contemporary Identities
Dominic Malcolm
• The first sociological research book
dedicated to the global role of cricket
• global appeal
• written in a clear and accessible
style for both undergraduates and
postgraduates
• growing number of universities offer
courses on sport science, sport studies
and the sociology of sport
• The author is very well connected in the cricketing press
Globalizing Cricket examines the global role of cricket on
development, diffusion of cricket through colonization, and the
impact on the changing notions of English national identity.
DOMINIc MALcOLM is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport at
Loughborough university, uK.
uK August 2012 uS October 2012
208 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781849665278 - £50.00 / $90.00
globalizing Sports Studies
Bloomsbury Academic