Rookwood, J. (2025). (ed). Sport, Development and Peace: Critical Global Challenges. Palgrave Macmillan.

Ludvigsen, J. A. L., Rookwood, J. & Parnell, D. (2024). (eds). The Sport Mega-Events of the 2020s: Governance, Impacts and Controversies. Routledge.

Juncà, A. & Rookwood, J. (2024). Presidential politics in FC Barcelona and power in contemporary Catalonia. In J. O'Brien, X. Ginesta and J. de San Eugenio (eds.) FC Barcelona: History, Politics and Identity. pp. 64-79. Routledge.

Rookwood, J. (2024). The mechanisms of securitization, experiences and impacts of social control, and the pursuit of smart power at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. In J. A. L. Ludvigsen & M. Turner (eds.) Social Control and Disorder in Football: Responses, Regulation, Rupture. pp. 35-48. Routledge.

Rookwood, J. (2024). From sport-for-development to sports mega-events: conflict, authoritarian modernisation and statecraft in Azerbaijan. In J. A. L. Ludvigsen, J. Rookwood & D. Parnell (eds.) The Sport Mega-Events of the 2020s: Governance, Impacts and Controversies. p. 143-162. Routledge.

Ludvigsen, J. A. L., Rookwood, J. & Parnell, D. (2024). Introduction: The sport mega-events of the 2020s: Governance, impacts and controversies. In J. A. L. Ludvigsen, J. Rookwood & D. Parnell (eds.) The Sport Mega-Events of the 2020s: Governance, Impacts and Controversies. pp. 1-7. Routledge.

Rojo-Labaien, E., Rodríguez-Díaz, Á. & Rookwood, J. (2020). (eds.) Sport, Statehood and Transition in Europe: Comparative Perspectives from Post-Soviet and Post-Socialist Societies. Routledge. Book Review.

Rodríguez-Díaz, Á., Rookwood, J. & Rojo-Labaien, E. (2020). Interpreting sport and transition in post-socialist and post-Soviet Europe: States, nations and markets. In E. Rojo-Labaien, A Rodríguez-Díaz, & J. Rookwood (eds.) Sport, Statehood and Transition in Europe: Comparative Perspectives from Post-Soviet and Post-Socialist Societies. pp. 1-7. Routledge.

Rookwood, J. (2020). Statehood, nationalism and separatism: The role and meaning of sport in Georgia and its breakaway republics. In E. Rojo-Labaien, A. Rodríguez-Díaz, & J. Rookwood (eds.) Sport, Statehood and Transition in Europe: Comparative Perspectives from Post-Soviet and Post-Socialist Societies. pp. 154-176. Routledge.

Rookwood, J., Rojo-Labaien, E. & Rodríguez-Díaz, A. (2020). Sport, transition and nation-state building: Evidence from post- Soviet and post-socialist states. In E. Rojo-Labaien, A. Rodríguez-Díaz, & J. Rookwood (eds.) Sport, Statehood and Transition in Europe: Comparative Perspectives from Post-Soviet and Post-Socialist Societies. pp. 268-274. Routledge.

Kenyon, J., Mason, C. & Rookwood, J. (2019). Emerging social enterprises and navigating uncertainty in an era of austerity. An ethnographic case study from Liverpool. In D. Parnell, P. Millward, P. Widdop, N. King & A. May (eds.) Sport Policy and Politics in an era of Austerity. pp. 35-52. Routledge.

Rookwood, J. & Scremin, G. (2018). CONCACAF. In S. Chadwick, D. Parnell, P. Widdop & C. Anagnostopoulos (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Football Business Management. pp. 234-257. Routledge.

Rookwood, J. & Spaaij, R. (2018). Violence in football: Overview, prevalence and risk factors. In P. Sturmey (ed.) The Wiley Handbook of Violence and Aggression. pp. 345-351. John Wiley and Sons.

Rookwood, J. & Hughson, J. (2017). A history of the English Premier League: Cultures, consumption and commerce. In R. Elliott (ed.) The English Premier League: A Socio-Cultural Analysis. pp. 13-32. Routledge.

Rookwood, J. (2017). Managing football hooliganism. In N. Schulenkorf & S. Frawley (eds.) Issues in Global Sport Management. pp. 152-163. Routledge.

Rookwood, J. (2017). Photo-ethnography and documentary as unorthodox learning and teaching strategies. In, S. Watt & C. Wakefield (eds.) Teaching Visual Methods in the Social Sciences. pp. 123-142. Routledge.

O’Gormann, J. & Rookwood, J. (2016). Football and international social development. In J. Hughson, K. Moore, R.  Spaaij & J. Maguire (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Football Studies. pp. 124-137. Routledge.

Rookwood, J. (2014). Hooliganism. In H. Copes (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Social Deviance. pp. 347-351. Sage.

Rookwood, J. (2012). Constructing peace and fostering social integration through sport and play in Azerbaijan. In B. Sagaert (ed.) Sports, Governance, Development and Corporate Responsibility. pp. 30-43. Routledge.

Rookwood, J. (2012). ‘We’re not English we are Scouse!’ Examining the identities of Liverpool Football Club supporters. In J. Hughson. C. Palmer & F. Skillen (eds.) Sports Identity: The Role of Sports in the Formation of Personal Identities - Studies in Community Loyalties. pp. 95-120. Edwin Mellen Press.

Rookwood, J. (2011). Football and building peace in Liberia: the impact of value-led initiatives. In A. Ratna & B. Lashua (eds.) Diversity and Equality in Leisure, Sport and Tourism. pp. 77-99. Leisure Studies Association.

Rookwood, J. & Wassong, S. (2010). NGOs: Using sport to promote peace and integration in fractured societies. In N. Ferguson (ed.) Conflict and the Reconstruction of Civil Society. pp. 32-50. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

 
Rookwood, J. (2010). (ed.) Fandom and Development – Mentored Essays in Sports Studies: A Research-informed Approach to Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. VDM Publishing House.

Finnegan, P. & Rookwood, J. (2010). Taking a stand? Examining the proposed re-introduction of allocated standing areas in British football stadia. In J. Rookwood (ed.) Fandom and Development – Mentored Essays in Sports Studies: A Research-informed Approach to Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. pp. 9-24. VDM Publishing House.

Rogers, G. & Rookwood, J. (2010). Cardiff City as a vehicle to promote Welsh nationalism. In J. Rookwood (ed.) Fandom and Development – Mentored Essays in Sports Studies: A Research-informed Approach to Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. pp. 25-35. VDM Publishing House.

Kenyon, J. & Rookwood, J. (2010). Sporting education - a Global Hope? Examining a sport development educational initiative at a Tibetan SoS Children’s Village in northern India. In J. Rookwood (ed.) Fandom and Development – Mentored Essays in Sports Studies: A Research-informed Approach to Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. pp. 110-130. VDM Publishing House.

Liebmann, S. & Rookwood, J. (2010). Football for peace? Bringing Jews and Arabs together in Northern Israel. In J. Rookwood (ed.) Fandom and Development – Mentored Essays in Sports Studies: A Research-informed Approach to Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. pp. 145-152. VDM Publishing House.

Watson, E. & Rookwood, J. (2010). Exploring summer student employment in the USA: British perspectives of the Camp America and soccer coaching experience. In J. Rookwood (ed.) Fandom and Development – Mentored Essays in Sports Studies: A Research-informed Approach to Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. pp. 164-175. VDM Publishing House.

Rookwood, J. (2009). Social Development in Post-conflict Communities: Building Peace through Sport in Africa and the Middle East. VDM Publishing House.

Rookwood, J. (2009). Fan Perspectives of Football Hooliganism: Defining, Analysing and Responding to the British Phenomenon. VDM Publishing House. Book review.

Rookwood, J. & Palmer, C. (2008). A socio-aesthetic account of construction and destruction in world football. In C. Palmer & D. Torevell (eds.) The Turn to Aesthetics. pp. 229-235. Liverpool Hope University Press.