Sexual Abuse in Youth Sport

Michael J Hartill

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
• Cases of sport-related child sexual abuse have received increasing news coverage in recent years. This book documents and evaluates this important iss... Lees meer

Sport, Public Broadcasting, and Cultural Citizenship

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society | nr. 25
• This book examines the political debates over the access to live telecasts of sport in the digital broadcasting era. It outlines the broad theoretical... Lees meer

Women Sport Fans

Kim Toffoletti

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
• Women worldwide are making their presence felt as sport fans in rapidly increasing numbers. This book makes a distinctive and innovative contribution ... Lees meer

The Olympic Games and Cultural Policy

Beatriz Garcia

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
• This book explores how cultural policies are reflected in the design, management and promotion of the Olympic Games. Garcia examines the concept and e... Lees meer

Sport in Scandinavia and the Nordic Countries

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
• The Scandinavian and Nordic countries have some of the highest participation rates in sport and physical activity in the world and are therefore impor... Lees meer

The Fantasy Sport Industry

Andrew C Billings, Brody J Ruihley

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
• Fantasy sport has become big business. Recent estimates suggest that there as many as 27 million fantasy sport participants in the US alone, spending ... Lees meer

British Asians, Exclusion and the Football Industry

Daniel Kilvington

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
• This book examines the exclusion of British Asians from the football industry, drawing on a wealth of empirical work with players, coaches, scouts, ma... Lees meer

Sport and Alcohol

Carwyn Rh Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
• There is a clear sense in which sport has played, and continues to play an important role in the normalization and legitimization of routine, excessiv... Lees meer

Cricket, Capitalism and Class

Chris McMillan

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
• This ambitious new study argues that not only is the story of cricket inescapably entwined with that of capitalism, but that the game provides a uniqu... Lees meer

Sport and Alcohol

Carwyn Jones

• Paperback | Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
• This book examines the alcohol-tolerant ethos that pervades contemporary sport. It argues that sport should be aware of the potential for alcoholism a... Lees meer

Discrimination in Football

Christos Kassimeris

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
• While football does not generate discriminatory behaviour, it often replicates the very same social issues that concern any given society. Evidently, ... Lees meer

Inclusion and Exclusion in Competitive Sport

Seema Patel

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
• Society is obsessed with categorising and treating individuals and groups according to their physical and non-physical differences, such as sex, gende... Lees meer

Sport, Animals, and Society

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
• This book advances current literature on the role and place of animals in sport and society. It explores different forms of sporting spaces, examines ... Lees meer

Football and Migration

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
• Football is an incredibly powerful case study of globalization and an extremely useful lens through which to study and understand contemporary process... Lees meer

Sports Governance, Development and Corporate Responsibility

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
• The call for sport organizations and organizers to take up social responsibilities is reflected in a wide variety of sport-related practices. This boo... Lees meer

Ethics and Governance in Sport

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
• What is, or what should be, the function of sport in a globalized, commercialized world? Why does sport matter in the 21st century? In Ethics and Gove... Lees meer

The Role of the Professional Football Manager

Seamus Kelly

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
• Considering the celebrity-like status of the professional football manager, surprisingly little is known about their role. This book provides an unpre... Lees meer

Football, Culture and Power

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
• 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 ... Lees meer

Social Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Sport for Development and Peace

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
• This book examines the ways in which sport for development and peace (SDP) offers an opportunity for entrepreneurship to take place through and within... Lees meer

Pierre Bourdieu and Physical Culture

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
• The work of French sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher Pierre Bourdieu has been influential across a set of cognate disciplines that can be cl... Lees meer

Boxing, Narrative and Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
• Boxing, Narrative and Culture: Critical Perspectives is the first interdisciplinary response to the dominant boxing narratives that are produced, perf... Lees meer

Beyond Sport for Development and Peace

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
• Debates around the 'sport for development and peace' (SDP) movement have entered a new phase, moving on from simple questions surrounding the utility ... Lees meer

Sport and Nationalism in China

Zhouxiang Lu, Fan Hong

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society | nr. 29
• This book examines the relationships between sport, nationalism and nation building in China. By exploring the last 150 years of Chinese history, it o... Lees meer

Politics and Identity in Chinese Martial Arts

Lu Zhouxiang

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
• 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... Lees meer