Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Sporting Capital: Transforming Sports Development Policy and Practice
1st Edition
By Nicholas F. Rowe
February 25, 2020
In a world of competing public policy priorities, economic challenges and political uncertainty, sports development organisations and initiatives need to adapt to survive. This book makes the case for 'Sporting Capital' as a new conceptual model of sports participation with the potential to ...
Surfing, Sex, Genders and Sexualities
1st Edition
Edited
By lisahunter
December 06, 2019
Sex, gender and sexuality have played an important role in shaping the culture of surfing and are central themes in the study of sport and movement cultures. Rooted in a rich precolonial history, surfing has undergone a modern transformation shaped by visual culture, commodification, sportization, ...
Transforming Sport: Knowledges, Practices, Structures
1st Edition
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By Thomas F. Carter, Daniel Burdsey, Mark Doidge
December 06, 2019
Sport sociology has a responsibility to engage critically with the accepted wisdom of those who govern and promote sport. This challenging collection of international research is a clear call for enacting the transformation of sport. The contributing authors argue that it is not enough to ...
Football Fans, Activism and Social Change
1st Edition
By Dino Numerato
December 05, 2019
The study of football fandom is a fast-growing area of research in the sociology of sport. The first work of its kind, this book explores football fan activism and its impact on contemporary football culture in England, Italy and the Czech Republic. Presenting a comparative study of fan activism in...
Researching Difference in Sport and Physical Activity
1st Edition
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By Richard Medcalf, Chris Mackintosh
December 05, 2019
Researching Difference in Sport and Physical Activity goes beyond the content of introductory research methods texts to provide an insight into the methodological hurdles that are experienced when researching ‘difference’ in Sport and Physical Activity. Contributors reflect upon how the rhetoric ...
Rethinking Olympic Legacy
1st Edition
By Vassil Girginov
December 05, 2019
How do Olympic legacies come about? This book offers an alternative approach to the study of Olympic and mega-sport event legacy, challenging how legacy is conceptualised and practised. It shifts the focus from legacy as a retrospective concept concerned with what has been left behind after the ...
Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region: Domination, Resistance, Accommodation
1st Edition
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By Gyozo Molnar, Sara N. Amin, Yoko Kanemasu
December 05, 2019
Although socio-cultural issues in relation to women within the fields of sport and exercise have been extensively researched, this research has tended to concentrate on the Western world. Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region moves the conversation away entirely from Western contexts...
Corruption, Mafia Power and Italian Soccer
1st Edition
By Alberto Testa, Anna Sergi
December 03, 2019
Whilst corruption and organized crime have been widely researched, they have not yet been specifically linked to sport. Corruption, Mafia Power and Italian Soccer offers an original insight into this new research area. Adopting a psycho-social approach based mainly on Pierre Bourdieu's praxeology, ...
Politics and Identity in Chinese Martial Arts
1st Edition
By Lu Zhouxiang
November 28, 2019
Chinese martial arts is considered by many to symbolise the strength of the Chinese and their pride in their history, and has long been regarded as an important element of Chinese culture and national identity. Politics and Identity in Chinese Martial Arts comprehensively examines the development ...
Surfing and Sustainability
1st Edition
By Gregory Borne
November 28, 2019
Surfing and Sustainability presents a new way of understanding the impact of surfing on the environment, society and the economy, providing important insights into the field of sustainability and arguing that the activity of surfing offers a unique opportunity to explore the ambiguity of ...
The Aesthetics, Poetics, and Rhetoric of Soccer
1st Edition
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By Ridvan Askin, Catherine Diederich, Aline Bieri
November 28, 2019
Soccer has long been known as 'the beautiful game'. This multi-disciplinary volume explores soccer, soccer culture, and the representation of soccer in art, film, and literature, using the critical tools of aesthetics, poetics, and rhetoric. Including international contributions from scholars of ...
Sport and National Identities: Globalization and Conflict
1st Edition
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By Paddy Dolan, John Connolly
June 10, 2019
While globalisation has undoubtedly occurred in many social fields, in sport the importance of ‘the nation’ has remained. This book examines the continuing but contested relevance of national identities in sport within the context of globalising forces. Including case studies from around the world,...