Sociology: sport and leisure Books
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial La complejidad del Barça / The Barcelona Complex:
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£19.96
Copenhagen Business School Press Nordic Elite Sports: Same Ambitions -- Different
Book SynopsisVery little research exists on organisation and leadership of elite sports in the Nordic countries. This book is both an attempt to start filling this gap and to stimulate further research in the area.
£27.20
Springer Verlag, Singapore Sports, Society, and Technology: Bodies,
Book SynopsisSports, Society, and Technology: Bodies, Practices, and Knowledge Production addresses the complex entanglements of science, technology, and sporting cultures. The collection explores themes around human and non-human actants, knowledge formations and processes, and the materiality and multiplicity of bodies through an engagement with the interdisciplinary fields of Sport Studies and Science and Technology Studies. Representing a range of methodological, theoretical, and disciplinary approaches, contributors interrogate the social, cultural, political, and historical intersections of an ever-expanding techno-scientific sporting landscape – from true bounce and brain trauma to exercise physiology, metrics, and esports, and from feminist technoscience, whey protein, and epigenetics to sickle cell screening and testosterone regulation.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Sports, Society, and Technology.Section I: Practices, Productions, and Knowledges.2. True Bounce: Stories of Dunlop and the Rise of Vulcanized Play.3. Manufacturing Invisibility in “the Field”: Distributed Ethics, Wearable Technologies, and the Case of Exercise Physiology.4. The Tangled Multiplicities of CTE: Scientific Uncertainty and the Infrastructures of Traumatic Brain Injury.5. The Agency of Numbers: The Role of Metrics in Influencing the Valuation of Athletes.6. The Numbers Game: Collegiate Esports and the Instrumentation of Movement Performance.Section II: Bodies/Matter.7. Possibilities of Feminist Technoscience Studies of Sport: Beyond the Cyborg Body.8. Enacting Bodies: The Multiplicity of Whey Protein and the Making of Corporealities.9. The (In)Active Body Multiple: An Examination of How Prenatal Exercise ‘Matters’.10. Ignorance and the Gender Binary: Resistance to Complex Epistemologies of Sex and Testosterone.11. Screening Saviors?: Biopolitics, College Sport, and Screening.
£98.99
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Shifting Sands: Essays On Sports And Politics In
Book SynopsisThe Middle East and North Africa are experiencing the most fundamental transition in their post-colonial history. It is a transition that is changing the borders of nation states as well as their political and social structures. Conflicting visions of what those structures should look like have ensured that transition will take years, and these deep-seated differences have ensured that the transition process is volatile, brutal and bloody. The balance of power shifts like quicksand.Shifting Sands: Essays on Sports and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa is a compilation of essays that constitute a first stab at exploring the importance of sports in general and soccer in particular in the political, social and cultural development of the Middle East and North Africa since the beginning of the 20th century. In doing so, the book provides a new, fresh and unique perspective that contributes to understanding the turbulence sweeping the region that is fundamentally changing its geopolitics and political and social structures.
£121.50
Palgrave Macmillan Young IndoFijian Women as Invaders of Fijian Sporting Spaces
Book SynopsisChapter 1: An overview of the book and methodological design.- Chapter 2 – Gender, race and class: lived experiences of young sporty South Asian women in the Global South diaspora.- Chapter 3 – Intersectional oppression of young Indo-Fijian women: cultural, spatial, and social dimensions.- Chapter 4 – Reinforcing gender traditions: Fijian teachers’ impact on Indo-Fijian girls’ sports.- Chapter 5 - From girmit to game: Indo-Fijian women challenging boundaries in Fijian physical and sporting culture.- Chapter 6 - Conclusion: Intersectional Insights into the Sporting Lives of Young Indo-Fijian Women.
£104.49
Springer The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022
Book SynopsisExploring the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.- The Audacity to Dream: A Journey of Making the World Proud of The Middle East Begins with a Single Bid.- The Distribution of FIFA Official Licensed Merchandise during Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup: The Case of the Sports Corner.- Beyond the Game: A Case Study on Branding a Higher Education Institution through a Mega Sport Event.- The Role of the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy in the Success of the 2022 World Cup.- Managing a River of People: The Case of Crowd Management at FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.- Connected Stadiums: Realizing Qatar's Vision of Creating a Legacy Program.- The Effects of Mega Events on Government Spending Multipliers: Evidence from the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup.- An Economic Analysis of Qatar's Decision to Host the FIFA World Cup 2022.- Qatar Museums: The Case of Promoting Tourism and Qatari Identity, Culture, and Heritage During FIFA World Cup 2022.- Qatar's Journey from World Cup Host to a Premier Tourist Destination.- FIFA World Cup 2022 and Qatar's Nation Branding.- From Desert Sands to Global Stands: The World Cup's Influence on Embracing 'Made in Qatar' Products.- The Community Service as a University Requirement during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.- FIFA Qatar 2022 Volunteer Program: Enhancing Engagement and Fostering Global Unity.- FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022: Exploring Volunteer Recruitment in Mega Events.- Building Community Support for Mega Events: The Case of FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.- Qatar 2022: FIFA's Adjustments for the First (Men's) World Cup in an Arab and Muslim Nation.- Interactions Between Civilizations Through Championships.- Qatari Press's Response to the French Media Campaign Against the 2022 World Cup: A Case Study of The Peninsula Newspaper.- Utilizing Mega Events to Communicate Culture and Correct Misconceptions about Country and Religion: A Lesson from Qatar.- Unveiling the Social Sustainability of Sport Tourism: Qatar's Journey as Host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.- FIFA Qatar 2022: Can Blockchain-based Sustainability Assessment Tool Help Sack Greenwashing Accusations.- Beyond the Pitch: Logistics and Sustainability at the FIFA World Cup.- Unlocking the Sustainable Legacy: A Case Study of FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.- Leveraging Legacy: Qatar's Path Forward Post-FIFA World Cup.
£40.49
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Modern Sports around the World
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