Twenty years of professionalism has seen rugby union undergo dramatic transformations, from changes to everyday training cultures to the growth of the Rugby World Cup into one of the largest global sporting events.Rugby Union and Professionalism is the first book to examine the effect that professionalism has had across a number of different aspects of the game and the wider socio-cultural significance of these changes through case studies from across the globe.
Drawing on contributions from scholars from across the rugby-playing world, the book explores the role of rugby's professionalisation through a number of social-scientific lenses, including:
Offering insights into under-researched areas of the sport, such as the growth of Rugby Sevens into an Olympic sport and rugby in the United States, and providing the most up-to-date recent history of the sport available,Rugby Union and Professionalism is essential reading for anyone with an academic interest in rugby, and any student or scholar with interests in sports history, sports sociology or the economics of professional sport.
John Nauright is Professor of Sport and Leisure Management at the University of Brighton, UK. He is editor ofMaking Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity (Winner: World in Union 2015 Book Award (edited text) presented by the World Rugby Museum); andMaking the Rugby World: Race, Gender, Commerce. He is author of Rugby and the South African Nation(Winner: World in Union 2015 Book Award (authored academic book)) and Long Run to Freedom: Sport, Cultures and Identities in South Africa. His 4 volume edited workSport Around the World: History, Culture and Practice was awarded as a Best Reference Work of 2013 byLibrary Journal. He is also editor of the Routledge Companion to Sport History among his many other works. He has researched on rugby in New Zealand, Australia and South Africa
Tony Collins is Professor of Sport History and former Director of the International Centre for Sport History and Culture at De Montfort University, UK. His authored books,The Great Split; Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain; and A Social History of English Rugby all won the prestigious Lord Aberdare Prize for the Best Book of the Year in Sports History, the latter also being awarded Best Authored Academic Text at the World in Union 2015 Book Awards. His latest book isThe Oval World which charts a global history of rugby football in all its forms from inception to the present day
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