Sport and Leisure Studies

Combining new approaches to the study of fan culture with critical assessments, Fanatics offers a comprehensive and timely examination of the state of European football fandom as the game prepares itself for the next millennium...

Combining new approaches to the study of fan culture with critical assessments, Fanatics offers a comprehensive and timely examination of the state of European football fandom as the game prepares itself for the next millennium...

In Fathering through Sport and Leisure, an underrepresented and highly topical area of social study is examined. This is a book about fathers, and how we can understand fathers and their fathering practices better if we examine the role of sport and leisure in their relationships with their children..

Moving beyond women, the emphasis of much gender scholarship to date, this book focuses on issues of feminism as connected to leisure scholarship more broadly. A team of leading international feminist scholars use case studies to unpack methodological and substantive issues essential to leisure stud..

Football-led health improvement is an important part of the public health effort. Through the contributions of policy makers, programme providers and researchers, this text provides insights into a range of issues surrounding the role of football as a vehicle for health improvement for different gro..

Drawing on a wide range of theoretical perspectives, as well as extensive empirical research , Gender and Leisure goes forward to offer a contemporary socio-cultural analysis of gender relations in leisure practice and leisure policy..

Drawing on a wide range of theoretical perspectives, as well as extensive empirical research , Gender and Leisure goes forward to offer a contemporary socio-cultural analysis of gender relations in leisure practice and leisure policy..

Historicizing the Pan-American Games examines the western hemisphere’s major integrating sporting and cultural event through 12 case studies researched and written by an outstanding line up of sports historians and Latin Americanists. One of the first titles to focus on this major sporting event, th..

Internet Resources for Leisure and Tourism is designed to allow students, academics and practitioners within the leisure and tourism fields to get the very most out of the World Wide Web, helping them track down and fully exploit the most useful resources available. The book is now updated and suppo..

Contains: details of interesting sites for content, design and/or specific information; notes emphasizing important information about a site; shortcuts and easy-to-use methods for performing functions; and, a variety of Internet topics - from how to find a provider to how to compress and decompress ..

A detailed account of the central role of recreation in the lives of the working class in the north-east of England, showing how it was an essential relief from the hard living and working conditions of Victorian and Edwardian mining communities...

This collection provides a snapshot into the wide-ranging debates on the politics of the environment and its relationship to leisure/sport/tourism. It serves as a starting point for further dialogue between leisure studies scholars and those in other disciplines where many of environmental debates h..