Sport and Social Movements: From the Local to the Global (Globalizing Sport Studies)

Jean Harvey is a Professor at the School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Canada. He is the Founding Director of the Research Centre for Sport in Canadian Society at the same university. He is the author of several books, journal articles, book chapters and editor of several special issues for different academic journals. His books include Not Just a Game: issues in Canadian Sport Sociology (University of Ottawa Press, 1988 , co-edited with Hart Cantelon) and Image-Building in Canadian Municipalities (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012, co-edited with Robert Young). His main areas of research are public sport policy and sport in the context of globalization.

John Horne is Professor of Sport and Sociology, with the School of Sport, Tourism and the Outdoors, at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.

Parissa Safai is an Associate Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science in the Faculty of Health at York University. Her research interests focus on the critical study of sport at the intersection of risk, health and healthcare. This includes research on sports' "culture of risk", the development and social organization of sport and exercise medicine, as well as the social determinants of athletes' health. Her work has been published in such journals as the Sociology of Sport Journal, the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Sport History Review and the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin canadien?d'histoire de la médecine.

Sébastien Courchesne-O'Neill is a Doctoral Candidate in the School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Canada.

Simon Darnell is a Lecturer in Sport in the School of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University, UK. His main research focus is the social and political dimensions of sport-for-development. He also conducts research into international sport policy, with a focus on Cuba, as well as the role of sport in promoting global citizenship. He is the author of Sport for Development and Peace: A Critical Sociology (2012, Bloomsbury Academic). His work has also been published in the Sociology of Sport Journal, Development in Practice, and the Journal of Global Citizenship and Equity Education.