Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
The Future of Football: Social, Cultural and Economic Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Paolo Corvo, Alessandro Porrovecchio
September 18, 2026
This book explores football's evolution from a community-based sport to a global entertainment industry, examining the profound social, economic, cultural, and technological forces reshaping the world's most popular game. Through interdisciplinary research and critical inquiry, the contributors ...
Climate, Innovation and Ocean Sports: How to Flip the Script
1st Edition
By Maureen Flores, Martina Massimiliani, Mariana Knust, Gabriela Lasmar
August 19, 2026
This book reveals how ocean sports serve as critical windows into our planet's changing climate systems, offering unique insights into adaptation strategies for climate events. The book explores the connections between physical oceanography and four major ocean sports, surfing, sailing, open water ...
Sport, Cultural Identity, and Masculinity: Afghan and Pakistani Athletes in South Asia and the Global Diaspora
1st Edition
By Umer Hussain, Nola Agha
July 01, 2026
This is the first book to shed light on the nuanced relationship between sports, cultural identity, and masculinity by examining the experiences of Afghan and Pakistani men athletes, within their respective regions and abroad. The book draws on various socio-cultural frameworks, such as ...
Olympic and Paralympic Sport in Transition: Innovation, Sustainability, and Future Directions
1st Edition
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By Jörg Krieger, Svein Erik Nordhagen, Anne Tjønndal
June 01, 2026
This book offers an in-depth examination of the evolution of Olympic and Paralympic sport, exploring the dynamic interplay between innovation, sustainability, and technology.Drawing on multidisciplinary research from sociology, history, political science, education, and technology studies, this ...
Sport, Higher Education and Critical Pedagogies
1st Edition
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By Hanya Pielichaty, Philippa Velija, Catherine Phipps, Nik Dickerson
May 26, 2026
This book explores the use of critical pedagogies for teaching and learning in sport-related degree courses. Bringing together new research, it provides lecturers and instructors with practical guidance and case studies on planning and managing teaching in a way that facilitates social justice and ...
Football and Violent Extremism: An Ethnographic Study of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Ultras
1st Edition
By Alberto Testa, Massimiliano Maidano, Hadidža Borović
May 21, 2026
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...
Sport for Social Cohesion: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Karen Petry, Louis Moustakas
May 21, 2026
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 ...
The 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar: Global and Local Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Nikolay Kozhanov, Mahfoud Amara, Mahjoob Zweiri
May 21, 2026
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. ...
The Green Transition in Motorsport: Purpose, Politics, and Profit
1st Edition
By Hans Erik Næss, Samuel Tickell
May 21, 2026
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 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 ...