Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
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
1st Edition
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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
Edited
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 ...
Athlete Activism: Contemporary Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Rory Magrath
May 31, 2023
This book examines the phenomenon of athlete activism across all levels of sport, from elite and international sport, to collegiate and semi-pro, and asks what this tells us about the relationship between sport and wider society. With contributions from scholars around the world, the book presents ...
Cricket and Contemporary Society in Britain: Crisis and Continuity
1st Edition
By Russell Holden
May 31, 2023
This book investigates the declining status of cricket within contemporary British society after the high-water mark of England’s Ashes victory in 2005. It considers the deep roots of the game within British national life as well as its ever-changing nature, and reflects upon the current ...
Lifestyle Sports and Identities: Subcultural Careers Through the Life Course
1st Edition
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By Tyler Dupont, Becky Beal
May 31, 2023
This book examines how different stages of adult life affect participation in lifestyle sports and in the construction of identity. Drawing on multi-disciplinary perspectives, it explores how gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and location, in conjunction with age and stage in career, affect lifestyle ...
Sport Stadiums and Environmental Justice
1st Edition
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By Timothy Kellison
December 14, 2022
This book explores the local environmental impact of sports stadiums, and how that impact can disproportionately affect communities of color. Offering a series of review articles and global case studies, it illustrates what happens when sport organizations and other public and private stakeholders ...
Disability, the Media and the Paralympic Games
1st Edition
By Carolyn Jackson-Brown
May 06, 2022
This book focuses on the ground-breaking coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games by the UK’s publicly owned but commercially funded Channel 4 network, coverage which seemed to deliver a transformational shift in attitudes towards people with disabilities. It sheds important new light on our ...