Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Sport, Physical Activity and Criminal Justice: Politics, Policy and Practice
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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 ...
Discourses in Sport Communication in Africa and the African Diaspora
1st Edition
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By Unwana Samuel Akpan
July 25, 2024
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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
Doping in Non-Olympic Sports: Challenging the Legitimacy of WADA?
1st Edition
By Lovely Dasgupta
January 29, 2024
This book is the first of its kind to discuss doping within Non-Olympic Sports. Sports like American football, cricket and dance sports have, in recent years, been in the news for doping activities. The scale of the incidents may differ in each of these sports, but they present interesting ...
Indigenous Sport and Nation-Building: Interrogating Sámi Sport and Beyond
1st Edition
By Eivind Å. Skille
January 29, 2024
This book investigates the social, political, and cultural dimensions of Indigenous sport and nation-building. Focusing on the Indigenous Sámi of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, it addresses how colonization variously impacts organizational arrangements and everyday sporting life in a modern ...
Sport, Identity and Inclusion in Europe: The Experiences of LGBTQ People in Sport
1st Edition
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By Ilse Hartmann-Tews
January 29, 2024
This book explores and critically assesses the challenges and experiences of LGBTQ people within sport in Europe. It presents cutting-edge research data and insights from across the continent, with a focus on sport policy, sport systems, and issues around anti-discrimination and inclusion. The book...
Training the Body: Perspectives from Religion, Physical Culture and Sport
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By David Torevell, Clive Palmer, Paul Rowan
January 29, 2024
This is the first book to examine the body in training in the context of religion, sport and wider physical culture, offering important insight into the performative, social, cultural and gendered aspects of somatic discipline and exercise. The book presents a series of fascinating thematic ...
Community Sport and Social Inclusion: Enhancing Strategies for Promoting Personal Development, Health and Social Cohesion
1st Edition
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By Marc Theeboom, Hebe Schaillée, Rudi Roose, Sara Willems, Lieve Bradt, Emelien Lauwerier
September 25, 2023
This book examines sport as an inclusive and developmental environment, exploring the conditions by which community sport initiatives can promote personal development, health and social cohesion, particularly for at-risk youth. At the empirical core of the book is a multiple disciplinary study of ...
Discrimination in Football
1st Edition
By Christos Kassimeris
September 25, 2023
While football does not generate discriminatory behaviour, it often replicates the very same social issues that concern any given society. Evidently, football has witnessed an alarming increase in the number of disturbing incidents on the grounds of racism, ethnocentrism, sectarianism, homophobia, ...
Social Capital and Sport Organisations
1st Edition
By Richard Tacon
September 25, 2023
Drawing on primary research within voluntary sports clubs in the UK and secondary analysis of the wider international literature on social capital, this text focuses on the micro-processes of social capital development and how they play out in specific social settings. In so doing, it adds to ...