Sport & fritid

Health and Elite Sport is the first book to critically examine the relationship between participation in high performance sport and health outcomes. Drawing on theory and empirical data from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, develo...

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Over the last three decades sports coaching has evolved from a set of customary practices based largely on tradition and routine into a sophisticated, reflective and multi-disciplinary profession. In parallel with this, coach education and coachin...

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The experiences of ethnic 'Other' females have - until recently - been widely overlooked in the study of sport. There continues to be a need to produce critical scholarship about ethnic 'Other' girls and women in sport and physical culture, in ord...

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The influence of professional, adult sport on youth sport is now a global concern. Children are involved in high-stakes competitive sport at national and international levels at an increasingly young age. In addition, the use of sport as a medium ...

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Though some dismiss opera as old-fashioned, it shows no sign of disappearing from the world's stage. So why do audiences continue to flock to it? Given its association with wealth, one might imagine that opera tickets function as a status symbol. ...

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"The original Tourist Gaze was a classic, marking out a new land to study and appreciate. This new edition extends into fresh areas with the same passion and insight of the object. Even more essential reading! " - Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor, Wa...

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Alltför länge har vi levt med föreställningen att vi måste jobba hela livet innan vi till sist kan njuta av en välförtjänt pension. Glöm det. Det finns ingen anledning att vänta. Oavsett om du drömmer om att slippa heltidsjobbet, att resa jorden r...

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En spelare gjorde en fascistisk hälsning. En annan blev parlamentsledamot. En tredje tatuerade in Fidel Castro på armen. Bland fotbollens största profiler finns det gott om politiskt engagemang. I Propagandafotboll presenteras en mängd spelare och...

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It is beyond dispute that physical activity is good for us, but what are the benefits, challenges and impacts of sport on health? This is the first book to focus on football in the context of health from individual, public and population-level per...

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Why are sport and exercise important? What can the study of sport and exercise tell us about wider society? Who holds the power in creating contemporary sport and exercise discourses? It is impossible to properly understand the role that sport and...

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What Doesn't Kill Us, a New York Times bestseller, traces our evolutionary journey back to a time when survival depended on how well we adapted to the environment around us. Our ancestors crossed deserts, mountains, and oceans without even a whisp...

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'This third edition of  Sport and Society , with contributions from some of the field’s most highly respected scholars, covers the myriad of complex, pervasive and global issues confronting sport in the 21st century. It continues to be ...

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How best to turn yourself from sports fan to professional sports journalist? Quickly moving beyond general guidance about sports writing, Joe Gisondi focuses on the nitty-gritty, with hands-on, practical advice on covering 20 specific sports. From...

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This volume examines Gilles Deleuze's philosophy as it relates to the study of the physically active body. It explores theoretical and practical examples of how the physically active body can be examined as a material, social, political, and cultu...

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The Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality brings together important new work from 68 leading international scholars that, collectively, demonstrates the intrinsic interconnectedness of sport, gender and sexuality. It introduces what is...

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Originally published in 1978, From Ritual to Record was one of the first books to recognize the importance of sports as a lens on the fundamental structure of societies. In this reissue, Guttmann emphasizes the many ways that modern sports, dramat...

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Over the last three decades sports coaching has evolved from a set of customary practices based largely on tradition and routine into a sophisticated, reflective and multi-disciplinary profession. In parallel with this, coach education and coachin...

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Musiken på Fritidsgårdarna i Sverige under 1960- och 70-talen var en verklig kulturgärning för den svenska pop- och rockmusik sett så här i backspegeln. En av landets populäraste gårdar låg i Oxelösund - en dryg timme söder om Stockholm. Det fanns...

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An Introduction to Game Studies is the first introductory textbook for students of game studies. It provides a conceptual overview of the cultural, social and economic significance of computer and video games and traces the history of game culture...

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Current approaches to drugs tend to be determined by medical and criminal visions that emerged over a century ago; the concepts of addiction, on the one hand, and drug control on the other, having imposed themselves as the unquestionable central n...

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Alltför länge har vi levt med föreställningen att vi måste jobba hela livet innan vi till sist kan njuta av en välförtjänt pension. Glöm det. Det finns ingen anledning att vänta. Oavsett om du drömmer om att slippa heltidsjobbet, att resa jorden r...

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Work Time is a sociological overview of a complex web of relations that shapes much of our experience of work and life yet often goes without critical examination. Cynthia Negrey examines work time past and present, exploring structural economic c...

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I Fotboll från Mielke till Merkel undersöker Joakim Glaser hur fotbollssupportrars identitetsformeringar påverkats av politiska, ekonomiska och sociala förändringar i östra Tyskland mellan 1965 och 2015. Denna avhandling är baserad på intervjuer o...

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The sensory revolution in the social sciences is transforming the ways in which the senses and the sensorium are studied and understood in relation to bodies in action. This is the first book to investigate the impact, and challenges, of this revo...

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Sport, våld och maskulinitet har följts åt från antiken in i vår tid. Tydliga exempel i dag är populariteten för kampsporter och fulla fotbollsläktare med aggressiva ramsor. Firmorna i supporterkulturens marginaler kan ses som skrattspeglar av van...

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Passionate, political and principled, the UltraS are the hardcore subculture of football supporters found in the stadiums of Italy. Amongst the most committed and uncompromising are two such groups who gather in support of the main football clubs ...

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"e;The original Tourist Gaze was a classic, marking out a new land to study and appreciate. This new edition extends into fresh areas with the same passion and insight of the object. Even more essential reading!"e;- Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chan...

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Work Time is a sociological overview of a complex web of relations that shapes much of our experience of work and life yet often goes without critical examination. Cynthia Negrey examines work time past and present, exploring structural economic c...

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Veblen's landmark study of affluent American society exposes the 'pecuniary culture' and 'conspicuous consumption' that results when unessential goods are exploited at the expense of production of true value. This new edition examines Veblen's sti...

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In the more than seven years since the decision to award the 2018 and 2022 World Cup tournaments, many fine legal minds, investigators, journalists and others have attempted to find out just how Russia, and especially Qatar, managed to pull it off...

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