Sociology: Sport & Leisure

The myth of the natural black athlete is widespread, though it's usually talked about only when a sports commentator or celebrity embarrasses himse...

Before Franklin Foer, Bill Bryson, and Simon Kuper wrote about soccer, best-selling author and highly respected academic Desmond Morris b...

This provocative book makes the case for the complete removal of national symbolism in the Olympic Games. Focusing on the case of national flags at...

Using the lens of arguably the states most popular sport, Blinded by the Lights: Texas High School Football and the Myth of Integration describes t...

In Boys Dont Cry, Girls Cant Throw, Martin Nash delves into how athletes influenced his mental health journey, how they are constantly challenging ...

The global geopolitics of sport is being transformed in and by East Asia. Sport in recent decades has been avidly embraced by East Asian nations, w...

Despite the mythology of sport bringing people together and encouraging everyone to work collectively to success, modern sport remains a site of ex...

Over the past three decades there has been widespread commitment to an understanding that sport can play a key role in community development. The r...

This original collection demonstrates the importance of sporting practices, spaces and leisure affiliations to understanding issues around identity...

The Indigenous peoples of Australia have a proud history of participation and the achievement of excellence in Australian sports. Historically, Aus...

Ancient Greece was the model that guided the emergence of many facets of the modern sports movement, including most notably the Olympics. Yet the p...

Despite the close and longstanding links between sport and music, the relationships between these two significant cultural forms have been relative...

Sport in the Pacific is a comparative consideration of the modern movement of Pacific peoples and their physical pursuits across national and cultu...

This volume draws together scholarship across a number of disciplines history, sociology, media and cultural studies, political science, Slavonic ...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of post-Games legacy governance including stakeholder relationships, institutional conditions, and poli...

This book analyzes the intricate relationship between football fans and clubs, presenting new approaches for those in charge to actively involve fa...

Ethics in Sport, Fourth Edition, offers a total of 33 essays from influential authors. These essays provide readers with classic and contemporary v...

There is only one sport, outside of actual combat disciplines, where two participants can square off in old fashioned, bare-knuckle pugilism withou...

Sport occupies a central position in Irish social and cultural life, yet has been relatively marginal within the academy. Significant research has ...

A Companion to Sport brings together writing by leading sports theorists and social and cultural thinkers, to explore sport as a central element of...

The Anthropology of Performance is an invaluable guide to this exciting and growing area.  This cutting-edge volume on the major advancements in pe...

Cast as the ultimate hardhats, football players of the 1960s seemed to personify a crewcut traditional manhood that channeled the Puritan work ethi...