Playing for Change: The Continuing Struggle for Sport and Recreation

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