Sports Geography

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 th..

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 th..

This book traces the history of negotiations between specific cultures in Asia and modern sport cultures from the West. Highly original and clearly written, this textbook will be required reading for students of sport studies, Asian studies, sociology, and cultural studies._x005F_x000D_ This book wa..

This collection uses spatial concepts and examples to examine the nature and development of sporting practices. It shows how the study of built environments such as gymnasiums and football stadiums can provide unique information about the body...

This collection uses spatial concepts and examples to examine the nature and development of sporting practices. It shows how the study of built environments such as gymnasiums and football stadiums can provide unique information about the body...

This important and engaging collection explores the underappreciated history and continuing significance of sport in the Pacific. In particular, it directs attention to the movement of people and sporting practices exploring the importance of borrowing, appropriation, diaspora, racism, and imperiali..

Sport, Culture and History..

In this fully revised and updated edition of his classic, discipline-defining text, John Bale comprehensively explores the relationships between sport, place, location and landscape...

This work describes the sport migration that appears to be gaining momentum and that it is closely interwoven with the broader process of global sport development taking place in the late twentieth century...

This book examines the evolution of motor sport from its creation in central Europe, throughout the rest of the continent and elsewhere, including in both North and South America._x000D_ It was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport...

This book examines the evolution of motor sport from its creation in central Europe, throughout the rest of the continent and elsewhere, including in both North and South America._x005F_x000D_ It was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport...