This is a comprehensive and informative book written especially for new and inexperienced researchers in the fields of leisure, sport, and tourism. Unlike generic research texts that do not 'speak' to people in this field, this richly flavored book immediately engages the reader by using subject-specific examples and explaining the central methodological issues in straightforward terms. By showing students what they can do to assess, manage, and reduce the time they spend on research Researching in Leisure, Sport and Tourism: The Essential Guide will help them achieve a better balance in...
This is a comprehensive and informative book written especially for new and inexperienced researchers in the fields of leisure, sport, and tourism. Un...
With an international line-up of contributors, this book examines challenges to racism in and through sport. It addresses the different agents of change in the context of wider socio-political shifts and explores issues of policy formation, practices in sport and anti-racism in sport, and the challenge to sport today.
With an international line-up of contributors, this book examines challenges to racism in and through sport. It addresses the different agents of chan...
This book is an interdisciplinary volume that explores the social, psychological, and historical impact of acceleration through the medium of culture. Its eleven original chapters highlight the wide range of cultural responses to acceleration in literature, film, the visual arts, architecture, and popular culture.
This book is an interdisciplinary volume that explores the social, psychological, and historical impact of acceleration through the medium of culture....
Social inequalities in wider society are often reproduced in sport and leisure contexts. However, sport and leisure can be sites of resistance as well as oppression; they can be repressive or effect positive social change. This challenging and important book brings together cases examining different dimensions of inequality in sport and leisure (race and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability and class), presenting research-based strategies in support of social justice by placing disadvantaged communities centre stage. It covers topics such as coaching, anti-racism, Muslim...
Social inequalities in wider society are often reproduced in sport and leisure contexts. However, sport and leisure can be sites of resistance as w...
