Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
A Sociology of Football in a Global Context
1st Edition
By Jamie Cleland
December 14, 2016
Association football is now the global sport, consumed in various ways by millions of people across the world. Throughout its history, football has been a catalyst as much for social cohesion, unity, excitement and integration as it can be for division, exclusion and discrimination. A Sociology of ...
Gambling with the Myth of the American Dream
1st Edition
By Aaron M. Duncan
December 14, 2016
This book explores the rise and increased acceptance of gambling in America, particularly the growth of the game of poker, as a means for examining changes to the American Dream and the risk society. Poker both critiques and reinterprets the myth of the American Dream, putting greater emphasis...
Inclusion and Exclusion in Competitive Sport: Socio-Legal and Regulatory Perspectives
1st Edition
By Seema Patel
December 14, 2016
Society is obsessed with categorising and treating individuals and groups according to their physical and non-physical differences, such as sex, gender, disability and race. This treatment can lead to the inclusion or exclusion of an individual from the tangible and intangible benefits of society. ...
Pierre Bourdieu and Physical Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By lisahunter, Wayne Smith, elke emerald
July 27, 2016
The work of French sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher Pierre Bourdieu has been influential across a set of cognate disciplines that can be classified as physical culture studies. Concepts such as field, capital, habitus and symbolic violence have been used as theoretical tools by scholars ...
Football and Migration: Perspectives, Places, Players
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Elliott, John Harris
May 31, 2016
Football is an incredibly powerful case study of globalization and an extremely useful lens through which to study and understand contemporary processes of international migration. This is the first book to focus on the increasingly complex series of migratory processes that contour the ...
Sport Development in the United States: High Performance and Mass Participation
1st Edition
By Peter Smolianov, Dwight Zakus, Joseph Gallo
May 31, 2016
The development of both elite, high performance sport and mass participation, grassroots-level sport are central concerns for governments and sports governing bodies. This important new study is the first to closely examine the challenges and opportunities for sports development in the United ...
Sport, Racism and Social Media
1st Edition
By Neil Farrington, Lee Hall, Daniel Kilvington, John Price, Amir Saeed
May 31, 2016
Racist abuse may at one time have been hurled across the sports stadium or scrawled on a wall. But in today’s social media world it can be published to millions, from almost anywhere, in an instant. Sport, Racism and Social Media provides the first significant, academic account of how social media...
Touch in Sports Coaching and Physical Education: Fear, Risk and Moral Panic
1st Edition
Edited
By Heather Piper
May 31, 2016
In our increasingly risk-averse society, touch and touching behaviours between professionals and children have become a fraught issue. In sports coaching and physical education, touching young sports performers and participants has, in some contexts, come to be redefined as dubious and dangerous. ...
Health and Elite Sport: Is High Performance Sport a Healthy Pursuit?
1st Edition
Edited
By Joseph Baker, Parissa Safai, Jessica Fraser-Thomas
May 26, 2016
Health and Elite Sport is the first book to critically examine the relationship between participation in high performance sport and health outcomes. Drawing on theory and empirical data from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, developmental psychology, epidemiology, and physical ...
Safeguarding, Child Protection and Abuse in Sport: International Perspectives in Research, Policy and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Melanie Lang, Mike Hartill
January 20, 2016
The safeguarding of children and young people participating in sport has become an increasingly prominent concern in policy-making and research communities around the world. Major organisations such as the IOC and UNICEF now officially recognize that children in sport can be at risk of exploitation...
The Youth Olympic Games
1st Edition
Edited
By Dag Vidar Hanstad, Milena Parent, Barrie Houlihan
November 05, 2015
The first summer Youth Olympic Games (YOG) were held in Singapore in 2010 and the first winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck in 2012. The IOC hopes that the YOG will encourage young people to be more active and that they will bring the Olympic movement closer to its original founding values. ...
Sport and Body Politics in Japan
1st Edition
By Wolfram Manzenreiter
September 16, 2015
There is more to Japanese sport than sumo, karate and baseball. This study of social sport in Japan pursues a comprehensive approach towards sport as a distinctive cultural sphere at the intersection of body culture, political economy, and cultural globalization. Bridging the gap between Bourdieu ...