This book advances current literature on the role and place of animals in sport and society. It explores different forms of sporting spaces, examines how figures of animals have been used to racialize the human athlete, and encourages the reader to think critically about animal ethics, animals in space, time and place, and the human-animal relationship. The chapters highlight persistent dichotomies in the use of and collaboration with animals for sport, and present strategies for moving forward in the study of interspecies relations.
This book advances current literature on the role and place of animals in sport and society. It explores different forms of sporting spaces, examines ...
Although prison can present a critical opportunity to engage with offenders through interventions and programming, reoffending rates among those released from prison remain stubbornly high. Sport can be a means through which to engage with even the most challenging and complex individuals caught up in a cycle of offending and imprisonment, by offering an alternative means of excitement and risk taking to that gained through engaging in offending behaviour, or by providing an alternative social network and access to positive role models.
This is the first book to explore the role of...
Although prison can present a critical opportunity to engage with offenders through interventions and programming, reoffending rates among those re...
The Olympic Games is unquestionably the largest and most important sporting event in the world. Yet who exactly is accountable for its successes and failures? This book examines the legitimacy and accountability of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). This non-governmental organisation wields extraordinary power, but there is no democratic basis for its authority. This study questions the supremacy of the IOC, arguing that there is a significant accountability deficit.
Investigating the conduct of the IOC from an international legal perspective, the book moves beyond a...
The Olympic Games is unquestionably the largest and most important sporting event in the world. Yet who exactly is accountable for its successes an...
This book raises critical questions about the explanatory framework guiding sports coaching research and presents a new conceptualization for research in the field. Through mapping and contextualizing sports coaching research within a corporatized higher education, the dominant or legitimate forms of sports coaching knowledge are problematized and a new vision of the field, which is socially and culturally responsive, communitarian and justice-oriented emerges.
This book raises critical questions about the explanatory framework guiding sports coaching research and presents a new conceptualization for research...
Much of the writing on the post-9/11 period in the United States has focused on the role of official Government rhetoric about 9/11. Those who have focused on the news media have suggested that they played a key role in (re)defining the nation, allowing the citizenry to come to terms with 9/11, in providing 'official' understandings and interpretations of the event, and setting the terms for a geo-political-military response (the war on terror). However, strikingly absent from post-9/11 writing has been discussion on the role of sport in this moment. This text provides the first, book-length...
Much of the writing on the post-9/11 period in the United States has focused on the role of official Government rhetoric about 9/11. Those who have fo...
'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 acti...
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 variety of topics such as the experiences of Muslims, the recruitment of African players, devolution and national identities, case studies of minority ethnic clubs, "mixed-race" players, multiculturalism and anti-racism, sectarianism, education, and foreign club ownership. Covering the both amateur and...
As the first edited collection dedicated specifically to race, ethnicity and British football, this book brings together a range of academics, compris...
The Social Organization of Sports Medicine is the first book-length overview of the social scientific study of sports medicine, drawing together work from an international cadre of scholars who examine and provide interdisciplinary analysis of the dynamic and multi-faceted relationships between sports and medicine and within sports medicine. The book charts changing perceptions of sport within medical discourse, attempts by sports medicine providers to forge professional identities in response to these processes, the day-to-day experiences of deliverers of sports medicine and the...
The Social Organization of Sports Medicine is the first book-length overview of the social scientific study of sports medicine, drawing to...
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 which sport facilitates or inhibits upward social mobility. Drawing on four case studies, the book provides a rich sociological analysis of people's lived experiences of sport in diverse social, cultural and political contexts, ranging from sport-for-development programs in Brazil and the Netherlands...
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 ...
Horseracing, thoroughbred breeding and gambling on racing are global industries worth several hundred billion dollars, but they are also facing serious challenges. This book offers an examination of the contemporary horseracing industry, from geographical, economic, social, ethical and environmental perspectives.
Horseracing, thoroughbred breeding and gambling on racing are global industries worth several hundred billion dollars, but they are also facing seriou...
