Sociology: sport and leisure

This book provides a holistic analysis of South Korea's strategic use of mega-events in its modern development.

Leading scholars in the sociology of migration, Michaela Benson and Karen O'Reilly, re-theorise lifestyle migration through a sustained focus on postcolonialism at its intersections with neoliberalism.

This book explores the complexities of the recreational summer camp experience and its reliance on the expertise and emotion work of young people.

This book reviews empirical and theoretical research on sustainable development in the context of leisure management for communities.

This volume draws upon social science and historical approaches to provide insights into the world of women's football and female fans.

This book explores health and leisure as a holistic phenomenon with individual and social dimensions.

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This book deals broadly with tourism planning and development from the perspective of Croatia, a major Adriatic tourism destination which is fast becoming one of the most popular vacation spots in the European Union.

This book critically examines the planning, management, and operations of the world's premier event for Para sport athletes.

This book analyses the social and cultural status of high streets in the age of recession and austerity.

This book explores how recent football fiction has negotiated the decisive political developments in English football after the 1989/90 publication of the 'Taylor Report'.

This Handbook offers an analysis of the relation between football and politics, based on over 30 case studies covering five continents.

Female Olympian and Paralympian Events is a groundbreaking book that examines women's sports in the Olympic and Paralympic Games, which have long been underappreciated and under-analyzed.

Der Band bereitet die systematisch und empirisch fundierten Ergebnisse der Sportjournalistik didaktisch auf: Wie die Arbeit der Sportjournalisten konkret aussieht, welche Rahmenbedingungen diese Arbeit prägen und wie Akteure und Rezipienten sportjournalistische Medientexte herstellen, distribuieren und rezipieren.

This book studies how transnationalisation, Europeanisation and migration processes intersect with football fandom, through an analysis of the transnational narratives and practices of Fenerbahce and Galatasaray football fans in Vienna, Austria.

 Sport has enjoyed steadily increasing prominence and economic importance since the Millennium.

This edited collection explores Positive Sociology of Leisure (PSL) as a subfield relating to leisure studies, sociology of leisure, and sociology of happiness.

This undergraduate textbook provides a broad overview of the ways in which 'adventurous practices' influence, and are influenced by, the world around them.

How does the simple act of running make us human?

While the field of football studies has produced an abundance of literature on professional, top-league football, there is little research output to do with the non-top level football.

 This book provides a historical study of the beginnings of the UEFA, demonstrating how the formation of the organisation was linked to the decentralisation experienced by FIFA, the world governing body of football.

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.

While abundant research has investigated time use, much less attention has been given to the cultural meanings attached to free time and what these may express with regard to conceptions of freedom and the self.

This book explores the rise, size and shape of the European fitness industry by using harmonised data as well as in-depth analyses of national surveys in fifteen European countries.

The proliferation of digital technologies, virtual spaces, and new forms of engagement raise key questions about the changing nature of gender relations and identities within democratic societies.

This book explores a variety of heritage dialogues, from global and specific approaches, combining different views, perceptions and senses.

This book adopts a collectivist perspective on special interest tourism consumption, bringing together research on 'special interest tourism' and 'niche tourism' as well as more recent research into the interdisciplinary applications of the sociological concept of neo-tribes.

Ideas are ubiquitous.

Over the past two decades there has been a rapid transformation of masculinities in the West, largely facilitated by a decline in cultural homophobia.

This book draws upon a relational sociological paradigm to explore the processes of collective action in football fandom across Europe and the UK.

This book explores the ways in which religion is observed, performed, and organised in skateboard culture.

Over the last two decades, the advent of cheap, user-friendly video technologies has contributed to a revolution in representational agency.

This book presents an ethnographic description and sociological interpretation of the 'football gatherings' that evolved out of central Romania in the late twentieth century.

This edited collection expands scholarly and popular conversations about dark tourism in the American West.

This book explores how different constituencies influenced the development of nineteenth-century swimming in England, and highlights the central role played by swimming professors.

Cultural Overtourism is a comparatively new term, and refers to historical sites, museums and places that are extremely crowded by tourists; hence, a type of tourism that has negative effects on both the cultural sites and the people who live there.

This book illustrates how leisure, as with other complex ideas that hold currency in today's world, suffers at the level of common sense, due to a combination of oversimplification, moral depreciation, and even lack of recognition.

The Sociology of Sports-Talk Radio is the latest sports-media scholarship from the author of How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism, winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication Association 's Communication and Sport Division.

The Middle East and North Africa are experiencing the most fundamental transition in their post-colonial history.

This book looks at the potential of sport to contribute to wide-ranging development outcomes, which have been recognized across international policy declarations, most significantly in the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Unraveling the stereotype that men's friendships are unemotional and shallow, this book provides the first detailed account of the bromance that exists among young men.

Drawing on extensive ethnographic, qualitative and quantitative research, this monograph provides a novel account of masculinities in an individual sport: competitive road cycling.

This book offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary introduction to theme parks and the field of theme park studies.

In der öffentlichen Kommunikation sowie wissenschaftlichen Erforschung von Sportspielen lassen sich reduktionistische Fokussierungen ausmachen: Sie zielen auf Spielakteure und auf den Sport.

This volume is the first to draw together theoretical reflection, empirical research, and critical reflection on practice occurring at the juncture of critical approaches in leisure studies and event studies within diverse explorations of deviance.

A must-have introductory text of unrivalled coverage and depth focusing on events planning and management, the fourth edition of Events Management provides a complete A to Z of the principles and practices of planning, managing and staging events.

Entre el asesinato de Héctor Souto en el estadio de Huracán, en 1967, y la agresión al ómnibus de los futbolistas de Boca Juniors cuando llegaba al Estadio "Monumental", en 2018, hay una larga lista de incidentes y víctimas (muchas de ellas, fatales) de la violencia relacionada con el fútbol y, a la vez, hay una larga serie de fracasos de las políticas que el Estado argentino implementó para solucionar el problema.