Sociology: Sport & Leisure

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...