Sport and Social Exclusion in Global Society

Ramón Spaaij is Associate Professor in the College of Sport and Exercise Science and Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL) at Victoria University, Australia. He is also Special Chair of Sociology of Sport at the University of Amsterdam and Visiting Professor at the Utrecht University School of Governance, The Netherlands. His main research interests are the sociology of sport and sociology of terrorism.Jonathan Magee is Senior Lecturer in the School of Sport, Tourism and The Outdoors at the University of Central Lancashire. His research and teaching interests include sport and social inclusion, sport and community, and sport development and coaching. Magee has co-edited several books, including Women, Football and Europe: Histories, Equity and Experiences and The Bountiful Game: Football Identities and Finance. Ruth Jeanes is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia. Ruth has spent the previous decade researching equity and inclusion within a sport and active leisure context, initially focusing on gender issues and in more recent years exploring experiences of young people with disabilities. She has explored issues of social exclusion within both Global North and South contexts.

• 1. Introduction 2. Social Exclusion in the Global Age 3. Sport and Social Exclusion in Public Policy 4. Mechanisms of Social Exclusion in Sport 5. Using Sport to Tackle Social Exclusion in the Global North 6. Sport for Development in the Global South 7. Engaging Socially Excluded Young People in Sports Programs 8. Building Inclusive Sporting Communities 9. Looking Back, Looking Forward: Reflections on Sport and Social Exclusion in Global Society

'A very good overview of current research in which sport is considered to be the tool to achieve social and developmental aims ... The book structure enables the reader to discover different layers and details of the use of sport in social policies and in tackling developmental problems, and contributes to critical thinking about, as Coalter says, the 'magic box' called sport', Simona Safarikova, Sport in Society