If your focus is real world research, this book will provide you with an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to planning, delivering, and communicating it successfully. Allowing you to see research in action, this book uses real-world case studies from a wide range of disciplines and global markets, encouraging you to apply best practice to your own work. There is step-by-step guidance on quantitative, qualitative and mixed research methods to introduce you to the intricacies of real-world research.

The sixth edition:

・? Integrates digital and face-to-face methods to reflect a changing world;

・? Reveals the reality of methods and not just the theories behind them;

・? Prepares you for your studies with detailed, practical advice.?

Accompanied online by a wealth of handpicked tools and resources to help you avoid common pitfalls and learn key skills,?this complete guide is still?the?definitive research companion for you.

This important volume empirically explores the lives of migrants experiencing long-term temporariness under temporary labour migration programmes (TLMPs) implemented by a number of governments in the Global South and becoming emerging actors in the social fabric of migrant-receiving countries.

Focusing on the Philippines-United Arab Emirates (UAE) migration corridor over the past 50 years, the book illuminates the dynamic interplay among temporary migration policies, migrants' lived experiences and rapid urban development. Chapters concentrate on three key areas-macrostructural aspects of the corridor; migrants' agency in navigating temporariness; and emerging trends from below-and incorporate policy-oriented and ethnographic analyses. As well as offering policy implications, the book demonstrates how a proportion of Filipino migrants do not merely adapt to the TLMP, but also undergo significant transformations themselves in tandem with the UAE's economic restructuring and rapid urban development. The Philippines-UAE migration corridor's role as an evolving experiment supports the broader insights into how large-scale temporary migration flows might unfold in other regions in the future.

The volume ultimately offers a new way of thinking about temporary labour migration as a dynamic, socially embedded process in the contemporary Global South, and will therefore be of use to scholars and postgraduate students in the fields of international migration, Asian diaspora studies and Southeast Asian studies more broadly.

This book offers a timely and necessary exploration of journalism in fiction, traditionally centered on American media, by analyzing journalistic discourses within European films and television series and examining how audiences make sense of these narratives.

Adopting an intersectional approach that considers gender, race, sexual orientation, and other dimensions of identity, the book revolves around two main pillars: content and audience. The first objective broadens the scope of analysis to include non- American fictional portrayals of journalism, while the third objective focuses on how different audiences engage with and interpret these representations. Interwoven throughout both is the second objective: to analyze diversity in fictional journalism and understand how audiences from various backgrounds perceive and respond to the inclusion of or notable absence of women and minority journalists.

This book will appeal to researchers, academics, and postgraduate students who are interested in the intersection of journalism, media representation, and audience reception within communication sciences, journalism studies, cultural studies, and cinema and media studies.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

Sonic Infrastructures traces how sound shaped the transregional movement of cinema across the Middle East and South Asia from the early twentieth century to the 1970s. Drawing on archival research in Egypt, India, and Iran, Claire Cooley shows how sonic infrastructures-including gramophone records, radio, early sound cinema, and film festivals-enabled sound to circulate across regions while also regulating how it was heard. These infrastructures informed national cinema imaginaries even as they sustained circuits of exchange that unsettled political boundaries. Foregrounding sound as both historical object and method, the book centers the gendered labor of female performers whose embodied voices moved across colonial and postcolonial worlds. Bringing feminist film history into conversation with sound studies and critical infrastructure studies, Sonic Infrastructures reveals how sound functioned at once as a technology of national containment and a medium of solidarity and dissent.

"A gutsy, razor-sharp demystification of a powerful organization."-Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The first-ever history of the Anti-Defamation League and its determined, century-long alliance with Western empire.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is a major US political organization, yet its politics have gone largely unexamined. While the ADL is often portrayed as a defender against antisemitism and racism, its history shows that it is better understood as a proponent of the racial state and US empire. From "correcting" the embarrassing racial difference of immigrant Jews to policing the leftist politics of Black, Arab, and Jewish groups, the ADL pursued a conservative version of civil rights paired with aggressive anti-communism. Even as it became an authority on white nationalism in the 1970s, the ADL joined with the emerging anti-left, anti-Arab, and pro-Western neoconservative movement.

This history presaged the ADL's work, from the 1980s to the present, in developing the hate crimes framework as a pro-state policing project, which soon merged with the "War on Terror," the "antisemitism scare," and anti-Palestinian racism. The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State presents the ADL's history through its conflicts with social justice movements, illuminating the ADL's outsize role in shaping the ideas about race and rights that have underwritten US empire.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

Knowledge is constantly on the move, yet it often resists travelling smoothly between disciplines, institutions and communities.

This book examines why the movement of knowledge can be so fragile, and what happens when different ways of knowing collide. Drawing on scholarship from the field of science and technology studies, the book explores the ways in which standards, alignment work, relationships and power shape how knowledge is taken up, transformed or rejected.

By focusing on the often invisible labour that supports knowledge transfer, the book offers a novel framework for understanding how meaning is negotiated across contexts, and why stable knowledge remains such a persistent challenge in contemporary societies.

This book comprehensively explores the intersection between gender, climate change, and the green economy in Africa. It investigates the gendered impacts of climate change and emphasises the critical role women play in addressing climate change, shaping sustainable development, and the green economy.

Drawing on a range of case studies, policy analyses, and theoretical reflections, the book highlights the often-overlooked contributions of women to sustainability efforts, environmental governance, and socio-economic resilience in the face of climate impacts. It argues that women are disproportionately affected by climate change due to existing socio-economic inequalities. It challenges women’s exclusion from climate policy development and implementation by placing women at the centre of climate action and as critical actors for advancing climate justice and the green economy. To bridge the gap between gender-focused research and practical policy solutions, this book provides gender-sensitive strategies for a more inclusive, just, and sustainable future.

This book will be an important read for policymakers, researchers, and students across the fields of sustainable development, African studies, gender studies, and environmental studies. Additionally, it will be a valuable resource for development practitioners and NGOs working in the space of environmental justice and sustainable development.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

What does a liberatory film pedagogy look like? In situated speculations from around the world, this volume explores the teaching of film as a practice of freedom. Widening its focus beyond the university classroom,?Course Projections?visits lecture halls and festivals, archives and encampments shadowed by scholasticide, fascism, ecocide, surveillance, attacks on academic freedom, and hate-based exclusion. Against this backdrop of unfreedoms, contributors consider the stakes of film education, experimenting with genres?from the satirical screenplay to the teaching diary, the personal essay to the roundtable conversation?and recuperating teaching archives as diverse as coffee-stained syllabi and customized course questionnaires.?Together, these writings?posit pedagogy as a field where media theories are tested and revised, histories of the moving image are made and remade, and new communities are forged around screens, opening up horizons of possibility for our collective futures.

This book presents case studies that analyze the diplomatic uses and functions of robes, furniture, weapons, tools, jewelry, paintings, sculptures, books, food, and other material objects in early modern inter-cultural diplomatic encounters in Europe, Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific world.

Readers will gain insights into the material dimensions of early modern diplomacy and the cultural logics and diplomatic rationales of object use in a wide range of regional, political, and imperial contexts spanning the Habsburg Empire, France, Spain, the Ottoman Empire, British and French colonial North America, colonial Mexico, Hawaii, and the South Seas. Transcending the established topic of gift exchanges, the volume aims at an analysis of the overall material settings of early modern diplomatic encounters. With its
clear temporal focus on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the source-driven case studies on concrete objects and object groups open multiple paths into the complexities of the early modern era as a formative phase in the history of diplomacy.

The book is intended for historians of the early modern period, particularly diplomatic history, political history, art history, cultural history, religious history, and regional history. It is also relevant for scholars in the field of material culture studies, ethnography, and museology.

How to Teach Thinking develops a range of tools for bringing together two essential components of effective learning: knowledge (what we know) and cognitive skills (how we learn). Mediation is the way in which these cognitive skills can be taught and promoted, ensuring successful learning for everyone and particularly for those with additional learning needs. This book blends theory and practice to embed thinking skills both in everyday classroom practice and for daily life activities.

The book is divided into two parts, the first of which offers an exploration of the conceptual foundations of cognitive skills, including executive functioning and metacognition, which can be applied to a range of problem-solving activities. The second part develops the infusion model of teaching, an inclusive approach which incorporates thinking skills within the day-to-day curriculum. A user-friendly framework is set out with step-by-step guidance for mediating cognitive thinking skills, together with a wealth of resources and strategies to support the process, including practical scripts.

With case examples to bring theory to life, How to Teach Thinking is an essential resource for Special Educational Needs Coordinators, teaching assistants, mainstream and specialist teachers, and educational psychologists, to enhance their practice. It will also be of use to speech and language therapists to incorporate a cognitive approach to enrich the development of reasoning skills.

The globetrotting champion of the oppressed who shook his fist at the world in an era of profound change

Prizefighter is the extraordinary saga of James "Yankee" Sullivan, who, in the first half of the nineteenth century, traveled the globe as a refugee, convict, laborer, and pugilist?and helped bring our modern world into being. Sullivan was born as Francis Ambrose in Ireland in 1813, ventured to London as a boy, was arrested for thieving and shipped to Australia (where he learned to box), escaped from New Zealand on a whaler, won his first match out of Liverpool, reigned as a prizefighter and leading political figure in New York City in the 1840s, moved to Gold Rush California, coached the king of Hawaii in boxing, and spent his last days in a jail cell in San Francisco in 1856. But Sullivan's life story is much more than a tale of adventure. He helped tie together a world being redefined by free trade, mass migration, industrialization, and democracy, becoming both a champion in the ring and a champion of the people. In this first era of globalization, as the life of Yankee Sullivan attests, prizefighters were world-makers.

This edited collection presents new work by leading international scholars that addresses the multi-layered meaning of frictions within empirical and theoretical research across media and communications, digital technologies, culture and society.

It brings together an impressive range of transnational scholars to offer original perspectives on the dynamics of media friction as social tensions, instabilities and power inequalities. Together, the chapters provide a timely opportunity to understand both the creative force and negative consequences of frictions within media and society.

The book will be of interest to scholars and students of television, media and cultural studies.

How can schools become places where everyone belongs, thrives, and is celebrated?

At a time when diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives are under attack globally, this timely and engaging book offers a powerful call to action, drawing on a diverse range of contributors to show how belonging plays a crucial role in attendance, behaviour, engagement, and achievement. Edited by award-winning education writer Ian Gilbert, it comprises 45 unique contributions from across the education spectrum, offering practical insights and alternative perspectives on creating inclusive, equitable schools. Topics covered include supporting refugee children, neurodiversity, the Muslim experience, gypsy, Romany, and traveller children, supporting teachers of colour and older teachers in their careers, holding difficult conversations, decolonising the curriculum, LGBTQ+ awareness, limb difference, and much more.

The book serves as both a showcase of what can be done to ensure belonging for all members of the school community and a timely response to the consequences of punitive behaviour control approaches. Taking its place alongside two previous best-selling titles also edited by Ian Gilbert, The Working Class and Square Pegs, this volume completes a trilogy fighting to help schools ensure everyone is welcomed, understood, and successful.

This practical and powerful book will benefit all educators, school leaders, policymakers, and those in academia and social care who want to understand better how schools can serve as havens where there genuinely is No Other.

How the cult of capitalism reshaped the American university?and hollowed it out from within.

Over the past several decades, American universities have been remade as engines of entrepreneurial ambition. Technology transfer offices, business incubators, pitch competitions, innovation hubs, and leadership centers now sit at the heart of campus life, radically altering how institutions describe their purpose, structure curricula, and imagine student success. The Start-Up Factory argues that this shift has come at a steep cost.

James Rushing Daniel traces the rise of entrepreneurialism in higher education and shows how universities came to embrace the figure of the founder as both ideal and benefactor. Business leaders?many of them major donors?are celebrated as singular visionaries, their values imported into academic life and framed as models for intellectual work. This reverence, Daniel argues, has narrowed the university's sense of public responsibility for distorted academics, and transformed institutions into finishing schools for aspiring entrepreneurs. Moving across policy and historical documents, institutional rhetoric, teaching materials, site visits, and interviews, The Start-Up Factory documents how entrepreneurial thinking has reshaped the pedagogy, culture, and mission of the American university.

The consequences of this entrepreneurial focus extend far beyond campuses. By promoting the myth of the self-made billionaire, universities help legitimize extreme inequality and normalize forms of power that undermine democratic life. At a moment of deep institutional crisis, when the influence of the billionaire class on college campuses is increasingly absolute and the future of higher education is uncertain, The Start-Up Factory offers a clear-eyed account of how universities arrived here?and why reclaiming their autonomy has become an urgent task.

How repair components of machines reconstructed the distribution networks that connected production to consumption globally.

When machines break, entire systems are exposed. Spare Parts tells the global history of replacement components and shows how their absence?or abundance?has shaped warfare, industry, and everyday life in the twentieth century. Philip Scranton traces the production, distribution, and use of spare parts across capitalist, socialist, and postcolonial economies from World War II through the Cold War.

During WWII, parts proved as decisive as fuel or ammunition, determining whether tanks moved, aircraft flew, and factories functioned. In its aftermath, parts shortages became a chronic problem in centrally planned economies, while market societies faced different dilemmas created by rapid technological change, obsolescence, and corporate strategy. Focusing on vehicles, agricultural machinery, and radio and television technologies, Scranton reveals how repair practices differed across political systems. In socialist states, chronic shortages encouraged improvisation, scavenging, and informal exchange. In capitalist economies, parts became tools of profit, control, and planned abandonment, often pushing consumers toward replacement rather than repair. Scranton also follows spare parts beyond the superpowers, examining how postcolonial nations navigated inherited infrastructures and how parts functioned as instruments of geopolitical leverage.

Charting the decline of repair culture in the late twentieth century, as durable vehicles and disposable electronics reshaped expectations about maintenance and longevity, Spare Parts reframes a familiar frustration as a central feature of modern history and offers new insight into technology, power, and the hidden systems that keep the world running.

Rooted in Eurocentric and North American beliefs, conventional social work theory increasingly fails to address the interconnected, global nature of contemporary social problems. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from across environmental studies, gender studies, philosophy, anthropology and beyond, this edited collection forges a transdisciplinary, decolonial framework for reimagining social work education and practice. It draws on Indigenous knowledges, postcolonial perspectives and the lived realities of communities affected by conflict and migration to model what genuine academic activism looks like.

Structured to support teaching, with learning objectives, case study analyses, chapter summaries and further reading, this is an invaluable resource for educators, students and practitioners committed to decolonised, critically engaged approaches to social work.

The Great Disconnect: The Paradox of India’s Economic Growth and Employment Crisis, examines the paradox of India's remarkable economic growth alongside persistent employment challenges, revealing the complex dynamics of what the author terms "the great disconnect" between development and suitable work opportunities.

Drawing on extensive research and policy experience, Professor K.P. Kannan explores how India's economic reforms have created a troubling divergence between GDP growth and quality employment generation. The book provides critical insights into jobless growth patterns, the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on workers, persistent wage inequalities, and the marginalisation of women and less-educated workers in rural areas. Through detailed analysis of employment elasticity, informal sector dynamics, and social security gaps, Kannan demonstrates how the majority of India's workforce remains trapped in precarious employment without basic protections. The study extends beyond national boundaries to examine similar challenges across the Global South, particularly within BRICS countries, whilst proposing strategies for organising informal workers and achieving inclusive development.

This authoritative work will be essential reading for development economists, labour specialists, policy makers, and researchers examining employment challenges in emerging economies in the Global South. It provides valuable insights for international development agencies, government officials, labour organisations, and academics studying the intersection of economic growth and social development in contemporary India and the broader developing world.

Disruption by Design in Higher Education delivers a clear assessment of the headwinds confronting colleges and universities, offering a comprehensive set of strategies for implementing purposeful and timely change management.

With institutions facing closures and mergers at an alarming rate, each chapter equips leaders with ready-to-use environmental assessment tools to establish a diagnostic baseline and action plan tailored to their institution’s unique needs. The book begins by examining higher education’s identity, current state, and business model, then shifts focus to strategy development and execution, and concludes with three potential futures for institutions along with strategies to navigate them effectively.

Packed with actionable insights addressing pressing issues of institutional governance and finance, this guide is an indispensable resource for academic leaders committed to steering their institutions through transformative change.

Chapter 3 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.taylorfrancis.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 International license.

Bullying affects children's well-being, academic success, and social development. This practical handbook equips teachers and parents with the knowledge, skills, and strategies they need to help prevent and address bullying in schools.

The book offers an evidence-based, structured approach to help teachers recognize, intervene in, and prevent bullying behaviors. Developed from an Erasmus project involving a consortium of schools, universities, and social organisations, the book shows how schools can create a safer, more inclusive environment where students feel protected and supported. Chapters combine theory, pedagogical strategies, real-life scenarios, and hands-on activities and are designed for flexible implementation either through self-study or as part of guided professional development.

Chapters cover:

* Understanding the causes of bullying - unpacking the psychological, social, and environmental factors that contribute to bullying behaviours.

* Enhancing classroom management - establishing positive discipline strategies and creating a safe classroom environment.

* Improving teacher-student relationships - strengthening communication and emotional accessibility between teachers and students to build trust and encourage open discussions.

* Developing effective intervention strategies - how to identify, respond to, and prevent bullying incidents, ensuring early intervention and support for all students involved.

* Collaborating with parents and communities - encouraging cooperation between educators, parents, and communities to create a unified anti-bullying framework in schools.

* Supporting student resilience - teaching students social-emotional learning (SEL) skills that promote self-confidence, healthy peer interactions, and constructive conflict resolution.

Providing readers with a solid understanding of bullying and a wide range of actionable and easy-to-implement strategies to improve school climate and student well-being, this is essential reading for teachers and school leaders.

A groundbreaking feminist and decolonial reading of Edouard Glissant

Forces of Creolization reads Edouard Glissant's poetic and philosophical work through a feminist, decolonial lens, foregrounding creolization as a force of resistance, relationality, and submerged becoming. Drawing on Caribbean poststructuralism, Black feminist thought, and Global South epistemologies, Ruthanne Soohee Kim unveils a method of reading Glissant that centers diffraction, opacity, and errantry?not merely as metaphors but as political and poetic strategies.

Reading Glissant alongside Luce Irigaray, Sylvia Wynter, Saidiya Hartman, and Kamau Brathwaite, Kim shows how creolization resists colonial genealogies, racial essentialism, and patriarchal closure. With her close readings of Glissant's novels, essays, and theoretical writings, Kim theorizes the abyss, the open boat, and the Medusing shoreline as sites where historical trauma becomes creative insurgency. Here, chaos, revolt, and carnival emerge as generative forces of world-making. Forces of Creolization offers an interdisciplinary framework for rethinking kinship, identity, and futurity, and contributes a necessary feminist aperture to Caribbean thought.

Telepathy in the Clinical Process explores telepathy as it appears in the psychoanalytic process, both in contemporary practice and in historical contexts.

The contributors explore striking dynamic and clinical data in considering how telepathy can express itself in transference and countertransference, its profound effect on psychoanalysts, and its frequent role in helping patients in treatment. From a wide range of theoretical persuasions ? relational, Bionian, Winnicottian, contemporary Freudian ? each author explores this phenomenon. Focused on the clinical process, the book contains examples from the contributors’ own practice throughout.

Telepathy in the Clinical Process will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training. It will also be relevant to academics and students of psychoanalytic studies and parapsychology.

Abortion affects millions of lives, and the conversations around it matter.

This book cuts through the noise to explain what abortion really means for people who need it, and why access to safe care is so important. Drawing on real experiences from around the world, it looks at how attitudes to abortion have changed over time, how laws and technology shape people's choices, and what happens when access to abortion rights is limited or denied. It also shows how campaigning and human rights work have helped bring about change-and what still needs to be done.

Inside, you'll find:

• Clear explanations of the social, legal, and health issues surrounding abortion
• Stories and examples from countries including India, Ireland, and South Korea for a global view of reproductive rights
• Real-world cases that show how people have successfully pushed for policy change

Written for students, campaigners, and anyone who wants to understand abortion beyond the headlines, this book offers an informed, human look at one of today's most important issues.

Serving Our Trans Communities: A Collaborative Autoethnography by Academic Musical Activists is a scholarly exploration of transgender experiences across music education, musicology, performance, and activism. Edited by Christopher Cayari, the volume features contributions from seven trans musical academics and activists?Stephanie Byers, Felix A. Graham, Sadie Hochman-Ruiz, Emma Joy Jampole, Tatyana C. Louis-Jacques, William Sauerland, and Cayari themself?with a foreword by Tony E. Adams. The book utilizes collaborative autoethnography as its primary research method, systematically analyzing personal experiences to identify and challenge cultural and institutional norms.

Through the framework of collaborative autoethnography, the authors developed identity statements and epiphany/milestone timelines, engaging in rigorous, iterative cycles of collaborative data gathering and analysis to inform their chapters. Each narrative explores how being transgender influences the authors' experiences in music learning, making, and teaching, while also addressing the essential role of activism in academic, performance, and professional spaces. The book concludes with a multiple case study analysis and a reflective afterword, identifying common and unique experiences within the trans music community. Ultimately, Serving Our Trans Communities aims to empower trans musicians and educators, while serving as a rigorous resource for cisgender allies, scholars, and policymakers seeking to support trans individuals in musical contexts.

The Routledge Handbook of Teaching Practice in Sport and Exercise Science captures contemporary pedagogic practice within sport and exercise science (SES), applicable to both Higher Education (HE) and Further Education (FE). This cutting-edge new reference work covers teaching and learning concepts, curriculum design, assessment and feedback, graduate skill development, student engagement endeavours, and professional development by presenting a series of chapters that share broader teaching concepts and approaches, specific tools and mechanisms to support student learning, and subject-specific examples.

The chapters provide important information regarding real-world examples of how to engage students to become better learners through the lens of sport and exercise pedagogy. It challenges the traditional ways of delivering content to a changing student body to help instructors develop strong curriculum design.

The Routledge Handbook of Teaching Practice in Sport and Exercise Science advances pedagogic practice in SES through practical examples and reflection at both a discipline and individual level. It is a critical resource to support HE and FE academics in their delivery and reflections on their pedagogic practice as well as a useful guide for students in reflecting on their development and learning experiences.

This captivating book tackles one of humanity's most profound questions: what is consciousness, and could we ever recreate it digitally? From ancient myths of immortality to cutting-edge neuroscience, this book takes readers on a fascinating journey through our evolving understanding of the mind. Written in clear, accessible language for curious minds everywhere, it reveals how we've progressed from discovering the first neurons to mapping entire brain networks with revolutionary technologies like fMRI and brain-computer interfaces. At its heart, however, this is a book about consciousness itself: the mysterious experience of being aware, feeling, and thinking that makes us human. It unpacks the leading theories of consciousness and shows why solving this puzzle is crucial to building truly intelligent machines or achieving digital immortality. It also explores the complex relationship between human and artificial intelligence, comparing how our brains learn and think with how modern AI systems operate. While today's AI can beat us at chess and generate human-like text, it lacks the rich inner experience that defines consciousness. Beyond the science, the book also confronts the real challenges of mind uploading: the staggering technical hurdles, the biological complexities of the brain, and the profound philosophical questions about identity and what makes you "you." This thought-provoking exploration will change how you think about consciousness, technology, and what it means to be human in an age of AI. Whether you're fascinated by the future of AI, intrigued by the mysteries of the mind, or simply wondering if immortality might one day be possible, this book offers an engaging and enlightening journey into the deepest questions of our existence. It is an essential read for AI researchers and engineers, neuroscientists and consciousness researchers, futurists and technologists, along with anyone wanting to learn more about the future of AI.

Football, Nationalism and Mega-Events examines how international football contributes to the reproduction of national identity and nationalism, using the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship (Euro 2012) in Poland and Ukraine as a case study.

Through a detailed analysis of football as a cultural and political phenomenon, the book examines how national symbols, rivalries and the collective experience of matches contribute to the reinforcement of nationalist ideologies. It delves into the ways in which football fosters a sense of community among supporters, transforms matches into informal national celebrations and becomes a platform for commercial and diplomatic exploitation of patriotism. Drawing on the constructivist approach to nationalism studies, particularly the concept of “nationalism without nations,” the book challenges traditional assumptions about nationhood and explores the intersection of sport, globalization and the civic versus ethnic definitions of nationality. By incorporating examples from both Western and non-Western contexts, the book offers a fresh perspective on the role of football in shaping the nationalist worldview, with a particular focus on Euro 2012.

This book will appeal to students, academics and researchers interested in nationalism, international relations, sports studies, cultural studies and sociology. It provides valuable insights into the interplay between sport and national identity, making it an essential resource for those studying the dynamics of nationalism in a globalized world.