Taylor & Francis India: Sports and Leisure

Edited by Diana Parry

Feminisms in Leisure Studies acknowledges and advances the contribution of feminist theories to leisure knowledge and research. Building upon the strong history of feminist leisure scholarship, the book reviews key feminist theories and offers an overview of a fourth wave of feminism and its…

Hardback – 2018-08-02
Routledge
Routledge Critical Leisure Studies

By Andrew Hodges

In what sense can organized football fans be understood as political actors or participants in social movements? How do fan struggles link to wider social and political transformations? And what methodological dilemmas arise when researching fan activism? Fan Activism, Protest and Politics seeks…

Hardback – 2018-08-02
Routledge
Critical Research in Football

Edited by Colum Cronin, Kathleen Armour

While it is accepted that sport coaches should safeguard participants, Care in Sport Coaching: Pedagogical Cases argues that coaches have a duty of care that moves beyond protection and involves the development of caring relationships with athletes. Recent high-profile incidents of abuse in sport…

Hardback – 2018-07-31
Routledge
Routledge Research in Sports Coaching

By Rodanthi Tzanelli

In June 2014, Brazil opened the twentieth FIFA World Cup with a spectacular ceremony. Hosting the World Cup was a strategic developmental priority for Brazil: mega-events such as these allow the country to be ranked amongst the world’s political and economic leaders, and are supposed to propel the…

Paperback – 2018-07-30
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Sociology

By David Wood

South America is a region that enjoys an unusually high profile as the origin of some of the world’s greatest writers and most celebrated footballers. This is the first book to undertake a systematic study of the relationship between football and literature across South America. Beginning with the…

Paperback – 2018-07-30
Routledge
Routledge Research in Sports History

By Fiona Green

For many years, sports rights owners have had an ‘if you build it, they will come’ attitude, suggesting they take their fans for granted. Combined with advances in broadcasting quality, digital marketing, and social media, this has resulted in diminishing attendances and participation levels. The…

Hardback – 2018-07-27
Routledge

By Stephanie A. Alexander, Katherine L. Frohlich, Caroline Fusco

Are children playing less than they used to? Are rising obesity rates linked to a decline in children’s time to play freely? These and other related questions have filled the pages of newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals for the past decade. Researchers and journalists have attributed these…

Hardback – 2018-07-26
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

Edited by Richard Medcalf, Chris Mackintosh

Researching Difference in Sport and Physical Activity goes beyond the content of introductory research methods texts to provide an insight into the methodological hurdles that are experienced when researching ‘difference’ in Sport and Physical Activity.　 Contributors reflect upon how the rhetoric…

Hardback – 2018-07-26
Routledge
Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

By Philip Vickerman, Anthony Maher

Teaching Physical Education to Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities provides a thorough overview of the challenges and opportunities for inclusion in PE lessons. Combining a theoretical framework with practical strategies for teachers, the title covers a diverse range of issues…

Paperback – 2018-07-24
Routledge

Edited by Bettina Bläsing, Martin Puttke, Thomas Schack

Dance has always been an important aspect of all human cultures, and the study of human movement and action has become a topic of increasing relevance over the last decade, bringing dance into the focus of the cognitive sciences. Since the first edition of The Neurocognition of Dance was published,…

Paperback – 2018-07-23
Routledge

Edited by Gyozo Molnar, Sara N. Amin, Yoko Kanemasu

Although socio-cultural issues in relation to women within the fields of sport and exercise have been extensively researched, this research has tended to concentrate on the Western world. Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region moves the conversation away entirely from Western contexts…

Hardback – 2018-07-20
Routledge
Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

By Roy J. Shephard

There have been many books written on the subject of obesity, but most have approached the topic from the standpoint of the nutritionist, concluding from the somewhat fallacious evidence of changes in body mass that exercise has little place in the prevention or the treatment of obesity. This new…

Hardback – 2018-07-19
Routledge
Routledge Research in Physical Activity and Health