Football 'wantok': Sport and social capital in Vanuatu

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 38-53

  Kobayashi, Tsutomu ^a   Nicholson, Matthew ^b   Hoye, Russell ^b  

^a CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

football; networks; resources; social capital; Vanuatu

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872732637     PISSN: 10126902     EISSN: 14617218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1012690211423141     Document Type: Article

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