[Recensione a:] Vassil Girginov and Katerina Girginova (Eds.), Handbook on Sport and Culture; Cheltenham, UK:Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025, 444 pp.

The Handbook on Sport and Culture, edited by Vassil Girginov and Katerina Girginova, consolidates a vast and often fragmented literature by treating sport not as a domain that merely “reflects” culture, but as a consequential arena where culture is made, produced, circulated, contested, institutionalized and monetized. The volume’s most important achievement lies less in offering a single canonical theory, which handbooks rarely do, than in providing an integrative conceptual map that makes sport’s culturalwork legible across research traditions that do not always converse well: cultural sociology, media and communication, political economy, organization studies, and critical theory.