Full Description
Sport is often seen as an indicator of the civic maturity of a community, an aspect of the rights of citizens to health, education and social integration. This book examines the relationships between participation in sport and physical activity, and welfare policies across Europe.
It argues that the success of campaigns for the promotion of sport depend on the existence of dedicated welfare policies promoted by the European states and explores variations in cultural models and structures of governance across Europe. Addressing the function of supranational institutions such as the EU as well as voluntary networks, the book illuminates key issues in European societies such as migration, financial austerity and Brexit as they relate to sport policy.
This is important reading for scholars and students in the fields of European sport and physical activity, sociology, political science and organisational analysis, as well as operators and managers of the sport systems involved in advanced training programmes.
Contents
1. Introduction: sport and the citizens of a disenchanted Europe Part I: Sports Policies, Non-Profit and Social Issues 2. Migrants' social integration through movement practices? 3. Sport and the 'question' of Islam in Europe 4. European sport systems and the voluntary sector: non-profit organisations race for sport development 5. Sport in jail: a sociological comparative perspective Part II: The Sport of Citizenship: An Incipient Europeanisation? 6. The Europeanisation of sport: sociology of a new European public action 7. The organisation of sport and sports policies in Germany 8. Sports organisations and policies in France 9. Sport and welfare in Britain 10. Welfare and sports policies in contemporary Italy 11. Physical activity and sport in Spain 12. Sport and welfare in central and eastern European countries 13. In the homeland of sport for all: the Scandinavian countries 14. Conclusion: established models of European sport revisited from a socio-politological approach
