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41. The Gay Games

    A History

    By Caroline Symons

    Series: 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 their inception in 1980, the Gay Games have developed into a multi-million dollar mega-event, engaging people from all continents, while the...

    Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
42. Terrorism and the Olympics

    Major Event Security and Lessons for the Future

    Edited by Anthony Richards, Peter Fussey, Andrew Silke

    Series: Political Violence

    The book aims to outline the progress, problems and challenges of delivering a safe and secure Olympics in the context of the contemporary serious and enduring terrorist threat. The enormous media profile and symbolic significance of the Olympic Games, the history of terrorists aiming to use such...

    Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
43. Sport, Masculinities and the Body

    By Ian Wellard

    Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

    This groundbreaking work explores masculinity and the body within sports. Sports continue to retain expectations for presentations of specific forms of masculinity. The body is central to these presentations. These everyday bodily performances are rehearsed and performed either successfully or...

    Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
44. Muslim Women and Sport

    Edited by Tansin Benn, Gertrud Pfister, Haifaa Jawad

    Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

    Examining the global experiences, challenges and achievements of Muslim women participating in physical activities and sport, this important new study makes a profound contribution to our understanding of both contemporary Islam and the complexity and diversity of women’s lives in the modern world....

    Published February 12th 2012 by Routledge
45. The Making of Sporting Cultures

    By John Hughson

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    The Making of Sporting Cultures presents an analysis of western sport by examining how the collective passions and feelings of people have contributed to the making of sport as a ‘way of life’. The popularity of sport is so pronounced in some cases that we speak of certain sports as ‘national...

    Published January 14th 2012 by Routledge
46. 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...

    Published January 14th 2012 by Routledge
47. South Africa and the Global Game

    Football, Apartheid and Beyond

    Edited by Peter Alegi, Chris Bolsmann

    Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

    Firmly situating South African teams, players, and associations in the international framework in which they have to compete, South Africa and the Global Game: Football, Apartheid, and Beyond presents an interdisciplinary analysis of how and why South Africa underwent a remarkable transformation...

    Published January 8th 2012 by Routledge
48. Ethics, Disability and Sports

    Edited by Ejgil Jespersen, Mike J. McNamee

    Series: Ethics and Sport

    This volume addresses a range of philosophical and ethical issues in adapted physical activity and disability sports participation more broadly. It is comprised of a range of essays by international scholars whose backgrounds embrace different traditions of philosophy, pedagogy and adapted physical...

    Published January 8th 2012 by Routledge
49. Why Minorities Play or Don't Play Soccer

    A Global Exploration

    Edited by Kausik Bandyopadhyay

    Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

    Soccer, the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, has always remained a marker of identities of various sorts. Behind the façade of its obvious entertainment aspect, it has proved to be a perpetuating reflector of nationalism, ethnicity, community or communal identity, and cultural...

    Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
50. Science and Racket Sports III

    The Proceedings of the Eighth International Table Tennis Federation Sports Science Congress and The Third World Congress of Science and Racket Sports

    Edited by Jean-Francois Kahn, Adrian Lees, Ian Maynard

    Science and Racket Sports III introduces the edited papers and keynote addresses presented at the combined Third World Congress of Science and Racket Sports and Eighth International Table Tennis Federation Sports Science Congress, in February 2003. The papers are brought together by world-class...

    Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge