Sociology: sport & leisure books

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This is the first book to focus on indigenous, traditional and folk sports and sporting cultures. It examines the...  Read More >>

This ambitious new study argues that not only is the story of cricket inescapably entwined with that of capitalism,...  Read More >>

""Selected from a wide range of newspapers, magazines, and digital publications during the previous year, these...  Read More >>

The story of Texas’s impact on American sports culture during the civil rights and second-wave feminist movements,...  Read More >>

This book examines how social issues shape and influence our engagement with sport, leisure time physical activity...  Read More >>

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This book examines how social issues shape and influence our engagement with sport, leisure time physical activity...  Read More >>

Offers a comprehensive study of the ways in which athletes climb what author Jenni Blackburn terms ‘The Mountain’...  Read More >>

This book highlights inconsistencies within the field of sports scholarship and provides an opportunity to open...  Read More >>

This book extends current knowledge and understanding of festival experiences. Relying on a series of international...  Read More >>

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This book explores the complex and multi-layered relationships between democracy and play, presenting important...  Read More >>

This book offers new perspectives on European sport history in the ‘long twentieth century’ designed to challenge...  Read More >>

This book book offers a comprehensive understanding of the multi-faceted construction of what it means to be Asian...  Read More >>

This book offers an overview of contemporary debates in social justice and equity within Physical Education (PE)...  Read More >>

Shedding new light on sport pedagogy and the teaching and coaching of games, this book shows how complexity theory...  Read More >>

Esports Insights outlines the fundamental characteristics, features, and structures of the rapidly growing esports...  Read More >>

Routledge Handbook of the Tourist Experience offers a comprehensive synthesis of contemporary research on the tourist...  Read More >>

This book explores entanglements between politics and leisure, ranging from the electorate’s concerns with public...  Read More >>

Drawing on primary research within voluntary sports clubs in the UK and secondary analysis of the wider international...  Read More >>

This book examines sport as an inclusive and developmental environment, exploring the conditions by which community...  Read More >>

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"""The intimate history of the World Cup that the soccer world owned Lionel Messi.""--"  Read More >>

""For an American soccer kid growing up in the '80s, Pelé transcended the game. From the moment I first saw him...  Read More >>