Sport and Leisure Studies

This text offers a considerate and critical account of the Native American sporting experience. It challenges popular images of indigenous athletes and athletics exploring social categories, particularly gender and race and their implications...

This text offers a considerate and critical account of the Native American sporting experience. It challenges popular images of indigenous athletes and athletics exploring social categories, particularly gender and race and their implications...

Taking the view that leisure services involve an array of industry sectors - they are related, for instance, to work-time spent eating, drinking and staying away from home, as well as the more obvious recreational pursuits - this text uses examples and case studies from a wide range of international..

This critical and intelligent new study interrogates the first principles of leisure. It explores traditional concepts in the philosophical analysis of leisure, as well as new focal points in the philosophy of leisure that are defined by recent developments in society, technology and the broader dis..

From its very inception the Soviet state valued the merits and benefits of physical culture, which included not only sport but also health, hygiene, education, labour and defence. Physical culture propaganda was directed at the Soviet population, and even more particularly at young people, women and..

From its very inception the Soviet state valued the merits and benefits of physical culture, which included not only sport but also health, hygiene, education, labour and defence. Physical culture propaganda was directed at the Soviet population, and even more particularly at young people, women and..

Introduction Part One: Between Methods 1. Gambling Autobiography 2. Gambling Labour 3. Gambling and Fiction 4. Numbers, Suites, Trumps and Jokers Part Two: Between Worlds: New Gambling Spaces 5. Backgammon and Casinos in Cyprus 6. Card Playing in Papua New Guinea 7. Delhi Bookmakers 8. New Markets f..

This volume looks at the fundamental geography of cricket, especially in England where the game is played by county sides...

This provocative new book argues that Leisure Studies is in a state of crisis. The twenty-first century has brought profound change to all aspects of human life and social processes, including a plurality of new leisure worlds. This book aims to re-invigorate Leisure Studies by revealing these leisu..

This provocative new book argues that Leisure Studies is in a state of crisis. The twenty-first century has brought profound change to all aspects of human life and social processes, including a plurality of new leisure worlds. This book aims to re-invigorate Leisure Studies by revealing these leisu..

The book presents research from an Australian Research Council project by reviewing the AFL’s anti vilification policy, Rule 35. This was done by both surveying and interviewing the coaches and players from 9 AFL clubs across Australia. The three authors are based in Australia, and their work pertai..

This book considers what advancements have been made in family leisure research over the past two decades and potential new directions for scholarship. The chapters were originally published in a special issue of Leisure Sciences...