Sociology: Sport & Leisure

The sports worlds attention was focused on Japan for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. The years-long buildup to and aftermath of the...

Sport is an important part of the lives of rural Papua New Guineans, and a significant connection to global imaginaries for economically marginal v...

The Routledge History of American Sport provides the first comprehensive overview of historical research in American sport from the early Colonial ...

Recent years have seen a rapidly growing hotel business built around health and well-being. Leisurely experiences are packaged, staged and consumed...

The Athletic Crusade is the first book to systematically analyze the role of sports in the expansion of U.S. empire from the 1890s through World Wa...

As an athlete, you train your body and mind to be ready for competition. But what about your soul? Lead with Faith, Play with Purpose is your guide...

The global increase in viewership of and participation in womens football means that, to continue with this growth, we need to appreciate the speci...

The figure of the gladiator is as compelling to us as it was to the Romans. Why are we drawn to this ancient blood sport?The usual explanation of t...

Levelling the playing fieldLife in the Canadian countryside at the turn of the twentieth century is often generalized as insular, backwards, and de...

This book presents a new perspective on skateboarding, centred on the senses, skill acquisition, embodiment, and the concept of city craft. Skatebo...

Riveting and inspiring first-person stories of how taking a knee triggered an awakening in sports, from the celebrated sportswriterThe Kaepernick E...

This is the first book to explore the numerous ways in which mobile technologies and social media are influencing our outdoor experiences.Across th...

Winner of the Western Writers of America 2014 Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction, ContemporaryMention the Colorado high country today and vacat...

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...