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1. The Social Organization of Sports Medicine

   Critical Socio-Cultural Perspectives

   Edited by Dominic Malcolm, Parissa Safai

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   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...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Urban Geography of Boxing

   Race, Class, and Gender in the Ring

   By Benita Heiskanen

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   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...

   Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
3. Sport, Masculinities and the Body

   By Ian Wellard

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   This groundbreaking work explores masculinity and the body within sports. Sports continue to retain expectations for presentations of specific forms of masculinity. The body is central to these presentations. These everyday bodily performances are rehearsed and performed either successfully or...

   Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Cultural Politics of Post-9/11 American Sport

   Power, Pedagogy and the Popular

   By Michael Silk

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   Much of the writing on the post-9/11 period in the United States has focused on the role of "official" Government rhetoric about 9/11. Those who have focused on the news media have suggested that they played a key role in (re)defining the nation, allowing the citizenry to come to terms with 9/11,...

   Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
5. Ultimate Fighting and Embodiment

   Violence, Gender and Mixed Martial Arts

   By Dale C. Spencer

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   Mixed martial arts (MMA) is an emergent sport where competitors in a ring or cage utilize strikes (punches, kicks, elbows and knees) as well as submission techniques to defeat opponents. This book explores the carnal experience of fighting through a sensory ethnography of MMA, and how it...

   Published November 14th 2011 by Routledge
6. Critical Readings in Bodybuilding

   Edited by Adam Locks, Niall Richardson

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   In recent years the ‘body’ has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Bodybuilding, in particular, continues to be of interest to scholars of gender, media, film, cultural studies and sociology. However, there is surprisingly little scholarship...

   Published July 26th 2011 by Routledge
7. The Organisation and Governance of Top Football Across Europe

   An Institutional Perspective

   Edited by Hallgeir Gammelsæter, Benoit Senaux

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   This book aims to provide an extensive overview of how football is organized and managed on a European level and in individual European countries, and to account for the evolution of the national, international and transnational management of football over the last decades....

   Published May 17th 2011 by Routledge
8. Race, Ethnicity and Football

   Persisting Debates and Emergent Issues

   Edited by Daniel Burdsey

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   As the first edited collection dedicated specifically to race, ethnicity and British football, this book brings together a range of academics, comprising both established commentators and up-and-coming voices. Combining theoretical and empirical contributions, the volume will addresses a wide...

   Published March 28th 2011 by Routledge
9. Sport and Social Mobility

   Crossing Boundaries

   By Ramón Spaaij

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   Can sport serve as a vehicle for social mobility of disadvantaged social groups? How and to what extent are different forms of social capital created through sport participation? Sport and Social Mobility: Crossing Boundaries takes up these questions through a critical examination of the ways in...

   Published February 13th 2011 by Routledge
10. Women and Exercise

    The Body, Health and Consumerism

    Edited by Eileen Kennedy, Pirkko Markula

    Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

    Exercise for women is a heavily-laden social and embodied experience. While exercise promotion has become an increasingly visible part of health campaigns, obesity among women is rising, and studies indicate that women are generally less physically active than men. Women’s (lack of) exercise,...

    Published November 29th 2010 by Routledge