Sociology: Sport & Leisure

African Footballers in Europe traces the social and economic evolution of African football and examines the strategies and resources that players m...

Winner of the NASSS Outstanding Book Award Hockey and multiculturalism are often noted as defining features of Canadian culture; yet, rarely are we...

This book represents the first attempt to step inside the holiday experience of young British tourists in San Antonio, Ibiza. Briggs' ethnographic ...

Using the concept of fulfilment and the framework of the serious leisure perspective, this book examines the signposts marking the fulfilment caree...

This volume offers a panoramic and interdisciplinary view of the growing field of Sports Mega-Event studies. Contributions explore leveraging strat...

This book examines Russia's 2013 anti-gay laws and their implications for the Sochi 2014 Olympics. Lenskyj argues that Putin's Russia and the Inter...

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...