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The field of sports development is becoming ever more
professional, with the levels of expertise in planning and
efficiency required of those working in private or national sports
institutions higher than they have ever been. In response to this,
strategic sports development has emerged as a means of applying
business strategies to the context of sports development. Strategic
Sports Development is the first book to directly address this
important new field.
The book comprehensively explains the strategic concepts and
techniques that sports students and practitioners across the UK and
internationally need to understand. It includes:
- national and local case studies that appraise existing
strategic management practice in sports development
- separate full introductions to sports development and business
strategy
- a range of tasks and resources that encourage the reader to
develop knowledge, skills and competencies through the application
of theory to practical examples
- the application of strategic management principles to the
development of sport and development through sport
- everything the reader needs to engage meaningfully with the
relevant National Occupational Standards for the sport development
profession.
Strategic Sports Development is designed to help students
develop the practical skills needed to contribute to development
strategy in a vocational context, and give practitioners the
confidence and know-how to improve the strategic development of
their sports organization. This book is essential reading for all
students and practitioners of strategic sports development, and a
valuable resource for students of sports management or development
in general.
The field of sports development is becoming ever more professional,
with the levels of expertise in planning and efficiency required of
those working in private or national sports institutions higher
than they have ever been. In response to this, strategic sports
development has emerged as a means of applying business strategies
to the context of sports development. Strategic Sports Development
is the first book to directly address this important new field. The
book comprehensively explains the strategic concepts and techniques
that sports students and practitioners across the UK and
internationally need to understand. It includes: national and local
case studies that appraise existing strategic management practice
in sports development separate full introductions to sports
development and business strategy a range of tasks and resources
that encourage the reader to develop knowledge, skills and
competencies through the application of theory to practical
examples the application of strategic management principles to the
development of sport and development through sport everything the
reader needs to engage meaningfully with the relevant National
Occupational Standards for the sport development profession.
Strategic Sports Development is designed to help students develop
the practical skills needed to contribute to development strategy
in a vocational context, and give practitioners the confidence and
know-how to improve the strategic development of their sports
organization. This book is essential reading for all students and
practitioners of strategic sports development, and a valuable
resource for students of sports management or development in
general.
With an ethnography of the largest contraband economy in the
Americas running through Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, Outlaw Capital
shows how transgressive economies and gray spaces are central to
globalized capitalism. A key site on the China-Paraguay-Brazil
trade route, Ciudad del Este moves billions of dollars’ worth of
consumer goods—everything from cell phones to whiskey—providing
cheap transit to Asian manufacturers and invisible subsidies to
Brazilian consumers. A vibrant popular economy of Paraguayan street
vendors and Brazilian "ant contrabandistas" capture some of the
city’s profits, contesting the social distribution of wealth
through an insurgent urban epistemology of use, need, and care. Yet
despite the city’s centrality, it is narrated as a backward,
marginal, and lawless place. Outlaw Capital contests these
sensationalist stories, showing how uneven development and the
Paraguayan state made Ciudad de Este a gray space of profitable
transgression. By studying the everyday illegalities of both elite
traders and ordinary workers, Jennifer L. Tucker shows how
racialized narratives of economic legitimacy across scales—not
legal compliance—sort whose activities count as formal and legal
and whose are targeted for reform or expulsion. Ultimately, reforms
criminalized the popular economy while legalizing, protecting, and
"whitening" elite illegalities.
With an ethnography of the largest contraband economy in the
Americas running through Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, Outlaw Capital
shows how transgressive economies and gray spaces are central to
globalized capitalism. A key site on the China-Paraguay-Brazil
trade route, Ciudad del Este moves billions of dollars’ worth of
consumer goods—everything from cell phones to whiskey—providing
cheap transit to Asian manufacturers and invisible subsidies to
Brazilian consumers. A vibrant popular economy of Paraguayan street
vendors and Brazilian "ant contrabandistas" capture some of the
city’s profits, contesting the social distribution of wealth
through an insurgent urban epistemology of use, need, and care. Yet
despite the city’s centrality, it is narrated as a backward,
marginal, and lawless place. Outlaw Capital contests these
sensationalist stories, showing how uneven development and the
Paraguayan state made Ciudad de Este a gray space of profitable
transgression. By studying the everyday illegalities of both elite
traders and ordinary workers, Jennifer L. Tucker shows how
racialized narratives of economic legitimacy across scales—not
legal compliance—sort whose activities count as formal and legal
and whose are targeted for reform or expulsion. Ultimately, reforms
criminalized the popular economy while legalizing, protecting, and
"whitening" elite illegalities.
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