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.

Lee Ludvigsen, J. A., Tsoukala, A., Byrne, S., Rookwood, J. & Ross, W. J. (2024). A roundtable discussion on the politics of EURO 2024: a collective commentary. Soccer & Society, 26 (1), 179–188.

Rookwood, J. & Hoey, P. (2024). From the Anfield Wrap to Boss Night and the Paris protests: Football, politics, identity and the cultural evolution of fan media and supporter activism in Liverpool. International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, 7, 83-107.

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.

Rookwood, J. & Adeosun, K. (2023). Nation branding and public diplomacy: Japan’s 2019 Rugby World Cup and 20(21) Olympics, a global economic downturn and the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Global Sport Management, 8 (3), 573-593.

Owonikoko, S. M. & Rookwood, J. (2022). The modes of consumption and relational dynamics of English Premier League supporters in Nigeria. Soccer & Society, 23 (4-5), 367-385.

Ludvigsen, J., Rookwood, J. & Parnell, D. (2022). The sports mega-events of the 2020s: Governance, impact, controversies. Sport in Society, 25 (4), 705-711.

Parnell, D., Rookwood, J., Bond, A. J., Widdop, P. & Ludvigsen, J. (2022). ‘It’s a whole new ball game’: Thirty Years of the English Premier League. Soccer & Society, 23 (4-5), 329-333.

Rookwood, J. (2022). From sport-for-development to sports mega-events: Conflict, authoritarian modernisation and statecraft in Azerbaijan. Sport in Society, 25 (4), 847-866.

Rookwood, J. (2021). Diversifying the fan experience and securitising crowd management: A longitudinal analysis of fan park facilities at 15 football mega events between 2002 and 2019. Managing Sport and Leisure, 29 (1), 37-55.

Lawlor, C., Rookwood, J. & Wright, C. (2021). Player scouting and talent recruitment in English Men’s professional football: Opportunities for research. Journal of Qualitative Research in Sport Studies, 15 (1), 57-76.

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.

Rookwood, J. (2020). The politics of CONIFA: Organising and managing international football events for unrecognised countries. Managing Sport and Leisure, 25 (1-2), 6-20.

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.

Rookwood, J. (2019). Access, security and diplomacy: Perceptions of soft power, nation branding and the organisational challenges facing Qatar's 2022 FIFA World Cup. Sport, Business and Management, 9 (1), 26-44.

Rookwood, J. (2019). Collective action and football fandom. Soccer & Society, 20 (3), 560-567.

Kenyon, J., Mason, C. & Rookwood, J. (2018). Emerging third-sector sports organisations and navigating uncertainty in an ‘era of austerity’: a single ethnographic case study from Liverpool. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 10 (1), 25-42.

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.

Brannagan, P. M. & Rookwood, J. (2016). Sports mega-events, soft power and soft disempowerment: Qatar’s acquisition of the 2022 FIFA World Cup finals. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 8 (2), 173-188.

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. (2015). Consuming football in late modern life. Sport in Society, 18 (3), 398-401. 

Sutton, N. & Rookwood, J. (2015). From Rotterdam to Rio: Investigating perceptions of sporting, socio-political and cultural developments in Germany between 2000 and 2014. International Journal of Social Science Studies, 3 (4), 121-132.

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

Rookwood, J. (2013). Building from Beslan: Examining an NGO community sport initiative in Russia and its capacity to promote peace for victims of terrorism. Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, 5 (4), 230-242.

Rookwood, J. & Pearson, G. (2012). The football hoolifan: positive fan attitudes to ‘hooliganism.’ International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 47 (2), 147-162.

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.

Rpokwood, J. & Chan, N. (2011). The 39th Game: Fan responses to the Premier League’s proposal to globalise English football. Soccer & Society, 12 (6), 897-913.

Rookwood, J. & Millward, P. (2011). ‘We all dream of a team of Carraghers’: Comparing ‘local’ and Texan Liverpool fans’ talk. Sport in Society, 14 (1), 37-52.

Rookwood, J. & Palmer, C. (2011). Invasion games in war-torn nations: Can football help to build peace? Soccer & Society, 12 (2), 184-200.

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. (2009). Promoting, building and sustaining peace through sporting interaction In Israel. Peace Forum, 24 (34), 29-44.

Rookwood, J. (2009). Applying Olympic values – peace promotion through sport in Russia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Journal of Olympic History, 17 (2), 22-33.

Rookwood, J. (2008). Soccer for peace and social development. Peace Review, 20 (4), 471-479.

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.

Rookwood, J. & Buckley, C. (2007). The Olympic soccer tournament. Journal of Olympic History, 15 (3), 6-15.