Sport, statehood and transition in Europe : comparative perspectives from post-Soviet and post-Socialist societies /: comparative perspectives from post-Soviet and post-Socialist societies. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ekain Rojo-Labaien, Álvaro Rodríguez Díaz, Joel Rookwood.
• Editors: Rojo-Labaien, Ekain; Rodríguez Díaz, Álvaro, 1957-; Rookwood, Joel
• Contents: 1 Interpreting sport and transition in post-socialist and post-Soviet Europe: States, nations and markets ÁLVARO RODRÍGUEZ-DÍAZ, JOEL ROOKWOOD AND EKAIN ROJO-LABAIEN PART 1: Neoliberal sport in the post-socialist countries of Eastern Europe 2 The transformation of sport in post-communist Hungary: A transitology-informed approach GYOZO MOLNAR AND TAMÁS DÓCZI 3 The politics of sport in Poland after 1945: From socialist mass sports to market-oriented elite sports? JACEK DROZDA, KRZYSZTOF JASKULOWSKI AND PIOTR MAJEWSKI 4 Sport as a mirror of society: The case of Croatia SUNCICA BARTOLUCI 5 Capacities for change: Insights into the Lithuanian sports system 60 VILMA CINGIENE AND RENATAS MIZERAS PART 2 Sport transition from the socialist state to the open market 6 The Romanian sport system: Paths to commercialisation LÁSZLÓ PÉTER 7 Playing in long shadows: Bosnian sport after Yugoslavia, socialism and war RICHARD MILLS 8 Sport and physical activity in post-communist Albania PHILIPPA VELIJA 9 Sport in post-socialist Ukraine MARYNA KRUGLIAK AND OLEKSANDR KRUGLIAK 10 Statehood, nationalism and separatism: The role and meaning of sport in Georgia and its breakaway republics JOEL ROOKWOOD PART 3 Post-Soviet presidentialism and sport mega events 11 Sport in the political and economic transition in Belarus: State nationalism and mega events ÁLVARO RODRÍGUEZ-DÍAZ 12 Seeking out a nation?: Sport policy changes in post-Soviet Russia VITALII GOROKHOV 13 Russia and the politics of extraverted urbanism in the 2014 Winter Olympics and the 2018 World Cup OLEG GOLUBCHIKOVAND SVEN DANIELWOLFE 14 Oil-funded sports events as the embodiment of the evolution of post-Soviet Azerbaijan EKAIN ROJO-LABAIEN 15 Sports politics in authoritarian regimes: The synergies of sport, ideology and personality cult in Turkmenistan SLAVOMÍR HORÁK 16 Sport, transition and nation-state building: Evidence from post- Soviet and post-socialist states 268 JOEL ROOKWOOD, EKAIN ROJO-LABAIEN AND ÁLVARO RODRÍGUEZ-DÍAZ Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 306.483094; Sports -- Political aspects -- Europe; Sports and state -- Europe
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000065978; 9781000065954; 9781000065961; 9780429325847
• Related ISBNs: 9780367344405
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