Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Sport in Contemporary India: Society, Culture and Governance
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By Surajit C. Mukhopadhyay, Lovely Dasgupta
February 19, 2025
This book examines the development and significance of sport in contemporary India, one of the fastest growing sports markets worldwide. Featuring multi-disciplinary work from leading Indian scholars in sociology, economics, politics, law and business, the book demonstrates how sports help us to ...
Sport, Advertising and Global Promotional Culture: Identities, Commodities, Spaces and Spectacles
1st Edition
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By Steven J. Jackson, David L. Andrews
February 07, 2025
This book explores the intersection of contemporary sport, advertising, promotional culture and wider society. Arguing that advertising and promotional culture remain key driving forces in relation to social structures and systems that contribute to enduring patterns of economic and other forms of ...
Insecurities in European Football and Supporter Cultures
1st Edition
By Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen
February 06, 2025
Against the backdrop of the recent and renewed political and policy interest in the safety and security in European football contexts, this book examines the ways in which the regulation of insecurities in European football has been advanced by European institutions and organizations, and contested...
Martial Arts in Latin Societies
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By Augusto Rembrandt Rodríguez-Sánchez, Joaquín Piedra, George Jennings
February 06, 2025
This is the first book to explore martial arts and combat sports in Latin societies. Covering well-known and rarely studied forms of fighting systems, it considers how the schools of thought, organisation, and stylistics of martial arts can shine new light on the culture, history, and social issues...
Boxing, Narrative and Culture: Critical Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Sarah Crews, P. Solomon Lennox
January 30, 2025
Boxing, Narrative and Culture: Critical Perspectives is the first interdisciplinary response to the dominant boxing narratives that are produced, performed, and circulated in commercial boxing culture. This collection includes global perspectives on boxing. It highlights the diverse range of bodies...
Cricket, Capitalism and Class: From the Village Green to the Cricket Industry
1st Edition
By Chris McMillan
January 30, 2025
This ambitious new study argues that not only is the story of cricket inescapably entwined with that of capitalism, but that the game provides a unique lens with which to understand the history, development, exigencies and contradictions of capitalist political economy. From the aristocratic ...
Indigenous, Traditional, and Folk Sports: Contesting Modernities
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By Mariann Vaczi, Alan Bairner
January 30, 2025
This is the first book to focus on indigenous, traditional, and folk sports and sporting cultures. It examines the significance of sporting cultures that have survived the emergence and diffusion of western sports and have carved out a unique position not only in spite of modernity but also in ...
Experiencing the Body in Yoga Practice: Meanings and Knowledge Transfer
1st Edition
By Krzysztof Konecki, Aleksandra Płaczek, Dagmara Tarasiuk
December 18, 2024
Experiencing the Body in Yoga Practice: Meanings and Knowledge Transfer inspires more mindful and contemplative qualitative research on body and knowledge transfer in bodily practices in hatha yoga. The book explores the work of the mind, as well as the role of emotions and body sensations in ...
The Future of Motorsports: Business, Politics and Society
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By Hans Erik Næss, Simon Chadwick
November 29, 2024
This book takes stock of the position of motorsport in the 21st century and considers how it will continue to influence sport business, politics, and society in the future. Presenting a set of thematic essays and multi-disciplinary case studies, the book demonstrates that motorsport continues to ...
Sport, Performance and Sustainability
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By Daniel Svensson, Erik Backman, Susanna Hedenborg, Sverker Sörlin
October 04, 2024
This book examines the logic of ‘faster, higher, and stronger’ and the technoscientific revolution that has driven tremendous growth in the sports economy and in sport performance over the last 100 years. It asks whether this logic needs revisiting in the light of the climate crisis and sport’s ...
Sport, Physical Activity and Criminal Justice: Politics, Policy and Practice
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By Haydn Morgan, Andrew Parker
August 26, 2024
This book explores the various ways in which participation in sport and physical activity might contribute to effective solutions within criminal justice systems. Focusing on a range of different sporting and physical activities across an array of social contexts involving both adult and youth ...
Social Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Sport for Development and Peace
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By Mitchell McSweeney, Per Svensson, Lyndsay Hayhurst, Parissa Safai
May 27, 2024
This book examines the ways in which sport for development and peace (SDP) offers an opportunity for entrepreneurship to take place through and within sport, and how innovation in the context of SDP contributes to social and economic value for underrepresented and marginalised groups and ...