Sociology: sport and leisure

If your child is a sport-loving little person, he/she would find this book of ball games highly appealing!

It didn't always look as though Raheem Sterling would make it as a world-class player.

Robert Lewandowski is one of the best strikers of his generation - but his journey to the top wasn't always easy.

This volume takes a fresh approach to qualitative research on sport and physical culture by presenting "e;student friendly"e; engaging chapters that clearly articulate the significance and practice of qualitative and/or critical methods in plain and convincing language.

Research on Indigenous participation in sport offers many opportunities to better understand the political issues of equality, empowerment, self-determination and protection of culture and identity.

The phrase ';martial arts studies' is increasingly circulating as a term to describe a new field of interest.

Sport occupies a key position in the cultural profile of a nation.

Public awareness of and sensitivity to questions of pain, risk and injury in sport is more acute than ever before.

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.

Now a lethal striker for his boyhood club - and an international superstar - Marcus Rashford is living his dream.

Why do ordinary people who used to engage in domestic and leisure activities for free now try to make a profit from them?

In this book John Connolly and Paddy Dolan illustrate and explain developments in Gaelic games, the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), and Irish society over the course of the last 150 years.

This book employs a Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) framework to examine cycling mobility, marking a new turn in ecolinguistic discourse analysis.

Sport has never been a man's world.

This book provides insight into how flamenco travels, the forms it assumes in new locales, and the reciprocal effects on the original scene.

This book explores and challenges the concept and experience of liminality as applied to critical perspectives in the study of events.

This book considers how Samoans embraced and reshaped the English game of cricket, recasting it as a distinctively Samoan pastime, kirikiti.

This book interrogates the process of court reporting on rape and other sexual crime cases involving Australian footballers.

Winner of the Leisure Studies Association's Outstanding Book Prize This book examines the tensions and ambivalences which men encounter as they negotiate contemporary expectations of fatherhood and fulfill their own expectations of what it means to be a 'good' father.

This book explores the understanding, description, and measurement of the physical, sensory, social, and emotional features of motorcycle and bicycle journey experiences in tourism.

Paul Thompson offers an alternative take on the romanticized and mythologized process of record-making.

Applying a cultural sociology of performance, this book interrogates how the meaning of sport intersects with gender.

This book compiles several years of multi-faceted qualitative research on fitness doping to provide a fresh insight into how the growing phenomenon intersects with issues of gender, body and health in contemporary society.

This book outlines the effects that technology-induced change will have on sport within the next five to ten years, and provides food for thought concerning what lies further ahead.

In recent years, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) athletes have received more media attention than ever before.

This book explores the consumption of counterfeit fashion goods.

This pivot provides a conceptual statement of an approach to understanding the interrelationships of work, leisure, and "e;chore"e; activities in daily life, and how they are managed in practice.

This book takes the concept of "e;dark tourism"e;-journeys to sites of death, suffering, and calamity-in an innovative yet essential direction by applying it to the virtual realms of literature, film and television, the Internet, and gaming.

This book describes cutting-edge applications of human factors for sport and outdoor recreation disciplines and provides practical guidance on a range of methods for describing, representing, and evaluating human, team, and system performance in sports domains.

This book examines historically how cricket was codified out of its variant folk-forms and then marketed with certain lessons sought to reinforce the values of a declining landed interest.

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This book explores the lived experiences of boxers in a French banlieue, largely populated by people from working-class and immigrant backgrounds.

 This book addresses important topics of coaching in order to better understand what sports coaching is and the challenges that arise when assuming this activity.

This book analyses the careers, governance and management practices of some of the institutional sports leaders who have had the greatest impact on global sport in the 120 years since Baron Pierre de Coubertin revived the Olympic Games.

This book provides fresh insights on how social innovations are utilized as strategies to make sport more accessible and inclusive.

This volume provides an analysis of the history, origins, and development of football in Africa.

The authors collected here address youth street cultures in different cities from the Ibero-American world, bringing together contributions on Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Portugal, Spain, and beyond.

This book presents a kaleidoscopic view of the multidisciplinary field of research developed within Brazilian social sciences to study football as a major cultural and social phenomenon in the country.

This edited collection critically explores new and emerging models of female athleticism in an era characterised as postfeminist.

This book analyses leisure choice as a complex concept, made more complicatedin later life than at any other time.

This edited volume considers the U.

This book deals with the concept of leisure and the everyday leisure practices of a group of diverse single women in an urban setting-Mannheim, Germany.

This book is the first English-language study of motorsport and Italian Fascism, arguing that a synergy existed between motor racing and Fascism that did not exist with other sports.

This edited collection explores the concept of social entrepreneurship in sport, examining how it has been used in Swedish society to date.

This book brings together examples and cases from across the world to discuss how sport has and can further contribute to the UN 2030 Sustainable Development agenda.

This book examines the urban legacy of the 2014 football World Cup in Brazil across the seven cities that hosted matches.

The chapters in the Women's Football in Latin America two volumes will look at the social and historical means of the embodied representation of gender differences that has been deeply embedded in the history of Latin American women and football.

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.

This book examines how sports journalists covered the historic coming out stories of National Basketball Association (NBA) veteran Jason Collins and football All-American Michael Sam in the context of sports' "e;toy department"e; reputation as a field whose standards are often criticized as lacking in rigor and depth compared to other forms of journalism.

This book presents journeys of sixteen Indigenous Australian athletes from their first touch of a'footy' to the highest levels of Australian football and rugby league, conceptualized as a processof learning.