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.
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 ...
Racism and English Football: For Club and Country
1st Edition
By Daniel Burdsey
May 20, 2022
Racism and English Football: For Club and Country analyses the contemporary manifestations, outcomes and implications of the fractious relationship between English professional football and race. Racism, we were told, had disappeared from English football. It was relegated to a distant past, and ...
Doping in Sport: A Defence
1st Edition
By Thomas Søbirk Petersen
May 06, 2022
In this provocative and thought-provoking book, Professor of Ethics Thomas Søbirk Petersen explains why the World Anti-Doping Agency’s doping rules are poorly justified and makes a case for a new third way in anti-doping policy that would allow athletes to use substances and methods currently on ...
Rugby in Global Perspective: Playing on the Periphery
1st Edition
Edited
By John Harris, Nicholas Wise
March 31, 2021
This book critically examines how rugby union has developed in recent years, in nations on the periphery of the sport. Focusing on people and places on the fringes, it examines contemporary issues and challenges within the global game.Such a collection is timely, as the sport’s governing body seeks...
Sport, Education and Corporatisation: Spaces of Connection, Contestation and Creativity
1st Edition
By Geoffery Z. Kohe, Holly Collison
December 18, 2020
Using an interdisciplinary approach, Sport, Education and Corporatisation offers an important critique of the intersection between sport organisations, commercial agendas and educational development. It reveals a discomforting interplay between sector stakeholders that has been normalised via ...
Who Owns Sport?
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Adams, Leigh Robinson
December 18, 2020
This fascinating collection of essays explores the complex economic, political, cultural and social claims over sport, from multi-disciplinary perspectives including philosophy, history, political science and management. The book seeks to uncover some of the tensions and dilemmas wrapped up within ...
Rethinking Sports and Integration: Developing a Transnational Perspective on Migrants and Descendants in Sports
1st Edition
By Sine Agergaard
December 03, 2019
Rethinking Sports and Integration offers a critical cultural analysis of the idea that sport can promote the integration of migrants and their descendants. It examines the origins of this idea and the concept of integration, and analyzes the problems in focus, the methods applied and the results of...
Christianity and the Transformation of Physical Education and Sport in China
1st Edition
By Huijie Zhang, Fan Hong, Fuhua Huang
May 17, 2019
Despite the popularity of sport in contemporary China, the practice of physical education is not indigenous to its culture. Strenuous physical activity was traditionally linked to low class and status in the pre-modern Chinese society. The concept of modern PE was introduced to China by Western ...
Skill Transmission, Sport and Tacit Knowledge: A Sociological Perspective
1st Edition
By Honorata Jakubowska
May 07, 2019
Teaching the skills necessary to play sport depends partly on transmitting knowledge verbally, yet non-verbal or tacit knowledge also has an important role. A coach may tell a young athlete to 'move more dynamically', but it is undoubtedly easier to demonstrate with the body itself how this should ...
Sport in Iceland: How Small Nations Achieve International Success
1st Edition
By Vidar Halldorsson
May 07, 2019
Iceland is a tiny Nordic nation with a population of just 330,000 and no professional sports leagues, and yet its soccer, basketball and handball teams have all qualified for major international tournaments in recent years. This fascinating study argues that team sport success is culturally ...