Focused on the Australian punk and hardcore music scene, this book provides an innovative balance between the acknowledgement of harm and the celebration of pleasure in live music spaces.
Mediating Sexual Citizenship considers how the neoliberal imperatives of adaptation, improvement and transformation that inform the shifting artistic and industrial landscape of television are increasingly indexed to performed disruptions in the norms of sexuality and gender.
Contesting stereotypical and deterministic accounts of British South Asian Muslims (BrAsians), which have largely contributed towards the perpetuation of Islamophobia, this book analyses how the influence of parents, extended family, and community support and constrain the lives of a younger generation of amateur and professional boxers.
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.
Alle sprechen von Transformation der Gesellschaften und Nachhaltigkeit – doch wie werden diese Themen empirisch in den Wissenschaften umgesetzt und auf welcher empirischen Basis stehen die theoretischen Erkenntnisse?
Unter den Perspektiven Vielfalt, Inszenierung und Professionalisierung analysieren Wissenschaftler und Praxisexperten aktuelle Potentiale und Herausforderungen im Bereich digitaler Sportkommunikation.
In a revised, updated, and considerably expanded new edition of Sport, Theory and Social Problems, authors Eric Anderson and Adam White examine how the structure and culture of sport promotes inequality, injury, and complicity to authority at the non-elite levels of play in Anglo-American countries.
As a consequence of the rapid proliferation of commercial gambling in Western-style democracies, governments and communities are encountering a complex array of economic, social and cultural harms associated with this expansion.
Given China's investment in sport, success in international competitions and recent hosting of high-profile events, there is no doubt the country is a rising power in the realm of global sports.
This book presents and analyses the results of the Lockdown Library Project survey, using a range of quantitative and qualitative approaches to provide a unique insight into the ways in which the first UK COVID-19 lockdown affected public reading habits.
This is the first book to explore the full significance of sport fans and fandom from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, across different sports, communities and levels of engagement.
This book presents an in-depth analysis of young people's experiences of diverse drinking practices, including heavy drinking and drunkenness, as fun and pleasurable as they navigate gendered leisure spaces.
This volume takes a fresh approach to qualitative research on sport and physical culture by presenting "e;student friendly"e; engaging chapters that clearly articulate the significance and practice of qualitative and/or critical methods in plain and convincing language.
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.
This book offers the first critical examination of the contributions of feminist new materialist thought to the study of sport, fitness, and physical culture.
This book analyses the increasing use of sport in European and Western welfare states as a tool of social policy and its promotion as a solution to social problems.
A must-have introductory text of unrivalled coverage and depth focusing on events planning and management, the fourth edition of Events Management provides a complete A to Z of the principles and practices of planning, managing and staging events.
Book Features:* Ages 8-11, Grades 3-5, Guided Reading Level S, Lexile 810L* 32 pages, 7 inches x 9 inches* Simple, easy-to-read pages with full-color pictures* Includes sports-related vocabulary and review activities* Reading/teaching tips and index includedLife Of A Champion: In Women in Sports: Megan Rapinoe, your 3rd through 5th grade reader will learn about the persistence, passion, and courage it took Rapinoe to become a two-time Women's World Cup Soccer champion and Olympic gold medalist.
';Equally appealing for browsers and avid readers, this is a recommended purchase' – School Library JournalDive into the world of soccer with this mega book of everything to do with the beautiful game.
Die vorliegende Arbeit setzt sich als explorative, qualitative Fallstudie theoriegeleitet und empirisch mit der Entstehung staatlich geförderter Projekte zum ‘Sport mit Geflüchteten’ in Sportdachverbänden im Rahmen der Geflüchtetenkrise 2015/2016 auseinander.
The amusement parks which first appeared in England at the turn of the twentieth century represent a startlingly novel and complex phenomenon, combining fantasy architecture, new technology, ersatz danger, spectacle and consumption in a new mass experience.
Controversy erupted in spring 2001 when Chicago's mostly white Southside Catholic Conference youth sports league rejected the application of the predominantly black St.
This book provides a critical approach to sport-for-development, acknowledging the potential of this growing field but emphasising challenges, problems and limitations - particularly if programs are not adequately planned, delivered or monitored.
