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. This book examines the life and care...Daugiau...
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 tim...Daugiau...
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...Daugiau...
Telling an important story about the development of modern Turkey, this fascinating book examines the place of football in Turkish society and the relationship between Turkish sport, nationalism and globalization, this book is important reading fo...Daugiau...
This book examines the development and significance of sport in contemporary India, one of the fastest growing sports markets worldwide. This book examines the development and significance of sport in contemporary India, one of the...Daugiau...
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 contr...Daugiau...
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 Euro...Daugiau...
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 globa...Daugiau...
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 posi...Daugiau...
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 capita...Daugiau...
This book takes a critical look at the role that sport can play in fostering social cohesion. It presents important conceptual and empirical material that sheds new light on what works, and what doesnt, in terms of the use of sport as a tool of soc...Daugiau...
This book examines the ways that nationalist leaders and extremist groups have used football to advance their often violent ideological narratives and to recruit and radicalise young people. This book examines the ways that national...Daugiau...
This book explores the various ways in which participation in sport and physical activity might contribute to effective solutions within criminal justice systems. This book explores the various ways in which participation in sport and phys...Daugiau...
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 und...Daugiau...
This book considers the ability of individuals and communities to maintain healthy relationships with their surroundings before, during and after catastrophic events through physical activity and sporting practices. This book co...Daugiau...
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 o...Daugiau...
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 s...Daugiau...
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 contr...Daugiau...
This is the first book to examine the body in training in the context of religion, sport and wider physical culture, offering important insight into the performative, social, cultural and gendered aspects of somatic discipline and exercise....Daugiau...
