Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Beyond Sport for Development and Peace: Transnational Perspectives on Theory, Policy and Practice
1st Edition
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By Lyndsay M. C. Hayhurst, Tess Kay, Megan Chawansky
April 28, 2017
Debates around the ‘sport for development and peace’ (SDP) movement have entered a new phase, moving on from simple questions surrounding the utility of sport as a tool of international development. Beyond Sport for Development and Peace argues that critical research and new perspectives and ...
Endurance Running: A Socio-Cultural Examination
1st Edition
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By William Bridel, Pirkko Markula, Jim Denison
April 28, 2017
Running is a fundamental human activity and holds an important place in popular culture. In recent decades it has exploded in popularity as a leisure pursuit, with marathons and endurance challenges exerting a strong fascination. Endurance Running is the first collection of original qualitative ...
Female Fans of the NFL: Taking Their Place in the Stands
1st Edition
By Anne Cunningham Osborne, Danielle Sarver Coombs
April 28, 2017
In the past, sport, particularly football, has been defined as a male domain. Women’s interest stereotypically ranges from gentle tolerance to active resistance. But increasingly, women are proudly identifying themselves as supporters of their teams, and have become highly desirable audiences for ...
Mega-Events and Globalization: Capital and Spectacle in a Changing World Order
1st Edition
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By Richard Gruneau, John Horne
April 28, 2017
Since the turn of the twenty first century, there has been a trend for urban "mega events" to be awarded to cities and nations in the East and Global South. Such events have been viewed as economic stimulant as well as opportunities to promote national identity, gain greater international ...
Skateboarding: Subcultures, Sites and Shifts
1st Edition
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By Kara-Jane Lombard
April 28, 2017
This book explores the cultural, social, spatial, and political dynamics of skateboarding, drawing on contributions from leading international experts across a range of disciplines, such as sociology and philosophy of sport, architecture, anthropology, ecology, cultural studies, sociology, ...
Sport in Islam and in Muslim Communities
1st Edition
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By Alberto Testa, Mahfoud Amara
April 28, 2017
As Islam’s visibility in global society increases, Muslim populations grow, and Muslim countries compete to take up positions at the heart of global sport, the interplay between sport and Islam becomes ever more illuminating. Sport in Islam and in Muslim Communities is the first book to analyse ...
Asian American Athletes in Sport and Society
1st Edition
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By C. Richard King
March 10, 2017
For more than a century, sporting spectacles, media coverage, and popular audiences have staged athletics in black and white. Commercial, media, and academic accounts have routinely erased, excluded, ignored, and otherwise made absent the Asian American presence in sport. This book seeks to redress...
Researching Embodied Sport: Exploring movement cultures
1st Edition
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By Ian Wellard
March 10, 2017
Despite a growing interest in the sociology of the body, there has to date been a lack of scholarly work addressing the embodied aspects which form a central part of our understanding and experience of sport and movement cultures. Researching Embodied Sport explores the political, social and ...
Sport and Nationalism in China
1st Edition
By Lu Zhouxiang, Fan Hong
March 10, 2017
This book examines the relationships between sport, nationalism and nation building in China. By exploring the last 150 years of Chinese history, it offers unparalleled depth and breadth of coverage and provides a clear grasp of Chinese sports nationalism from both macro and micro perspectives. ...
Sport, Animals, and Society
1st Edition
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By James Gillett, Michelle Gilbert
March 10, 2017
This book advances current literature on the role and place of animals in sport and society. It explores different forms of sporting spaces, examines how figures of animals have been used to racialize the human athlete, and encourages the reader to think critically about animal ethics, animals in ...
Football and Accelerated Culture: This Modern Sporting Life
1st Edition
By Steve Redhead
February 07, 2017
In Football and Accelerated Culture, Steve Redhead offers a new and challenging theorisation of global football culture, exploring the relationship between sport and culture in a rapidly shifting world. Incorporating cutting-edge concepts, from accelerated culture and claustropolitanism to ...
Asia and the Future of Football: The Role of the Asian Football Confederation
1st Edition
By Ben Weinberg
January 30, 2017
Football is the most popular sport in the world. Globalisation and commercialisation of the game, however, have created new conflicts and challenges. This book explores the role of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) within the rising significance of football in Asia, drawing on three key ...