Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
The Olympic Games and Cultural Policy
1st Edition
By Beatriz Garcia
June 19, 2014
This book explores how cultural policies are reflected in the design, management and promotion of the Olympic Games. Garcia examines the concept and evolution of cultural policies throughout the recent history of the Olympic Games and then specifically evaluates the cultural program of the Sydney ...
Sport and Its Female Fans
1st Edition
Edited
By Kim Toffoletti, Peter Mewett
June 02, 2014
Why do women follow sports? How do they participate from the sidelines and what is the significance of this contribution? What can female fandom tell us about gender relations in sport? This book explores these and related questions by bringing together the varied strands of research being ...
Sports Governance, Development and Corporate Responsibility
1st Edition
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By Barbara Segaert, Marc Theeboom, Christiane Timmerman, Bart Vanreusel
June 02, 2014
The call for sport organizations and organizers to take up social responsibilities is reflected in a wide variety of sport-related practices. This book critically examines sport-related social interventions in different cultural settings, such as promoting local community-building by sport. Social ...
Host Cities and the Olympics: An Interactionist Approach
1st Edition
By Harry Hiller
March 27, 2014
Rather than interpreting the Olympics as primarily a sporting event of international or national significance, this book understands the Games as a civic project for the host city that serves as a catalyst for a variety of urban interests over a period of many years from the bidding phase through ...
The Global Horseracing Industry: Social, Economic, Environmental and Ethical Perspectives
1st Edition
By Phil McManus, Glenn Albrecht, Raewyn Graham
March 27, 2014
Horseracing, thoroughbred breeding and gambling on racing are global industries worth several hundred billion dollars. They are also industries facing serious challenges, from the rise of alternative forms of leisure gambling to concerns about the ethical treatment of animals in all equestrian ...
Theology, Ethics and Transcendence in Sports
1st Edition
Edited
By Jim Parry, Mark Nesti, Nick Watson
November 08, 2013
This book provides an inter-disciplinary examination of the relationship between sport, spirituality and religion. It covers a wide-range of topics, such as prayer and sport, religious and spiritual perspectives on athletic identity and ‘flow’ in sport, theological analysis of genetic performance ...
The Cultural Politics of Post-9/11 American Sport: Power, Pedagogy and the Popular
1st Edition
By Michael Silk
September 20, 2013
Much of the writing on the post-9/11 period in the United States has focused on the role of "official" Government rhetoric about 9/11. Those who have focused on the news media have suggested that they played a key role in (re)defining the nation, allowing the citizenry to come to terms with 9/11, ...
Ultimate Fighting and Embodiment: Violence, Gender and Mixed Martial Arts
1st Edition
By Dale C. Spencer
September 20, 2013
Mixed martial arts (MMA) is an emergent sport where competitors in a ring or cage utilize strikes (punches, kicks, elbows and knees) as well as submission techniques to defeat opponents. This book explores the carnal experience of fighting through a sensory ethnography of MMA, and how it ...
The Organisation and Governance of Top Football Across Europe: An Institutional Perspective
1st Edition
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By Hallgeir Gammelsæter, Benoit Senaux
June 05, 2013
This book aims to provide an extensive overview of how football is organized and managed on a European level and in individual European countries, and to account for the evolution of the national, international and transnational management of football over the last decades....
Race, Ethnicity and Football: Persisting Debates and Emergent Issues
1st Edition
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By Daniel Burdsey
May 23, 2013
As the first edited collection dedicated specifically to race, ethnicity and British football, this book brings together a range of academics, comprising both established commentators and up-and-coming voices. Combining theoretical and empirical contributions, the volume addresses a wide variety of...
Sport and Social Mobility: Crossing Boundaries
1st Edition
By Ramón Spaaij
May 23, 2013
Can sport serve as a vehicle for social mobility of disadvantaged social groups? How and to what extent are different forms of social capital created through sport participation? Sport and Social Mobility: Crossing Boundaries takes up these questions through a critical examination of the ways in ...
Critical Readings in Bodybuilding
1st Edition
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By Adam Locks, Niall Richardson
March 11, 2013
In recent years the ‘body’ has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Bodybuilding, in particular, continues to be of interest to scholars of gender, media, film, cultural studies and sociology. However, there is surprisingly little scholarship ...