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  • Routledge Handbook of Football Business and Management

    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Soccer is the world’s most valuable sport, generating bigger revenues, as well as being watched and played by more people, than any other. It is virtually impossible to understand the business of sport without understanding the football industry. This book surveys contemporary football in unparalleled breadth and depth.Presenting critical insights from world-leading football scholars and ... Read more

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  • The Sport Mega-Events of the 2020s

    Governance, Impacts and Controversies

    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    This book explores various social, cultural, political and economic issues through the lenses of various sport mega-events in the twenty-first century, including the Olympic Games, and the World Cup and European Championships in football. In a time where sport mega-events are closely followed by controversies, legacy discourses and questions of their governance, the chapters within this book ... Read more

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  • Critical Issues in Football

    A Sociological Analysis of the Beautiful Game

    Series series Critical Research in Football
    Showcasing some of the most important current research in football studies, this book demonstrates the value of social theory and sociology in helping us to better understand the world’s favourite sport.This book sheds critical new light on key issues in contemporary football, with each chapter using a different theoretical lens, drawing on the work of key thinkers from Elias and Foucault to Hall ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Football, Politics and Identity

    Series series Critical Research in Football
    This book presents a series of fascinating case studies that show how the lives and bodies of clubs, players and fans around the world are enmeshed with politics.It draws on original research in countries including England, Scotland, Ireland, Poland, Mexico, Algeria and Argentina and includes both historical and contemporary perspectives. It explores some of the most important themes in the study ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Football and Popular Culture

    Singing Out from the Stands

    Series series Critical Research in Football
    Football is ubiquitous and a permanent fixture of modern life. More than a sport, it frequently manifests in broader popular culture. This book examines the significance of football for, and in, popular culture across a wide range of forms, including music, film, and social media.Football and Popular Culture plots a new path in Football Studies, drawing on original research in countries including ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Football as Medicine

    Prescribing Football for Global Health Promotion

    Series series Critical Research in Football
    It is beyond dispute that physical activity is good for us, but what are the benefits, challenges and impacts of sport on health? This is the first book to focus on football in the context of health from individual, public and population-level perspectives.Football as Medicine examines the effects of football training on the three main types of fitness (cardiovascular, metabolic and ... Read more

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  • Healthy Stadia

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    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    Public health is a key priority for developed and developing nations. Indeed, many countries have sought strategies to promote health and reduce health inequalities. A ‘settings approach’ to promoting health has been endorsed by the World Health Organization, which has seen settings such as workplaces, schools, hospitals and prisons utilised to promote health. Alongside this, sport has received ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Football, Community and Social Inclusion

    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    This special issue addresses the complex reality of English community football organisations, including Football in the Community (FitC) schemes, which have been attending to social agendas, such as social inclusion and health promotion. The positioning of football as a key agent of change for this diverse range of social issues has resulted in an increase in funding support. Despite the increased ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Sport and Health

    Exploring the Current State of Play

    Series series ICSSPE Perspectives
    It is a common assumption that sport is good for us and that participation in sport embodies public health benefits. With sport being increasingly used to deliver public health interventions worldwide, this book critically examines the rationale and evidence for sport as a public health policy tool. Featuring contributions from the United Kingdom, United States, Europe and Australia, it sheds new ... Read more

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  • Football and Health Improvement: an Emergent Field

    Edited by Daniel Parnell, Andy Pringle ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    There is developing interest in the use of sporting settings as a channel to connect people to health improvement services and an emerging body of research highlights football as being associated with positive motivational and social elements that support the maintenance of a physically active lifestyle. This text provides insights into a range of issues surrounding the role of football as a ... Read more

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    Who makes sport policy and why do we need it?What is the purpose of sport development programmes?Sport Policy and Development answers these questions and more by closely examining the complex relationships between modern sport, sport policy and development and other aspects of the wider society. These important issues are explored via detailed case studies of key aspects of sport policy and sport ... Read more

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  • Energy Poverty, Practice, and Policy

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This Open Access book examines the implications of welfare policy for energy poverty and engages with key conceptual debates at the forefront of energy demand research. Academic work on energy poverty has rarely been brought into conversation with practice-theory-based approaches to energy use and sustainability. This book reveals how novel insights can be made visible through combining these ... Read more

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