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1. Bodies, Sports and Social Problems

   By Joseph Maguire, Louise Mansfield, Elizabeth Pike, Jennifer Smith Maguire

   Sport is increasingly becoming an area of ethical ambiguity in which wider social problems are played out in a concentrated form. This book provides a theoretical framework for exploring sport and deviance through an examination of the three main areas in which these issues arise. These...

   To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Sport Across Asia

   Politics, Cultures, and Identities

   Edited by Katrin Bromber, Birgit Krawietz, Joseph Maguire

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   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,...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. Reflections on Process Sociology and Sport

   'Walking the Line'

   By Joseph Maguire

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   The book focuses on the distinctive contribution that Joseph Maguire has made to process sociology and the study of sport. Maguire’s work over the past three decades highlights how process sociology has a unique perspective on the relationship between sport, culture and society, and to the body,...

   Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
4. Sport and Migration

   Borders, Boundaries and Crossings

   Edited by Joseph Maguire, Mark Falcous

   From Major League Baseball to English soccer’s Premier League, all successful contemporary professional sports leagues include a wide diversity of nationalities and ethnicities within their playing and coaching rosters. The international migration of sporting talent and labor, encouraged and...

   Published October 5th 2010 by Routledge
5. Japan, Sport and Society

   Tradition and Change in a Globalizing World

   Edited by Joseph Maguire, Masayoshi Nakayama

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   Evolving for centuries in relative isolation, sport in Japan developed a unique character reflective of Japanese culture and society. In recent decades, Japan's drive towards cultural and economic modernization has consciously incorporated a modernization of its sports cultures. Japan, Sport and&...

   Published December 14th 2005 by Routledge
6. Power and Global Sport

   Zones of Prestige, Emulation and Resistance

   By Joseph Maguire

   Sport has changed. Traditions and territorial distinctions are dissolving as a result of new global, political, economic and cultural conditions. The team of authors examine these changes, investigating the power relations that govern the new global sport and assessing the consequences for the...

   Published May 25th 2005 by Routledge
7. Sport and Leisure in Social Thought

   By Grant Jarvie, Joseph Maguire

   This much needed book examines all of the major traditions of social thought to clearly show their influence in our understanding of sport and leisure....

   Published November 2nd 1994 by Routledge
8. The Global Sports Arena

   Athletic Talent Migration in an Interpendent World

   Edited by John Bale, Joseph Maguire

   Athletes are on the move. In some sports this involves labour, movement from one country to another within or between continents. In other sports, athletes assume an almost nomadic migratory lifestyle, constantly on the move from one sport festival to another. In addition, it appears that sport...

   Published January 31st 1994 by Routledge