Sociology: Sport & Leisure

Travel and tourism have a long association with the notion of transformation, both in terms of self and social collectives. What is surprising, how...

If you attend a soccer match in Buenos Aires of the local Atlanta Athletic Club, you will likely hear the rival teams chanting anti-Semitic slogans...

A provocative, must-read investigation that both appreciates the importance ofand punctures the hype aroundbig-time contemporary American athletics...

The Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality brings together important new work from 68 leading international scholars that, collectively,...

This innovative collection convincingly argues that modern sport can be characterized by unequal and problematic power relations that are inextrica...

Watching a game of baseball today means witnessing phenomena that would have been novel, if not completely unheard of, not so long ago. Starting pi...

When blacksmith Pierre Michaux affixed pedals to the front axle of a two-wheeled scooter with a seat, he helped kick off a craze known as velociped...

'I love Tifo' Ian Wright 'Tifo are great' Alan Shearer'Tifo have changed the game when it comes to football analysis' Elis JamesRULE #1: DON'T WATC...

A call to arms exploring the protest movements of 2020 as they reverberated through the athletic world Starting with the refusal of George Hill of ...

Sociologists have long been curious about the ways in which city dwellers negotiate urban public space. How do they manage myriad interactions in t...

The Bolsheviks took power in Russia 1917 armed with an ideology centered on the power of the worker. From the beginning, however, Soviet leaders al...

2016 Best Book Award, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport A human face on the realities of professional football, from the challenge...

Click here to listen to Julia Ericksen's interview about Dance with Me on Philadelphia NPR's Radio Times Rumba music starts and a floor full of d...

What did Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Dorothy Wordsworth, James Hogg and Robert Southey have in common? They all toured Scotland and left account...

Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtua...

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805061While the number of domestic leisure travelers has increased dramatically in reform-era China, the pe...

'A shortcut to boosting your joy.' Oprah Winfrey'Accessible and instantly rewarding.' Guardian'The best self-help book of 2022. This is the book ev...

There is a looming existential crisis for competitive sport. We are witnessing a waning trust in the integrity of sport at all levels that stems fr...

Colombias headline story, about the peace process with guerrilla and its attendant controversies, does not consider the fundamental contradiction o...

The histories in Twin Cities Sports are rooted in the class, ethnic, and regional identity of this unique upper midwestern metropolitan area. The c...

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805061While the number of domestic leisure travelers has increased dramatically in reform-era China, the pe...

Learn how to tell a first down from a touchdown and get up to speed on the latest trends in the sport Football For Dummies is a comprehensive fans ...

Eye-opening contributions from the stars of game make this a powerful, groundbreaking investigation into the mind of the professional golfer. The p...