Sociology of Sport

This book examines the historical, social and cultural complexities of the game of football (also known as soccer) across Europe, Africa, Asia and North and South America, and charts how these can be studied in greater detail by placing the world’s most popular sport in a global context. This approa..

This book examines the historical, social and cultural complexities of the game of football (also known as soccer) across Europe, Africa, Asia and North and South America, and charts how these can be studied in greater detail by placing the world’s most popular sport in a global context. This approa..

This collection illustrates the expansiveness of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of sport. The essays consider sports in their social, economic, cultural and political aspects...

This collection illustrates the expansiveness of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of sport. The essays consider sports in their social, economic, cultural and political aspects...

A development of the discourse on ethnicity and sport, exploring the British Asian experience of playing football in terms of the demands of the game and the influences of contrasting yet co-existing cultures...

This book examines the exclusion of British Asians from the football industry, drawing on a wealth of empirical work with players, coaches, scouts, managers, anti-racist organisations, and community officers. It adopts a critical race theory (CRT) perspective throughout to offer a platform for exclu..

In recent years the interest in the patterns and policies of South African sport has grown. This book examines the increasingly complex issue of race, class and sport in the context of South African social relations. The author disputes evaluations made purely on the question of race, maintaining th..

Consuming Football in Late Modern Life explores the phenomenon of football (soccer) fandom as consumption in the age of late modernity. By centralising fandom within the sociology of consumption, the book examines how this phenomenon equates to a fluid series of consumption activities that are pract..

An original insight into the link between corruption and organised crime and sport, this book demonstrates that corruption and the mafia presence in Italian soccer reflect the Italian power system itself...

Critical Readings in Bodybuilding is the first collection to address the contemporary practice of bodybuilding, especially the way in which the activity has become increasingly more extreme, and to consider much neglected debates of gender, eroticism, and sexuality related to the activity...

Critical Readings in Bodybuilding is the first collection to address the contemporary practice of bodybuilding, especially the way in which the activity has become increasingly more extreme, and to consider much neglected debates of gender, eroticism, and sexuality related to the activity...

This book on politics and sport, contains critical analyses of the commercialisation of sport, and also includes a complete reprint of the author’s classic 1983 study Blowing the Whistle: The Politics of Sport...