Bücher der Reihe Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

What can the history of a nation's football reveal about that nation's wider political and socio-cultural identity? How can the study of local football culture help us to understand the powerful international forces at play within the modern game? This book uses Malta as a critical case study to explore the dynamics of contemporary football.

This important new book takes an explicitly spatial approach to sport, bringing together research in geography, sport studies and related disciplines to articulate a critical approach to `sports geography¿. Including cases from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, it highlights the ways that space and power are produced through sport and its infrastructures, agencies and networks.

There is a continuing need for critical scholarship about ethnic 'Other' girls and women in sport and physical culture, in order to represent their complex, multifarious and dynamic lived realities. This international collection of critical essays provides compelling insight into the lived realities of ethnic `Other¿ females 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. Drawing on archival research, oral history, and participant observation techniques, this book offers a comprehensive history of the Gay Games from 1980 through to the Chicago games of 2006.

In spite of a great passion in the game and significant involvement at amateur level, British Asians are under-represented in professional football. This book asks how and why this situation has developed. It also examines the work of the anti-racist football movement.

Is Marxism still relevant for understanding sport in the twenty-first century? Has Marxism been preserved or transcended by cultural studies? What is the relationship between theory and intervention in the politics of sport? This book discusses the relationship between sport and Marxism. It is suitable for students of sport sociology, and Marxism.

Presenting an exploration of the use of drugs and other performance-enhancing practices in sport, this book offers a controversial perspective on the modern Olympics. It is useful for under- and post-graduate students, as well as scholars of sports ethics and history, policy makers and others interested in the changing nature of sport.

Brings in perspectives from a number of disciplines including sports studies, gender studies, sociology, cultural studies, lesbian and gay studies, and queer studies. This book provides analysis of gay, transgender, transsexual and intersex people's experiences of sport as well as a theoretical consideration of sociological and political issues.

Exploring the broad historical context of modern America, this book argues that the state of sports is a powerful indictment of a wealth-driven society and hyper-individualistic way of life. Taking on critics from all sides of the political debate, it makes the case that sport still possesses features that encourage social and moral values.

Explores meanings and representations of body in relation to our physical cultures - our traditions of cultural practices such as sport and dance within which the moving physical body is central. This book is intended to challenge old certainties about the body and physical culture and to investigate changing knowledge about the body, and more.

A collection of essays on marginalised accounts of sport, bringing to the fore an emerging field of discussion through theoretical debate from multidisciplinary perspectives.

Presenting an examination of the social, political and economic processes shaping the Paralympic Movement, this book reviews the status of the Paralympics. It challenges the mainstream assumption that the Games are a vehicle for empowerment of the disabled community, and offers insight into the relationship between sport, the body and disability.

Is Marxism still relevant for understanding sport in the twenty-first century? Has Marxism been preserved or transcended by cultural studies? What is the relationship between theory and intervention in the politics of sport? This book discusses the relationship between sport and Marxism. It is suitable for students of sport sociology, and Marxism.

Examines the production, content, and potential effects of NBC's Olympic telecasts. This book outlines the inner workings of the NBC Olympic machine; and offers a survey analyses, which interrogates the extent to which NBC's storytelling process affects viewer beliefs about identity issues.