Unions, Leagues and Franchises: The Social Organisation of Rugby Union in New Zealand

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dc.contributor.authorObel, Camillaen
dc.date.accessioned2008-09-05T03:45:53Z
dc.date.available2008-09-05T03:45:53Z
dc.date.issued2001en
dc.description.abstractThe thesis analyses the amateur game of rugby union by focussing upon the struggles for control between national and local unions and players. Using historical material and interviews with administrators, current players in the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks, and Canterbury, a local provincial union, I show how the game of rugby union consolidated as the national game. I follow these actors through the shift to a global professional game sponsored by television networks and show how the local advantages in the New Zealand game come to be reconfigured in this context.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/914
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26021/4779
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Canterbury. Sociology and Anthropologyen
dc.relation.isreferencedbyNZCUen
dc.rightsCopyright Camilla Obelen
dc.rights.urihttps://canterbury.libguides.com/rights/thesesen
dc.subjectrugby unionen
dc.subjectprofessionalismen
dc.subjectamateurismen
dc.subjectleaguesen
dc.subjectnational sporten
dc.subjectfranchisesen
dc.titleUnions, Leagues and Franchises: The Social Organisation of Rugby Union in New Zealanden
dc.typeTheses / Dissertations
thesis.degree.disciplineSociologyen
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Canterburyen
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen
uc.bibnumber781127en
uc.collegeFaculty of Artsen
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