Sociology: sport & leisure books

There is only one sport, outside of actual combat disciplines, where two participants can square off in old fashioned,...  Read More >>

Britons Abroad (1968) takes the lid off nine 1960s package tours, mainly in Europe, revealing the kind of people...  Read More >>

Find out how a sparsely-populated country came to dominate the world of endurance sports and get a blueprint for...  Read More >>

Curling is a fascinating sport, full of contradictions, where heavy granite stones are slid great distances on ice...  Read More >>

An intimate and freewheeling portrait of John Madden through the NFL legend's own words John Madden is synonymous...  Read More >>

In many American cities, individual athletes, professional teams, and university sports are integral to the cities’...  Read More >>

This important and engaging collection explores the underappreciated history and continuing significance of sport...  Read More >>

This collection provides an entirely original perspective on the emerging shift in power in global sport from the...  Read More >>

This book addresses the close and longstanding links between sport and music with a series of highly original essays....  Read More >>

This book is dedicated to the reception of classical antiquity in modern sport and bodily culture. Taking Greece...  Read More >>

Despite the disproportionate success numbers of Indigenous Australian participants in Australia sports, the analysis...  Read More >>

This original collection explores critically sporting practices, spaces and affiliations in order to understand...  Read More >>

This book critically engages with the role sporting organisations play in the maintenance and development of communities...  Read More >>

This volume pulls together a range of case studies across a number of different sports and geographical areas that...  Read More >>

The essays in this book examine football as a key cultural site within Southeastern Europe. It will be of interest...  Read More >>

This is the first book to examine the growing movement of organised networks of LGBT+ football supporters, exploring...  Read More >>

This book provides a comparative analysis of sport and physical activity policies, processes, and practices across...  Read More >>

Extending the horizon of regional sport scholarship beyond the Global North, this volume offers an exciting opportunity...  Read More >>

This book offers a brief history of how autoethnography has been employed in studies of sport and physical (in)activity...  Read More >>

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This book examines the development of sport sponsorship and its impact on global public health. It argues that sport...  Read More >>

First published in 1954, this title is the report of an inquiry into adolescents’ reactions to their local youth...  Read More >>

This book explores strength sports as a site of political contestation and a platform for insurgent gender practices....  Read More >>

First published in 1967, Time of One’s Own asks the question: How do young Scots spend their free time nowadays?...  Read More >>

This book analyzes the intricate relationship between football fans and clubs, presenting new approaches for those...  Read More >>