1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785132103321

Titolo

Social capital and sport governance in Europe / / edited by Margaret Groeneveld, Barrie Houlihan and Fabien Ohl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-93747-1

1-136-93748-X

1-282-88629-0

9786612886294

0-203-84689-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in sport, culture and society

Altri autori (Persone)

GroeneveldMargaret M (Margaret Michelle)

HoulihanBarrie

OhlFabien

Disciplina

796.094

Soggetti

Sports and state - Europe

Sports - Social aspects - Europe

Social capital (Sociology) - Europe

Europe Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Social Capital, Governance and Sport; 2 The EU and Sport Governance: Between Economic and Social Values; 3 Czech Sport Governance Cultures and a Plurality of Social Capitals: Politicking Zone, Movement and Community; 4 Danish Sport Governance: Tradition in Transition; 5 Sport and Social Capital in England; 6 Social Capital and Sport Governance in France; 7 Sport, Divided Societies and Social Capital in Ireland; 8 The Social Capital of Sport: The Case of Italy

9 Governance and Social Capital: Democratic Effects and Policy Outcomes in a Nordic Sport Model10 Conclusion: Understanding Social Capital as Both Metaphor and Traditional Form of Social Exchange; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Although there is significant interest in the social role of sport in



fostering civil society from both policymakers and academics, there is a lack of evidence of the specific role of sport federations in this system. This book critically presents the mechanisms and structures in a selection of sport federations within a variety of European countries that illuminate the varied relationships between not-for-profit sport federations, their members, governments and the citizens they represent. The contributors explore the contrasts and synergies between core social capital theoretical perspect

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910808547303321

Autore

Everett Percival

Titolo

Conversations with Percival Everett / / edited by Joe Weixlmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson : , : University Press of Mississippi, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-62103-934-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Collana

Literary conversations series

Disciplina

813/.54

B

Soggetti

Novelists, American - 20th century

Novelists, American - 21st century

Fiction - Authorship

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-193) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Chronology; On Writing: Visiting Author Brings a Love of Craft to Classroom; Fred Kirsch / 1994; Author Everett Prizes Privacy; William W. Starr / 1994; Parody That's Personal; Lynell George / 2001; USC Department of English Chair Finds Writing a Chore and a Pleasure; Arash Markazi / 2002; "I Get Bored Easily"; William W. Starr / 2002; Invisible Man; Ben Ehrenreich / 2002; Color Me Blind; Garry Mulholland / 2003; The Books Interview: Percival Everett; Sean O'Hagan / 2003; Percival Everett; Robert Birnbaum / 2003

Teaching Voice and Creating Meaning: An Interview with Percival EverettForrest Anderson / 2003; Percival Everett; Rone Shavers / 2004;



Satiric Inferno; Peter Monaghan / 2005; An Interview: May 3rd, 2005; Alice Mills, Claude Julien, and Anne-Laure Tissut / 2005; "The South"; Alice Mills and Jack Lanco / 2005; Mules, Men, and Barthes: Percival Everett Talks with Bookforum; Kera Bolonik / 2005; Interview with Percival Everett; Jeffrey Renard Allen / 2005; The Wicked Wit of Percival Everett; Shashank Bengali / 2005; Uncategorizable Is Still a Category: An Interview with Percival Everett

Anthony Stewart / 2007Interview with Percival Everett; Barbara DeMarco-Barrett and Marrie Stone / 2007; How We Mean: An Interview with Percival Everett; Andrew Medlin and Trevor Gore / 2008; An Interview with Percival Everett; Thea Brown / 2009; The Tipping Poitier; Drew Toal / 2009; The Bat Segundo Show #295 (Percival Everett); Edward Champion / 2009; Where's Everett?; Susan Salter Reynolds / 2009; The Water Cure: "In Any Novel, It Is the Reader Who Completes the Tale"; l'Humanité / 2009; Percival Everett: Whites Want to Read "Black"; Tine Maria Winther /2010

Author Percival Everett Talks Westerns, Serial Killers, and His New NovelinReads / 2011; Key Resources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W