Sport and Leisure Studies

A refreshingly critical account of the life of sporting legend Roger Bannister, presenting a revisionist history of his life and his famous achievement and assessing his status as a 'hero' and 'champion'...

This landmark publication brings together some of the most perceptive commentators of the present moment to explore core ideas and cutting edge developments in the field of Leisure Studies. It contains original work from key scholars across the globe, including those working outside the Leisure Stud..

With essays covering all aspects of sports history, this volume is a tribute to the scholarship of Professor Tony Mangan. Regarded by many as a pioneer and mentor, Professor Mangan's foundational work has sustained the field for decades...

The chapters in this book explore the productions of sexualities in the leisure spaces of sport (men’s football, women’s basketball, women’s fitness), the city, the home, Mardi Gras, skiing and male strip clubs. Authors engage with geographies of sexuality to demonstrate the significance of space an..

The chapters in this book explore the productions of sexualities in the leisure spaces of sport (men’s football, women’s basketball, women’s fitness), the city, the home, Mardi Gras, skiing and male strip clubs. Authors engage with geographies of sexuality to demonstrate the significance of space an..

The chapters in this book explore the productions of sexualities in the leisure spaces of sport (men’s football, women’s basketball, women’s fitness), the city, the home, Mardi Gras, skiing and male strip clubs. Authors engage with geographies of sexuality to demonstrate the significance of space an..

This volume gathers work from a wide range of disciplines – anthropology, cultural studies, geography, history, law, sociology, and post-colonial studies – to explore the paradoxical processes of emulation, resistance and transformation that are at work in the global diffusion and development of "sp..

The book consists of six case studies which examine various aspects of the relationship between sport and /or body cultures more generally in East and South East Asian countries. The chapters were originally published in Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science...

This is the first book to comprehensively map the relationships between sport, nationalism and nation building in China. It explores the last 150 years of Chinese history - how sport contributed to the shaping of the early forms of Chinese nationalism, and how it eventually became an essential part ..

This is the first book to comprehensively map the relationships between sport, nationalism and nation building in China. It explores the last 150 years of Chinese history - how sport contributed to the shaping of the early forms of Chinese nationalism, and how it eventually became an essential part ..

This book explores the reality of new types of ‘digital sports’, such as gaming, cybersport and eSports, and how the virtual or the electronic takes over, contradicts or melts with current sports as we know it. It was originally published as a special issue of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy...

This book draws on diverse theoretical approaches, disciplines and original empirical research to critically reveal the socio-cultural and political importance of sporting pleasure, and provide a more rounded, dynamic and visceral account of sport and the moving body...