Invisible Seasides positions the seaside as a lens for understanding lived utopia, pinned in a certain place, an immovable feature in a landscape where our hopes and fears continue to unfold.
This is the first volume to explore the understudied side of baseball—how its heritage is understood, interpreted, commodified, and performed for various purposes today, ultimately showing how the performance of baseball heritage can reflect the culture and heritage of a nation.
In this fun and fact-filled book, Football Superstar's dynamic duo, Dan and Simon shine their spotlight on Asia's biggest soccer star of the 21st century, Son Heung-min.
In Football Stories: Saka, young readers can discover the complete journey of Bukayo Saka from a little kid with big dreams to one of the giants of football.
In Football Stories: Neymar, young readers will find out how Neymar became a goal-scoring machine - starting from when he was just a talented young player!
International attention on the abuse and exploitation of children and athletes in sport and its prevention has never been higher, as more cases of child abuse in sport have emerged across the globe in recent years.
International attention on the abuse and exploitation of children and athletes in sport and its prevention has never been higher, as more cases of child abuse in sport have emerged across the globe in recent years.
In Football Stories: Haaland, young readers will find out how little Erling grew from being a football-mad kid to one of the world's most exciting players!
Engaging with critical gaps and building on existing knowledge, this volume of Research in the Sociology of Sport brings to the fore new stories from across Oceania, extending the horizon of regional sport scholarship beyond the Global North and tackling the ever-critical question of global disparity and sport.
In neighbourhoods and public spaces across Britain, young working people walked out together, congregated in the streets, and paraded up and down on the 'monkey parades'.
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.
In sport, hazing and initiation rites and rituals are commonly justified by team leaders and proponents as upholding traditions, proving one's commitment to a team, and as a way of strengthening team bonds.
"Wokismus und Hypermoralität: Anmerkungen zur neuen Tugendwächterei"In der gegenwärtigen politischen Debatte, bestimmen zunehmend moralische Überzeugungen die öffentliche Debatte.
Bringing together leading as well as emerging scholars involved in research on sport and body, this volume of Research in the Sociology of Sport invokes the postcolonial sporting body to understand the long history of contemporary practices of play as well as their renewed, re-charged and re-signified animation within new conditions and contexts.
Dieses Buch konzentriert sich auf das Fußballstadion als politischen Raum und untersucht, wie Stadien als Objekte und Katalysatoren des politischen Wandels betrachtet werden können.
This comprehensive review of the relationship between sport and crime explains how the experience of sport can lead to behaviour that's harmful to others and is sometimes self-destructive.
