Sport

An accessible and easy-to-follow guide for road cyclists looking to defy the years and ride faster and further.

This book celebrates the life and career of Eric Dunning. Eric Dunning was a pioneer of the sociology of sport, firstly known for his ground-breaking theoretical work with Norbert Elias, and his study of the development of football. The chapters in this book were originally published in Sport in Society.

This book provides a holistic analysis of football gambling in Zimbabwe, exposing its impact on the everyday lives of Zimbabweans. It will interest sports and African studies researchers, as well as those focusing on the socio-health problems related to gambling.

This book aims to extend and deepen conversations among scholars, policymakers, and practitioners about the role of sport in relation to contexts and issues of forced migration. Chapters critically analyse and interrogate the implications of existing approaches, practices, and research around sport and forced migration across five themes.

This is the first book to focus on indigenous, traditional and folk sports and sporting cultures. It examines the significance of sporting cultures that have survived the emergence and diffusion of western sports and have carved out a unique position not only in spite of, but also in response to, modernity.

Boxing, Narrative and Culture: Critical Perspectives is the first interdisciplinary response to the dominant boxing narratives that are produced, performed and circulated in commercial boxing culture.

This bookpresents the most comprehensive mapping and analysis of women's football in Oceania and is the first to examine the game's historical development alongside social, political and cultural issues, weaving origin stories with players' day-to-day challenges.

This ambitious new study argues that not only is the story of cricket inescapably entwined with that of capitalism, but that the game provides a unique lens with which to understand the history, development, exigencies and contradictions of capitalist political economy.

This book demonstrates how creative research methods can be used to better understand the experiences of children, particularly in the context of sport, physical activity, and health.

This book explores the relationships between access, diversity, equity, inclusion (ADEI), and creative justice in the U. S. creative sector as a solution to meaningfully addressing enduring creative injustices.

This concise volume explores how creatives operate within the cultural ecology of the Caribbean, and the diverse range of tactics they use to mediate state and global policies to define cultural production and consumption in post-colonial small island states.

With hikes in Glacier and Waterton varying from half-hour strolls to full-day adventures, this guidebook is for everyone, including families.

This book is a vivid biography of Dan Qeqe, the legendary sportsman, powerbroker and pioneer of black rugby and the liberation of sport. It examines the complex and questionable relationships that Qeqe had with the enemies of non-racial sport, which cemented his power base.

This book presents six meaningful projects that have been valuable to the community of each location. The creative and construction processes highlight the hard work and coordination behind building each pavilion, which are even more impressive given the positive impact of the finished structures.

This book discusses the intersection of law and sport and highlights its usefulness to both legal scholars and philosophers of sport. The book will be a valuable resource to Undergraduates, Postgraduates and for those working in the areas of legal philosophy, sports law, and philosophy of sport.

Boat Buying Basics takes you through how to find and purchase the boat that will best fulfill your dreams and needs. It provides clear, step-by-step guidance on researching and analyzing boat listings, understanding the survey process, making the purchase, navigating the complexities of the closing process, and securing insurance and financing.

This is the first book to focus on crowdfunding in sport. Crowdfunding is an important new financial instrument that is becoming more popular with sports organisations, and this book examines the research evidence for crowdfunding and considers how it might be successfully implemented.

Pride of the Dons: the untold story of the men and women who made the Gothenburg Greats

This book emphasises the need to empower marginalised communities to contribute to decision-making processes within policy realms.