Sociology: sport & leisure books

This is the first book to examine the effects of professionalism and the socio-cultural significance. The Rugby...  Read More >>

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In Football and Accelerated Culture, Steve Redhead offers a new and challenging theorisation of global football...  Read More >>

This book explores the organisation and structure of sport in and beyond Europe. This volume will be of interest...  Read More >>

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This book helps young black males, educators, policy makers, parents, and all other interested parties to understand...  Read More >>

This book examines the historical background of game development, offline and online gamer interactions, and presents...  Read More >>

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There have been many analyses of leisure, drawing on the social, historical, cultural, temporal, and geographical...  Read More >>

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The sensory revolution in the social sciences is transforming the ways in which the senses and the sensorium are...  Read More >>

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The practice of capoeira, the Brazilian dance-fight-game, has grown rapidly in recent years. It has become a popular...  Read More >>

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Though the ancient Greek philosophical concept of scholê is usually translated as ‘leisure’, there is a vast difference...  Read More >>

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This volume offers an up-to-date, multi-disciplinary contribution to the burgeoning literature on and around mega-events...  Read More >>

This book examines the local, regional and transnational contexts of video games through a focused analysis on gaming...  Read More >>

This book provides a comprehensive historical account of the evolution of Sport and Exercise Psychology research,...  Read More >>

This book examines the role of race in athletic programs in the United States. Through the lens of Critical Race...  Read More >>