Sociology: sport and leisure

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

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.

This book engages with the ongoing question of why many girls stop doing sport and physical activity in their teenage years.

This handbook provides an overview of developments in the youth mobility and migration research field, with specific emphasis on movement for education, work and training purposes, encompassing exchanges sponsored by institutions, governments and international agencies, and free movement.

 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.

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

A Social History of Sheffield Boxing combines urban ethnography and anthropology, sociological theory and place and life histories to explore the global phenomenon of boxing.

A Social History of Sheffield Boxing combines urban ethnography and anthropology, sociological theory and place and life histories to explore the global phenomenon of boxing.

This book challenges existing literature on student-athletes and examines the obstacles student-athletes face with respect to academic achievement in college.

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

This book is the first comprehensive attempt to identify the deeper causes that have shaped contemporary behaviour patterns and motivations among football fans in Poland.

This book offers the first critical examination of the contributions of feminist new materialist thought to the study of sport, fitness, and physical culture.

This book analyses a unique leisure world that has been built around a newly emerging phenomenon known as urban exploration; the art of exploring human-made environments which are generally abandoned or hidden from sight of the public eye.

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.

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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.

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.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of language and tourist mobility within an adventure tourism context.

Doing Fandom presents a body of knowledge essential to football fandom research, and the study of gender, space, emotions and culture more generally.

This volume presents a collection of essays that explore the relationship between sporting clothing and gender.

This volume presents a collection of essays that explore the relationship between sporting clothing and gender.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

"e;Women's sports have typically been grossly under-represented in sports media coverage.

This Palgrave Pivot forms the final part of Andreff's trilogy reviewing the economic aspects of criminal behaviour in sports.

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

Sport has never been a man's world.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

This book brings together a collection of critical essays that challenge the existing dogma of leisure as an unmitigated social good, in order to examine the commodification and marketisation of leisure across a number of key sites.

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

Blending critical theory, conjunctural cultural studies, and assemblage theory, Making Sport Great Again introduces and develops the concept of uber-sport: the sporting expression of late capitalism's conjoined corporatizing, commercializing, spectacularizing, and celebritizing forces.

This book is an introduction to cosplay as a subculture and community, built around playful spaces and the everyday practices of crafting costumes, identities, and performances.

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 presents a fresh perspective on football fandom in England, going beyond existing debates surrounding the structural transformations English football has seen in recent decades, to consider the contested cultural ground upon which football fandom exists.

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