The 2023 FIFA Women''s World Cup: Politics, Representation, and Management

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Adam Beissel is Associate Professor of Sport Leadership & Management at Miami University Ohio USA. Adams research and scholarship interrogates the political economy of international sport events and the geopolitics of sport. In addition to his research involving the 2023 FIFA Womens World Cup hes currently working on a research project exploring the geopolitics of the 2026 FIFA Mens World Cup jointly hosted by the United States Mexico and Canada. Twitter: @extrabeisshitVerity Postlethwaite is Doctoral Prize Fellow at Loughborough University UK and Research Associate in the Japan Research Centre at SOAS. Veritys main interests focus on how sport events and other cultural entities have been used in local national and international contexts to influence the governing of society in particular around notions of inclusivity. Her recent research focuses on important aspects of gender sustainability and disability. Twitter: @verity_posAndrew Grainger is Senior Lecturer in the sociology of sport and sport development in the School of Sport Exercise and Nutrition at Massey University New Zealand. Andys research and teaching focus primarily on the globalisation of sport and the impact of neoliberal ideology and practices on local physical cultural meanings and practices. His current research explores the intersections of sport policy sport diplomacy and womens football in Aotearoa New Zealand. Twitter: @Andy_D_GraingerJulie E. Brice is Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at California State University Fullerton USA. Julies research and scholarship focuses on the socio-cultural and political forces that impact womens experiences of their moving bodies and across womens sports more broadly. This includes explorations into the activewear phenomenon and womens fitness New Zealand womens experiences of wellbeing and sport and promotional messaging of the United States Womens National Team (USWNT). Twitter: @jubrice5