Sociology: sport & leisure (186)

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:Drawing on hundreds of interviews with 15-22 year old straight and gay male athletes in both the United States and the United Kingdom, this book explores how jocks have redefined heterosexuality, and no longer fear being thought gay for behaviors tha...

publisher: Springer
year: 2006
description:A unique, international resource for Leisure Studies: in one volume the history, organization and central debates in the field of Leisure Studies are defined, providing a one-stop-shop for students and an agenda for future debate and research academi...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:Drawing upon interviews with key people in the World Rally Championship as well as trans-local ethnographic research, this book explores questions of commerciality and sporting identity, tackling the sport's controversial handling of the shift into '...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book describes cutting-edge applications of human factors for sport and outdoor recreation disciplines and provides practical guidance on a range of methods for describing, representing, and evaluating human, team, and system performance in spor...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book describes cutting-edge applications of human factors for sports, injury prevention and outdoor recreation disciplines and provide practical guidance on a range of methods for describing, representing, and evaluating human, team, and system ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:This edited volume addresses key debates around African football, identity construction, fan cultures, and both African and global media narratives. Using the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa as a lens, it explores how football in Africa is intima...

publisher: Springer
year: 2008
description:The book explores the relationship between embodiment and the production of the key structures which frame agency to map out potential for social change. It uses modalities of ageing embodiment in the context of sport participation in later life, spe...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book explores leisure-related voluntary associations in France during the nineteenth century as practical expressions of the Revolutionary concept of fraternité. Using a mass of unpublished sources in provincial and national archives, it analyse...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Art and the Challenge of Markets Volumes 1 & 2 examine the politics of art and culture in light of the profound changes that have taken place in the world order since the 1980s and 1990s. The contributors explore how in these two decades, the neolibe...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Die Beiträge des Sammelbandes repräsentieren aus verschiedenen disziplinären Sichtweisen und Relevanzsetzungen heraus Annäherungen an das Verhältnis von Mensch und Hund sowie von Mensch und Mensch mittels Hund. Dabei werden verschiedene Kulturen und ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book provides the first detailed account of the formative decades of BBC televised sport when it launched its flagship programmes Sportsview, Grandstand and Match of the Day. Based on extensive archival research in the BBC’s written arch...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Das Buch untersucht, wann Menschen im Sportklettern als kompetent gelten: Welche Fähigkeiten Menschen entwickeln, welche Motivation sie aufweisen und wann und wodurch andere ihnen Anerkennung entgegen bringen. Anhand von Kompetenzmarkern (wie der Rou...