Sports Geography Books

New and Published Books

1. The History of Motor Sport

   A Case Study Analysis

   Edited by David Hassan

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   This book examines the evolution of motor sport from its creation in central Europe, throughout the rest of the continent and elsewhere, including in both North and South America. It was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport....

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Sport in the City

   Cultural Connections

   Edited by Michael Sam, John Hughson

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   Sport is seen as an increasingly important aspect of urban and regional planning. Related programmes have moved to the forefront of agendas for cities of the present and future. This has occurred as the barriers between so-called ‘high’ and ‘popular’ culture continue to disintegrate. Sport is now a...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
3. Sport Across Asia

   Politics, Cultures, and Identities

   Edited by Katrin Bromber, Birgit Krawietz, Joseph Maguire

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   This book is designed to reflect both our current knowledge regarding sport, globalisation and ‘"encounters" with several important "post-colonial" or non-western societies and to draw together scholars from a range of different disciplines. Case studies of cultural encounters in Central,...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
4. Mapping an Empire of American Sport

   Expansion, Assimilation, Adaptation and Resistance

   Edited by Mark Dyreson, J.A. Mangan, Roberta J. Park

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   Since the mid-nineteenth century, the United States has used sport as a vehicle for spreading its influence and extending its power, especially in the Western Hemisphere and around the Pacific Rim, but also in every corner of the rest of the world. Through modern sport in general, and through...

   Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge
5. Public-Private Partnerships for Major League Sports Facilities

   By Judith Grant Long

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport Business and Management

   This volume takes readers inside the high-stakes game of public-private partnerships for major league sports facilities, explaining why some cities made better deals than others, assessing the best practices and common pitfalls in deal structuring and facility leases, as well as highlighting...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
6. Reflections on Process Sociology and Sport

   'Walking the Line'

   By Joseph Maguire

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   The book focuses on the distinctive contribution that Joseph Maguire has made to process sociology and the study of sport. Maguire’s work over the past three decades highlights how process sociology has a unique perspective on the relationship between sport, culture and society, and to the body,...

   Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Global Horseracing Industry

   Social, Economic, Environmental and Ethical Perspectives

   By Phil McManus, Glenn Albrecht, Raewyn Graham

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   Horseracing, thoroughbred breeding and gambling on racing are global industries worth several hundred billion dollars. They are also industries facing serious challenges, from the rise of alternative forms of leisure gambling to concerns about the ethical treatment of animals in all equestrian...

   Published August 30th 2012 by Routledge
8. Host Cities and the Olympics

   An Interactionist Approach

   By Harry Hiller

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   Rather than interpreting the Olympics as primarily a sporting event of international or national significance, this book understands the Games as a civic project for the host city that serves as a catalyst for a variety of urban interests over a period of many years from the bidding phase through...

   Published June 11th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Urban Geography of Boxing

   Race, Class, and Gender in the Ring

   By Benita Heiskanen

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   This book is an interdisciplinary cultural examination of twenty-first century boxing as a professional sport, a bodily labor, a lucrative business, a popular entertainment, and an instrument of ideology. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted with Latino boxers, women boxers, and...

   Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
10. Rule Britannia: Nationalism, Identity and the Modern Olympic Games

    By Matthew Llewellyn

    Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

    On 6 July 2005, the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2012 summer Olympic Games to the city of London, opening a new chapter in Great Britain’s rich Olympic history. Despite the prospect of hosting the summer Games for the third time since Pierre de Coubertin’s 1894 revival of the Olympic...

    Published December 4th 2011 by Routledge