Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Sport Migrants, Precarity and Identity: Brazilian Footballers in Central and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
By José Hildo de Oliveira Filho
September 29, 2025
This book takes a close look at the experiences of migrant athletes, their precarious careers, and at what this can tell us about wider themes of globalisation, identity, race, gender, and the body. Based on in-depth ethnographic research on male Brazilian footballers and futsal players working in ...
The Myth of Michael Jordan in Popular Culture
1st Edition
By Tomasz Jacheć
July 30, 2025
This book examines the life and career of Michael Jordan, one of the greatest athletes in the history of sports, asking how he transcended his sport to become a canonical myth in popular culture. Drawing on work in sport studies, cultural studies, sociology, history, business, and media, this book ...
Mountain Biking, Culture and Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Jim Cherrington
June 27, 2025
This book represents the first critical examination of the social, cultural, and political significance of mountain biking in contemporary societies. Starting from the premise that cultures of mountain biking are diverse, complex, and at times contradictory, this book offers practical and ...
Reflections on Play, Sport, and Culture: Introduction to the Play Field Theory
1st Edition
By Felix Lebed
June 26, 2025
The psychological dependence of humanity on playing is huge. Its nature and functional utility are unclear. These linked yet contradictory issues have created the intrigue that has fed philosophical thought for more than two hundred years. During this period, philosophy transferred many of the ...
Sports Betting: How People Bet on Sports
1st Edition
By Przemysław Nosal
May 27, 2025
This is the first book to focus on sports betting from a sociological perspective. Drawing on multi-stage sociological research, it deepens our understanding of an increasingly significant aspect of the contemporary sport industry. The book examines how bettors engage in sports betting – why they ...
Doping and Anti-Doping in Africa: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Yamikani Ndasauka, Simon Mathias Makwinja
May 06, 2025
This is the first book to focus on the problem of performance- enhancing substances and methods – also known as doping – in sports from African perspectives. Placing traditional African thinking and indigenous knowledge systems at the centre of the analysis, this book shines new light on the ...
Boxing, Narrative and Culture: Critical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
Edited
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
1st Edition
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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 ...