Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Sport and Discrimination
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel Kilvington, John Price
September 27, 2018
Despite campaigns to educate and increase awareness, discrimination continues to be a deep-rooted problem in sport. This book provides an international, interdisciplinary and critical discussion of various forms of discrimination in sport today, with contributions from world-leading academics and ...
Sport and English National Identity in a ‘Disunited Kingdom’
1st Edition
Edited
By Tom Gibbons, Dominic Malcolm
September 27, 2018
Given sport’s centrality in English society, what role does it play in symbolising contemporary English national identity? This comprehensive study explores the complex set of relationships between sport and what it means to be English in the twenty-first century. The bond between sport and ...
The Role of the Professional Football Manager
1st Edition
By Seamus Kelly
September 27, 2018
Considering the celebrity-like status of the professional football manager, surprisingly little is known about their role. This book provides an unprecedented insight into the chronically insecure and vulnerable world of the contemporary professional football manager. Drawing on original ...
A Genealogy of Male Bodybuilding: From classical to freaky
1st Edition
By Dimitris Liokaftos
August 06, 2018
Bodybuilding has become an increasingly dominant part of popular gym culture within the last century. Developing muscles is now seen as essential for both general health and high performance sport. At the more extreme end, the monstrous built body has become a pop icon that continues to provoke ...
Seeking the Senses in Physical Culture: Sensuous scholarship in action
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew C. Sparkes
August 06, 2018
The sensory revolution in the social sciences is transforming the ways in which the senses and the sensorium are studied and understood in relation to bodies in action. This is the first book to investigate the impact, and challenges, of this revolution for those interested in physical culture. ...
Sport, Medicine and Health: The medicalization of sport?
1st Edition
By Dominic Malcolm
June 20, 2018
The relationship between sport, medicine and health in our society is becoming increasingly complex. This important and timely study explores this relationship through an analysis of changing political economies, altered perceptions of the body and science’s developing contribution to the human ...
The International Olympic Committee, Law, and Accountability
1st Edition
By Ryan Gauthier
June 14, 2018
The Olympic Games is unquestionably the largest and most important sporting event in the world. Yet who exactly is accountable for its successes and failures? This book examines the legitimacy and accountability of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). This non-governmental organisation wields...
Human–Animal Relationships in Equestrian Sport and Leisure
1st Edition
By Katherine Dashper
March 26, 2018
Riding, training and caring for horses are visceral experiences that require the immersion of both body and mind. This book provides an in-depth understanding of human–horse relationships and interactions as embodied in equestrian sport and leisure. As a closely focused ethnographic study of the ...
Sexual Abuse in Youth Sport: A sociocultural analysis
1st Edition
By Michael J. Hartill
February 13, 2018
Cases of sport-related child sexual abuse have received increasing news coverage in recent years. This book documents and evaluates this important issue through a critical investigation of the research and theory on sexual violence and child sex offending that has emerged over the past thirty years...
Football, Culture and Power
1st Edition
Edited
By David J. Leonard, Kimberly B. George, Wade Davis
January 29, 2018
What does it mean when a hit that knocks an American football player unconscious is cheered by spectators? What are the consequences of such violence for the participants of this sport and for the entertainment culture in which it exists? This book brings together scholars and sport commentators to...
Success and Failure of Countries at the Olympic Games
1st Edition
By Danyel Reiche
December 21, 2017
The Olympic Games is undoubtedly the greatest sporting event in the world, with over 200 countries competing for success. This important new study of the Olympics investigates why some countries are more successful than others. Which factors determine their failure or success? What is the ...
Designing the Olympics: Representation, Participation, Contestation
1st Edition
By Jilly Traganou
November 22, 2017
Designing the Olympics claims that the Olympic Games provide opportunities to reflect on the relationship between design, national identity, and citizenship. The "Olympic design milieu" fans out from the construction of the Olympic city and the creation of emblems, mascots, and ceremonies, to the ...