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  • Human–Animal Relationships in Equestrian Sport and Leisure

    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    Riding, training and caring for horses are visceral experiences that require the immersion of both body and mind. This book provides an in-depth understanding of human–horse relationships and interactions as embodied in equestrian sport and leisure.As a closely focused ethnographic study of the horse world, it explores the key themes of partnership and collaboration in human–horse communication, ... Read more

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  • Exploring the Leisure - Health Nexus

    Pushing Global Boundaries

    By exploring past, current, and future intersections between leisure and health, this book considers research and academic thought to reveal and critique the nuanced ways that leisure impacts health as well as considering how health professions use leisure as a 'tool'. Aided by the diverse chapters, readers will be challenged to explore future intersections between leisure and health using an ... Read more

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  • Sport, Gender and Mega-Events

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    Series series Emerald Studies in Sport and Gender
    Sport mega-events are more than just large-scale gatherings and celebrations of human athletic achievement; they are also arenas through which groups and individuals perform, reinforce, challenge and disrupt identities, power and status. Understanding that sport is widely recognised as a practice through which normative ideas of gender are both reinforced and challenged, this book explores how ... Read more

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  • Transforming Leisure in the Pandemic

    Re-imagining Interaction and Activity during Crisis

    Series series Routledge Critical Leisure Studies
    This is the first book to critically explore international leisure during the COVID-19 pandemic. It analyses the ways in which the pandemic has impacted upon our leisure practices and our leisure lives, focusing on three key spaces ・ public, private, and digital.The book seeks to understand how changes in leisure have led to transformations in the ways we have had to ‘do’ and ‘redo’ activities, ... Read more

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  • Humans, Horses and Events Management

    Horses are perhaps the most common non-human animal to feature in planned events, but although there is considerable research on equestrian sport, there is virtually none on equestrian events. This book begins to address this gap, using the National Championships of the Icelandic Horse as an extended case study to explain in depth the process of managing an event, as well as the larger theoretical ... Read more

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  • Sports Events, Society and Culture

    Series series Routledge Advances in Event Research Series
    This innovative and timely volume moves beyond existing operational and pragmatic approaches to events studies by exploring sports events as social, cultural, political and mediatised phenomena. As the study of this area is developing there is now a need for critical and theoretically informed debate regarding conceptualisation, significance and roles.This edited collection explores the core ... Read more

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  • Multispecies Leisure: Human-Animal Interactions in Leisure Landscapes

    Multispecies Leisure: Human-Animal Interactions in Leisure Landscapes seeks to ‘bring the animal in’ to the leisure studies domain and contribute to greater understanding of leisure as a complex, interwoven multispecies phenomenon.The emerging multidisciplinary field of human-animal studies encourages researchers to move beyond narrow focus on human-centric practices and ways of being in the world ... Read more

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  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Sport and Leisure

    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    Despite the mythology of sport bringing people together and encouraging everyone to work collectively to success, modern sport remains a site of exclusionary practices that operate on a number of levels. Although sports participation is, in some cases at least, becoming more open and meritocratic, at the management level it remains very homogenous; dominated by western, white, middle-aged, able ... Read more

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  • Sex Integration in Sport and Physical Culture

    Promises and Pitfalls

    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    Scholars working in the academic field of sport studies have long debated the relationship between sport and gender. Modern sport forms, along with many related activities, have been shown to have historically supported ideals of male superiority, by largely excluding women and/or celebrating only men’s athletic achievements. While the growth of women’s sport throughout the 20th and 21st centuries ... Read more

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