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Arab and middle eastern sport
This timely edited collection responds to an ongoing need for a critical Muslim studies approach to sport and physical cultures in the Arab World, the Middle East, and North Africa, illuminating and legitimizing the sporting knowledge and experiences of those from physical cultures in these regio...
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Athletic activism
Rooted in a global, transnational perspective, Athletic Activism: Global Perspectives on Social Transformation demonstrates how athletic activism can not only impact global discourse about inequity across various social location, but foster institutional change that advances social justice.
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Brazil's dance with the devil
The leading US commentator on the politics of sports explores the coming Olympics in Brazil.
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Child abuse in sport
Elucidating deeper understanding of the problem of child abuse in sport and the various responses to it, both academic and policy-based, this collection uses a critical sociological lens and various distinct theoretical lenses to provide the conceptual tools to problematise the practice and admin...
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Chinese social media
This book examines the social media experiences of middle class Chinese adolescents. Their enthusiasm for self-expression online, their mediated social relations (guanxi) with family, friends, classmates and colleagues are analysed in the context of China's modernity.
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Contradictions in fan culture and club ownership in contemporary english football
Showcasing a robust conceptual model primed for use in future studies, this work offers a close analysis of the culture of the fast-moving football club ownership world, football fandom and consumption, and what it might mean for the future of the sport.
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Creative ageing and the arts of care
Making a case for cultural participation by older adults to enhance the quality of their lives and building on concepts of adult human development and empowerment, Elizabeth Brooke reframes 'active ageing' to include forms of creative expression and cultural participation crucial to transforming ...
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Cultures of sport hazing and anti-hazing initiatives for the 21st century
Providing a much-needed cutting-edge update on the last major publication on sport hazing practices published more than two decades ago, chapters cover the continuation of potentially harmful, traditional initiations, and the cycle of status from initiated to initiator.
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Doping in sport and fitness
Doping in Sport and Fitness argues that rigid differentiations between doping contexts are less clear than it might seem. Breaking down these boundaries allows for a more complete understanding of substance use patterns, behaviours, and policy responses related to sport, fitness, and society.
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Event planning management
Event Planning Management explores the principles and practices essential to the planning and managing of events. Supported by real-world case studies that provide practical insights for evaluation and implementation, this contributed work systematically covers each crucial element of event plann...
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Family and sport
Highlighting the microlevel of the family to grapple with contemporary social issues at the macrolevel of society, this volume charts new territory to advance a valuable understanding of family and sport issues.
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Gambling and sports in a global age
This volume contains an Open Access chapter. Establishing a scholarly platform to inform interventions in research and policymaking, this book demonstrates the importance of sociology in understanding sports gambling in a global age.
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Gaming the world
The globalizing influence of professional sportsProfessional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow th...
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Justice for trans athletes
Bringing insights from sociology, philosophy, science and law, contributors present cogent analyses of these developments and explore the way forward, providing thoughtful and original recommendations for changes to policies and practices that are inclusive, innovative and democratic.
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Leisure lifestyles
Acknowledging that the challenge facing social science is how to inject some order into the common-sense notion of leisure lifestyles, this book, written by a major player in the field of leisure, considers how to turn the study of both serious and casual leisure into a useful concept for guiding...
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Non-work obligations
Non-work obligations can undermine our well-being and lifestyles, but scholars of work and leisure alike have largely ignored this element of our lives. This book, written by an established authority in the field, shines a light on the significance of this ‘third space’ in our lives and offers a...
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Parkour, deviance and leisure in the late-capitalist city
This book examines the contradictions surrounding popular lifestyle sports such as parkour and freerunning and their exclusion from our hyper-regulated city centres. The author combines ethnographic data and complex theory to move beyond tropes of resistance and acknowledge and explain the parado...
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Sport and cultural transformation in southeast asia
This volume covers the long-term development of sport in Southeast Asia, affirming the importance of sport in every era. It opens with discussions of the colonial and early modern eras, before guiding readers through the landscape of sport in postcolonial and Cold War settings.
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Sport development and sport for development in the caribbean
Sport Development and Sport for Development in the Caribbean offers a unique focus on the Caribbean context to examine issues related to sport development and sport for development across a range of Caribbean countries that include Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, and Tri...
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Sport in korea
With growing interest in Korean sports and its social significance from academia and in public, Sport in Korea: Culture, Politics and Policy brings together research on social, cultural, and political aspects of Korean sports today.
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Sport, gender and development
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Sport, Gender and Development brings together an exploration of sport feminisms to offer new approaches to research on Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) in global and lo...
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Sport, gender and mega-events
This volume unpicks mega-events as gendered entities and showcases how they both position athletes in relation to one of two binary sex positions and also push the boundaries of what we see and accept as a recognisably gendered male or female body.
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Sport, social media, and digital technology
This volume brings together a collection of essays from leading global scholars working in diverse areas as sport sociology, sport management, sport media, and sport communication to illustrate how sociological approaches are imperative to enhancing our understanding of sport and social media and...
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Sports charity and gendered labour
Sports Charity and Gendered Labour provides examples for teaching and knowledge sharing across analyses of gender, sport, leisure, health and wellbeing in ways that will have broad relevance to a range of audiences.
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The corruption of play
The Corruption of Play explores how neoliberal ideology corrupts play in AAA videogames by creating conditions in which play becomes unbound from leisure, allowing play to be understood, undertaken, and assessed in economic terms, and fundamentally undermining the nature of play.
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The diversity gap in uk yoga
Situating contemporary yoga within wider debates on health inequality and wellness cultures, Sally SJ Brown foregrounds “outsider” perspectives in UK yoga spaces, rather than established insiders, exposing the power relations shaping participation and belonging.
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The game is not a game
An insightful, unapologetic exposé of the intersection of sports, culture, and politics from veteran journalist Robert Scoop Jackson.
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The john carlos story
John Carlos, the man behind the most iconic moment of the Black Power movement, tells his story.
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The mediating power of sport
Encouraging readers in other international settings to consider this topic from their own cultural contexts, this collection demonstrates how China has created new forms of influence through sport and considers what this might mean for how we understand the deeper role sport can play on the world...
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The postcolonial sporting body
The Postcolonial Sporting Body considers the future not only of sport, but of global politics and identity in a world striving towards greater equity and decolonisation.
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The professionalisation of women’s sport
The Professionalisation of Women’s Sport draws upon the expertise of a range of scholars from the fields of sport sociology, sport history, sport economics to critically discuss the complex and often fragmented histories of women’s involvement in professional sport.
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Towards a pacific island sociology of sport
Extending the horizon of regional sport scholarship beyond the Global North, this volume offers an exciting opportunity for sociology of sport scholars to widen the scope of their research in search of fuller understandings of the forms, meanings, dynamics and impacts of sport for Pacific peoples.
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Trans athletes’ resistance
Acknowledging the formidable hurdles trans and nonbinary athletes face in their struggles for inclusion, acceptance, and freedom, this book documents and analyses their resistance across a range of social-cultural and geopolitical contexts, from community sport to high-performance competition.
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Welcome to the terrordome
The nation's sharpest sportswriter explores the contested politics of sports and profiles athletes making change.
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What's my name, fool?
Edgeofsports.com sportswriter Dave Zirin provides a no-holds-barred commentary on the personalities and politics of American sports.
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Women’s football in a global, professional era
Women’s Football in a Global, Professional Era is an important addition to discussions on sport as work for women, and an essential reference point for students, researchers and sports professionals interested in the debates around the professionalisation of women’s football internationally.
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