Sociology: Sport & Leisure

By participating in the everyday life of fitness professionals, gym-goers and bodybuilders, The Global Gym explores fitness centres as sites of lea...

This book contributes to recent debates in transnationalism, mobilities and migration studies by offering the first in-depth sociological examinati...

All behaviours, indeed all forms of agency, are viewed as emotionally-driven. This book provides an approach to emotional experience and agency whi...

Is it possible for football matches or players to help forge a collective European identity? Pyta and Haverman seek to answer this question through...

This volume aims to map out the complex relationships leisure has with notions of place and space in contemporary life. Illustrating the transdisci...

This collection interrogates sports in Latin America as a key terrain in which nation is defined and populations are interpellated through emotiona...

This collection focuses on the multi-layered links between international events and identity discourses. With a unique line-up of international sch...

This edited volume addresses key debates around African football, identity construction, fan cultures, and both African and global media narratives...

This book explores the relationship between diplomatic discourse and the Olympic Movement, charting its continuity and change from an historical pe...

In 1995 rugby union finally became a professional sport following more than a century as an amateur game. This book offers a critical analysis of t...

This book investigates the use of football to create, shape and promote Spanish, Catalan and Basque national identities and explores  the utilizati...

This book examines the London 2012 opening and closing ceremonies and the handover to Rio 2016 as articulations of national and cosmopolitan belong...

The 2010 South African World Cup launched African football onto the global stage. This volume brings together top scholars on African football to e...

In the past few decades, Spanish football has undergone a significant transformation, both on and off the pitch. Llopis-Goig analyses these trends,...

This volume offers a wide-reaching overview of current academic research on women's participation in combat sports within a range of different nati...

This inquiry concerns the cultural history of the chess-player. It takes as its premise the idea that the chess-player has become a fragmented coll...

The spectacle of major cultural and sporting events can preoccupy modern societies. This book is concerned with contemporary mega-events, like the...

Sexual assault by and against athletes is a pervasive and long-standing problem in Canada, but reports are commonly minimized, doubted, and dismiss...

Since its emergence in Italy in 1968, one model of football fandom has become the most dominant in the world: the ultras. Producing choreography, c...

A Plague on All Our Sports is the story of what happened when Covid-19 and sport collided, examining the impact of the pandemic through a unique le...

Riveting and inspiring first-person stories of how taking a knee triggered a political awakening among athletes of all ages and levels, from the ce...

A superyacht is a boat that exceeds 30 metres in length, with some surpassing even 100 metresmore than a football field. At the beginning of the tw...

This original and fresh approach to the emotions of adolescence focuses on the leisure lives of working-class boys and young men in the inter-war y...