Sociology: Sport & Leisure

The epic exploration of football in the twenty-first century through the prism of sociology, politics, and economics, by David Goldblatt, the criti...

The extraordinary story of the small Vermont town that has likely produced more Olympians per capita than any other place in the country, Norwich g...

Baseball has long been viewed as the Great American Pastime, so it is no surprise that the sport has inspired many Hollywood films and television s...

Baseball has long been viewed as the Great American Pastime, so it is no surprise that the sport has inspired many Hollywood films and television s...

This book analyses the negotiation of place, belonging and uncertainty enacted by a group of 60 men and women seeking asylum who gathered weekly in...

Elaborating on themes of resilience, memory, critique and metal beyond metal, this volume highlights how the development and future of metal music ...

Gleason's Gym is the last remaining institution of New York's Golden Age of boxing. Jake LaMotta, Muhammad Ali, Hector Camacho, Mike Tyson--the alu...

Sporting Blackness examines issues of race and representation in sports films, exploring what it means to embody, perform, play out, and contest bl...

'A powerful argument, and practical advice, on the importance of reclaiming your leisure time to live a happier and more fulfilling life' - Gretche...

Aldous Huxley decried the horrors of modern 'pleasure,' or the proliferation of mass produced, widely accessible entertainment that could degrade o...

Trails and routes have been indispensable to travel and tourism over the centuries, helping to form the basis of mobility patterns of the past and ...

Trails and routes have been indispensable to travel and tourism over the centuries, helping to form the basis of mobility patterns of the past and ...

Dieses Buch widerlegt die oftmals geäußerte Behauptung, dass der Fußballsport im Grunde unpolitisch sei. In drei kurzen Kapiteln beschreibt der Ver...

Race Against ... Against Race: My Journey of Diversity and Inclusion through Sports is Bo-Dean Sanders memoir about transcending stereotypes throug...

The most capped All Black in history speaks for the record about his storied career, spanning four World Cups, nine Super Rugby finals and 153 appe...

How far are we willing to go in the name of better sport? Athletes have long sought to push the limits of human potential, but the advent and ap...

A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650 to 1800, a period often seen as a time of decline in sporting practi...

How do social practices prefigure experiences, and how does embodied experience organize the performance of practices? This book suggests that the ...

 Dieses Buch konzentriert sich auf das Fußballstadion als politischen Raum und untersucht, wie Stadien als Objekte und Katalysatoren des politische...

Insurgent Fandom offers a behind-the-scenes look at a transnational subculture known to few--ultra. As the most dedicated soccer fans, ultras suppo...

Insurgent Fandom offers a behind-the-scenes look at a transnational subculture known to few--ultra. As the most dedicated soccer fans, ultras suppo...

This book extends Max Webers theory of the value-spheres of modernity into wholly new areas, showing that the addition of home, nature and sport to...

The London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics were seen as a success and the hosts were praised for the promotion of equality, tolerance and unity as we...

Pandemic culture: The impacts of Covid-19 on the UK cultural sector and implications for the future provides a summary of the local, regional and n...

Pandemic culture: The impacts of Covid-19 on the UK cultural sector and implications for the future provides a summary of the local, regional and n...

A brilliantly evocative, surprising, and page-turning exploration of how tourism has shaped the world, for better and for worseessential reading fo...

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

In 1947, as the integration of Major League Baseball began, the once-daring American League had grown reactionary, unwilling to confront postwar...

A BBC Arts & The Reading Agency's Big Sporting Read selection'Warm, sad and funny... There is something very eccentric and British about A Fan ...

Health Communication and Sport: Connections, Applications, and Opportunities aggregates sport and health communication into a collective resource t...

Drawing on ethnographic accounts of children's media-referenced play, this book explores children's engagement with media cultures and playground e...