Sporting Systems and Social Harm: A Global Analysis of Institutional and Structural Failure - Couverture souple

Stewart, Bob; C.T. Smith, Aaron

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 180136057X ISBN 13 : 9781801360579

Editeur : Anthem Press, 2026

Synopsis

Sport is widely celebrated as a “force for good,” credited with building health, character, community, and social cohesion. Yet many of sport’s most visible successes sit alongside persistent harms: corruption and match-fixing, doping, abuse and safeguarding failures, violence and bigotry, exploitative labor arrangements, and organizational cultures that normalize injury and silence. Sporting Systems and Social Harm reframes these problems as systemic rather than exceptions. Drawing on interdisciplinary research and contemporary cases, the book explains why harms recur across sports and countries; how they are enabled by incentives, governance gaps, commercial pressures, and cultural myths; and why the default “sport is good” narrative makes harm harder to see and fix. The book concludes with a practical reform agenda, offering principles and policy options to improve integrity, protect participants, and evaluate social value more honestly.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bob Stewart has been a teacher and researcher of sport studies for 40 years and has an international reputation for interrogating the structures and practices of both local and elite-level sport.

Aaron C. T. Smith is Professor of Management at Newcastle Business School, University of Newcastle, and a Professorial Fellow in Sport Business and Innovation in the Institute for Sport Business, Loughborough University London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Anthem Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 180136057X
• ISBN 13: 9781801360579
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 100
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible