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  • CrossFit

    Commodity, Community, Contested Terrain

    Edited by Marcelle C. Dawson, Steven J. Jackson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited collection brings together the work of key scholars to explore the various dimensions, themes and controversies – the contested terrain of CrossFit – from a range of perspectives. CrossFit has emerged as a prominent fixture across the global sporting and cultural landscape. Developed initially as an exercise programme to promote functional fitness, CrossFit has undergone a rapid ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Sport, Advertising and Global Promotional Culture

    Identities, Commodities, Spaces and Spectacles

    Edited by Steven J. Jackson, David L. Andrews ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    This book explores the intersection of contemporary sport, advertising, promotional culture and wider society.Arguing that advertising and promotional culture remain key driving forces in relation to social structures and systems that contribute to enduring patterns of economic and other forms of inequality, this book examines how sport and related areas of social life continue to be transformed ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Sport Stars

    The Cultural Politics of Sporting Celebrity

    Edited by David L. Andrews, Steven J. Jackson ...
    In a culture obsessed with celebrity, sportmen and women are some of the highest profile figures. We are fascinated by sport stars' lifestyles, love lives, and earning power. Sport Stars investigates the nature of contemporary sporting celebrity, examining stars' often turbulent relationships with the media, and with the sporting establishment.Through a series of case studies of sporting stars, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Sport and Foreign Policy in a Globalizing World

    Edited by Steven J. Jackson, Steven Haigh ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    Globalization is effecting a close convergence of sport and foreign policy. In order to respond to novel social, political, cultural and economic pressures, states are increasingly turning to sport as a foreign policy instrument; and they cannot ignore the corresponding influence that global sport has on their core interests. This book is devoted to exploring this relationship in detail. Although ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Sport Policy in Small States

    Edited by Michael Sam, Steven J. Jackson ...
    For small nations like Grenada, New Zealand and Norway, medal counts relative to population are increasingly touted as the most meaningful comparisons with sporting superpowers China, the United States and Germany. In acknowledging that 60% of the world’s states have populations of less than 10 million and 48% of these have less than 5 million inhabitants, this book explores how the ‘minnows’ can ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • digitalSTS

    A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies

    by Janet Vertesi, Janet Vertesi, David Ribes, David Ribes, Laura Forlano, Alexandre Camus, Dominique Vinck, Nerea Calvillo, Daniela K. Rosner, Christina Dunbar-Hester, Xaroula (Charalampia) Kerasidou0, Luke Stark1, Stéphane Couture2, Steven J. Jackson3, Anita Say Chan4, Camilla A. Hawthorne5, Carla Ilten6, Paul-Brian McInerney7, David Nemer8, Padma Chirumamilla9, Winifred R. Poster0, Steve Sawyer1, Ingrid Erickson2, Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi3, Ranjit Singh4, Chris Hesselbein5, Jessica Price6, Michael Lynch7, Elena Parmiggiani8, Eric Monteiro9, Doris Allhutter0, Brit Ross Winthereik1, James Maguire2, Laura Watts3, Carl DiSalvo4, Guillaume Latzko-Toth5, Johan Söderberg6, Florence Millerand7, Steve Jones8, Nick Seaver9, Marisa Leavitt Cohn0, Yanni Loukissas1, Daniel Cardoso Llach2, Anders Kristian Munk3, Axel Meunier4, Tommaso Venturini5, Juan Salamanca6, Mathieu Jacomy7 ...
    New perspectives on digital scholarship that speak to today's computational realitiesScholars across the humanities, social sciences, and information sciences are grappling with how best to study virtual environments, use computational tools in their research, and engage audiences with their results. Classic work in science and technology studies (STS) has played a central role in how these fields ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Sport, Culture and Advertising

    Identities, Commodities and the Politics of Representation

    Edited by Steven J. Jackson, David L. Andrews ...
    Despite the range of theoretical and methological positions adopted and the wide range of issues and topics related to advertising covered by cultural studies, relationships between sport and advertising have been largely overlooked.Given its gobal popularity and its prevalence across the spectrum of cultural and commercial life it is not surprising that scholars interrogating the cultural ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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  • Cities and Economies

    by Yeong-Hyun Kim, John Rennie Short ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    Cities and Economies explores the complex and subtle connections between cities and economies. The rise of the merchant city, the development of the industrial city and the creation of the service-dominated urban economy are all explored, along with economic globalization and its effects on cities in both developed and developing economies. This book provides a thorough examination of the role of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Watching the Olympics

    Politics, Power and Representation

    Edited by John Sugden, Alan Tomlinson ...
    Global sporting events involve the creation, management and mediation of cultural meanings for consumption by massive media audiences. The apotheosis of this cultural form is the Olympic Games. This challenging and provocative new book explores the Olympic spectacle, from the multi-media bidding process and the branding and imaging of the Games, to security, surveillance and control of the Olympic ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Sport

    A Critical Sociology

    by Richard Giulianotti ...
    In this new edition of his acclaimed book, Richard Giulianotti provides a critical sociological interpretation of modern sport. As global festivals such as the Olympic Games and football’s World Cup demonstrate, sport’s social, political, economic and cultural significance is becoming ever more apparent across the world.Ten years after its original publication, the text has been completely revised ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games

    by Jules Boykoff ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
    The Olympic Games have become the world’s greatest media and marketing event—a global celebration of exceptional athletics gilded with corporate cash. Huge corporations vie for association with the "Olympic Image" in the hope of gaining a worldwide marketing audience of billions.In this provocative critical study of the contemporary Olympics, Jules Boykoff argues that the Games have become a ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Sport Policy

    Edited by Ian Henry, Ling-Mei Ko ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    It is difficult to fully understand the role that sport plays in contemporary global society without understanding how and why governments, NGOs and other organizations formulate and implement policy relating to sport. The Routledge Handbook of Sport Policy is the only book to offer a comprehensive overview of current perspectives, techniques and approaches to the analysis of sport policy around ... Read more

    $87.99 USD