Playing for Change

Introduction - For Jets and Country: A Reminder of How Sport Matters Russell Field, University of Manitoba Part I: Global promises: The Contested Terrain of International Sport 1. Sport, Development and the Challenge of Slums Richard Gruneau, Simon Fraser University 2. The New 'Culture Wars': The Vancouver 2010 Olympics, Public Protest, and the Politics of Resistance Russell Field, University of Manitoba 3. Sochi 2014: The Russian Oligarchy and Winter Games Funding Hart Cantelon, Professor Emeritus, University of Lethbridge, and James Riordan, Professor Emeritus, University of Surrey 4. The Dialectic of Modern, High-Performance Sport: Returning to Dubin to Move Forward Rob Beamish, Queen's University Part II: Continental divides: Revisiting the Shaping of Sport in North America 5. The 1904 Chicago-St. Louis Transition and the Social Structuration of the American Olympic Movement John J. MacAloon, The University of Chicago 6. Two-Way Hockey: Selling Canada's Game in America, 1885-1935 Stephen Hardy, University of New Hampshire 7. Continentalization and America's Contested Baseball Hegemony: the Postwar Challenge to Major League Baseball in Mexico, Quebec and the Caribbean, 1945-1955 Colin Howell, Saint Mary's University Part III: Local contours: Debating Access to Physical Activity in Canadian Communities 8. Change Rooms and Change Agents: The Struggle against Barriers to Opportunities for Physical Activity and Sport in Ethnocultural Communities in Toronto Parissa Safai, York University 9. Political Ecology, Discourse and Shared-use Trail Development in Nova Scotia: Braking for or Breaking the Environment? Robert Pitter and Glyn Bissix, Acadia University 10. Intertwining Histories, Enhancing Strengths: Sport and Recreation Services in the Northwest Territories, 1962-2000 Victoria Paraschak, University of Windsor Part IV: Shifting Ground: Reconsidering the Role of the Public Intellectual in Sport 11. 'Can you do this for my neighbourhood?': Public Sport History, the Environment, and Community in an Industrial City Nancy B. Bouchier and Ken Cruikshank, McMaster University 12. Where History meets Biography: Toward a Public Sociology of Sport Peter Donnelly and Michael Atkinson, University of Toronto 13. 'Shadow Disciplines' or A Place for 'Post-Disciplinary Liaisons' in the North American Research University: What are we to do with Physical Cultural Studies? Patricia Vertinsky, University of British Columbia 14. Bruce Kidd, Sport History, and Social Emancipation Douglas Booth, University of Otago