Sociology: Sport & Leisure

A brilliantly evocative, surprising, and page-turning exploration of how tourism has shaped the world, for better and for worseessential reading fo...

The Anthropology of Performance is an invaluable guide to this exciting and growing area.  This cutting-edge volume on the major advancements in pe...

In 1947, as the integration of Major League Baseball began, the once-daring American League had grown reactionary, unwilling to confront postwar...

A BBC Arts & The Reading Agency's Big Sporting Read selection'Warm, sad and funny... There is something very eccentric and British about A Fan ...

Health Communication and Sport: Connections, Applications, and Opportunities aggregates sport and health communication into a collective resource t...

Drawing on ethnographic accounts of children's media-referenced play, this book explores children's engagement with media cultures and playground e...

This book evaluates the moral project of Olympism, analzying the changing value positions adopted in relation to the ideology of Olympism across th...

This book examines the environmental credentials of Olympic Host cities and the opportunities afforded by hosting the Games towards the ecological ...

The quadrennial summer Olympic Games are renowned for producing the world's biggest single-city cultural event. This mega-event attracts a live aud...

The Olympic Games are the world's most complex and challenging sport mega-event to organize. Managing the Olympics is the first ever attempt to bri...

This book examines the experiences of those dedicated drinkers at the forefront of the new night-time leisure industries that revolutionized the wa...

Yar examines the autobiographies of fallen sports stars, exploring their fall from grace and the stigma it entails. Drawing upon sociological and c...

Drawing on hundreds of interviews with 15-22 year old straight and gay male athletes in both the United States and the United Kingdom, this book ex...

While tracing the historical emergence of the café as a social institution and noting its multiple faces and functions in the modernity of the occi...

The struggle to create and sustain meaning in our everyday lives is fought using cultural ingredients to spin the webs of meaning that keep us goin...

Men, Masculinities, Travel and Tourism draws together established and emerging academics that have a key interest in men, masculinity, travel and t...

Visibility matters in contemporary societies; online, in the media and in the public eye. But who is seen and how? Are women still seen through a m...

A wildly popular form of mass media and live entertainment, professional wrestling makes a spectacle of violent acts. With its long history of work...

This book explores the social and cultural impact of the Olympic Games, examining gender and sport, the inequalities between nations and people and...

Whether espoused by sports leagues, teams, or individual athletes, social issues are part of the sporting world fabric. The sports media often play...

From ancient gameboards to Honor of Kings, games as cultural agentsGames as global and connected phenomena have been examined in the rising scholar...

From ancient gameboards to Honor of Kings, games as cultural agentsGames as global and connected phenomena have been examined in the rising scholar...

Club Red is a sweeping and insightful history of Soviet vacationing and tourism from the Revolution through perestroika, part of the regimes effort...