Sociology: sport and leisure

Football is ubiquitous and a permanent fixture of modern life.

Football is ubiquitous and a permanent fixture of modern life.

Through a social justice and equity lens, this book examines how families, sport, and leisure connect to broader social issues in society.

Through a social justice and equity lens, this book examines how families, sport, and leisure connect to broader social issues in society.

"e;I regard Higuchi's book as particularly valuable because it highlights dimensions of somaesthetics that have not been sufficiently explored.

"e;I regard Higuchi's book as particularly valuable because it highlights dimensions of somaesthetics that have not been sufficiently explored.

This book examines and establishes the sociological relevance of the concept of populism and illuminates the ideological use of sport, leisure, and popular culture in socio-political populist strategies and dynamics.

This book examines and establishes the sociological relevance of the concept of populism and illuminates the ideological use of sport, leisure, and popular culture in socio-political populist strategies and dynamics.

This book uses the emerging and cutting-edge area of leisure research to highlight the importance of sexuality and sexual activity and its relevance to leisure studies.

This book uses the emerging and cutting-edge area of leisure research to highlight the importance of sexuality and sexual activity and its relevance to leisure studies.

This book presents critical insights and contemporary perspectives for exploring current trends, concerns and prospects of events tourism.

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

This book presents critical insights and contemporary perspectives for exploring current trends, concerns and prospects of events tourism.

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

Racism and English Football: For Club and Country analyses the contemporary manifestations, outcomes and implications of the fractious relationship between English professional football and race.

Racism and English Football: For Club and Country analyses the contemporary manifestations, outcomes and implications of the fractious relationship between English professional football and race.

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.

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.

Sport can be a vehicle for the expression of identity, and also a factor in the shaping of identity.

Sport can be a vehicle for the expression of identity, and also a factor in the shaping of identity.

This book analyses the concept of community by critically exploring its many manifestations in leisure.

This book analyses the concept of community by critically exploring its many manifestations in leisure.

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.

Sport and film have historically been key components of national cultures and societies.

Sport and film have historically been key components of national cultures and societies.

This volume presents articles which focus on the ethical evaluation of performance-enhancing technologies in sport.

This volume presents articles which focus on the ethical evaluation of performance-enhancing technologies in sport.

Concussion has become one of the most significant issues in contemporary sport.

This book focuses on the ground-breaking coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games by the UK's publicly owned but commercially funded Channel 4 network, coverage which seemed to deliver a transformational shift in attitudes towards people with disabilities.

This book focuses on the ground-breaking coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games by the UK's publicly owned but commercially funded Channel 4 network, coverage which seemed to deliver a transformational shift in attitudes towards people with disabilities.

Concussion has become one of the most significant issues in contemporary sport.

Defining 'politics' as contests over ideas, values and visions about what a physically active society could be, this book uses critical analysis to challenge accepted truths about physical activity and therefore opens up a pathway to more effective, and more socially just, physical activity policy.

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.

Defining 'politics' as contests over ideas, values and visions about what a physically active society could be, this book uses critical analysis to challenge accepted truths about physical activity and therefore opens up a pathway to more effective, and more socially just, physical activity policy.

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.

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.

How did the Olympics evolve into a multi-national phenomenon?

How did the Olympics evolve into a multi-national phenomenon?

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.