Sociology of Sport

_x005F_x000D_ The fitness industry is experiencing a boom characterized by the proliferation of technology, from video games to wearable fitness trackers. While this may benefit health, it also raises questions about the nature of our relationship with technology. This is the first book to examine t..

In this new theorisation of global football culture, Steve Redhead explores the relationship between sport and culture in a rapidly shifting world. Drawing on cutting-edge concepts, from accelerated culture and claustropolitanism to non-postmodernity, he reflects on the demise of working class footb..

This book explores football fan activism and its impact on contemporary football culture in England, Italy and the Czech Republic. Offering original insights into the power of fan activism to influence social change, this book also has wider implications for understanding social movements in other c..

The development of football as a major participatory sport in Japan, Korea and China makes it an ideal case study for analysis of the complex relationship between sport, culture, society and economy in the East, and the forces of globalization...

This book offers an original Marxist critique of the European football business. It argues that the Marxist account of the difference between profits and surplus value is crucial to an understanding of the fluid and contradictory nature of the commodification of football. Section one analyses the na..

The essays in this book examine football as a key cultural site within Southeastern Europe. It will be of interest to all academics and policy makers concerned with matters of reconciliation and social and cohesion within the region._x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Soci..

This book brings together scholars, writers and commentators to examine the relationship between football, violence and the larger relations of power in which we all live our lives. Within the context of the NFL and the structural conditions in which the NFL has emerged, this book explores issues of..

This book brings together scholars, writers and commentators to examine the relationship between football, violence and the larger relations of power in which we all live our lives. Within the context of the NFL and the structural conditions in which the NFL has emerged, this book explores issues of..

Foucault, Sport and Exercise..

This book explores the rise and increased acceptance of gambling in America, particularly the growth of the game of poker, as a means for examining changes to the American Dream and the risk society. Poker both critiques and reinterprets the myth of the American Dream, putting greater emphasis on th..

This book explores the rise and increased acceptance of gambling in America, particularly the growth of the game of poker, as a means for examining changes to the American Dream and the risk society. Poker both critiques and reinterprets the myth of the American Dream, putting greater emphasis on th..

This work examines the game of football, asking what makes it so popular, and examining the diversity of its players, supporters and institutions throughout the world. It also investigates how the game reinforces or overcomes social differences, and looks at subcultures like football hooliganism...