Sport, Protest and Globalisation Stopping Play

“This new text … responds to the need to appreciate and comprehend the capacity of sport to alter social, economic and political agendas through the vehicle of public protest. … In addressing a gap in the existing literature of sports studies and sport sociology, Wagg and Dart perform a vital service for academics, students and the lay-reader.” (Russell Holden, idrottsforum.org, September, 2017)

Jon Dart is Senior Lecturer in the Carnegie Faculty, Leeds Beckett University, UK. He has published on topics such as the political economy of sport and social media, sports fandom and sports policy in the Middle East. He has a particular interest in future of the relationship between sport and the social sciences within UK higher education institutions. 

Stephen Wagg is Professor in the Carnegie Faculty, Leeds Beckett University, UK. He has written widely on the politics of sport, as well as on the politics of childhood and of comedy. His latest book is  The London Olympics of 2012: Politics, Promises and Legacy  (Palgrave, 2015) and he edited  The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies  (Palgrave, 2012) with Helen Jefferson Lenskyj.