Sociology: Sport & Leisure

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...

Part theory, part op-ed, The Game is Not a Game, is an affecting, sobering and unflinching examination of the good and evil of the sports industry....

Kraus' Recreation and Leisure in Modern Society provides a detailed introduction to the history, developments, and current trends in leisure studie...

This edited volume fills a gap in this understudied niche of sport in Hong Kong by offering an interdisciplinary inquiry that acknowledges sport as...

In this new edition of his acclaimed book, Richard Giulianotti provides a critical sociological interpretation of modern sport. As global festivals...

The concept of fandom has been revolutionized over the past 20 years because of various technological, cultural, and communicative advancements. Ev...

The book Chinese Women Striving for Status: Sport as Empowerment is original in focus and in evidence. It analyses for the first time, in informed ...

This book brings together cutting-edge research from leading international scholars to explore the geographies of making and craft. It traces the g...

Introduction to Recreation and Leisure, Fourth Edition With HKPropel Access, presents a comprehensive view of the multifaceted, expansive field of ...

This volume examines Gilles Deleuzes philosophy as it relates to the study of the physically active body. It explores theoretical and practical exa...