Sociology: Sport & Leisure

Identity is one of the most theorised and contested of all sociological concepts and sport is fertile ground for an examination of its complexities...

Exploring the connection between tourism and violence, this book draws on a range of disciplinary approaches, including social anthropology, cultur...

Rethinking Drinking and Sport examines the complex nature of sport-related drinking. With close attention to the contradictory nature of sport-rela...

This book examines the impact of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympic Games and highlights the latest findings in the areas of spo...

As the worlds greatest sporting event, the Olympic Games has always commanded intrigue, analysis and comment in equal measure. This book looks to c...

Despite the fact that the sea covers 70 per cent of the Earths surface, and is integral to the workings of the world, it has been largely neglected...

The tourism and leisure industries are big business. Opportunities for leisure and tourism have escalated as disposable income, technology, travel ...

Sports have taken on tremendous importance in the world in which we live. Their social significance - economic, political, and personal - both nati...

Examines the significance of sports in the lives of diasporic Filipino Americans Organized sports have occupied a central place in Filipino America...

Examines the significance of sports in the lives of diasporic Filipino Americans Organized sports have occupied a central place in Filipino America...

This book discusses the diverse array of aquatic life of Indian waters, including rivers, lakes, and coastal regions. This book is a useful manual ...

This book explores the enigmatic world of the natural underground, viewing it as a site of leisure and a primary sphere of anthropotechnics. It res...

This book offers a critical examination of the 2023 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Womens World Cup, being held in Austra...

Global and authoritative, this textbook maps modern, live experience media, the categories that thrive on real-time engagement and human connection...

Sport sociology has a responsibility to engage critically with the accepted wisdom of those who govern and promote sport. This challenging collecti...

The emerging field of body ecology offers fresh insights into how the body engages with its surrounding environment through consciousness, percepti...

The recent availability of longitudinal data on individual trip making and activity behaviour has provided analysts with new insights into the stru...

Transnational organizations and practitioners who use sport for international development often position sport as a unique option for tackling deve...

An interdisciplinary social history, this book examines the major pressures and influences that brought about the remarkable growth of opposition t...

This is a multidisciplinary contribution to the burgeoning literature on and around mega-events in general and sports mega-events in particular. Th...

Illustrated by revealing interviews with women and men in the tourist resorts in the Sinai, Egypt, this book is ostensibly about western women who ...

South America is a region that enjoys an unusually high profile as the origin of some of the worlds greatest writers and most celebrated footballer...

Bodybuilding has become an increasingly dominant part of popular gym culture within the last century. Developing muscles is now seen as essential f...

Games and Sporting Events in History offers a broad global perspective on sports and games in Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia. A diverse se...

Global Perspectives of Sport and Physical Culture is a compilation of diverse essays derived from the works of prominent international scholars tha...

While globalisation has undoubtedly occurred in many social fields, in sport the importance of the nation has remained. This book examines the cont...

Modern football is an industry and capitalism is its engine. However, this book argues for a more nuanced understanding of contemporary football cu...

Iceland is a tiny Nordic nation with a population of just 330,000 and no professional sports leagues, and yet its soccer, basketball and handball t...

This book examines the youth sport parent experience through the lens of social capital, a cornerstone social science concept of the past 30 years....

Entertainment tourism has recently become more popular. Entertainment attractions encourage tourists to travel around the world to have fun and are...

Not all World Heritage Sites have people living within or close by their boundaries, but many do. The designation of World Heritage status brings a...

In times when the social sciences have become increasingly fragmented and more focused on the pieces of the puzzle, the puzzle, as a topic in its o...

Sex, gender and sexuality have played an important role in shaping the culture of surfing and are central themes in the study of sport and movement...

Global sports events are rarely far from the public eye. Such mega-events are about much more than the sporting competitions themselves. They entai...

Teaching the skills necessary to play sport depends partly on transmitting knowledge verbally, yet non-verbal or tacit knowledge also has an import...

This collection explores the multifaceted connections between soccer and society in the Middle East. It examines the social significance of soccer ...

This book reveals how, when, where, and why vitalism and its relationship to new scientific theories, philosophies and concepts of energy became se...

Providing a unique analysis of current multidisciplinary research on the complex relationships between tourism and the imaginaries of tourist desti...

This first full length treatment of the role of morality in tourism examines how the tourism encounter is also fundamentally a moral encounter. Dra...

This book reveals how, when, where, and why vitalism and its relationship to new scientific theories, philosophies and concepts of energy became se...

This is the first book to examine the role of women in the origins, development and contemporary landscape of snowboarding. Focusing on organised a...

This book is about the experience of reading-what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read and under what conditions, what dri...

The original Tourist Gaze was a classic, marking out a new land to study and appreciate. This new edition extends into fresh areas with the same p...

This book provides important new insights into social issues in the rapidly growing field of esports, filling a gap in the literature that has, unt...

Learn how to use literature and informational texts related to sports as an alternative or a supplement to a canon-centric English classroom. This ...

Originally published in 1982, From Author to Reader, the first of its kind, is a complete review of books in modern society that draws upon the aut...

Britons Abroad (1968) takes the lid off nine 1960s package tours, mainly in Europe, revealing the kind of people taking part, what they got for the...