Nauright / Collins The Rugby World in the Professional Era

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-21524-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 198 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

Twenty years of professionalism has seen rugby union undergo dramatic transformations, from changes to everyday training cultures to the growth of the Rugby World Cup into one of the largest global sporting events. Rugby Union and Professionalism is the first book to examine the effect that professionalism has had across a number of different aspects of the game and the wider socio-cultural significance of these changes through case studies from across the globe.

Drawing on contributions from scholars from across the rugby-playing world, the book explores the role of rugby's professionalisation through a number of social-scientific lenses, including:

- labour migration

- race and indigenous populations

- the globalisation of the game

- mega-event management

- male sexualities

- media representations of rugby - from broadcasting matches to rugby in museums and on stage and screen

Offering insights into under-researched areas of the sport, such as the growth of Rugby Sevens into an Olympic sport and rugby in the United States, and providing the most up-to-date recent history of the sport available, Rugby Union and Professionalism is essential reading for anyone with an academic interest in rugby, and any student or scholar with interests in sports history, sports sociology or the economics of professional sport.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nauright, John

Collins, Tony

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Ballsportarten American Football Rugby

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The World in Union?: Rugby in the Professional Era Part 1: Professional Rugby on and off the Field 1. Professional Rugby and Irish Society 1995-2015 2. Cows in the Heartland: New Zealand Rugby and Rural Change in the Professional Era 3. The World Comes to One Country: Migration, Cultures and Professional Rugby in France 4. Cultural Diversity in Action: Developing and Engaging Effective Responses within Rugby Union in Australia 5. The Maori All Blacks and Ethnicity in Aotearoa/New Zealand in the Professional Era 6. The Impact of the Professional Era on Pacific Islands Rugby 7. The USA: Rugby's First and Final Frontier? 8. The Globalisation of Rugby 7s: From Novelty to the Olympic Games 9. The Rugby World Cup As Global Mega Event Part 2: Rugby Cultures and Representation in the Professional Era 10. Making Men in the 21st Century: Metrosexuality and Bromance in Contemporary Rugby 11. The Road From Wigan Pier: Professional Rugby and the Changing Dynamics Between Wales and England 12. Time To Get Together? The BBC and Representations of English/British National Identities in the RBS Six Nations Championship 13. Showcasing the Springboks: The Commercialisation of South African Rugby Heritage 14. Performativity, Identities and Rugby From Field to Stage in the New South Africa 15. Invictus: Myth and Reality in (Re)presenting the Symbolic Power of Rugby to the Non-Rugby World Afterword: Beyond the 2015 World Cup: Rugby's Future and Reflections on its Greatest Showpiece

Über Autor(innen)

John Nauright is Professor of Sport and Leisure Management at the University of Brighton, UK. He is editor of Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity (Winner: World in Union 2015 Book Award (edited text) presented by the World Rugby Museum); and Making the Rugby World: Race, Gender, Commerce. He is author of Rugby and the South African Nation (Winner: World in Union 2015 Book Award (authored academic book)) and Long Run to Freedom: Sport, Cultures and Identities in South Africa. His 4 volume edited work Sport Around the World: History, Culture and Practice was awarded as a Best Reference Work of 2013 by Library Journal. He is also editor of the Routledge Companion to Sport History among his many other works. He has researched on rugby in New Zealand, Australia and South Africa

Tony Collins is Professor of Sport History and former Director of the International Centre for Sport History and Culture at De Montfort University, UK. His authored books, The Great Split; Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain; and A Social History of English Rugby all won the prestigious Lord Aberdare Prize for the Best Book of the Year in Sports History, the latter also being awarded Best Authored Academic Text at the World in Union 2015 Book Awards. His latest book is The Oval World which charts a global history of rugby football in all its forms from inception to the present day