Abstract 'I am German when we win, but I am an immigrant when we lose'. With this powerful
statement Mesut Özil resigned from Germany's national football team. His resignation act not …

How can the diffusion and development of women's cricket as a global sport be explained?
Women's Cricket and Global Processes considers the emergence and growth of women's …

Area-based initiatives have formed an important part of public policy towards more socio-
economically deprived areas in many countries. Co-ordinating service provision within and …

This paper explores the main contributions of the figurational sociological tradition to the
sociology of sport. It also charts the development of this work since the pioneering text …

This study focuses on the issue of social exclusion in British tennis. It commences with a
critique of current LTA policy, presenting exclusion as static, ahistorical and underpinned by …

This article focuses on how secondary school pupils and teachers conceptualise bullying
and how pupils navigate bullying within physical education (PE). This ethnographic case …

This chapter examines aspects of social relations between the sexes in sport. Based
originally on research published in 2005, here it is revised and updated to take account of …

The purpose of this article is to explore divisions between female cricketers in the UK
utilizing Elias and Scotson's theory of established and outsider relations (Elias, N., and J …

'I am German when we win, but I am an immigrant when we lose'. With this powerful
statement Mesut Özil resigned from Germany's national football team. His resignation act not …

The purpose of this paper is to explore divisions between female cricketers in the UK
utilizing Elias and Scotson's theory of established and outsider relations. This paper begins …