'Being in the zone' means performing in a distinctive, unusual, pleasurable and highly competent way at something you already regularly do: dancing or playing a viola, computer programming, tennis and much more.
This book draws from a rich history of scholarship about the relations between music and cities, and the global flows between music and urban experience.
This is a book about boys' bodies, masculinities, and the ways in which boys navigate their lives from early childhood through to the beginning of adolescence.
Barista in the City examines the impact of paid employment and the contemporary neoliberal context on the subcultural lives of hipsters who are employed as baristas.
At the turn of the twentieth century, as African Americans struggled against white social and political oppression, Black women devised novel approaches to the fight for full citizenship.
This book explores key and topical issues that are emerging in the field of sport marketing, while calling for further attention to the thriving sports industry.
Ambush marketing is a strategy by which a company or organisation uses their marketing communications to associate themselves with an event without being an official sponsor or authorised partner or licensee.
At a timewhen the public discussion of mental illness in society is reaching a highpoint, athletes and other sports insiders remain curiously silent about theirprivate battles with a range of mental illnesses.
It is increasingly acknowledged that an analysis of emotions is necessary to fully understand the social world, and recent research on transport, travel and mobilities has begun to consider the gendered nature of public and personal life in relation to this sphere.
During the last four decades women's and gender history have become vibrant fields including studies of attitudes regarding the limited physical and other abilities of females as well as studies of the accomplishments of notable female athletes.
Sport is often seen as an indicator of the civic maturity of a community, an aspect of the rights of citizens to health, education and social integration.
Dieses Buch befasst sich mit alltäglichen Shoppingpraktiken chinesischer Studierender und ihrer Bedeutung für die Entwicklung konsumistischer Subjektivitäten.
Athletes across the globe have engaged in high profile protests against state violence since NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick's refusal to stand during the US national anthem in protest of state violence against Black communities.
This important new book from one of the world's leading sociologists of sport weaves together social theory, history and political economy to provide a highly original analysis of the complex relationship between sport and modernity.
This volume addresses the rich and varied thoughts, concepts, approaches and leisure practices in sixteen countries of three continents---Australia, Asia and Africa.
Seattle Sports: Play, Identity, and Pursuit in the Emerald City, edited by Terry Anne Scott, explores the vast and varied history of sports in this city where diversity and social progress are reflected in and reinforced by play.
Sport and physical culture in Occupied France examines the Vichy state's attempts to promote physical education and sports in order to rejuvenate French men and women during the Occupation.
This book looks at the UEFA European Championship (Euro 2012) as both a crowning achievement of, and a way to sustain, the urban entrepreneurial strategy of Poznan, Poland.
Interested in the nexus between sport, gender, and language, Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender: Historical Perspectives and Media Representations contains 21 wide-ranging chapters examining sport vis-a-vis the language surrounding and incorporated by it in the world arena.
This book presents an in-depth analysis of young people's experiences of diverse drinking practices, including heavy drinking and drunkenness, as fun and pleasurable as they navigate gendered leisure spaces.
This book explores the various ways in which participation in sport and physical activity might contribute to effective solutions within criminal justice systems.
A collection of critical essays which reject the assumptions that leisure relations are relations of freedom, self determination, life satisfaction and growth.
Schnippeldiskos, Kopfhörerpartys, BarCamps, Star Wars-Gottesdienste: Als Hybride Events bezeichnen wir solche inszenierten Ereignisse, die aus augenfälligen Kombinationen mindestens zweier Arten von Ereignissen bestehen, die als verschiedenen kulturellen Bereichen zugehörig angesehen werden (z.
The amusement parks which first appeared in England at the turn of the twentieth century represent a startlingly novel and complex phenomenon, combining fantasy architecture, new technology, ersatz danger, spectacle and consumption in a new mass experience.
This book addresses how whiteness is represented in heavy metal scenes and practices, both as a site of academic inquiry and force of cultural significance.
From the sports documentarian and executive producer of the docuseries The Religion of Sports, a memoir-meets-manifesto about the overwhelming power of sports and how they provide meaning and purpose in people's lives all over the world.
Advances in genetics and related biotechnologies are having a profound effect on sport, raising important ethical questions about the limits and possibilities of the human body.
In recent times, festivals around the world have grown in number due to the increased recognition of their importance for tourism, branding and economic development.
