Sociology: sport and leisure

This book analyses the negotiation of place, belonging and uncertainty enacted by a group of 60 men and women seeking asylum who gathered weekly in a community space in Bristol, UK, to share songs, memories, laughter, and precariousness with other established and new city-dwellers.

Those who have been lured by the sound of skate blades slicing into fresh ice, by the incomparable speed, split-second decisions, and everything-or-nothing attitude of the game know that hockey can seem like its own world.

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This is the first book to explore in breadth and in depth the complex intersections between sport, leisure, and social justice.

This is the first book to take an in-depth look at women's football in Africa.

This book tells the important story of the 30-year social movement against all-seated stadia in football in England and Wales that developed in the wake of the Hillsborough stadium disaster and the wider European and international significance of that movement.

This book argues that in order for people to live well, they must develop a virtue of playfulness.

Das Toiletten Buch: Deutscher Fußball – Kuriose Fakten und faszinierende GeschichtenTauchen Sie ein in die Welt des deutschen Fußballs und entdecken Sie die kuriosesten Fakten und faszinierendsten Geschichten, die dieser Sport zu bieten hat.

The De Gruyter Handbook of Humor Studies consolidates the cumulative contributions in theory and research on humor from 57 international scholars representing 21 different countries in the widest possible diversity of disciplines.

Using a topics-based approach organized around provocative questions about the interaction of sports, culture and society, Sports in Society presents an accessible introduction to research and theory in the sociology of sport.

The purposeful production, exchange, and consumption of alcohol, like all human endeavour, is always a matter of time and temporality - and ranges from the universality of Einsteinian space-time relativity through to species-specific nature times and the myriad of anthropocentric constructs of nature time and of social times/temporalities.

This fourth volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies finishes the series by exploring how class infuses people's past and present efforts to juggle family, work and leisure.

Thwaack!

This pioneering textbook delves into one of event management's most crucial yet often overlooked aspects - medical provision - providing readers with a comprehensive, relevant, and insightful introduction to key concepts and practice.

This pioneering textbook delves into one of event management's most crucial yet often overlooked aspects - medical provision - providing readers with a comprehensive, relevant, and insightful introduction to key concepts and practice.

Since the 1980s, the Oxfam Trailwalker has emerged as one of Hong Kong's most distinctive sports events, challenging teams to traverse a demanding 100-kilometer route along the MacLehose Trail within a 48-hour time frame.

Since the 1980s, the Oxfam Trailwalker has emerged as one of Hong Kong's most distinctive sports events, challenging teams to traverse a demanding 100-kilometer route along the MacLehose Trail within a 48-hour time frame.

Drawing on the work of Foucault, Deleuze, and Latour, this book opens up a poststructuralist approach to sport, exercise, and dance research.

Drawing on the work of Foucault, Deleuze, and Latour, this book opens up a poststructuralist approach to sport, exercise, and dance research.

Thwaack!

From USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Jenshak comes the next in a brand new YA romance series that follows Frost Lake High School's state champion soccer team.