Alessandro Porrovecchio - Böcker

The emerging field of body ecology offers fresh insights into how the body engages with its surrounding environment through consciousness, perception, knowledge and emotion. In this groundbreaking collection, leading scholars of sport, leisure and philosophy draw on research on topics as diverse as surfing, freediving, slacklining, parkour, bodybuilding, dance and circus arts to flesh out the concept of body ecology and its potential for helping us understand our connection with the world around us. Touching on theories of subjectivity, embodiment, pleasure and play, this book explores different approaches to studying body ecology as a way of conceptualising the experience of being immersed in nature, in the elements and in one’s own body through the power of awareness. An experience becomes emersive when it involves the production of new emotions in the body: emersion is the activation of what is living within the body itself. Shedding new light on the possibilities of physical cultural studies, Body Ecology and Emersive Leisure is fascinating reading for all students and scholars with an interest in sport, leisure, philosophy and the body.

This book explores football's evolution from a community-based sport to a global entertainment industry, examining the profound social, economic, cultural, and technological forces reshaping the world's most popular game.Through interdisciplinary research and critical inquiry, the contributors explore football's changing landscape across multiple dimensions, from the shifting roles of players, coaches, and referees to the transformation of fans from passionate supporters to global consumers. The book provides fresh perspectives on pressing contemporary issues, including the impact of technologies like VAR on officiating, the tension between local identity and global commercialisation, and controversial initiatives like the Super League. Its comprehensive examination of how football's commercialisation and mediatisation have fundamentally altered the sport's relationship with communities' challenges traditional notions of belonging while creating new forms of engagement. Each chapter combines theoretical frameworks with empirical evidence to illuminate the complex interplay between football's emotional roots and its increasingly business-driven model, offering insights into whether these seemingly opposing forces can coexist in the sport's future.This book will be useful for academics, researchers, football fans and students interested in sport science, football, the sociology of sport, and sport studies more broadly.