Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
About the Book Series
Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society showcases the latest cutting-edge research in the sociology of sport and exercise. Concise in form (20,000-50,000 words) and published quickly (within three months), the books in this series represents an important channel through which authors can disseminate their research swiftly and make an impact on current debates. We welcome submissions on any topic within the socio-cultural study of sport and exercise, including but not limited to subjects such as gender, race, sexuality, disability, politics, the media, social theory, Olympic Studies, and the ethics and philosophy of sport. The series aims to be theoretically-informed, empirically-grounded and international in reach, and will include a diversity of methodological approaches.
Olympic Outliers: Brisbane 2032 and the Future of the Olympic Games
1st Edition
By Peter English
October 02, 2025
This book examines the significance of the Brisbane Olympics and Paralympics, taking place in 2032, in the context of the history and future of the Olympic Movement. As an outlier host, Brisbane is an experiment towards a new Olympic and Paralympic future. In an era of rising costs, the Brisbane ...
Sport, Leadership, and Social Inclusion
1st Edition
By Hans Erik Næss, Mari Svendsen
June 04, 2025
This book considers how sport organizations can create inclusive practices to strengthen social progress, focusing on the importance of leadership in fostering positive change. Drawing on original research, and adopting a meso-level, multi-disciplinary approach that includes perspectives from sport...
Sport and Social Media in Business and Society
1st Edition
By Gashaw Abeza, Ryan King-White
May 06, 2025
This concise, practical book examines the significance of social media for the sport industry, explaining key concepts and sharing tools and best practice for the use of social media in sport business communication. Accessibly written and avoiding jargon, the book considers the history, development...
Olympic Laws: Culture, Values, Tensions
1st Edition
By Mark James, Guy Osborn
January 30, 2025
Olympic Laws: Culture, Values, Tensions is the first book to analyse fully the Olympic legal framework and its application to the IOC and the Olympic Games through a socio-legal lens. It opens up a new window into understanding the Olympic Games across recent iterations of the Games and on to ...
The Olympic Games, Sports Law and Human Rights
1st Edition
By Alexandre Miguel Mestre
December 19, 2024
This book explores the relationship between sports law, the Olympic Movement and human rights. Examining the historical legal roots of contemporary "Olympic law", including the ancient history of the Olympic Games and the legacy of Pierre de Coubertin, this book shines new light on one of the most ...
National Symbols at the Olympic Games: An Olympics Without Flags?
1st Edition
By Jörg Krieger
November 19, 2024
This provocative book makes the case for the complete removal of national symbolism in the Olympic Games. Focusing on the case of national flags at the Olympic Games, it explores the history of national symbols at the Olympics and asks what this issue can tell us about the politicisation of sport ...
Essentials of Cerebral Palsy Football
1st Edition
Edited
By Iván Peña González, Raúl Reina Vaillo, Manuel Moya-Ramón
November 07, 2024
Essentials of Cerebral Palsy Football introduces the reader to the practice of Cerebral Palsy (CP) football. This is a worldwide 7-a-side style of football played by people with CP and acquired brain injuries. CP football is played across the world in over seventy countries covering six continents ...
Sport Policy Across the United Kingdom: A Comparative Analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Mathew Dowling, Spencer Harris, Chris Mackintosh
October 09, 2024
This book provides a comparative analysis of sport and physical activity policies, processes, and practices across the home nations (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland) of the United Kingdom. Drawing upon in-depth analysis by internationally recognised experts within the sport policy ...
Skateboarding and the Senses: Skills, Surfaces, and Spaces
1st Edition
By Sander Hölsgens, Brian Glenney
September 20, 2024
This book presents a new perspective on skateboarding, centred on the senses, skill acquisition, embodiment, and the concept of "city craft". Skateboarding and the Senses traces how skaters use their skilled bodies to bring vitality to contested spaces. Building on sensory anthropology, the book ...
Sport, Forced Migration and the 'Refugee Crisis'
1st Edition
By Enrico Michelini
August 26, 2024
Drawing on original research, this book looks at what sport can tell us about the social processes, patterns and outcomes of forced migration and the 'refugee crisis'. Adopting a systems theory framework and examining different sport disciplines, performance levels and settings, it represents a ...
On Boxing: Critical Interventions in the Bittersweet Science
1st Edition
By Joseph D Lewandowski
May 31, 2023
This book is a philosophical and cultural critique of contemporary boxing. It broadens and deepens our understanding of the empirically and normatively entwined complexities of a sport that is often misunderstood and all too easily reduced to stereotypes. Moving between and among work in ...
Referees, Match Officials and Abuse: Research and Implications for Policy
1st Edition
By Tom Webb, Mike Rayner, Jamie Cleland, Jimmy O'Gorman
May 30, 2022
This book explores issues related to the abuse of referees and match officials in sport. Drawing on original empirical research in football, rugby union, rugby league and cricket, it provides an insight into the complexities involved in the recruitment, retention and development processes of match ...