Sociology of Sport Books

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1. Asian Americans in Sport and Society

   Edited by C. Richard King

   For more than a century, sporting spectacles, media coverage, and popular audiences have staged athletics in black and white. Commercial, media, and academic accounts have routinely erased, excluded, ignored, and otherwise made absent the Asian American presence in sport. Asian Americans in Sport...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-87491-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Understanding Sport in International Development

   By Tess Kay

   This book makes an important contribution to the growing literature on sport in international development. It introduces and explores the practice and efficacy of international sport development through the experiences of young people who become engaged in sport programmes, as described in their...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-57307-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Watching the Olympics: Politics, Power and Representation

   Edited by John Sugden, Alan Tomlinson

   Global sporting events involve the creation, management and mediation of cultural meanings for consumption by massive media audiences. The apotheosis of this cultural form is the Olympic Games. This challenging and provocative new book explores the Olympic spectacle, from the the multi-media...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-57833-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. 'Critical Support' for Sport: A Festschrift for Bruce Kidd

   By Bruce Kidd

   During more than 40 years, Bruce Kidd has combined careers as an internationally ranked athlete, coach, sports administrator, professor and dean with critical scholarly and popular writing about sport, often on the issues in which he has been directly involved. Frequently called ‘the conscience of...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-48868-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Sport and the Community

   Edited by Allan Edwards, David Hassan

   Over the past three decades there has been widespread commitment to an understanding that sport can play a key role in community development. The role of sport within communities has been promoted with a wide range of goals such as environmental considerations, encouragement of civic pride,...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-57165-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Reviewing UK Football Cultures: Continuing with Gender Analyses

   Edited by Jayne Caudwell

   This book examines the complex ways in which girls and women experience football cultures in Britain. It extends current debate surrounding women and football (namely, how gender has functioned to shape women’s experiences of playing the game), by focusing on organisational, administrative and...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-56087-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. The Social Organization of Sports Medicine

   Edited by Dominic Malcolm, Parissa Safai

   During the twentieth century the relationship between sport and medicine has developed in the context of broader social, cultural and politico-economic processes. This includes increasing scientific understanding of the human body, growing attention to lifestyle as a health-risk factor, the...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-88444-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Sport and Social Mobility

   By Ramón Spaaij

   Can sport serve as a vehicle for social mobility of disadvantaged social groups? How and to what extent are different forms of social capital created through sport participation? Ramón Spaaij takes up these questions through a critical examination of the ways in which sport facilitates or inhibits...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-87488-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Post-Beijing 2008: Geopolitics, Sport and the Pacific Rim

   Edited by J. Mangan, Fan Hong

   In 2008, as few in the world are unaware, China was host to the world via the Beijing Olympics. The world watched the metamorphosis of Beijing from insecure capital to confident metropolis but, aware of it or not, the world was also watching the symbolic assertion, via the Games, of a rising...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-57171-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Global Perspectives on Football in Africa: Visualising the Game

    Edited by Susann Baller, Giorgio Miescher, Raffaele Poli

    Football, in many ways, is a visual endeavour. From the visual experience within the stadium itself to worldwide media representations, from advertisements to football art and artefacts: football is much about seeing and being seen, about watching, making visual and being visualised. The FIFA World...

    April 2011 | 978-0-415-57229-3 | Hardback (Routledge)