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Challenging the Gender Binary: The Fictive and Real World of Quidditch
Despite the recent emergence of women and gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, intersexuals and transsexuals (GLBITs) in sport, gender equity has been far from realized. Dominant forms of sport are bimodal in gender classification, a construction that creates an ideology of male superiority and marginalizes women and GLBITs. One recent example of a sport that confronts […]
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Challenging the Gender Binary? Male Basketball Practice Players’ Views of Female Athletes and Women’s Sports
Kane’s ‘sport as a continuum’ theory posits many women can outperform many men in a variety of athletic endeavors. However, because sports are typically sex-segregated, this athletic continuum is rarely seen but provides a potentially powerful mechanism of transformation relative to views of female athletes and women’s sport. In women’s intercollegiate basketball, it is common […]
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Book review: Steven J Jackson & Stephen Haigh (eds), Sport and Foreign Policy in a Globalizing World
In 2010 two international mega-sports events took place: the XXI Winter Olympic and X Paralympic Games in Vancouver and FIFA’s World Cup football competition in South Africa. It is appropriate therefore to review a book titled Sport and Foreign Policy in a Globalizing World. The book, edited by Steven J. Jackson and Stephen Haigh, first […]
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Book Review: Steven J Jackson and Stephen Haigh (eds), Sport and Foreign Policy in a Globalizing World
In 2010 two international mega-sports events took place: the XXI Winter Olympic and X Paralympic Games in Vancouver and FIFA’s World Cup football competition in South Africa. It is appropriate therefore to review a book titled Sport and Foreign Policy in a Globalizing World.
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Book Review: The Big Fix: The Hunt for the Match-Fixers Bringing Down Soccer by Brett Forrest
Ternes, Neal. 2015. Book review: The big fix: The hunt for the match-fixers bringing down soccer by Brett Forrest (2014). New York: HarperCollins. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 50(6): 752-755.
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Book Review: The Future of Feminism
Book Review: The Future of Feminism
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Book Review: The Insider’s Guide to Match-Fixing in Football
The title to Declan Hill’s 2013 book The Insider’s Guide to Match-fixing in Football is potentially misleading. It is not, however, maliciously intended. Nor can Hill be faulted for his marketing acumen. Hill himself is not inside the match-fixing network, nor does he purport to have fixed a game on his own terms. However, through […]
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Book Review: Why Minorities Play or Don’t Play Soccer
Book review: Why Minorities Play or Don’t Play Soccer
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Book Review: Youth Sport and Spirituality: Catholic Perspectives
How do you stretch the boundaries of self by playing inside the lines? In Youth Sport and Spirituality: Catholic Perspectives, Patrick Kelly provides an engaging edited text that shifts the paradigms by which we evaluate sport and faith through a carefully designed exploration of our individual beliefs and socially held values. Employing a diverse yet […]
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Boozing Brawling and Community Building: Sport-Facilitated Community Development in a Rural Ontario Community
Sport, and specifically hockey, is discussed extensively in relation to social identity formation and other social outcomes, both positive and negative, within Canadian society. In this article, we utilize a collaborative analysis to examine an autoethnographic account of participation in a rural community hockey tournament and its various social outcomes. Through this analysis, we discuss […]
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Bowling for Dollars: Title Sponsorship of College Football Bowls
Corporate title sponsorship of college football bowl games has proliferated over the past two decades, yet little analysis has been made concerning the returns to these investments. This article examines the impact that title sponsorships have had on the stock value of the corporate sponsors. Using event study analysis, we find that there was no […]
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Boxers Briefs or Bras? Bodies Gender and Change in the Boxing Gym
In this ethnography of Full Contact, a San Francisco Bay Area boxing gym, I use Bourdieu’s theory of practice to illustrate how ‘rules of the game’ shape people’s perceptions, interactions and positions (capital). First, I show how the unwritten, unspoken rules of boxing as a field (its doxa) impact readings of bodies and bodily capital, […]
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Boys’ Bodies and the Constitution of Adolescent Masculinities
In the social transition between childhood and adolescence, boys draw on discourses of masculinity that address the male body in constituting themselves as adolescents. They make themselves as no longer children and acquire a sense of themselves as adolescents by performing bodily practices that position them within some of these discourses. Repeated personal interviews conducted […]
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Branded Fitness: Exercise and Promotional Culture
This article develops a theory of branded fitness within the United States through a focus on two of its most visible examples: CrossFit and Bikram yoga. We argue that highly successful forms of branded fitness such as these give insight into the enormous power and permeation of branded sensibilities into everyday life – in this […]
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Bread or Games? A Social Cost–Benefit Analysis of the World Cup Bid of the Netherlands and the Winning Russian Bid
Many countries compete fiercely for the right to host mega-events like the World Cup. Proponents of hosting mega-events claim that yields economic gains. Many available studies focus on partial effects of hosting or concern ex post analysis. The authors utilize the existing literature to perform a detailed cost–benefit analysis (CBA) of the Netherlands bidding jointly […]
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Break Points: Narrative Interruption in the Life of Billie Jean King
This article explores intertextual representations of Billie Jean King, focusing on the announcement of her relationship with Marilyn Barnett in 1981 as a disruptive moment that occasioned remedial narrative work on King’s part. Media framing of the incident is examined through three mainstream newspapers, U.S. magazines, television interviews, and King’s autobiography. Analysis of the coverage […]
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British Football: Where are the Muslim Female Footballers? Exploring the Connections Between Gender, Ethnicity and Islam
This research article explores the ways in which self‐recognition as a footballer, in terms of ethnicity, along with cultural values and religious adherence have impacted on the identities of members of the British Muslim Women’s Football Team and their choice to compete at the Women’s Islamic Games (WIG) in Iran in 2005. The article offers […]
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Brown Bodies, Racialisation and Physical Education
This article explores how school physical education (PE) can both reinforce stereotyped notions of the brown body as inherently physical while also allowing young people to gain educational success. Drawing on a critical ethnographic study of Māori and Pasifika (Pacific Island) youth in PE in New Zealand, the article explores how the academic status of […]
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Building a System to Safeguard Children in Sport: The Eight CHILDREN Pillars
In October 2014, the International Safeguards for Children in Sport were launched. These Safeguards were developed, implemented, and evaluated based on a pilot process which took place over the preceding 2 years. Throughout this piloting phase, a range of qualitative techniques were employed to capture the experiences of people within 32 of the organizations that […]
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Building Social and Cultural Capital Among Young People in Disadvantaged Communities: Lessons from a Brazilian Sport-Based Intervention Program
This article explores the concepts of social and cultural capital as analytical tools for investigating the capacity of sport-based intervention programs to contribute to the personal, social and professional development of disadvantaged young people. It draws on survey data (n=129) and qualitative interviews (n=53) with participants of the Vencer program in Rio de Janeiro to […]
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Book Review: Fighting for Recognition: Identity Masculinity and the Act of Violence in Professional Wrestling by R. Tyson Smith
Book Review: Fighting for recognition: Identity masculinity and the act of violence in professional wrestling by R. Tyson Smith
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Book Review: Fighting for Recognition: Identity, Masculinity, and the Act of Violence in Professional Wrestling
R. Tyson Smith’s Fighting for Recognition is the culmination of more than two years ethnographic research about professional wrestlers training at the Rage Professional Wrestling School (pseudonym) in New York. Through observation and interviews with male wrestlers, Smith explores issues surrounding masculinity, violence/pain, and identity specifically as it pertains to those who endeavour to be […]
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Book Review: Fighting for Recognition: Identity, Masculinity, and the Act of Violence in Professional Wrestling by R. Tyson Smith
The phenomenon known as “pro wrestling” is dominated by the World Wrestling Entertainment Corporation (WWE). WWE is one of the most watched “sports” events on television (though pro wrestling is not technically a sport, given that its outcome is fixed). This is not the world of pro wrestling that Smith studies. Instead, his qualitative research […]
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Book Review: Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport
Book review: Floodlights and touchlines: A history of spectator sport
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Book Review: Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry by Helen J. Lenskyj
After 30 years of engagement with the Olympic spectacle, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj presents disturbing findings in Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry (2013). The book could not have arrived at a better time. The 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games garnered a plethora of media coverage proclaiming the success and the progress of women globally. […]
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Book Review: In Motion, At Rest: The Event of the Athletic Body
Grant Farred’s In Motion, At Rest theorizes “the event” through the lens of sport, and makes the argument that understanding the event in this way allows for a new understanding of “the event” as a philosophical problem. Specifically, In Motion, At Rest explores three now infamous sporting events involving male athletes Ron Artest, Eric Cantona, […]
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Book Review: Jack Johnson Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line
Book review: Jack Johnson Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line
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Book Review: Making Meaning out of Mountains: The Political Ecology of Skiing
In Making Meaning Out of Mountains: The Political Ecology of Skiing, Mark Stoddart exposes the contradictions and ‘ecologies ironies’ (p. 5) that lie at the heart of skiing. The modern and popular variant of the sport, we are told, is far removed from its Scandinavian philosophical heritage. Where Norwegians once preferred a form of skiing […]
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Book Review: Migration and New Media: Transnational Families and Polymedia
The thesis of this book crystallizes the findings of Madianou and Miller’s research into the use of diverse online media by the Filipino diasporic community and their families. Driven by a simple yet well-defined motive, their book taps into convergent media and migration as two of the most important areas for studying transnational human flows. […]
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Book Review: Qualifying Times: Points of Change in U.S. Women’s Sport by Jamie Schultz and A Locker Room of Her Own: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Female Athletes Edited by David C. Ogden and Joel Nathan Rose
Ponytails, sports bras, and tampons may not readily come to mind when imagining the significant factors that enabled women’s sports participation. In Qualifying Times, Jamie Schultz provides a feminist history of these “ostensibly banal elements” (p. 8) of women’s sports participation in the United States during the twentieth century. Applying the work of feminist historian […]
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Book Review: Researching Embodied Sport: Exploring movement cultures
BOOK REVIEW: Researching Embodied Sport: Exploring movement cultures
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Book Review: Rickey & Robinson: The True, Untold Story of the Integration of Baseball
BOOK REVIEW:It has been nearly seventy years since Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson integrated Major League Baseball (MLB). Yet, their place in history remains one of debate and contestation. Scholars and commentators, alike, continue to discuss what might be assumed to be settled history. The fluidity of their place in history embodies how time does […]
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Book Review: Sex Testing: Gender Policing in Women’s Sports by Lindsay Parks Pieper
Over the past 25-30 years, a number of journal articles and books have been published on the history of sex testing, offer a critique of the various methods employed to determine sex/gender, or provide a feminist criticism of sex testing/gender verification policies. Moreover, white papers published in medical journals have outlined the limits of scientific […]
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Book Review: Soccer, Culture and Society in Spain: An Ethnography of Basque Fandom
Book review: Soccer, Culture and Society in Spain: An Ethnography of Basque Fandom
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Book Review: Sociology of Football in Global Context
Book review: Sociology of football in global context
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Book Review: Sport & Peace: A Sociological Perspective
Book review: Sport & Peace: A Sociological Perspective
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Book Review: Sport for Development and Peace: A Critical Sociology and Sport for Development: What Game Are We Playing?
Book review: Sport for Development and Peace: A Critical Sociology and Sport for Development: What Game Are We Playing?
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Book Review: Sport Gender and Power: The Rise of Roller Derby by Adele Pavlidis & Simone Fullagar
Book review: Sport gender and power: The rise of roller derby by Adele Pavlidis & Simone Fullagar
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Book Review: Sports and Christianity: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Book review: Sports and Christianity: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
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Book Review: Sports, Religion and Disability
The topic of religion and sports has long been marginalised in sports studies and ‘studies focused purely on the secular dimensions of sport can be unhelpfully narrow’ (Shilling and Mellor, 2014: 352). Thankfully, this secular bias is now being addressed by a number of scholars writing from theological, philosophical, psychological, historical and sociological perspectives. Nick […]
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Black Male Athlete Activism and the Link to Michael Jordan: A Transformational Leadership and Social Cognitive Theory Analysis
Have you ever thought about the potentialities coming about if Michael Jordan chose to emulate previous figures such as Muhammad Ali, John Carlos, and Tommie Smith regarding social activism? Michael Jordan has often been criticized for his failure to speak on social matters. Like Jordan, contemporary Black male athletes’ engagement in social activism has been […]
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Black Skiing, Everyday Racism, and the Racial Spatiality of Whiteness
This article examines how structural and symbolic forces combine to produce racialized discourses of belonging and geographies of exclusion in and around downhill skiing. Drawing from literatures in Whiteness studies, sports sociology, leisure studies, and environmental history, I advance the concept of racial spatiality to illustrate how processes of everyday racism work to secure skiing’s […]
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Blue Skies Over Beijing: Olympics, Environments, and the People’s Republic of China
During the 2008 Olympic Games, after years of environmental regulations, two months of short-term measures, and opportune weather, Beijing measured a record number of “blue sky days,” at the same time reassuring international athletes and journalists the air was safe for competition and Beijing residents. We use this case to understand how environmental objectives are […]
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Blurring the Boundaries: Prosumption, Circularity and Online Sustainable Consumption Through Freecycle
This article explores the digital exchange and moral ordering of sustainable and ethical consumption in online Freecycle groups. Through interactive exchanges in digital (online posts) and material (consumer items) modes, Freecycling blurs three common binaries in analysis of consumption: (1) consumption/production, (2) digital/material and (3) mainstream/alternative. Drawing on Ritzer’s notion of ‘implosions’ as well as […]
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Bodies Matter: Professional Bodies and Embodiment in Institutional Sport Contexts
Bodies are always present in organizations, yet they frequently remain unacknowledged or invisible including in sport organizations and sport management research. We therefore argue for an embodied turn in sport management research. The purpose of this article is to present possible reasons why scholars have rarely paid attention to bodies in sport organizations; to offer […]
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Body Image and Prosthetic Aesthetics: Disability Technology and Paralympic Culture
The success of the London 2012 Paralympic Games not only revealed new public possibilities for the disabled, but also thrust the debates on the relationship between elite Paralympians and advanced prosthetic technology into the spotlight. One of the Paralympic stars, Oscar Pistorius, in particular became celebrated as ‘the Paralympian cyborg’. Also prominent has been Aimee […]
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Body Image, Prostheses, Phantom Limbs
The body image with respect to physical disability has long been a woefully under-theorized area of scholarship. The literature that does attend to the body image in cases of physical abnormality or functional impairment regularly offer poorly articulated or problematic definitions of the concept, effectively undermining its historic analytic scope and depth. Here, I revisit […]
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Body Projects: Making, Remaking, and Inhabiting the Woman’s Futebol Body in Brazil
Drawing on data from an experiential ethnographic project undertaken in Brazil, this paper explores how gender is being experienced and negotiated by women football players within the context of the game’s incorporation into Western capitalism. Acceptance of women into this historically male sport is growing and opportunities are increasing, but access is heavily contingent on […]
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Book Review of Sport and Social Exclusion in Global Society by Ramón Spaaij, Jonathan Magee and Ruth Jeanes
Sport and Social Exclusion in Global Society adds another layer to the growing body of literature in the sport for social change/development field. Three devoted academics and activists came together and shared their experiences “on and off the field” highlighting social exclusion not only theoretically but also exhibiting successful practices on the ground. This book […]
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Book Review: A Companion to Sport
In A Companion to Sport, Andrews and Carrington seek ‘to encourage students…to develop a more critical approach that strikes a delicate balance between taking sports seriously as an important cultural and social phenomenon in their own right, whilst trying to locate “linkages” and interconnections to the wider social structures and forces that give sport its […]
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Book Review: Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London
Jules Boykoff’s Activism and the Olympics offers a critical analysis of the Olympic Games in Vancouver and London by examining the intersection of politics and sports. The Olympics always have important political implications for the hosting city. For example, an economic implication that almost invariably characterizes mega-sporting events is the escalation of the final cost […]
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Book Review: Artistic Impressions: Figure Skating Masculinity and the Limits of Sport
Book review: Artistic Impressions: Figure Skating Masculinity and the Limits of Sport
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Book Review: Beyond Sport for Development and Peace: Transnational Perspectives on Theory, Policy and Practice
Book review: Beyond Sport for Development and Peace: Transnational Perspectives on Theory, Policy and Practice
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Book Review: Christos Kassimeris, Football Comes Home: Symbolic Identities in European Football
Book Review: Christos Kassimeris, Football Comes Home: Symbolic Identities in European Football
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Book Review: Come Out Swinging: The Changing World of Boxing in Gleason’s Gym
Scholars interested in the role and evolution of boxing in a capitalist society should welcome this study of Gleason’s Gym in New York City. Lucia Trimbur provides nuanced insight into the users of one of the world’s most famous boxing gyms. She illustrates the usefulness of ethnography, offering analysis of the data collected during a […]
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Book Review: Desi Hoop Dreams: Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity by Stanley I. Thangaraj
Book Review: Desi Hoop Dreams: Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity by Stanley I. Thangaraj
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Book Review: ESPN: The Making of a Sports Media Empire
ESPN stands alone. The four-letter acronym carries unmatched global clout in sport media. From humble beginnings in Connecticut trailers in 1979 to a multibillion dollar powerhouse, the story of ESPN’s rise to the top of the media mountain is remarkable. ESPN is no longer a cable sports network. It is a brand that trails only […]
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The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-time College Football
COLLEGE FOOTBALL has never been more popular—or more chaotic. Millions fill 100,000-seat stadiums every Saturday; tens of millions more watch on television every weekend. The 2013 Discover BCS National Championship game between Notre Dame and Alabama had a viewership of 26.4 million people, second only to the Super Bowl. Billions of dollars from television deals […]
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The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer
James M. Dorsey introduces the reader to the world of Middle Eastern and North African football–an arena where struggles for political control, protest and resistance, self-respect and gender rights are played out. Politics was the midwife of soccer in the region, with many clubs being formed as pro- or anti-colonial platforms and engines of national […]
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Transformed Bodies and Gender: Experiences of Women Pro Wrestlers in Japan
Women’s pro wrestling in Japan has been controlled by an organization of which the members have only been women. Their bodies are unique, transformed into a deviation from the ideal female body image in Japan to enable them to engage in pro wrestling. In addition, through professional training, they acquire “combat skills”. This kind of […]
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Understanding Sports Coaching: The Pedagogical, Social and Cultural Foundations of Coaching Practice
Every successful sports coach knows that good teaching and social practices are just as important as expertise in sport skills and tactics. Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Understanding Sports Coaching is still the only introduction to theory and practice in sports coaching to fully explore the social, cultural and pedagogical concepts […]
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Vital Connections: Harnessing the Power of Relationship to Impact the Lives of Young People
Young people the world over face challenges that prevent them from reaching their fullest potential. Lou Bergholz has spent decades working for children and adolescents from Boston to Zimbabwe, and he found that the caring adult relationship holds the key to supporting them as they navigate their journey to adulthood. More than enrichment programs or […]
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Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way)
Explore the role the bicycle played in the women’s liberation movement.
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Youth Sport and Spirituality: Catholic Perspectives
Unsportsmanlike behavior by student athletes or parents at youth sporting events happens with regularity these days. Much recent research reveals that young people are dropping out of sport at alarming rates due to the often toxic elements in the culture of youth sports. The timely, innovative essays in Youth Sport and Spirituality present a wide-ranging […]
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Big-Time Sports in American Universities
For almost a century, big-time college sport has been a wildly popular but consistently problematic part of American higher education. The challenges it poses to traditional academic values have been recognized from the start, but they have grown more ominous in recent decades, as cable television has become ubiquitous, commercial opportunities have proliferated and athletic […]
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Religion and Sports: An Introduction and Case Studies
Like religion, playing and watching sports is a deeply meaningful, celebratory ritual enjoyed by millions across the world. The first scholarly work designed for use in both religion and sports courses, this collection develops and then applies a theoretically grounded approach to studying sports engagement globally and its relationship to modern-day issues of violence, difference, […]
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Beyond Bend It Like Beckham: The Global Phenomenon of Women’s Soccer
Though it burst into public consciousness only with the 1999 World Cup, women’s soccer has been around almost as long as its male counterpart, flourishing in England during and after World War I. From the rise of women’s soccer following Title IX legislation in the early seventies to the watershed 1999 World Cup performance that […]
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Beyond Black: Celebrity and Race in Obama’s America
Beyond Black is Ellis Cashmore’s compelling appraisal of the impact of black celebrities on the cultural landscape of contemporary America. In recent years a new variety of African American celebrity has emerged: acquisitive, ambitious, flamboyantly successful and individualistic – more interested in channelling their energy into career development than into the political struggles that animated […]
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Bigotry, Football and Scotland
In this collection, contributors from a range of disciplinary positions present the latest empirical research evidence and social theory to examine and debate fundamental issues about bigotry in Scottish football and society.
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21st Century Jocks: Sporting Men and Contemporary Heterosexuality
From macho huddles to gentle cuddles, the ways in which sportsmen relate as friends has radically changed. With homophobia stigmatized and gay teammates revered, today’s jocks no longer fear being thought gay for behaviors that constrained men of the previous generation. In this eye-opening book, Professor Eric Anderson draws on hundreds of interviews with 15-22 […]
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A Brief Theology of Sport
Sport is extremely popular. This groundbreaking book explains why. It shows that sport has everything to do with our deepest identity. It is where we resonate with the most-basic nature of reality. A Brief Theology of Sport sweeps across the fields of church history, philosophy and Christian doctrine, drawing the reader into a creative vision […]
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Play and Shut Up: The Silencing of Palestinian Athletes in Israeli Media
In this paper we contrast two opposing theoretical views in the sociology of sport. The first sees sport as a field that brings together different groups and bridges social divides. In this view, minority sport stars serve both as role models and as a mouthpiece voicing the feelings and needs of their ethnic groups. The […]
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Playing on the Break: Karl Polanyi and the Double-Movement Against Modern Football
While the popularity of English football increases worldwide, there has been a marked rise in the discontent expressed by a small but growing group of domestic fans. This dissent has led to the emergence of a movement broadly defined as being ‘Against Modern Football’ (AMF), a banner under which fans of rival clubs have gathered […]
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Binge Drinking and Sports Participation in College: Patterns Among Athletes and Former Athletes
This study draws on a nationally representative sample to examine the relationship between participation in organized sport and alcohol use. We build on prior studies by re-examining the relationship between participation in organized sport and binge drinking and how this varies by both race and gender. We expand upon previous research by analyzing the long-term […]
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Black Guys and White Guise: The Discursive Construction Of White Masculinity
This article explores how discursive repertories about black masculinity inform the construction of white masculinity in two settings assumed diametrically opposed: white nationalists and white anti racists. Drawing from in-depth semi-structured interviews, year-long ethnographic field notes, and content analysis from two nationwide white nationalist and white anti racist organizations, the author finds three common discursive […]
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Sport and Migration: Borders, Boundaries and Crossings
From Major League Baseball to English soccer’s Premier League, all successful contemporary professional sports leagues include a wide diversity of nationalities and ethnicities within their playing and coaching rosters. The international migration of sporting talent and labor, encouraged and facilitated by the social and economic undercurrents of globalization, mean that world sport is now an […]
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Sport for Development: What Game Are We Playing?
Sport is increasingly regarded as a powerful tool in international development. In this comprehensive introduction to the area of ‘sport-for-development’, leading researcher Fred Coalter critically evaluates the strengths and weaknesses and successes and failures of sport-for-development policies and programs. Beginning with an outline of the historical development of policies of sport-for-development, this book explores the […]
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Sport History in the Digital Era
The Internet has transformed industries across the globe and while segments of the research sector have embraced it quickly, sport historians have stepped into the digital era at a more considered pace. The editors Gary Osmond and Murray G. Phillips admit sport historians have in fact been “slow to adapt” to digital technologies (p. 6). […]
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Sport Psychology Concepts and Applications
Sport Psychology: Concepts and Applications shows how concepts supported by current scientific research can be used to address issues and situations encountered everyday by physical activity specialists, coaches, athletic trainers, and athletes.
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Sportista: Female Fandom in the United States
The typical female sports fan remains very different from her male counterparts. In their insightful and engaging book,Sportista, Andrei S. Markovits and Emily Albertson examine the significant ways many women have become fully conversant with sports-acquiring a knowledge of and passion for them as a way of forging identities that until recently were quite alien […]
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Sports In Society: Issues and Controversies (13th Edition)
For over 30 years, Sports in Society has been a resource in the cultural, interactional, and structural dimensions of sports. The Thirteenth Edition provides a thorough introduction to the sociology of sport by raising critical questions to explore the relationships between sports, culture, and society. This text takes an issues-oriented approach to the study of […]
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Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Through Physical Activity (3rd Edition)
Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Through Physical Activity, now entering its third edition, attests to author Don Hellison’s ability to shape and develop character and responsibility in children. Perhaps the success of Hellison’s book can be attributed to his status not only as a highly respected scholar-activist but as a teacher who worked in the […]
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The Athletic Revolution
Protests current trends in athletics, particularly at the university level, and suggests ways of humanizing sports events
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The Ethics of Coaching Sports: Moral, Social and Legal Issues
The Ethics of Coaching Sports features invited contributions written by prominent scholars examining a broad range of normative or evaluative issues that arise from the role of the coach in competitive sports. The collection is accessible and comprehensive, including discussion of concrete issues in coaching, such as the distribution of playing time, bullying, the implications […]
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The New Plantation: Black Athletes, College Sports and Predominantly White NCAA Institutions
The New Plantation examines the controversial relationship between predominantly White NCAA Division I Institutions (PWI s) and black athletes, utilizing an internal colonial model. It provides a much-needed in-depth analysis to fully comprehend the magnitude of the forces at work that impact black athletes experiences at PWI s. Hawkins provides a conceptual framework for understanding […]
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The Olympic Games and Cultural Policy
This book explores how cultural policies are reflected in the design, management and promotion of the Olympic Games. Garcia examines the concept and evolution of cultural policies throughout the recent history of the Olympic Games and then specifically evaluates the cultural program of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. She argues that the cultural relevance of […]
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The Smartest Kids In The World and How They Got That Way
A New York Times bestseller, The Smartest Kids was published in 15 countries and chosen by The Economist, The New York Times, The Washington Post and Amazon as one of the most notable books of the year. In a handful of nations, virtually all children are learning to make complex arguments and solve problems. They […]
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The Surprisingly Short History of Hetrosexuality.
Like the typewriter and the light bulb, the heterosexual was invented in the 1860s and swiftly transformed Western culture. The idea of “the heterosexual” was unprecedented. After all, men and women had been having sex, marrying, building families, and sometimes even falling in love for millennia without having any special name for their emotions or […]
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Muslim Women and Sport
Examining the global experiences, challenges and achievements of Muslim women participating in physical activities and sport, this important new study makes a profound contribution to our understanding of both contemporary Islam and the complexity and diversity of women’s lives in the modern world. The book presents an overview of current research into constructs of gender, […]
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Out of Bounds: When Scholarship Athletes Become Academic Scholars
Out of Bounds explores the trajectories and challenges of exceptional men and women athletes who later became outstanding academic scholars. The book reports findings from participatory, qualitative research, and problematizes ways we have come to think about the separation and integration of athletic and academic practices – embodied in both institutions and individuals, and reflected […]
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Play and the Human Condition
In Play and the Human Condition, Thomas Henricks brings together ways of considering play to probe its essential relationship to work, ritual, and communitas. Focusing on five contexts for play–the psyche, the body, the environment, society, and culture–Henricks identifies conditions that instigate play, and comments on its implications for those settings. Offering a general theory […]
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Playing for God: Evangelical Women and the Unintended Consequences of Sports Ministry.
When sports ministry first emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, its founders imagined male celebrity athletes as powerful salespeople who could deliver a message of Christian strength: “If athletes can endorse shaving cream, razor blades, and cigarettes, surely they can endorse the Lord, too,” reasoned Fellowship of Christian Athletes founder Don McClanen. But combining evangelicalism […]
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Positive Youth Development Through Sport (2nd edition)
Cutting through the political rhetoric about the power of sport as a tool for social change and personal improvement, this book offers insight into how and why participating in sport can be good for children and young people. As the first text to focus on the role of sport in positive youth development (PYD), it […]
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Race, Racism and Sports Journalism
Beginning with a theoretical discussion of race, sport and media, this book critically examines issues of race, racism and sports journalism and offers practical advice on sports reporting, including a discussion of guidelines for ethical journalism. In a series of case studies, representations of race will be explored through historical and contemporary analysis of international […]
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Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century
Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s Racial Formation in the United States remains one of the most influential books and widely read books about race. Racial Formation in the 21st Century, arriving twenty-five years after the publication of Omi and Winant’s influential work, brings together fourteen essays by leading scholars in law, history, sociology, ethnic studies, […]
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you dabble or delay, you’ll never catch up to the people who got a head start. But a closer […]
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Rethinking Children’s Play
Rethinking Children’s Play examines attitudes towards, and experiences of, children’s play. Fraser Brown and Michael Patte draw on a wide range of thought, research and practice from different fields and countries to debate, challenge and re-appraise long held beliefs, attitudes and ways of working and living with children in the play environment. Children need to […]
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Routledge Handbook of Youth Sport
The Routledge Handbook of Youth Sport is a comprehensive survey of the latest research into young people’s involvement in sport. Drawing on a wide diversity of disciplines, including sociology, psychology, policy studies, coaching, physical education and physiology, the book examines the importance of sport during a key transitional period of our lives, from the later […]
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Drug Games: The International Olympic Committee and the Politics of Doping, 1960-2008
On August 26, 1960, twenty-three-year-old Danish cyclist Knud Jensen, competing in that year’s Rome Olympic Games, suddenly fell from his bike and fractured his skull. His death hours later led to rumors that performance-enhancing drugs were in his system. Though certainly not the first instance of doping in the Olympic Games, Jensen’s death serves as […]
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Fighting: Intellectualizing Combat Sports
This book is the first of its kind that relates specifically to the practical and theoretical aspects of martial arts in contemporary society. Within its covers are a collection of thirty-five cutting-edge chapters by leading practitioners and academics who raise questions and provide answers regarding the broad relationship between fighting and the intellectualisation of the […]
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