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  • Criminology, Leisure and Sport

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Series series Advances in Leisure Studies
    This book takes a critical look at how leisure and sport intersect with crime and harm. Bringing together leading scholars in criminology, sociology, sport science, social work and psychology, it shows how recreational and elite sporting spaces can foster prosocial development but also generate significant social inequalities and injustices.Through diverse empirical cases - including sexual abuse ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Leisure and Forced Migration

    Lives Lived in Asylum Systems

    Series series Advances in Leisure Studies
    This book offers a timely and critical exploration of leisure and forced migration from multiple disciplinary perspectives, spanning sociology, gender studies, migration studies and anthropology. It engages with perspectives and experiences that unsettle and oppose dehumanising and infantilising binaries surrounding forced migrants in contemporary society.The book presents cutting edge research ... Read more

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  • Key Concepts in Sports Studies

    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    Written by experienced academics used to teaching the subject this book will help students and researchers find their way within the diverse field of sport studies. Clear, well researched entries explain the key concepts in the debates surrounding the social significance and social dynamics of sport. Each entry provides:• Clear Definitions• Relevant Examples• Up-to-date Suggestions for Further ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Human Rights and Events, Leisure and Sport

    Edited by Jayne Caudwell, Darragh McGee ...
    This edited book aims to capture the functioning of human rights and civil activism at the level of the relationships between the individual and the social, and in relation to abuses, contestations, and transformations. Chapters cover the ways human rights are denied, articulated, and not realised. Mega-events, either sporting or otherwise (e.g. Gay Pride), tend to be the focus of this inquiry, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Sport and the Social Significance of Pleasure

    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    This innovative text's critical examination foregrounds the prime reason why so many people participate in or watch sport – pleasure. Although there has been a "turn" to emotions and affect within academia over the last two decades, it has been somewhat remiss that pleasure, as an integral aspect of human life, has not received greater attention from sociologists of sport, exercise and physical ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport, Leisure and Physical Education

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This handbook provides an original, comprehensive and unparalleled overview of feminist scholarship in sport, leisure and physical education. It captures the complexities of past, current and future developments in feminism while highlighting its theoretical, methodological and empirical applications. It also critically engages with policy and practice issues for women and girls taking part in ... Read more

    $332.09 USD

  • Women's Football in the UK

    Continuing with Gender Analyses

    Edited by Jayne Caudwell ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    This book examines the complex ways in which girls and women experience football cultures in Britain. It extends current debate surrounding women and football (namely, how gender has functioned to shape women’s experiences of playing the game), by focusing on organisational, administrative and coaching practices, alongside the particular issues surrounding sexuality, ethnicity and disability (not ... Read more

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  • Sport, Sexualities and Queer/Theory

    Edited by Jayne Caudwell ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
    The first book focusing exclusively on this subject, Sport, Sexualities and Queer/Theory captures the newest and best writing on an emerging focus of study that brings in perspectives from a number of disciplines including sports studies, gender studies, sociology, cultural studies, lesbian and gay studies, and queer studies. An accessible introduction to this dynamic field, this is an explorative ... Read more

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    A Critical Sociology

    In this new edition of his acclaimed book, Richard Giulianotti provides a critical sociological interpretation of modern sport. As global festivals such as the Olympic Games and football’s World Cup demonstrate, sport’s social, political, economic and cultural significance is becoming ever more apparent across the world.Ten years after its original publication, the text has been completely revised ... Read more

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  • The Men and the Boys

    In recent years, questions about men and boys have aroused remarkable media interest, public concern and controversy. Across the world, health services are noticing the relevance of men’s gender to problems as diverse as road accidents, diet and sexually transmitted disease. Teachers are increasingly preoccupied with the poor educational performance of boys, and criminologists have begun to ... Read more

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  • Resistance Through Rituals

    Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain

    Edited by Stuart Hall, Tony Jefferson ...
    Series series Cultural Studies Birmingham
    Praise for the first edition:‘No one seriously interested in youth mass culture or style can afford to ignore this work.’ - Stanley Cohen, The Times Higher Education Supplement‘The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies deserves our gratitude for having begun to locate the real areas of discussion.’ - New Society‘…affords an authoritative perspective of society’s subcultures amongst the young ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Sport, Exercise and Social Theory

    An Introduction

    Why are sport and exercise important?What can the study of sport and exercise tell us about wider society?Who holds the power in creating contemporary sport and exercise discourses?It is impossible to properly understand the role that sport and exercise play in contemporary society without knowing a little social theory. It is social theory that provides the vocabulary for our study of society, ... Read more

    $80.99 USD