Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART ONE: PERSPECTIVES ON SPORT Dominic Malcolm Sport and Social Theory Barrie Houlihan Power, Politics and Sport Martin Polley and Fiona Skillen History and Sport PART TWO: STRUCTURING OPPORTUNITIES IN SPORT Michael F. Collins Social Exclusion from Sport and Leisure Belinda Wheaton Lifestyle Sport Ruth Jeanes and Laura Hills Women, Sport and Gender Inequity Parissa Safai and Dominic Malcolm Sport and Health Richard Giulianotti Sport for Development Nigel Thomas and Andy Smith Sport and Disability Ben Carrington and Ian McDonald The Politics of 'Race' and Sports Policy in the United Kingdom David Andrews, Mike Silk and Robert Pitter Physical Culture and the Polarised American Metropolis PART THREE: THE IMPACT OF COMMERCIALISATION Leigh Robinson The Business of Sport Richard Haynes Sport and the Media John Amis and Trevor Slack Organisation Theory and the Management of Sport Organisations Barrie Houlihan Doping and Sport Mike Weed and Guy Jackson The Relationship between Sport and Tourism Holger Preuss The Olympic Games: Winners and Losers Kevin Dixon Fandom Arnout Geeraert Sport Governance PART FOUR: INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON AND CONTEXT Trevor Slack and Milena Parent Sport in North America: The United States and Canada Alan Bairner and Jung Woo Lee Sport in the Asia-Pacific region Ian P. Henry Sport, the role of the European Union and the decline of the national state? Mahfoud Amara An Introduction to the Study of Sport in the Muslim World Barrie Houlihan Sport and Globalisation