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Overview
Chris Collins and Steve Jackson have gathered together for this book key researchers and academics throughout New Zealand, all of whom are active in research and teaching in the field of sport studies in various institutions. The result is a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of different aspects of sport in the social setting, focusing on New Zealand. Chapters in the 2nd edition have either been entirely re-written or updated, covering sport in relation to major theoretical perspectives, identity, culture, globalisation, media, politics, government, education, religion, the Treaty of Waitangi, gender, drugs, violence, coaching and the future. New chapters include sport historiography, sport and our past, Maori sport, sport policy, sport and masculinity, and sport and the body. Not only are key theoretical issues covered in each of these areas, but the book also endeavours to point the reader towards practical implications, such as for policy and management.
- Sport in Aotearoa/New Zealand Society has been written in such a way that chapters can be read independently from each other. The book has been organised, however, to follow a logical flow in order to provide comprehensive coverage of the study of sport in the social setting in New Zealand, drawing on New Zealand focused and international scholarship and research.
- New chapters on sport historiography, sport and our past, Maori sport, sport policy, sport and masculinity, and sport and the body.
- Section One examines various theoretical and historical perspectives.
- Section Two examines sporting structures, institutions and identities.
- Section Three examines selected issues and controversies associated with sport.
- Sport in Aotearoa/New Zealand Society is a valuable resource for students, teachers, researchers, managers, coaches, policy analysts and others involved in sport.
Preface
PART I: THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
1. Studying sport in society
2. Theoretical perspectives in the study of sport
3. Sport historiography in New Zealand: Playing with the past
4. Mâori sport: Pre-colonisation to today
5. Sport in nineteenth century New Zealand: Opportunities and constraints
PART II: SPORTING STRUCTURES, INSTITUTIONS AND IDENTITIES IN NEW ZEALAND
6. Sport and culture: Passion and paradox
7. Globalisation and sport in Aotearoa/New Zealand
8. The mass media and sport
9. Sport and identity in New Zealand
10. Politics and sport connections
11. Politics, government and sport
12. Sport policy in New Zealand
13. Sport and education - secondary school sport: Sport for all or sport for some?
14. The coach and sport: Coach development in New Zealand
15. Sport and religion
PART III: ISSUES AND CONTROVERSIES
16. Treaty principles and Mâori sport: Contemporary issues
17. The issue of gender in sport: ‘No bloody room for sheilas
18. Sport, males and masculinities
19. The sporting body: Whose body is right for sport?
20. Doping and sport: Dying to win?
21. Violence and sport
22. Challenges ahead: The future and sport in New Zealand
Glossary of concept checks
Contributor profiles
Index