Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
The Geopolitical Economy of Esports
1st Edition
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By Simon Chadwick, Yue Meng-Lewis, Donna Wong, Paul Widdop
May 06, 2026
This book adds a new dimension to our understanding of the global esports industry by examining its significance in the context of global geopolitics and economics. As perhaps the most rapidly growing sector of the sports and entertainment industry worldwide, esports is now both a glittering ...
Retired Performers’ Reflections for Movement Practice
1st Edition
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By Luke Jones, Zoë Avner, Allison Jeffrey
April 19, 2026
Retired Performers’ Reflections for Movement Practice explores how former expert performers from the realms of sport, dance, and movement practice relate to and subsequently teach, coach, or instruct their disciplines. This edited collection is the first of its kind to bring together sociologically...
A New Olympic Era: Navigating Socioeconomic, Geopolitical, and Environmental Complexities
1st Edition
By Yoav Dubinsky
April 18, 2026
This book examines the new era of the Olympic Movement as it is forced to navigate through old and new socioeconomic, geopolitical, and environmental challenges. Against a background of geopolitics, commercialization, technological development, extreme weather, and associated accelerating changes ...
Sport and Criminal Justice: Practitioner Insights and Theoretical Directions
1st Edition
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By Haydn Morgan, Andrew Parker, Rosie Meek
February 27, 2026
This book examines the use of sport and physical activity-based interventions as a means by which to address crime and antisocial behaviour. Covering a range of different sporting and physical activities across an array of social contexts involving both adult and youth populations, this book ...
French Sports Films: Visions of Masculinity
1st Edition
By Jonathan Ervine
December 18, 2025
Examining French sports films from a cinematic and socio-cultural perspective, this book takes a close look at the characteristics that separate French sports films from Hollywood sports films and sports films produced in other countries and asks what those characteristics can tell us about wider ...
Sport, Media and Discrimination
1st Edition
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By Daniel Kilvington, John Price, Jasmin Seijbel, Jacco van Sterkenburg
December 05, 2025
Sport, Media and Discrimination provides critical, inter-disciplinary and international perspectives on how sports media constructs and reinforces discrimination in contemporary societies. The book argues that the importance of sport within modern culture means sports media has a powerful role...
Esports and the World Anti-Doping Code
1st Edition
By Lovely Dasgupta
December 01, 2025
This is the first book to focus on the topic of doping in esports. As the global esports industry continues to grow, this book critiques current anti-doping practices and considers the role that the World Anti-Doping Agency and the International Olympic Committee might play in creating a ...
Discourses in Sport Communication in Africa and the African Diaspora
1st Edition
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By Unwana Samuel Akpan
November 28, 2025
This book explores sport communication in Africa and the African diaspora. Drawing on multidisciplinary perspectives, it deepens our understanding of the importance of sport in African society as well as the profound and growing influence of the African diaspora in world sport, as athletes, ...
Sport Migrants, Precarity and Identity: Brazilian Footballers in Central and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
By José Hildo de Oliveira Filho
September 29, 2025
This book takes a close look at the experiences of migrant athletes, their precarious careers, and at what this can tell us about wider themes of globalisation, identity, race, gender, and the body. Based on in-depth ethnographic research on male Brazilian footballers and futsal players working in ...
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
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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 26, 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 ...