Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Indigenous, Traditional, and Folk Sports: Contesting Modernities
1st Edition
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By Mariann Vaczi, Alan Bairner
January 30, 2025
This is the first book to focus on indigenous, traditional, and folk sports and sporting cultures. It examines the significance of sporting cultures that have survived the emergence and diffusion of western sports and have carved out a unique position not only in spite of modernity but also in ...
Sport for Social Cohesion: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Karen Petry, Louis Moustakas
January 24, 2025
This book takes a critical look at the role that sport can play in fostering social cohesion. It presents important conceptual and empirical material that sheds new light on what works, and what doesn’t, in terms of the use of sport as a tool of social policy. The book presents original research ...
Experiencing the Body in Yoga Practice: Meanings and Knowledge Transfer
1st Edition
By Krzysztof Konecki, Aleksandra Płaczek, Dagmara Tarasiuk
December 18, 2024
Experiencing the Body in Yoga Practice: Meanings and Knowledge Transfer inspires more mindful and contemplative qualitative research on body and knowledge transfer in bodily practices in hatha yoga. The book explores the work of the mind, as well as the role of emotions and body sensations in ...
The Future of Motorsports: Business, Politics and Society
1st Edition
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By Hans Erik Næss, Simon Chadwick
November 29, 2024
This book takes stock of the position of motorsport in the 21st century and considers how it will continue to influence sport business, politics, and society in the future. Presenting a set of thematic essays and multi-disciplinary case studies, the book demonstrates that motorsport continues to ...
Football and Violent Extremism: An Ethnographic Study of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Ultras
1st Edition
By Alberto Testa, Massimiliano Maidano, Hadidža Borović
November 18, 2024
This book examines the ways that nationalist leaders and extremist groups have used football to advance their often-violent ideological narratives and to recruit and radicalise young people. Drawing on applied ethnographic research with the Ultra fan groups of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), the book...
The Green Transition in Motorsport: Purpose, Politics, and Profit
1st Edition
By Hans Erik Næss, Samuel Tickell
October 28, 2024
This book is a critical exploration of motorsport’s contribution to ‘the green transition’, understood as a societal shift towards a fossil-free future, a circular economy, and greater social inclusiveness. The book takes a critical look at the historical impact of motorsport and the current ...
The 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar: Global and Local Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Nikolay Kozhanov, Mahfoud Amara, Mahjoob Zweiri
October 08, 2024
This book offers an in‑depth analysis of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. The first World Cup to be held in the Middle East, this was a unique sporting mega‑event, and this book explores its wider significance across political, socio‑cultural, economic, organisational and historical dimensions. ...
Sport, Performance and Sustainability
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By Daniel Svensson, Erik Backman, Susanna Hedenborg, Sverker Sörlin
October 04, 2024
This book examines the logic of ‘faster, higher, and stronger’ and the technoscientific revolution that has driven tremendous growth in the sports economy and in sport performance over the last 100 years. It asks whether this logic needs revisiting in the light of the climate crisis and sport’s ...
Sport, Physical Activity and Criminal Justice: Politics, Policy and Practice
1st Edition
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By Haydn Morgan, Andrew Parker
August 26, 2024
This book explores the various ways in which participation in sport and physical activity might contribute to effective solutions within criminal justice systems. Focusing on a range of different sporting and physical activities across an array of social contexts involving both adult and youth ...
Social Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Sport for Development and Peace
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By Mitchell McSweeney, Per Svensson, Lyndsay Hayhurst, Parissa Safai
May 27, 2024
This book examines the ways in which sport for development and peace (SDP) offers an opportunity for entrepreneurship to take place through and within sport, and how innovation in the context of SDP contributes to social and economic value for underrepresented and marginalised groups and ...
Social Issues in Esports
1st Edition
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By Anne Tjønndal
May 27, 2024
This book provides important new insights into social issues in the rapidly growing field of esports, filling a gap in the literature that has, until now, been dominated by business and management perspectives. Bringing together leading esports experts from Europe, North America, and Australia, the...
Sport and Physical Activity in Catastrophic Environments
1st Edition
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By Jim Cherrington, Jack Black
May 27, 2024
This book considers the ability of individuals and communities to maintain healthy relationships with their surroundings—before, during and after catastrophic events—through physical activity and sporting practices. Broad and ambitious in scope, this book uses sport and physical activity as a lens ...