Browsing Sport Sciences by Publisher "Taylor and Francis Group"
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Algeria and the FIFA World Cup: between political legitimization and regional rivalry
( Taylor and Francis Group , 2022 , Article)Algeria’s history with the FIFA World Cup can be divided into two main periods. The first stretches from independence in 1962 to the early 1990s, which saw Algeria qualifying twice in 1982 and 1986. In the 1990s, Algeria ... -
Culture and the World Cup: The Case of Qatar
( Taylor and Francis Group , 2022 , Book chapter)The hosting of the World Cup is certainly a monumental achievement by the state of Qatar. Not only it brings the country to more international exposure, and helps it rip the potential economic benefits, but also it offers ... -
Editorial Introduction: Asian Sport History and Culture in the Twenty-first Century
( Taylor and Francis Group , 2020 , Other)When the proposal for a new journal dedicated to the analysis of Asian sport history and culture, (in partnership with its parent journal, the International Journal of the History of Sport) was first mooted, its endorsement ... -
Islamic sport marketing or sport marketing in Muslim cultures and communities
( Taylor and Francis Group , 2015 , Book chapter)As naming is categorising and, in turn, categorising is excluding, there have been many discussions about the respective definitions of marketing and sport marketing, their differences, their communalities, their practices, ... -
Sport and international relations in North Africa
( Taylor and Francis Group , 2018 , Book chapter)Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia share the same history of French colonial presence. While Algeria was simply annexed to become part of the French territory and divided into three provinces, Tunisia and Morocco were under the ... -
Sport and Muslims or Muslims in sport, post-9/11
( Taylor and Francis Group , 2016 , Book chapter)This chapter organizes three aspects: hijab and the ‘Islamization’ of sport; Arab-Muslim investment in sport as a means for ‘soft power’; and sport and the question of integration of Muslims as a challenge to citizenship ... -
Sport and political transition in Tunisia: Another terrain of competition between Islamists and seculars
( Taylor and Francis Group , 2015 , Book chapter)This chapter reports on a research project that focused on how policy makers perceived and responded to the sporting needs of Muslim communities in Norway. A unique trait of Norwegian sport policy is that sport organizations ... -
Sport and the ‘question’ of Islam in Europe
( Taylor and Francis Group , 2020 , Book chapter)The aim of this chapter is to examine how the debate about Islam in Europe is affecting the discourse on sport and Islam and Muslim communities. Recent sources of tensions occurred around the question of Islam including ... -
Sport in Islam and in Muslim communities
( Taylor and Francis Group , 2015 , Book)As Islam's visibility in global society increases, Muslim populations grow, and Muslim countries compete to take up positions at the heart of global sport, the interplay between sport and Islam becomes ever more illuminating. ... -
Sport in the African World
( Taylor and Francis Group , 2018 , Book)Sport has been a component of African cultural life for several hundred years. In today's globalized world, Africans and Africa have become a vital part of the international sporting landscape. This is the first book to ...