Sport Studies Books

The Gay Games: A History, by Caroline Symons, Victoria University, Australia, is an important piece of new social history, examining one of the largest sporting, cultural and human rights events in the world.

Taking in contemporary theory as well as received traditions, Routledge Companion to Sports History, edited by S.W. Pope, West Virginia University, and John Nauright, George Mason University, is the most up-to-date reference work for scholars in sports history and those wishing to enter the field.
 

Now in its second edition, Research Methods for Sports Studies by Chris Gratton, Sheffield Hallam University and Ian Jones, Bournemouth University is still the only dedicated introduction to research methods written specifically for sport studies!

The Sport and Society Reader,  an innovative new collection edited by David Karen and Robert E. Washington will be a lively addition to any sports course. Composed of key scholarly and journalistic articles, this reader demonstrates the ways that the sports we love to watch and the teams we love to root for are embedded in important social structures and processes that undermine sports’ "purity".