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Forthcoming Sports and Leisure Paperbacks

You are currently browsing 1–10 of 153 forthcoming paperbacks in the subject of Sports and Leisure — sorted by publish date from upcoming books to future books.

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Forthcoming Books

  1. The Ethics of Sports Medicine

    Edited by Claudio Tamburrini, Torbjörn Tännsjö

    Series: Ethics and Sport

    The book aims to establish a critical dialogue between sports ethicists and bioethicists across the range of sporting disciplines at elite level. It will address questions such as: are the increasingly intrusive testing methods of elite sports compatible with the right to autonomy and privacy...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  2. The Beijing Olympics: Promoting China

    Soft and Hard Power in Global Politics

    Edited by Kevin Caffrey

    The Beijing 2008 Olympic ceremonies were spectacular performances and technological accomplishments by the People’s Republic of China. However, the audience in Beijing was only the most overt element of a global audience receiving the message of the Games. For this global audience, the Beijing...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  3. The Organisation and Governance of Top Football Across Europe

    An Institutional Perspective

    Edited by Hallgeir Gammelsæter, Benoit Senaux

    Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

    This book aims to provide an extensive overview of how football is organized and managed on a European level and in individual European countries, and to account for the evolution of the national, international and transnational management of football over the last decades....

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  4. Race, Ethnicity and Football

    Persisting Debates and Emergent Issues

    Edited by Daniel Burdsey

    Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

    As the first edited collection dedicated specifically to race, ethnicity and British football, this book brings together a range of academics, comprising both established commentators and up-and-coming voices. Combining theoretical and empirical contributions, the volume will addresses a wide...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  5. The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States

    Cathedrals of Sport

    Edited by Mark Dyreson, Robert Trumpbour

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    Many Americans know more about the stadiums that loom over their cityscapes or college campuses than they do about any other aspect of the nation’s geography. Stadiums serve as iconic monuments of urban and university identities. Indeed, the power of sport in modern American culture has produced ‘...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  6. Governance, Citizenship and the New European Football Championships

    The European Spectacle

    Edited by Wolfram Manzenreiter, Georg Spitaler

    Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

    Over the past decade, European football has seen tremendous changes impacting upon its international framework as well as local traditions and national institutions. Processes of Europeanization in the fields of economy and politics provided the background for transformations of the production and...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  7. Sport as History

    Essays in Honour of Wray Vamplew

    Edited by Tony Collins

    Published to mark the career of one of sports history’s pioneers, this book traces the evolution of sport across three continents. It brings together some of sports history’s leading scholars to investigate not only the history of sport but also how that history is written. This Festschrift...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  8. Sport and Social Mobility

    Crossing Boundaries

    By Ramón Spaaij

    Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

    Can sport serve as a vehicle for social mobility of disadvantaged social groups? How and to what extent are different forms of social capital created through sport participation? Sport and Social Mobility: Crossing Boundaries takes up these questions through a critical examination of the ways in...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  9. Soccer's Missing Men

    Schoolteachers and the Spread of Association Football

    By J.A. Mangan, Colm Hickey

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    Now unknown or forgotten, influential schoolmasters took the game of association football to many parts of England. They had several roles: they brought the game to individual schools, they established regional and national leagues and associations, and they founded professional football...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  10. The Politics of Sport in South Asia

    Edited by Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty, Shantanu Chakrabarti, Kingshuk Chatterjee

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    Behind the spectacle of entertainment, sport is a subject with political issues at every level. These issues range from the social, with divisions created along gender and class lines, to the use of sport to pursue diplomatic and statecraft goals. In addition, some sports are positioned and...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge