Race, Gender and Sport

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
• The experiences of ethnic 'Other' females have - until recently - been widely overlooked in the study of sport. There continues to be a need to produc... Lees meer

The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic Movement

David Howe

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
• Do the Paralympic Games empower the disability sport community? Like many other contemporary sporting institutions, the Paralympic Games have made the... Lees meer

Olympic Exclusions

Jacqueline Kennelly

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
• Olympic Games are sold to host city populations on the basis of legacy commitments that incorporate aid for the young and the poor. Yet little is know... Lees meer

Physical Culture, Power, and the Body

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
• During the past decade, there has been an outpouring of books on 'the body' in society, but none has focused as specifically on physical culture - tha... Lees meer

Soccer, Culture and Society in Spain

Mariann Vaczi

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
• Spanish soccer is on top of the world, at international and club level, with the best teams and a seemingly endless supply of exciting and stylish pla... Lees meer

The Cultural Politics of Lifestyle Sports

Belinda Wheaton

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
• Drawing on a series of in-depth, empirical case-studies, this book offers a re-evaluation of theoretical frameworks with which lifestyle sports have b... Lees meer

Race, Gender and Sport

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
• The experiences of ethnic 'Other' females have - until recently - been widely overlooked in the study of sport. There continues to be a need to produc... Lees meer

Power and Politics in World Athletics

Jörg Krieger

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
• This book provides the first detailed history of one of the most powerful international sport organisations, the International Association of Athletic... Lees meer

Fastest, Highest, Strongest

Rob Beamish, Ian Ritchie

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
• Fastest, Highest, Strongest presents a comprehensive challenge to the dominant orthodoxy concerning the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport. E... Lees meer

Global and Local Football

Gary Armstrong, Jon P Mitchell

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
• What can the history of a nation's football reveal about that nation's wider political and socio-cultural identity? How can the study of local footbal... Lees meer

The Cultural Politics of Lifestyle Sports

Belinda Wheaton

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
• This important new study examines the changing place and meaning of lifestyle sports - parkour, surfing, skateboarding, kite-surfing and others - and ... Lees meer

Olympic Exclusions

Jacqueline Kennelly

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
• Olympic Games are sold to host city populations on the basis of legacy commitments that incorporate aid for the young and the poor. Yet little is know... Lees meer

Olympic Media

Andrew C Billings

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
• Located in the United States, NBC (National Broadcasting Company) is the biggest and most powerful Olympic network in the world, having won the rights... Lees meer

The Gay Games

Caroline Symons

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
• The Gay Games is an important piece of new social history, examining one of the largest sporting, cultural and human rights events in the world. Since... Lees meer

Action Sports and the Olympic Games

Belinda Wheaton, Holly Thorpe

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
• Based on a decade of research by two leading action sports scholars, this book maps the relationship between action sports and the Olympic Movement, f... Lees meer

British Asians and Football

Daniel Burdsey

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
• In spite of a great passion in the game and significant involvement at amateur level, British Asians are under-represented in professional football. T... Lees meer

Physical Culture, Power, and the Body

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
• During the past decade, there has been an outpouring of books on 'the body' in society, but none has focused as specifically on physical culture - tha... Lees meer

Culture, Politics and Sport

Garry Whannel

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
• This book on politics and sport, contains critical analyses of the commercialisation of sport, and also includes a complete reprint of the author's cl... Lees meer

Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
• The cultural ubiquity, political prominence and economic significance of contemporary sport present fertile terrain for its critical socio-cultural an... Lees meer

Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games

Jules Boykoff

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
• The Olympic Games have become the world's greatest media and marketing event-a global celebration of exceptional athletics gilded with corporate cash.... Lees meer

Critical Geographies of Sport

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
• Sport is a geographic phenomenon. The physical and organizational infrastructure of sport occupies a prominent place in our society. This important bo... Lees meer

Soccer, Culture and Society in Spain

Mariann Vaczi

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
• Spanish soccer is on top of the world, at international and club level, with the best teams and a seemingly endless supply of exciting and stylish pla... Lees meer

Critical Geographies of Sport

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
• Sport is a geographic phenomenon. The physical and organizational infrastructure of sport occupies a prominent place in our society. This important bo... Lees meer

Power and Politics in World Athletics

Jörg Krieger

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
• This book provides the first detailed history of one of the most powerful international sport organisations, the International Association of Athletic... Lees meer