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Sports Governance, Development and Corporate Responsibility

PUBLISHER Routledge (06/06/2012)
PRODUCT TYPE Hardcover (Hardcover)
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This book critically examines sport-related social interventions in different cultural settings. Instrumental interventions in local community building and social construction of peace, integration and managing diversity are addressed from a theoretical and case-exemplary perspective. Corporate social responsibility of global sport organizations is discussed in relation to specific cases of world sport events.
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ISBN-13: 9780415522496
ISBN-10: 0415522498
Binding: Hardback or Cased Book (Unsewn / Adhesive Bound)
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 207
Carton Quantity: 30
Product Dimensions: 6.00 x 0.60 x 9.00 inches
Weight: 0.95 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents, Illustrated
Country of Origin: US
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BISAC Categories
Sports & Recreation | Business Aspects
Sports & Recreation | Development - Economic Development
Dewey Decimal: 306.483
Library of Congress Control Number: 2012003712
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This book critically examines sport-related social interventions in different cultural settings. Instrumental interventions in local community building and social construction of peace, integration and managing diversity are addressed from a theoretical and case-exemplary perspective. Corporate social responsibility of global sport organizations is discussed in relation to specific cases of world sport events.

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Editor: Segaert, Barbara
Barbara Segaert holds a Master's degree in Arab Philology and Islamic History from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a Postgraduate Diploma in the Social Sciences from the Open University in the UK. Since 2002 she has been scientific coordinator at the University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp where she develops academic programmes on interreligious and intercultural topics. She is co-editor of How to Conquer the Barriers to Intercultural Dialogue (P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2005) and Europe and the Historical Legacies of the Balkans (P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2008).
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Editor: Timmerman, Christiane
Christiane Timmerman is Director of the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS) at the University of Antwerp and Director of Academic Affairs at UCSIA.
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