title: Sport and Social Movements: From the Local to the Global (Globalizing Sport Studies)
author: Jean Harvey
description: The authors trace the movements associated with labour, women, rights, peace and the environment, and their relationship to sport and to mega-events such as the Olympic Games. <i></i>
zlib_text:   Globalizing Boxing
  
  Globalizing Sport Studies
  Series editor: 
  John Horne, Professor of Sport and Sociology,
  University of Central Lancashire, UK
  Public interest in sport studies continues to grow throughout the world. This 
  series brings together the latest work in the field and acts as a global knowledge 
  hub for interdisciplinary work in sport studies. Whilst promoting work across 
  disciplines, the series focuses on social scientific and cultural studies of sport. 
  It brings together the most innovative scholarly empirical and theoretical work, 
  from within the UK and internationally.
  Books already published in the series:
  Global Media Sport: Flows, Forms and Futures, David Rowe
  Japanese Women and Sport: Beyond Baseball and Sumo, Robin Kietlinski
  Sport for Development and Peace: A Critical Sociology, Simon Darnell
  Globalizing Cricket: Englishness, Empire and Identity, Dominic Malcolm
  Sport and Social Movements: From the Local to the Global, Jean Harvey,  
  Forthcoming:
  Localizing Gl