Sociology: sport and leisure

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.

Football Fandom, Protest and Democracy offers an in-depth and inside approach to the socio-political history of football in Turkey, where fandom is often revered as part of the national identity, presenting the historical context for football events in the country.

First published in 1985, this title explores theories of leisure in a capitalist society.

This book provides new insights into contemporary betting shops, with a particular focus on the manner in which losing bets are dealt with by customers.

As the EU continues its integration process, the concepts of culture and transnational European belonging remain ambivalent, whether in the realm of socio-historical representation or mass politics.

Hendrik Lager untersucht, wie Produktionsunternehmen im Kontext der Debatte um Digitalisierung und Industrie 4.

Winner of the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for 2018Even before Tito's Communist Party established control over the war-ravaged territories which became socialist Yugoslavia, his partisan forces were using football as a revolutionary tool.

In diesem Band befassen sich die Autorinnen und Autoren mit der Thematik „Körper in der Postmoderne“ aus der Sicht unterschiedlicher fachwissenschaftlicher Disziplinen.

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.

Auch nach dem Coming-out von Thomas Hitzlsperger wirkt der deutsche Profifußball wie eine "schwulenfreie Zone".

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 is the first book to examine the role of women in the origins, development and contemporary landscape of snowboarding.

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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of post-Games legacy governance including stakeholder relationships, institutional conditions, and policy environments, while also empirically exploring the modes of governance employed by select cases of the Winter Olympic Games.

First published in 1982, Black Sportsmen examines the effect that race has had on sportspeople.

Leaders in the field provide an introduction to video games and learning, including essays on game design and game culture.

How do people become involved in sports?

Over recent decades, bicycling has received renewed interest as a means of improving transportation through crowded cities, improving personal health, and reducing environmental impacts associated with travel.

This is the first book to examine the role of women in the origins, development and contemporary landscape of snowboarding.

Over the past forty years, Western governments have increasingly liberalized and deregulated gambling, which is now used to deliver state revenues and commercial profit in many jurisdictions.

In contemporary North America, figure skating ranks among the most 'feminine' of sports and few boys take it up for fear of being labelled effeminate or gay.

Anlass für dieses Buchs sind die zunehmende Kälte im Umgang der Bürger miteinander und ihre mangelnde Empathie: normenverletzendes Handeln zulasten der Mitmenschen, Hassausbrüche in sozialen Netzen, Übergriffigkeiten jeder Art.

This book examines the increasing influence of European football in African societies, considering the processes and significance of being a fan and what this means for the wider globalisation of popular culture.

Football is at the heart of British culture yet never has it been in greater turmoil.

Prasit Hemmin y sus amigos estaban obsesionados con el fútbol.

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

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 explores the ways in which young women negotiate gendered and classed identities in nightlife venues.

Providing an inclusive, yet multi- layered perspective on leisure cultures in dynamic hegemonic, subcultural, and countercultural communities, this volume investigates the disciplinary and interdisciplinary aspects of leisure studies in the age of mass migration, nationalism, cultural wars, and conflicted societies in Israel.

The sense of crisis that pervades global sport suggests that the war on doping is still very far from being won.

Sport and Secessionism examines how sporting cultures reflect, inform and sometimes frustrate secessionist movements around the world.

In the pursuit of more muscle, enhanced strength, sustained endurance and idealised physiques, an increasing number of elite athletes, recreational sport enthusiasts and body-conscious gym-users are turning to performance and image enhancing drugs and substances (PIEDS).

This book offers conceptual and practical insights into the complex interactions between ecotourism and the natural environment, with consideration given to government policy, marketing by suppliers, consumer behaviour and visitor/environmental management.

Playing While White argues that whiteness matters in sports culture, both on and off the field.

This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the ways in which people differ - including race, gender identity, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, and social class - and the importance of these differences for sport organizations.

Erik Aschenbrand untersucht, wie Vorstellungen von Landschaft durch Reiseveranstalter modifiziert und verfestigt werden, wo sich die Vorbilder touristischer Landschaftsmotive lokalisieren lassen und wer in der Lage ist, neue werbewirksame Vorstellungen zu erzeugen.

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.

In this provocative and thought-provoking book, Professor of Ethics Thomas Sobirk Petersen explains why the World Anti-Doping Agency's doping rules are poorly justified and makes a case for a new third way in anti-doping policy that would allow athletes to use substances and methods currently on WADA's prohibited list.

Food and wine events have gained popularity internationally.

Sport generates some of the most intense feelings and levels of commitment.

This inquiry concerns the cultural history of the chess-player.

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

How do people become involved in sports?

Fields, Capitals, Habitus provides an insightful analysis of the relations between culture and society in contemporary Australia.

Offering the first comparative survey of public houses in pre-industrial Europe and drawing on a vast range of primary sources, this study establishes inns and taverns as principal communication sites in local communities.

After Natalie Maines of The Dixie Chicks expressed her opposition to the Iraq War and President Bush in a country music concert, she was told to "e;shut up and sing.

Rapid and radical changes were taking place in the countryside.

Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential sports books of all time, C.