Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Sport Across Asia: Politics, Cultures, and Identities
1st Edition
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By Katrin Bromber, Birgit Krawietz, Joseph Maguire
May 21, 2015
This book is designed to reflect both our current knowledge regarding sport, globalisation and ‘"encounters" with several important "post-colonial" or non-western societies and to draw together scholars from a range of different disciplines. Case studies of cultural encounters in Central, ...
Sport Policy in Britain
1st Edition
By Barrie Houlihan, Iain Lindsey
May 21, 2015
Since 1990, Britain has seen a period of unprecedented public investment in, and political commitment to, sport. In this book, Iain Lindsey and Barrie Houlihan examine and analyze sport policy since the appointment of John Major as leader of the Conservative Party in 1990. John Major’s period as ...
Sports Coaching Research: Context, Consequences, and Consciousness
1st Edition
By Anthony Bush, Michael Silk, David Andrews, Hugh Lauder
May 21, 2015
This book raises critical questions about the explanatory framework guiding sports coaching research and presents a new conceptualization for research in the field. Through mapping and contextualizing sports coaching research within a corporatized higher education, the dominant or legitimate forms ...
Sports and Christianity: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Nick J. Watson, Andrew Parker
May 21, 2015
This interdisciplinary text examines the sports-Christianity interface from Protestant and Catholic perspectives. In addition to a "systematic review of literature," field-pioneering contributors such as Michael Novak, Shirl Hoffman, Joseph Price and Robert Higgs address a wide range of topics from...
The Fantasy Sport Industry: Games within Games
1st Edition
By Andrew Billings, Brody Ruihley
May 21, 2015
Fantasy sport has become big business. Recent estimates suggest that there as many as 27 million fantasy sport participants in the US alone, spending $1.5bn annually, with many millions more around the world. This is the first in-depth study of fantasy sport as a cultural and social phenomenon and ...
Youth Sport, Physical Activity and Play: Policy, Interventions and Participation
1st Edition
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By Andrew Parker, Don Vinson
September 11, 2014
Sport, physical activity and play are key constituents of social life, impacting such diverse fields as healthcare, education and criminal justice. Over the past decade, governments around the world have begun to place physical activity at the heart of social policy, providing increased ...
The Social Organization of Sports Medicine: Critical Socio-Cultural Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Dominic Malcolm, Parissa Safai
July 03, 2014
The Social Organization of Sports Medicine is the first book-length overview of the social scientific study of sports medicine, drawing together work from an international cadre of scholars who examine and provide interdisciplinary analysis of the dynamic and multi-faceted relationships between ...
The Urban Geography of Boxing: Race, Class, and Gender in the Ring
1st Edition
By Benita Heiskanen
July 03, 2014
This book is an interdisciplinary cultural examination of twenty-first century boxing as a professional sport, a bodily labor, a lucrative business, a popular entertainment, and an instrument of ideology. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted with Latino boxers, women boxers, and...
Athletes, Sexual Assault, and Trials by Media: Narrative Immunity
1st Edition
By Deb Waterhouse-Watson
June 19, 2014
Since footballer sexual assault became top news in 2004, six years after the first case was reported, much has been written in the news media about individual cases, footballers and women who have sex with them. Deb Waterhouse-Watson reveals how media representations of recent sexual assault cases ...
The Olympic Games and Cultural Policy
1st Edition
By Beatriz Garcia
June 19, 2014
This book explores how cultural policies are reflected in the design, management and promotion of the Olympic Games. Garcia examines the concept and evolution of cultural policies throughout the recent history of the Olympic Games and then specifically evaluates the cultural program of the Sydney ...
Sport and Its Female Fans
1st Edition
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By Kim Toffoletti, Peter Mewett
June 02, 2014
Why do women follow sports? How do they participate from the sidelines and what is the significance of this contribution? What can female fandom tell us about gender relations in sport? This book explores these and related questions by bringing together the varied strands of research being ...
Sports Governance, Development and Corporate Responsibility
1st Edition
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By Barbara Segaert, Marc Theeboom, Christiane Timmerman, Bart Vanreusel
June 02, 2014
The call for sport organizations and organizers to take up social responsibilities is reflected in a wide variety of sport-related practices. This book critically examines sport-related social interventions in different cultural settings, such as promoting local community-building by sport. Social ...