Sociology: sport and leisure

Israeli Football: Culture, Politics, and Identity focuses on the diverse aspects of the evolution of Israeli football and the social effects of these on-going processes.

Israeli Football: Culture, Politics, and Identity focuses on the diverse aspects of the evolution of Israeli football and the social effects of these on-going processes.

Telling an important story about the development of modern Turkey, this fascinating book examines the place of football in Turkish society and the relationship between Turkish sport, nationalism, and globalization.

Discover the authentic Danish art of creating a cozy and meaningful home environment through the concept of hygge.

This book presents a cross-disciplinary examination of the lived experiences of girls and women football players using theoretical insights from sports studies, psychology, sociology and gender studies.

This book presents a cross-disciplinary examination of the lived experiences of girls and women football players using theoretical insights from sports studies, psychology, sociology and gender studies.

This is the first book to introduce key themes in the study of women's rugby from multi-disciplinary perspectives, including history, sociology, gender studies, sport development and sport science.

This is the first book to introduce key themes in the study of women's rugby from multi-disciplinary perspectives, including history, sociology, gender studies, sport development and sport science.

This book takes a close look at discrimination in football in order to illuminate our understanding of the interaction between sport and wider society, politics and culture, particularly in terms of the (re)production of identity.

This book takes a close look at discrimination in football in order to illuminate our understanding of the interaction between sport and wider society, politics and culture, particularly in terms of the (re)production of identity.

While football does not generate discriminatory behaviour, it often replicates the very same social issues that concern any given society.

While football does not generate discriminatory behaviour, it often replicates the very same social issues that concern any given society.

Football is ubiquitous and a permanent fixture of modern life.

Football is ubiquitous and a permanent fixture of modern life.

What does the 'Asian' mean in Asian sport celebrity?

What does the 'Asian' mean in Asian sport celebrity?

Over the last 50 years, the ultras have become the most widespread, outspoken and spectacular form of football fandom across the globe.

Sports coaches apply their skills in a wider variety of contexts, and with a more diverse range of athletes and participants, than ever before.

This interdisciplinary collection explores the nexus of social justice and sport to consider how sport and physical education can serve as a unique point of commonality in an era of religious, political, economic, and cultural polarity.

This interdisciplinary collection explores the nexus of social justice and sport to consider how sport and physical education can serve as a unique point of commonality in an era of religious, political, economic, and cultural polarity.

This book assesses the transformation of football fan culture from a gender perspective.

This book assesses the transformation of football fan culture from a gender perspective.

In recent years there has been a steady increase in the racial and ethnic diversity of the playing workforce in many sports around the world.

In recent years there has been a steady increase in the racial and ethnic diversity of the playing workforce in many sports around the world.

Skateboarding and Femininity explores and highlights the value of femininity both within skateboarding and wider culture.

Skateboarding and Femininity explores and highlights the value of femininity both within skateboarding and wider culture.

This book is about gym culture, the pursuit of fit, muscular bodies and the use of drugs as a means to get there.

This book is about gym culture, the pursuit of fit, muscular bodies and the use of drugs as a means to get there.

Modern roller derby has been theorised as a gendered leisure context, offering women opportunities for empowerment and growth, and enabling them to carve a space for themselves in sport.

While women's soccer has risen in popularity around the world, research reveals persistent gender discrimination and marginalization of girls and women in the sport.

While women's soccer has risen in popularity around the world, research reveals persistent gender discrimination and marginalization of girls and women in the sport.

This book lifts the lid on the high pressured, complex world of women's artistic gymnastics.

Football fans and football culture represent a unique prism through which to view contemporary society and politics.

Football fans and football culture represent a unique prism through which to view contemporary society and politics.

This book investigates the complex relationship between embodiment, identity and disability sport, based on ethnographic research with an international-level visually impaired cricket team.

This book investigates the complex relationship between embodiment, identity and disability sport, based on ethnographic research with an international-level visually impaired cricket team.

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.

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.

Women and girls are often excluded from organised sport or face challenges in accessing sport or developing within sport.

Women and girls are often excluded from organised sport or face challenges in accessing sport or developing within sport.

This book analyzes the intricate relationship between football fans and clubs, presenting new approaches for those in charge to actively involve fans in club management-a complex task often fraught with emotional tension.

This book lifts the lid on the high pressured, complex world of women's artistic gymnastics.

This fascinating collection brings together leading football historians and sociologists from the UK, Germany, the USA and Australia to offer fresh perspectives on the early development of football (soccer), not only illuminating our understanding of the early history of the world's most popular sport, but also the importance of sport in our broader social and cultural history.

This fascinating collection brings together leading football historians and sociologists from the UK, Germany, the USA and Australia to offer fresh perspectives on the early development of football (soccer), not only illuminating our understanding of the early history of the world's most popular sport, but also the importance of sport in our broader social and cultural history.

The research project is a major component of most higher education sport courses.

This is a highly accessible text that provides detailed coverage of the key concepts, ideas, principles and techniques of sport marketing.

This is a highly accessible text that provides detailed coverage of the key concepts, ideas, principles and techniques of sport marketing.

This is the first book to critically examine the relationship between running events in local, national and international welfare policy, their marketing and management, and the resulting social impacts.

In parks and cafes, homes and stadium stands, Cubans talk baseball.

The evolution of surfing-from the first forms of wave-riding in Oceania, Africa, and the Americas to the inauguration of surfing as a competitive sport at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics-traverses the age of empire, the rise of globalization, and the onset of the digital age, taking on new meanings at each juncture.