Sport and Leisure Studies Books

New and Published Books

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. Encoding the Olympics

   The Beijing Olympic Games and the Communication Impact Worldwide

   Edited by Luo Qing, Giuseppe Richeri

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   Encoding the Olympics assembles a uniquely representative international team of media experts to provide a comprehensive review of the global impact of media and cultural communications associated with the Beijing 2008 Olympics. Commissioned by the IOC, this pioneering comparative study – the...

   Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
3. Olympic Aspirations

   Realised and Unrealised

   Edited by J. A. Mangan, Mark Dyreson

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   Olympic Aspirations: Realised and Unrealised surveys more than a century of the Olympic Movement’s promotion of Olympic ideals internationally. The idea for Olympic Aspirations emerged at the world-renowned annual Beijing Academic Forum just months after the city hosted the impressive 2008 Beijing...

   Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge
4. Disability in the Global Sport Arena

   A Sporting Chance

   Edited by Jill M. Le Clair

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   Sport is often at the centre of battles for rights to inclusion linked to class, race and gender, and this book explores struggles centred on disability in different cultural settings in Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. It challenges oversights and assumptions about the ‘normal’...

   Published May 2nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Olympic Marketing

   By Alain Ferrand, Jean-Loup Chappelet, Benoit Seguin

   The Olympic Games have become the definitive sports event, with an unparalleled global reach and a remarkably diverse constituency of stakeholders, from the IOC and International Federations to athletes, sponsors and fans. It has been estimated, for example, that 3.6 billion people (about half of...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. 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
7. Planning Olympic Legacies

   Transport Dreams and Urban Realities

   By Eva Kassens-Noor

   When a city wins the right to hold the Olympics, one of the oft cited advantages to the region is the catalytic effect upon the urban and transport projects of the host cities. However, with unparalleled access to documents and records, Eva Kassens-Noor questions and challenges this fundamental...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
8. Race, Racism and Sports Journalism

   By Neil Farrington, Daniel Kilvington, John Price, Amir Saeed

   Beginning with a theoretical discussion of race, sport and media, this book critically examines issues of race, racism and sports journalism and offers practical advice on sports reporting, including a discussion of guidelines for ethical journalism. In a series of case studies, representations of...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
9. Sport, Militarism and the Great War

   Martial Manliness and Armageddon

   Edited by Thierry Terret, J. A. Mangan

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   The Great War has been largely ignored by historians of sport. However sport was an integral part of cultural conditioning into both physiological and psychological military efficiency in the decades leading up to it. It is time to acknowledge that the Great War also had an influence on sport in...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
10. Sport Beyond Television

    The Internet, Digital Media and the Rise of Networked Media Sport

    By Brett Hutchins, David Rowe

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    Television is no longer the only screen delivering footage and news to people about sport. Computers, the Internet, Web, mobile and other digital media are increasingly important technologies in the production and consumption of sports media. Sport Beyond Television analyzes the changes that have...

    Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge