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Series: Shortcuts
Sport generates some of the most intense feelings and levels of commitment. It is big business globally, but also the source of the most powerful personal identifications and individual and collective pleasures. Sporting events are routine and embodied, whether in the gym, on the field or at the...
To Be Published July 1st 2012 by Routledge
Series: CRESC
In the decade or more since publication of the first edition of Understanding Sport, both sport and wider global society have undergone profound change. In this fully updated, revised and expanded edition of their classic textbook, John Horne, Alan Tomlinson, Garry Whannel and Kath Woodward offer a...
To Be Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Horseracing, thoroughbred breeding and gambling on racing are global industries worth several hundred billion dollars. They are also industries facing serious challenges, from the rise of alternative forms of leisure gambling to concerns about the ethical treatment of animals in all equestrian...
To Be Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
The Indigenous peoples of Australia have a proud history of participation and the achievement of excellence in Australian sport. Historically, Australian sport provided a rare and important social context in which Indigenous Australians could engage with and participate in non-Indigenous society....
To Be Published October 14th 2012 by Routledge
Why are sport and exercise important? What can the study of sport and exercise tell us about wider society? Who holds the power in creating contemporary sport and exercise discourses? It is impossible to properly understand the role that sport and exercise play in contemporary society...
To Be Published October 23rd 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
The Olympic Games are regarded as hallmark events capable of regenerating host cities and placing them on the global map. In this book, Jilly Traganou examines the relationship between design and national identity in the age of globalization. By merging studies of architecture (Olympic venues),...
To Be Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
Sport is a highly visible and pervasive component of contemporary culture and society. It exists in a wide array of forms worldwide and influences people’s lives on many levels, from international organization to the health of children. In this perceptive and engaging short introduction, Jay...
To Be Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography
This book combines historical and ethnographic components in examining the ideas about human variation subscribed to by coaches, commentators and sportspeople themselves. The book begins by interrogating the idea of the ‘impulsive’ black sportsman (and the ‘impulsive’ black male more generally),...
To Be Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
Tackling social exclusion should be a central aim of social policy. In this fully revised and updated new edition of his groundbreaking study, Sport and Social Exclusion, Mike Collins has assembled a vast array of evidence from a range of global sources to demonstrate how the effects of social...
To Be Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
What remains of a great sporting spectacle after the last race is run or the final match is played? How can the vast expense of mounting such events be justified ? What if there is nothing left behind or what if the legacy is negative, a costly infrastructure which is unused or a debt-ridden host...
To Be Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
