Books in the Globalizing Sport Studies series

This book uses boxing as a vehicle for exploring social, cultural and political change in a global context. It considers to what degree and in what ways boxing reflects social transformations, and how it contributes to those transformations. Woodward provides new ways of thinking critically about our everyday assumptions and social world.

'Japanese Women and Sport' aims to explore both why and how in the past century athletics have stood out as an arena in which excellence by Japanese women is so actively encouraged.

This book investigates the integration of media and sport over the last century. At a time when the stability of the Western media sport order is under challenge, it analyzes a range of key structures, practices and issues, whose ramifications extend far beyond the fields of play and national contexts in which sport events take place.

This book builds on a theoretical model for analysis of the role of global social movements in sport. The book takes the theoretical model further but also provides some empirical answers to the questions raised, focusing on select global social movements.

Globalizing Cricket examines the global role of the sport's key points of development, the diffusion of cricket through colonization, and its impact on the changing notions of English national identity.