Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Skateboarding: Subcultures, Sites and Shifts
1st Edition
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By Kara-Jane Lombard
April 28, 2017
This book explores the cultural, social, spatial, and political dynamics of skateboarding, drawing on contributions from leading international experts across a range of disciplines, such as sociology and philosophy of sport, architecture, anthropology, ecology, cultural studies, sociology, ...
Sport in Islam and in Muslim Communities
1st Edition
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By Alberto Testa, Mahfoud Amara
April 28, 2017
As Islam’s visibility in global society increases, Muslim populations grow, and Muslim countries compete to take up positions at the heart of global sport, the interplay between sport and Islam becomes ever more illuminating. Sport in Islam and in Muslim Communities is the first book to analyse ...
Asian American Athletes in Sport and Society
1st Edition
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By C. Richard King
March 10, 2017
For more than a century, sporting spectacles, media coverage, and popular audiences have staged athletics in black and white. Commercial, media, and academic accounts have routinely erased, excluded, ignored, and otherwise made absent the Asian American presence in sport. This book seeks to redress...
Researching Embodied Sport: Exploring movement cultures
1st Edition
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By Ian Wellard
March 10, 2017
Despite a growing interest in the sociology of the body, there has to date been a lack of scholarly work addressing the embodied aspects which form a central part of our understanding and experience of sport and movement cultures. Researching Embodied Sport explores the political, social and ...
Sport and Nationalism in China
1st Edition
By Lu Zhouxiang, Fan Hong
March 10, 2017
This book examines the relationships between sport, nationalism and nation building in China. By exploring the last 150 years of Chinese history, it offers unparalleled depth and breadth of coverage and provides a clear grasp of Chinese sports nationalism from both macro and micro perspectives. ...
Sport, Animals, and Society
1st Edition
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By James Gillett, Michelle Gilbert
March 10, 2017
This book advances current literature on the role and place of animals in sport and society. It explores different forms of sporting spaces, examines how figures of animals have been used to racialize the human athlete, and encourages the reader to think critically about animal ethics, animals in ...
Football and Accelerated Culture: This Modern Sporting Life
1st Edition
By Steve Redhead
February 07, 2017
In Football and Accelerated Culture, Steve Redhead offers a new and challenging theorisation of global football culture, exploring the relationship between sport and culture in a rapidly shifting world. Incorporating cutting-edge concepts, from accelerated culture and claustropolitanism to ...
Asia and the Future of Football: The Role of the Asian Football Confederation
1st Edition
By Ben Weinberg
January 30, 2017
Football is the most popular sport in the world. Globalisation and commercialisation of the game, however, have created new conflicts and challenges. This book explores the role of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) within the rising significance of football in Asia, drawing on three key ...
Reframing Disability?: Media, (Dis)Empowerment, and Voice in the 2012 Paralympics
1st Edition
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By Daniel Jackson, Caroline E.M. Hodges, Mike Molesworth, Richard Scullion
January 30, 2017
The London 2012 Paralympic Games - the biggest, most accessible and best-attended games in the Paralympics' 64-year history - came with an explicit aim to "transform the perception of disabled people in society," and use sport to contribute to "a better world for all people with a disability." This...
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. ...