Product details
- ISBN 9789048561056
- Weight: 660g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 25 Oct 2024
- Publisher: Pallas Publications
- Publication City/Country: NL
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Helen Macnaughtan is Senior Lecturer in International Management for Japan at SOAS, University of London, UK. Helen has been the chair of the SOAS Japan Research Centre and was the Convenor of the Centre’s Sport Symposia Series. Her research interests focus on topics relating to gender equality, women, work and employment as well as gender and sport in Japan. Her sport research and publications have focused on the history of women’s volleyball within the Japanese textile industry and the legacy of their gold medal victory at the Tokyo 1964 Olympics, as well as the history of men’s corporate rugby teams and the role of sport in soft power strategy in Japan.
Verity Postlethwaite is Vice-Chancellor Independent Research Fellow in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, UK. She also holds a visiting position as a Research Associate at the Japan Research Centre, SOAS, University of London. Her research is broadly focused on international sport events with a particular interest in how sport and other cultural entities have been used in local, national, and international contexts to govern society.
