When celebrity athletes are ‘social movement entrepreneurs’: A study of the role of elite runners in run-for-peace events in post-conflict Kenya in 2008

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 929-957

  Wilson, Brian ^a   Van Luijk, Nicolien ^a   Boit, Michael K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b KENYATTA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

celebrity; Kenya; peace; reconciliation; running; social movements; sport

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947436135     PISSN: 10126902     EISSN: 14617218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1012690213506005     Document Type: Article

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