Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
The Myth of Michael Jordan in Popular Culture
1st Edition
By Tomasz Jacheć
July 30, 2025
This book examines the life and career of Michael Jordan, one of the greatest athletes in the history of sports, asking how he transcended his sport to become a canonical myth in popular culture. Drawing on work in sport studies, cultural studies, sociology, history, business, and media, this book ...
Mountain Biking, Culture and Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Jim Cherrington
June 27, 2025
This book represents the first critical examination of the social, cultural, and political significance of mountain biking in contemporary societies. Starting from the premise that cultures of mountain biking are diverse, complex, and at times contradictory, this book offers practical and ...
Reflections on Play, Sport, and Culture: Introduction to the Play Field Theory
1st Edition
By Felix Lebed
June 27, 2025
The psychological dependence of humanity on playing is huge. Its nature and functional utility are unclear. These linked yet contradictory issues have created the intrigue that has fed philosophical thought for more than two hundred years. During this period, philosophy transferred many of the ...
Sports Betting: How People Bet on Sports
1st Edition
By Przemysław Nosal
May 27, 2025
This is the first book to focus on sports betting from a sociological perspective. Drawing on multi-stage sociological research, it deepens our understanding of an increasingly significant aspect of the contemporary sport industry. The book examines how bettors engage in sports betting – why they ...
Doping and Anti-Doping in Africa: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Yamikani Ndasauka, Simon Mathias Makwinja
May 06, 2025
This is the first book to focus on the problem of performance- enhancing substances and methods – also known as doping – in sports from African perspectives. Placing traditional African thinking and indigenous knowledge systems at the centre of the analysis, this book shines new light on the ...
Nationalism and Globalization in Turkish Football: Voices from Fan Culture
1st Edition
By John Konuk Blasing
March 31, 2025
Telling an important story about the development of modern Turkey, this fascinating book examines the place of football in Turkish society and the relationship between Turkish sport, nationalism, and globalization. Drawing on original ethnographic research with Turkish football fans, as well as ...
Sport in Contemporary India: Society, Culture and Governance
1st Edition
Edited
By Surajit C. Mukhopadhyay, Lovely Dasgupta
February 19, 2025
This book examines the development and significance of sport in contemporary India, one of the fastest growing sports markets worldwide. Featuring multi-disciplinary work from leading Indian scholars in sociology, economics, politics, law and business, the book demonstrates how sports help us to ...
Sport, Advertising and Global Promotional Culture: Identities, Commodities, Spaces and Spectacles
1st Edition
Edited
By Steven J. Jackson, David L. Andrews
February 07, 2025
This book explores the intersection of contemporary sport, advertising, promotional culture and wider society. Arguing that advertising and promotional culture remain key driving forces in relation to social structures and systems that contribute to enduring patterns of economic and other forms of ...
Insecurities in European Football and Supporter Cultures
1st Edition
By Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen
February 06, 2025
Against the backdrop of the recent and renewed political and policy interest in the safety and security in European football contexts, this book examines the ways in which the regulation of insecurities in European football has been advanced by European institutions and organizations, and contested...
Martial Arts in Latin Societies
1st Edition
Edited
By Augusto Rembrandt Rodríguez-Sánchez, Joaquín Piedra, George Jennings
February 06, 2025
This is the first book to explore martial arts and combat sports in Latin societies. Covering well-known and rarely studied forms of fighting systems, it considers how the schools of thought, organisation, and stylistics of martial arts can shine new light on the culture, history, and social issues...
Boxing, Narrative and Culture: Critical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah Crews, P. Solomon Lennox
January 30, 2025
Boxing, Narrative and Culture: Critical Perspectives is the first interdisciplinary response to the dominant boxing narratives that are produced, performed, and circulated in commercial boxing culture. This collection includes global perspectives on boxing. It highlights the diverse range of bodies...
Cricket, Capitalism and Class: From the Village Green to the Cricket Industry
1st Edition
By Chris McMillan
January 30, 2025
This ambitious new study argues that not only is the story of cricket inescapably entwined with that of capitalism, but that the game provides a unique lens with which to understand the history, development, exigencies and contradictions of capitalist political economy. From the aristocratic ...