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Maarten van Bottenburg

Maarten van Bottenburg (1962) is professor of Sport Development at the School of Governance of Utrecht University. He studied sociology at Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. After graduating at the University of Amsterdam (cum laude), he was attached to the University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research from 1988 to 1992. In 1994, he obtained his doctorate in the social sciences cum laude with a thesis on the differential popularization of sports.

In 2001, a revised edition of this doctorate study was published by the University of Illinois Press, entitled Global Games. Discussing apparently simple questions - such as why soccer is the most popular sport in the world but not in the United States and why the sports pattern of Australia is so much resembling that of Great Britain – this book not only aims to give an explanation for the differential spread and popularization of sports throughout the world, but also a clearer understanding of the genesis of our global culture and of remaining cultural differences.

Career


1992 – 1998		Founder and partner of Diopter – Social science research company

1998 – 2002		Founder, associate and managing director of Diopter – Janssens & Van Bottenburg bv, a private social science research company specialized in matters of sports policy.

2002 – 2007		Co-founder and director of W.J.H. Mulier Institute – Centre for Research on Sports in Society, a joint venture of the University of Amsterdam, Tilburg University, and Utrecht University. From 2002 to 2006, Maarten van Bottenburg was research director of this institute.

2004 – 2009		Special professor (bijzonder hoogleraar) of Sport Development at the Utrecht School of Governance of Utrecht University

2004 – 2009		Lecturer in Sport Business at the School of Economics of Fontys University of Applied Sciences

Since 2010		Full professor of Sport Development at the Utrecht School of Governance of Utrecht University

Publications
Van Bottenburg published several books and reports in the field of the sociology of sport, sports management and sport policy. He was the author or co-author of books such as Global Games (University of Illinois Press, 2001), Sports Participation in the European Union. Trends and differences (Arko Spors Media, 2005) and The Global Sporting Arms Race (Meyer & Meyer, 2008). In addition to this research in the field of sport, Van Bottenburg published jubilee volumes of significant Dutch institutions in the realm of labour relations, health care and social security.

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Contact

Prof. dr. M. van Bottenburg
Utrecht University
School of Governance
Bijlhouwerstraat 6
3511 ZC Utrecht
The Netherlands

0031 30 253 1573/8101

0031 6 17444171