Sociology: Sport & Leisure
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Landscapes of Leisure: Space, Place and Identities
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99This volume aims to map out the complex relationships leisure has with notions of place and space in contemporary life. Illustrating the transdisci...
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The Organisation and Governance of Top Football Across Europe: An Institutional Perspective
Benoit SenauxCurrent price €33.14Original price €38.99Current price €33.14Original price €38.99Save 15% -
Sports and Nationalism in Latin / o America
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €101.69Original price €112.99This collection interrogates sports in Latin America as a key terrain in which nation is defined and populations are interpellated through emotiona...
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Identity Discourses and Communities in International Events, Festivals and Spectacles
Udo MerkelCurrent price €47.59Original price €55.99This collection focuses on the multi-layered links between international events and identity discourses. With a unique line-up of international sch...
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African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives: The Legacy of the FIFA 2010 World Cup
Nhamo A. MhiripiriCurrent price €47.59Original price €55.99This edited volume addresses key debates around African football, identity construction, fan cultures, and both African and global media narratives...
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International Diplomacy and the Olympic Movement: The New Mediators
Aaron BeacomCurrent price €87.54Original price €102.99This book explores the relationship between diplomatic discourse and the Olympic Movement, charting its continuity and change from an historical pe...
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Rugby Union and Globalization: An Odd-Shaped World
J. HarrisCurrent price €47.59Original price €55.99In 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...
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Football and National Identities in Spain: The Strange Death of Don Quixote
A. QuirogaCurrent price €47.59Original price €55.99This book investigates the use of football to create, shape and promote Spanish, Catalan and Basque national identities and explores the utilizati...
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Olympic Ceremonialism and The Performance of National Character: From London 2012 to Rio 2016
R. TzanelliCurrent price €46.74Original price €54.99This book examines the London 2012 opening and closing ceremonies and the handover to Rio 2016 as articulations of national and cosmopolitan belong...
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Identity and Nation in African Football: Fans, Community and Clubs
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €47.59Original price €55.99The 2010 South African World Cup launched African football onto the global stage. This volume brings together top scholars on African football to e...
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Spanish Football and Social Change: Sociological Investigations
R. Llopis-GoigCurrent price €47.59Original price €55.99In the past few decades, Spanish football has undergone a significant transformation, both on and off the pitch. Llopis-Goig analyses these trends,...
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Global Perspectives on Women in Combat Sports: Women Warriors around the World
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €104.54Original price €122.99This volume offers a wide-reaching overview of current academic research on women's participation in combat sports within a range of different nati...
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A Cultural History of Chess-Players: Minds, Machines, and Monsters
John SharplesCurrent price €83.15Original price €98.99This 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...
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Mega-Events and Social Change: Spectacle, Legacy and Public Culture
Maurice RocheCurrent price €88.39Original price €103.99The spectacle of major cultural and sporting events can preoccupy modern societies. This book is concerned with contemporary mega-events, like the...
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Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport
Andrea QuinlanCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99Sexual assault by and against athletes is a pervasive and long-standing problem in Canada, but reports are commonly minimized, doubted, and dismiss...
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Ultras: The Passion and Performance of Contemporary Football Fandom
Mark DoidgeCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Since its emergence in Italy in 1968, one model of football fandom has become the most dominant in the world: the ultras. Producing choreography, c...
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A Plague on All Our Sports: When Covid and Sport Collided
Bill RibbansCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99A 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...
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Media, Place and Tourism: Worlds of Imagination
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99Accessible and interdisciplinary in nature, this volume highlights the connections between media, tourism and place, bringing together the diverse ...
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The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World
Dave ZirinCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Riveting and inspiring first-person stories of how taking a knee triggered a political awakening among athletes of all ages and levels, from the ce...
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Superyachts: Luxury, Tranquility and Ecocide
Gregory SalleCurrent price €48.44Original price €56.99A 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...
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Being Boys: Youth, Leisure and Identity in the Inter-War Years
Melanie TebbuttCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99This 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...
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The Game is Not a Game: The Power, Protest and Politics of American Sports
Robert Scoop JacksonCurrent price €45.04Original price €52.99Part 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....
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Kraus'' Recreation and Leisure in Modern Society
Amy HurdCurrent price €76.49Original price €84.99Kraus' Recreation and Leisure in Modern Society provides a detailed introduction to the history, developments, and current trends in leisure studie...
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Exercise Training: Types & Methods, Role in Disease Prevention & Health Benefits
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €117.38Original price €128.99Exercise is one component of daily energy expenditure in humans. It has become an important part of healthy lifestyles, because individuals are les...
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