Books/ book chapters

Barker-Rutchi, N., Booth, E., Cavallerio, F., Dimitriu, D., Cervin, G., Nunomura, M. & Smits, F. (2020). Diversification of Women's Artistic Gymnastics since the fall of communism. In R. Kerr, N. Barker-Rutchi, C. Stewart & G. Kerr (eds.), Women's Artistic Gymnastics: Socio-Cultural Perspectives (pp. 51-64). New York/London: Routledge.

Jacobs, F., Smits, F. & Knoppers, A. (2017). 'You don't realize what you see!': the institutional context of emotional abuse in elite youth sport. In B.Skirstad, M. Parent & B. Houlihan (eds.), Young people and sport: from participation to the Olympics (pp. 126-143). New York/London: Routledge.

Smits, F. (2023). Understanding youth in sport. A Foucauldian lens on power, discourse and knowledge in youth sports. PhD dissertation. 

Smits, F. & Knoppers, A. (2023). Leaders building relationships with young refugees during a sport project. In Spaaij, R., Luguetti, C. & De Martini Ugolotti, N. (eds.), Forced migration and sport: critical dialogues accros international contexts and disciplinary boundaries (pp. 54-70). New York/London: Routledge. 

Smits, F. (2020). The well-being of adolescent high-performance action sport athletes: the case of young Dutch commercially sponsored kitesurfers. In M. Lang (ed), The Routledge Handbook of Athlete Welfare (pp. 231-241). New York/London: Routledge.

Smits, F., Jacobs, F. & Knoppers, A. (2020). Using a multilevel model to critically examine the grooming process of emotional abusive practices in Women's Artistic Gymnastics. In R. Kerr, N. Barker-Rutchi, C. Stewart & G. Kerr (eds.), Women's Artistic Gymnastics: Socio-Cultural Perspectives (pp. 190-202). New York/London: Routledge.

Smits, F., Janssens, J. & De Vos, N. (2018). Veranderende lidmaatschappen in de sport. Amsterdam: SWP.

Smits, F., Jacobs, F. & Knoppers, A. (2017). ‘Everything revolves around gymnastics’. How elite athletes and their parents make sense of practices in women’s gymnastics that challenges a positive pedagogical culture. In B.Skirstad, M. Parent & B. Houlihan (eds.), Young people and sport: from participation to the Olympics (pp. 66-83). New York/London: Routledge.

Smits, F., Knoppers, A. & Van Doodewaard, C. (2019). ‘We must not engage in the blind glorification of sport’: Christian orthodox youths negotiate dominant societal and alternative Reformed sport discourses. In T. Gibbons & S. Braye (eds.), Christianity and social scientific perspectives on sport (pp. 81-95). New York/London: Routledge.

Smits, F. (2011). Zo vrij als een vogel?! In J. Lucassen & E. Wisse (red.), Sporten op de grens (pp. 58-75). ’s-Hertogenbosch: W.J.H. Mulier Instituut.

Van Doodewaard, C. & Smits, F. (2011). Sport en geloof: jongeren in tweestrijd. In A. Elling & F. Kemper (red.), 'Het kost veel tijd en je wordt er moe van'. Verklaringen voor sportdeelname en inzichten in de leefwereld van niet-sporters (pp. 147-162). ’s-Hertogenbosch: W.J.H. Mulier Instituut.

Verhagen, S. & Smits, F. (2020). Sociaal werkers in beweging met sport. In F. Spierings & M. Spierts (red.), Basisboek Sociaal Werk (pp. 155-168). Amsterdam: Boom.