Volume 63 June 2012

Contents

Special Issue: Olympic and world sport: making transnational society?

Editors:  Richard Giulianotti and Susan Brownell

Introduction: Olympic and world sport: making transnational society?|   Richard Giulianotti and Susan Brownell

• Mapping the global football field: a sociological model of transnational forces within the world game  Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson
• Planning for the worst: risk, uncertainty and the Olympic Games  Philip Boyle and Kevin D. Haggerty
• The regeneration games: purity and security int he Olympic city  Pete Fussey, Jon Coaffee, Gary Armstrong and Dick Hobbs
• The bid, the lead -up, the event and the legacy  David Rowe
• Human rights and the Beijing Olympics: imagined global community and the transnational public sphere  Susan Brownell
• 'Our struggles are bigger than the World Cup': civic activism, state-society relations and the socio-political legacies of the 2010 FIFA World Cup   Scarlett Cornelissen

Watching football

• Football's coming home?: Digital reterritorialization contradictions in the transnational coverage of sport and the sociology of alternative football broadcasts  Matthew David and Peter Millward
• Fans, homophobia and masculinities in association football: evidence of a more inclusive environment  Ellis Cashmore and Jamie Cleland