Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Health and Elite Sport: Is High Performance Sport a Healthy Pursuit?
1st Edition
Edited
By Joseph Baker, Parissa Safai, Jessica Fraser-Thomas
May 26, 2016
Health and Elite Sport is the first book to critically examine the relationship between participation in high performance sport and health outcomes. Drawing on theory and empirical data from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, developmental psychology, epidemiology, and physical ...
Safeguarding, Child Protection and Abuse in Sport: International Perspectives in Research, Policy and Practice
1st Edition
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By Melanie Lang, Mike Hartill
January 20, 2016
The safeguarding of children and young people participating in sport has become an increasingly prominent concern in policy-making and research communities around the world. Major organisations such as the IOC and UNICEF now officially recognize that children in sport can be at risk of exploitation...
The Youth Olympic Games
1st Edition
Edited
By Dag Vidar Hanstad, Milena Parent, Barrie Houlihan
November 05, 2015
The first summer Youth Olympic Games (YOG) were held in Singapore in 2010 and the first winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck in 2012. The IOC hopes that the YOG will encourage young people to be more active and that they will bring the Olympic movement closer to its original founding values. ...
Sport and Body Politics in Japan
1st Edition
By Wolfram Manzenreiter
September 16, 2015
There is more to Japanese sport than sumo, karate and baseball. This study of social sport in Japan pursues a comprehensive approach towards sport as a distinctive cultural sphere at the intersection of body culture, political economy, and cultural globalization. Bridging the gap between Bourdieu ...
Sport, Public Broadcasting, and Cultural Citizenship: Signal Lost?
1st Edition
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By Jay Scherer, David Rowe
September 16, 2015
This book examines the political debates over the access to live telecasts of sport in the digital broadcasting era. It outlines the broad theoretical debates, political positions and policy calculations over the provision of live, free-to-air telecasts of sport as a right of cultural citizenship. ...
Rethinking Drug Use in Sport: Why the war will never be won
1st Edition
By Bob Stewart, Aaron C.T. Smith
July 22, 2015
Drug free sport is an unattainable aspiration. In this critical, paradigm-shifting reappraisal of contemporary drug policy in sport, Bob Stewart and Aaron Smith argue that drug use in sport is an inexorable consequence of the nature, structure and culture of sport itself. By de-mythologising and ...
Sport in Prison: Exploring the Role of Physical Activity in Correctional Settings
1st Edition
By Rosie Meek
June 08, 2015
Although prison can present a critical opportunity to engage with offenders through interventions and programming, reoffending rates among those released from prison remain stubbornly high. Sport can be a means through which to engage with even the most challenging and complex individuals caught up...
Sport Across Asia: Politics, Cultures, and Identities
1st Edition
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By Katrin Bromber, Birgit Krawietz, Joseph Maguire
May 21, 2015
This book is designed to reflect both our current knowledge regarding sport, globalisation and ‘"encounters" with several important "post-colonial" or non-western societies and to draw together scholars from a range of different disciplines. Case studies of cultural encounters in Central, ...
Sport Policy in Britain
1st Edition
By Barrie Houlihan, Iain Lindsey
May 21, 2015
Since 1990, Britain has seen a period of unprecedented public investment in, and political commitment to, sport. In this book, Iain Lindsey and Barrie Houlihan examine and analyze sport policy since the appointment of John Major as leader of the Conservative Party in 1990. John Major’s period as ...
Sports Coaching Research: Context, Consequences, and Consciousness
1st Edition
By Anthony Bush, Michael Silk, David Andrews, Hugh Lauder
May 21, 2015
This book raises critical questions about the explanatory framework guiding sports coaching research and presents a new conceptualization for research in the field. Through mapping and contextualizing sports coaching research within a corporatized higher education, the dominant or legitimate forms ...
Sports and Christianity: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Nick J. Watson, Andrew Parker
May 21, 2015
This interdisciplinary text examines the sports-Christianity interface from Protestant and Catholic perspectives. In addition to a "systematic review of literature," field-pioneering contributors such as Michael Novak, Shirl Hoffman, Joseph Price and Robert Higgs address a wide range of topics from...
The Fantasy Sport Industry: Games within Games
1st Edition
By Andrew C. Billings, Brody Ruihley
May 21, 2015
Fantasy sport has become big business. Recent estimates suggest that there as many as 27 million fantasy sport participants in the US alone, spending $1.5bn annually, with many millions more around the world. This is the first in-depth study of fantasy sport as a cultural and social phenomenon and ...