On Boxing

Joseph D Lewandowski

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
• This book is a philosophical and cultural critique of contemporary boxing. It broadens and deepens our understanding of the empirically and normativel... Lees meer

Referees, Match Officials and Abuse

Tom Webb, Mike Rayner, Jamie Cleland, Jimmy O'Gorman

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
• This book explores issues related to the abuse of referees and match officials in sport. Drawing on original empirical research in football, rugby uni... Lees meer

Christianity and the Transformation of Physical Education and Sport in China

Huijie Zhang, Fan Hong, Fuhua Huang

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
• Despite the popularity of sport in contemporary China, the practice of physical education is not indigenous to its culture. Strenuous physical activit... Lees meer

Sport in Iceland

Vidar Halldorsson

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
• Iceland is a tiny Nordic nation with a population of just 330,000 and no professional sports leagues, and yet its soccer, basketball and handball team... Lees meer

Who Owns Sport?

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
• This fascinating collection of essays explores the complex economic, political, cultural and social claims over sport, from multi-disciplinary perspec... Lees meer

Rethinking Sports and Integration

Sine Agergaard

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
• Rethinking Sports and Integration offers a critical cultural analysis of the idea that sport can promote the integration of migrants and their descend... Lees meer

Racism and English Football

Daniel Burdsey

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
• Racism and English Football: For Club and Country analyses the contemporary manifestations, outcomes and implications of the fractious relationship be... Lees meer

Sport, Forced Migration and the 'Refugee Crisis'

Enrico Michelini

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
• Drawing on original research, this book looks at what sport can tell us about the social processes, patterns and outcomes of forced migration and the ... Lees meer

Doping in Sport

Thomas Søbirk Petersen

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
• In this provocative and thought-provoking book, Professor of Ethics Thomas Søbirk Petersen explains why the World Anti-Doping Agency's doping rules ar... Lees meer

Rugby in Global Perspective

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
• This book critically examines how rugby union has developed in recent years, in nations on the periphery of the sport. Focusing on people and places o... Lees meer

Olympic Laws

Mark James, Guy Osborn

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
• Olympic Laws: Culture, Values, Tensions is the first book to analyse fully the Olympic legal framework and its application to the IOC and the Olympic ... Lees meer

The National Games and National Identity in China

Liu Li, Fan Hong

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
• The history of China's National Games reflects both the transformation of elite sport in China and wider Chinese society. This is the first book to de... Lees meer

Sport in Iceland

Vidar Halldorsson

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
• Iceland is a tiny Nordic nation with a population of just 330,000 and no professional sports leagues, and yet its soccer, basketball and handball team... Lees meer

On Boxing

Joseph D Lewandowski

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
• This book is a philosophical and cultural critique of contemporary boxing. It broadens and deepens our understanding of the empirically and normativel... Lees meer

Sport Policy Across the United Kingdom

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
• This book provides a comparative analysis of sport and physical activity policies, processes, and practices across the home nations (England, Scotland... Lees meer

The National Games and National Identity in China

Liu Li, Fan Hong

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
• The history of China's National Games reflects both the transformation of elite sport in China and wider Chinese society. This is the first book to de... Lees meer

Skill Transmission, Sport and Tacit Knowledge

Honorata Jakubowska

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
• Teaching the skills necessary to play sport depends partly on transmitting knowledge verbally, yet non-verbal or tacit knowledge also has an important... Lees meer

Who Owns Sport?

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
• This fascinating collection of essays explores the complex economic, political, cultural and social claims over sport, from multi-disciplinary perspec... Lees meer

Doping in Sport

Thomas Søbirk Petersen

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
• In this provocative and thought-provoking book, Professor of Ethics Thomas Søbirk Petersen explains why the World Anti-Doping Agency's doping rules ar... Lees meer

Sport, Education and Corporatisation

Geoffery Z Kohe, Holly Collison

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
• Using an interdisciplinary approach, Sport, Education and Corporatisation offers an important critique of the intersection between sport organisations... Lees meer

Racism and English Football

Daniel Burdsey

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
• Racism and English Football: For Club and Country analyses the contemporary manifestations, outcomes and implications of the fractious relationship be... Lees meer

Rugby in Global Perspective

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
• This book critically examines how rugby union has developed in recent years, in nations on the periphery of the sport. Focusing on people and places o... Lees meer

Christianity and the Transformation of Physical Education and Sport in China

Huijie Zhang, Fan Hong, Fuhua Huang

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
• Despite the popularity of sport in contemporary China, the practice of physical education is not indigenous to its culture. Strenuous physical activit... Lees meer