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In the Zone offers a range of writing services including books, academic articles, regular reviews and carefully crafted journalism.
Recent contributions include a chapter on Sport Governance in Sport Government in Contemporary Issues in Sport Management Sage Publications
Sociology on Line Special Section Introduction: The Political Sociologies of Sport by Paul Gilchrist, Russell Holden and Peter Millward University of Brighton, In the Zone Sport and Politics Consultancy, Liverpool John Moores University
This special section presents five articles from established and emerging scholars that coalesce around the theme of ‘political sociologies of sport’ that have grown out of the activities of the Political Studies Association’s Sport and Politics Specialist Study Group.
A chapter on Cricket Identity In the Politics of Sports, Community, Mobility and Identity co-edited with Paul Gilchrist
Books
Russell is currently writing a new book commissioned by Routledge due to be published in late 2017 entitled
The State of British Cricket in Contemporary Life: The Declining Role of Cricket in the National Psyche.
Contemporary Issues in Sport Management – A Critical Introduction
The Politics of Sports – Community, Mobility, Identity
Journalism
Russell is available to write commissioned pieces on many aspects of the connections between sport and politics regardless of whether the demand is for a contemporary or historical focus http://www.wisdenindia.com/the-nightwatchman/crying-shame/155079
The Nightwatchman – The Wisden Cricket Quarterly
Reviews
Russell is a regular reviewer of new titles in the field of Sport Sociology, Sport History and Sport Writing,
Playing as if the world mattered – an illustrated history of activism in sports
