Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

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1. The Gay Games

   A History

   By Caroline Symons

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

   The Gay Games is an important piece of new social history, examining one of the largest sporting, cultural and human rights events in the world. Since their inception in 1980, the Gay Games have developed into a multi-million dollar mega-event, engaging people from all continents, while the...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
2. Global and Local Football

   Politics and Europeanization on the fringes of the EU

   By Gary Armstrong, Jon P. Mitchell

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

   What can the history of a nation's football reveal about that nation's wider political and socio-cultural identity? How can the study of local football culture help us to understand the powerful international forces at play within the modern game? Based on long-term and detailed ethnographic...

   Published September 2nd 2009 by Routledge
3. Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport

   Edited by Ben Carrington, Ian McDonald

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

   The cultural ubiquity, political prominence and economic significance of contemporary sport present fertile terrain for its critical socio-cultural analysis. From corporate and media dominated mega-events like the Olympic Games, to state programmes for nation-building and health promotion, to the...

   Published December 4th 2008 by Routledge
4. The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic Movement

   Through an Anthropological Lens

   By David Howe

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

   Do the Paralympic Games empower the disability sport community? Like many other contemporary sporting institutions, the Paralympic Games have made the transition from pastime to spectacle, and the profile of athletes with disabilities has been increased as a result. This book reviews the current...

   Published February 6th 2008 by Routledge
5. British Asians and Football

   Culture, Identity, Exclusion

   By Daniel Burdsey

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

   In spite of a great passion in the game and significant involvement at amateur level, British Asians are under-represented in professional football. This book asks how and why this situation has developed, using extensive interviews with British Asian football players to offer an insider’s...

   Published January 30th 2008 by Routledge
6. Olympic Media

   Inside the Biggest Show on Television

   By Andrew Billings

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

   Located in the United States, NBC (National Broadcasting Company) is the biggest and most powerful Olympic network in the world, having won the rights to televise both the Summer and the Winter Olympic Games. By way of attracting more viewers of both sexes and all ages and ethnicities than any...

   Published January 22nd 2008 by Routledge
7. Culture, Politics and Sport

   Blowing the Whistle, Revisited

   By Garry Whannel

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

   'Whannel is a foundational figure in the study of sports and the media. …For 20 years his writing has set a high standard …and it remains an inspiration to many' - Toby Miller, Professor of Cultural Studies, New York University, USA Garry Whannel’s text Blowing the Whistle: The Politics of Sport&...

   Published January 13th 2008 by Routledge
8. Physical Culture, Power, and the Body

   Edited by Patricia Vertinsky, Jennifer Hargreaves

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

   During the past decade, there has been an outpouring of books on 'the body' in society, but none has focused as specifically on physical culture - that is, cultural practices such as sport and dance within which the moving physical body is central. Questions are raised about the character of the...

   Published October 10th 2006 by Routledge
9. Sport, Sexualities and Queer/Theory

   Edited by Jayne Caudwell

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

   The first book focusing exclusively on this subject, Sport, Sexualities and Queer/Theory captures the newest and best writing on an emerging focus of study that brings in perspectives from a number of disciplines including sports studies, gender studies, sociology, cultural studies, lesbian and gay...

   Published October 9th 2006 by Routledge
10. Why Sports Morally Matter

    By William Morgan

    Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

    When we accept that advertisers and sponsors dictate athletic schedules, that success in sport is measured by revenue, that athletes’ loyalties lie with their commercial agents instead of teams and that game rules exist to be tested and broken in the pursuit of a win, what does our regard for sport...

    Published June 29th 2006 by Routledge