Jean Harvey

Jean Harvey is a Professor at the School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Canada. He is the Founding Director of the Research Centre for Sport in Canadian Society at the same university. He is the author of several books, journal articles, book chapters and editor of several special issues for different academic journals. His books include Not Just a Game: issues in Canadian Sport Sociology (University of Ottawa Press, 1988 , co-edited with Hart Cantelon) and Image-Building in...See more

Jean Harvey is a Professor at the School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Canada. He is the Founding Director of the Research Centre for Sport in Canadian Society at the same university. He is the author of several books, journal articles, book chapters and editor of several special issues for different academic journals. His books include Not Just a Game: issues in Canadian Sport Sociology (University of Ottawa Press, 1988 , co-edited with Hart Cantelon) and Image-Building in Canadian Municipalities (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012, co-edited with Robert Young). His main areas of research are public sport policy and sport in the context of globalization. See less