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  • The New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure

    Edited by P. Bramham, S. Wagg ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is about the new politics of leisure and pleasure - the values, practices, struggles and contradictions that now characterize the social worlds of rambling, drinking, tourism, sex, watching TV, gambling, using the internet, reading, comedy, sport, popular music and censorship. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Sounds and the City

    Popular Music, Place and Globalization

    Edited by B. Lashua, K. Spracklen, S. Wagg ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the ways in which Western-derived music connects with globalization, hybridity, consumerism and the flow of cultures. Both as local terrain and as global crossroads, cities remain fascinating spaces of cultural contestation and meaning-making via the composing, playing, recording and consumption of popular music. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Myths and Milestones in the History of Sport

    Edited by S. Wagg ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The conventional history of sport, as conveyed by television and the sports press, has thrown up a great many apparent turning points, but knowledge of these apparently defining moments is often slight. This book offers readable, in-depth studies of a series of these watersheds in sport history and of the circumstances in which they came about. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies

    Edited by H. Lenskyj, S. Wagg ...
    A comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference collection, bringing together an authoritative and international line-up of scholars to examine key social and political issues related to the Olympics. An essential, 'one-stop' volume for a wide range of academics, students and researchers. ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

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    Ethnographic Studies of School Playtimes

    by R. Willett, C. Richards, J. Marsh, A. Burn, J. C Bishop ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood and Youth
    Drawing on ethnographic accounts of children's media-referenced play, this book explores children's engagement with media cultures and playground experiences, analyzing a range of issues such as learning, fantasy, communication and identity. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Sports and The Global South

    Work, Play and Resistance In Sri Lanka

    by S. Janaka Biyanwila ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book reimagines the pleasures of sports and provides a critical perspective from the Global South. Analysing the spread of sports markets in Sri Lanka along with a range of struggles, the book highlights how the celebration of ‘sportive nationalism,’ promoting sports markets in the Global South reinforces patriarchal ethno-nationalist authoritarian sports cultures.By explaining how the realm ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism: The Billy Clyde Conundrum

    by Robert Kerr ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    American football and postmodernist theory are both objects of popular and scholarly interest that reveal remarkable sociological insights. Analysis of media-driven commercial football documents how narratives of sportsmanship/brutality, heroism/antiheroism, athleticism/self-indulgence, honor/chicanery, and chivalry/sexism compete and thrive. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Café Society

    Edited by A. Tjora, G. Scambler ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    While tracing the historical emergence of the café as a social institution and noting its multiple faces and functions in the modernity of the occident, three themes run like threads of varying texture through the chapters: the social connectivity and inclusion of cafés, café as surrogate office, and café as site of exchange for news and views. ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Managing the Paralympics

    Edited by Simon Darcy, Stephen Frawley, Daryl Adair ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book critically examines the planning, management, and operations of the world’s premier event for Para sport athletes. Noting a lack of research into how these games are planned and managed, the authors of this contributed volume discuss how the Paralympics are essentially different to the Olympics and what this means for their management. Managing the Paralympics explores how the organizers ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • The Battle for the High Street

    Retail Gentrification, Class and Disgust

    by Phil Hubbard ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book analyses the social and cultural status of high streets in the age of recession and austerity. High streets are shown to have long been regarded as the heart of many communities, but have declined to a state where boarded-up and vacant retail units are a familiar sight in many British cities. The book argues that the policies deemed necessary to revive the fortunes of high streets are ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Coast to Coast

    Hockey in Canada to the Second World War

    Edited by John Chi-Kit Wong ...
    As an institution that helps bind Canadians to an imagined community, hockey has long been associated with an essential Canadian identity. However, this reductionism ignores the ways Canadians consume hockey differently based on their socio-economic background, gender, ethnicity, and location. Moreover, Canadian culture is not static, and hockey's place in it has evolved and changed.In Coast to ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Sport and the Law

    by Laura Donnellan ...
    Sport and the Law: A Concise Guide provides an overview of the law relating to sport in Ireland. In recent years we have seen an increased involvement of the law as it applies sport. Sport and the Law identifies the main legal concepts in a clear, concise and user-friendly manner. Sport and the Law: A Concise Guide is intended for use by sports governing bodies, sports persons, coaches, referees, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD