Sociology: Sport & Leisure

From the acclaimed director who has gone behind the scenes with many of the greatest athletes in the world, a memoir-meets-manifesto featuring neve...

Moving beyond both tourism and politics literatures' current understandings of how tourism is developed, this book offers an original theory of int...

Across the world, there has been a growing dissatisfaction with the tempo of modern life. Described simply as the 'slow phenomenon', this volume ex...

This book is about the new politics of leisure and pleasure - the values, practices, struggles and contradictions that now characterize the social ...

Research on Indigenous participation in sport offers many opportunities to better understand the political issues of equality, empowerment, self-de...

An examination of the relationship between sport and its cultural heritage. Sport is an integral part of British culture and an important aspect o...

Most sociological work on football fandom has focused on the experience of men, and it usually talks about alcohol, fighting and general hooliganis...

This book provides a guide to qualitative research methods in the multidisciplinary field of physical culture. Developing an approach based on the ...

That Americans take to sports with a spiritual fervor is no secret. Athletics has even been called a civil religion for how it permeates our daily ...

This volume takes a fresh approach to qualitative research on sport and physical culture by presenting student friendly engaging chapters that clea...

Soccer is the world's most popular sport, and the Brazilian national team is beloved around the planet for its beautiful playing style, the jogo bo...

Public awareness of and sensitivity to questions of pain, risk and injury in sport is more acute than ever before. Whether it is questions of what...

Augmentative play is a special activity that substantially aids the pursuit of a larger, encompassing leisure activity. This approach to the study ...

Race and ethnicity have a significant impact on leisure behavior and activity choices. Yet, until now, no book has thoroughly explored that impact...

This volume offers both an insight into the current state of research on domestic animals in leisure and a lens through which to begin to chart the...

This edited collection examines how fantasy sports play has established a prominent and promising foothold in the larger sports ecology. Often cons...

Digital Game Culture in Korea: The Social at Play is a critical ethnographic investigation of media discourses surrounding online game addiction an...

An engaging look at the ways economic thinking can help us understand how sports work both on and off the field  Mr. Oyer writes clearly and ranges...

Despite a genuine admiration for Native Hawaiian culture, white Californians of the 1930s ignored authentic relationships with Native Hawaiians. S...

Despite a genuine admiration for Native Hawaiian culture, white Californians of the 1930s ignored authentic relationships with Native Hawaiians. S...

This book is about the new politics of leisure and pleasure - the values, practices, struggles and contradictions that now characterize the social ...

This book provides a guide to qualitative research methods in the multidisciplinary field of physical culture. Developing an approach based on the ...