Sociology: sport and leisure Books

Book SynopsisIn Western societies, leisure has been a major force in changing people's lives. The containment of working time and the rise in spending power have been long-term trends and are likely to continue over the next decades. While growth of leisure may not have eradicated differences by social class, gender or age, it has transformed how these differences are expressed, challenged or modified. In parallel, leisure studies has itself developed significantly as an academic discipline. This second edition is a complete rewrite of the first edition published in 1999. It is an introductory undergraduate text on leisure. It has a sociological perspective and discusses recent debates and research on topics such as post-modernity, consumer cultures and lifestyles.Table of Contents1: Leisure: Past and Present 2: The Growth of Leisure 3: Work and Leisure 4: Gender 5: The Life Course 6: Lifestyles and Identities 7: Consumption and Consumerism 8: The Transformation of Leisure?

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Book SynopsisSustainable and integrated regeneration in the context of culture and tourism is explored for the first time within this book. The text is enhanced by international case studies.Table of Contents1: Introduction, M K Smith 2: Towards a Cultural Planning Approach to Regeneration, M K Smith 3: The Creative Turn in Regeneration: Creative Spaces, Spectacles and Tourism in Cities, G Richards, Tourism Research and Marketing, Spain, and J Wilson, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain 4: Culture, City Users and the Creation of New Tourism Areas in Cities, R Maitland, University of Westminster, UK 5: VivaCity: Mixed-Use and Urban Tourism, R Aiesha and G Evans, London Metropolitan University, UK 6: Ethnoscapes as Cultural Attractions in Canadian ‘World Cities’, S J Shaw, London Metropolitan University, UK 7: (Re)Creating Culture through Tourism: Black Heritage Sites in New Jersey, D Cheyenne Harvey, Rutgers University, USA 8: Sustainable and Responsible Leisure and Tourism Space Development in Post-industrial Cities? The case of Odaiba Waterfront City, Tokyo, Japan, M Murayama, University of Greenwich, UK, and G Parker, University of Reading, UK 9: After Regeneration the Circus Leaves Town: The Relationship between Sports Events, Tourism and Urban, A Smith, University of Westminster, UK 10: World Class: Using the Olympics to Shape and Brand the American Metropolis, C H Heying, Portland State University, USA, M J Burbank, University of Utah, USA, and G Andranovich, California State University, Los Angeles, USA 11: Touring Templates: Cultural Workers and Regeneration in Small New England Cities, M M Breitbart, Hampshire College, USA, and C Stanton, Tufts University, USA 12: Cultural Policy and Urban Restructuring in Chicago, C Spirou, National-Louis University, USA 13: Philadelphia's Avenue of the Arts: The Challenges of Implementing a Cultural District Initiative, A Maria Bounds, New York, USA 14: On the Water’s Edge: Developing Cultural Regeneration Paradigms for Urban Waterfronts, A Jones 15: Born Again: From Dock Cities to Cities of Culture, Pat Avery, University of Wales Institute Cardiff, UK 16: Interpretative Planning as a Means of Urban Regeneration: Recife, Brazil, B Bath and P Goncalves, Hove, UK 17: Conclusion, M K Smith

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Book SynopsisWine regions are attracting increasing numbers of tourists through tours, wine festivals and events, and winery, restaurant and cellar door experiences. Using a host of case studies from Europe, North America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand this book reviews the latest wine tourism research and management and marketing strategies. The book highlights the lessons learnt for wine, tourism and related industries and concludes by examining the future of the wine tourism industry.Table of Contents1: Introduction, J Carlsen and S Charters Section 1: The Wine Tourism Setting 2: Do Tourism and Wine Always Fit Together? A consideration of business motivations, R Fraser and A Alonso 3: Land Use Policy and Wine Tourism Development, P Williams, Simon Fraser University, Canada, K Graham, Business Council of British Columbia and L Mathias, Canadian Cancer Society 4: Enhancing the Wine Tourism Experience: The Customer's Viewpoint, L Roberts, Victoria University, Melbourne and B Sparks, Griffith University, Australia Section 2: Wine Tourism and Regional Development 5: Wine Tourism and Sustainable Development, J Gammack, Murdoch University, Australia 6: Emerging Wine Tourism Regions: Lesson for Development, B Sparks and J Malady, Griffith University, Australia* 7: Determinants of Quality Experiences in an Emerging Wine Region, T Griffin and A Loersch Section 3: Wine Marketing and Wine Tourism 8: Influences on post-visit wine purchase (and non-purchase) by new Zealand winery visitors, R Mitchell, University of Otago, New Zealand 9: Electronic Marketing and Wine, J Murphy 10: Understanding the impact of wine tourism on post-tour purchasing behaviour, B O'Mahony, Victoria University, Australia, J Hall, L Lockshin, University of South Australia, L Jago, Victoria University, Australia and G Brown, University of South Australia Section 4: The Cellar Door 11: Wine tourists in South Africa: a demographic and psychographic study, D Tassiopoulos and N Haydam 12: Younger Wine Tourists: A study of generational differences in the cellar door experiences, S Charters and J Fountain 13: The effects of survey timing upon visitor perceptions of cellar door quality, M O'Neill and S Charters Section 5: Wine Festivals and Events 14: Wine Festivals and tourism - a triangulated approach to festival satisfaction and quality, R Taylor 15: Wine festival: Analyses for attendees' motivational segmentation, and the event's promotional effects, J Yuan, Texas Tech University, USA, S C Jang, A C Liping and A M Morrison, Purdue University, USA and S Linton, Indiana Wine Grape Council, USA 16: A Strategic Approach to Wine Festival Development: The case of the Margaret River Wine Festival, J Carlsen and D Getz, University of Calgary, Canada Section 6: Wine Tours and Trails 17: Nautical wine tourism: A Strategic Plan to Create a Nautical Wine Trail in the Finger Lakes Wine Region of New York State, M Q Adams, University of Adelaide, Australia 18: Wine Routes in Portugal, L Correia, Leiria Institute Polytechnic, Portugal and M Passos Ascenção, HAAGA University of Applied Sciences, Finland 19: Are we there yet? How to navigate the wine trails, D Hurburgh, Myriad Research Associates, Australia and D Friend 20: Summary and Conclusions: The Future of Wine Tourism Research Management and Marketing, S Charters and J Carlsen

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Book SynopsisWhile contemporary popular discourses dismiss gender and feminism as passé, patriarchy and sexism continue to limit human possibilities around the globe. The tourism industry can be a force for empowerment but it can also shore up exploitative gendered practices. At the same time, tourism enquiry itself continues to be dominated by western, masculinist approaches.This collection of studies seeks to advance feminist and gender tourism studies with its focus on embodiment. Broad themes include the construction of narratives, how discourses of desire, sensuality and sexuality pervade the tourism experience, the use of the body to represent femininity, masculinity and sensuality, and finally how travel and tourism allow for empowerment, resistance and carnivalesque opportunities.Table of Contents1: Editors' Introduction: Tourism, gender, embodiment and experience; A Pritchard, N Morgan, I Ateljevic and C Harris 2: The body in the tourism industry; S Veijola and A Valtonen, University of Lapland, Finland 3: Ambivalent journeys: Writing travel as the feminist stranger in Desert Places; S Fullagar, Griffith University, Australia 4: Travelling for masculinity: The construction of bodies/spaces in Israeli backpackers' narratives; C Noy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 5: The emergence of the body in the holiday accounts of women and girls; J Small, University of Technology Sydney, Australia 6: Life's a beach and then we diet: Discourses of tourism and the 'beach body' in UK women's lifestyle magazines; F Jordan, University of West England, Bristol, UK 7: The sensual embodiment of Italian women; M Abramovici, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand 8: Bodies, carnival and honey days: The example of Coney Island; C Ryan, University of Waikato Management School, New Zealand, and H Gu, Beijing International Studies University/Beijing Tourism Bureau, China 9: The embodiment of the macho gaze in South-Eastern Europe: Performing femininity and masculinity in Albania and Croatia; I Ateljevic and D Hall, Seabank Associates, UK 10: Encountering scopophillia, sensuality and desire: Engendering Tahiti; A Pritchard and N Morgan 11: Consuming exoticism and gendered space in South Africa's The Lost City; J van Eeden, University of Pretoria, South Africa 12: Advertisements as tourism space: Learning 'masculinity' and 'femininity' from New Zealand television; F Desmarais, University of Waikato, New Zealand 13: Gender posed: The people behind the postcards; G Ringer, University of Oregon, USA 14: Travelling beyond the boundaries of constraint: Women, travel and empowerment; C Harris and E Wilson, Southern Cross University, Australia 15: Tourism and anonymity: A heterosexual man's interpretation of an Israeli lesbian women's diary; Y Poria, Ben Gurion University, Israel 16: Embodying everyday masculinities in heritage tourism(s); D Knox and K Hannam, University of Sunderland, UK 17: In search of lesbian space? The experience of Manchester's Gay Village; A Pritchard, N Morgan and D Sedgley, University of Wales Institute, Wales 18: (Un)veiling women's employment in the Egyptian travel business; N S El-Sherif Ibrahim, Helwan University, Egypt, A Pritchard and E Jones, University of Wales Institute, UK 19: Gender and tourism development: a case study of the Cappadoccia region of Turkey; Sermin Elmas

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Book SynopsisTourism has become an important tool for development in rural, remote and peripheral regions in the last 50 years. However, in many places, tourism has failed to produce the promised benefits and often caused negative impacts due to a lack of local entrepreneurial capacity to benefit from tourism business opportunities, inadequate understanding of tourism markets and limited community awareness of tourism and its impacts. Drawing attention to the potential outcomes to communities when using tourism as a development strategy, this book provides a focused analysis of this emerging issue and seeks to provide positive guidance on improving the process of tourism planning and development. Chapters compile evidence and examples of how community capacity for tourism can be built and enhanced using case studies from Asia, Africa, South America, the South Pacific and rural Australia and the United States. Providing models and frameworks that can be applied to any developing area, this book will be useful to both academic researchers and government policy makers interested in tourism and rural development.Table of ContentsPart I: Improving Knowledge of Tourism Development and It’s Impacts 1: Community Capacity Building An Emerging Challenge for Tourism Development G Moscardo 2: Enhancing the Economic Benefits of Tourism at the Local Level N Stoeckl 3: Understanding How Tourism can bring Socio-cultural Benefits to Destination Communities P Pearce 4: Linking a Sense of Place with a Sense of Care: Overcoming Sustainability Challenges Faced by Remote Communities K Walker Part II: Improving Community Knowledge of Tourism Development 5: Community based Tourism in Asia P Rocharungsat 6: Examples of Effective techniques for Enhancing Community Understanding of Tourism J Sammy 7: Tools to Enhance Community Capacity to Critically Evaluate Tourism Activities K Walker Part III: Improving Community Participation in Tourism Development 8: Partnerships for Tourism Development Amanda Stronza 9: Enhancing Participation of Women in Tourism Haretsebe Manwa 10: Entrepreneurship and the Rural Tourism Industry: A Primer N G. McGehee and C S. Kline 11: Perspectives on Leadership Coaching for Regional Tourism Managers and Entrepreneurs A Blackman 12: Capacity Building Through Cooperation R Monypenny

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Book SynopsisThis impressive volume analyzes revealed preference approaches to modelling the demand for recreational resources. It presents one of the most thorough treatments of methods that rely on observed behavior to estimate the value of environmental amenities.The authors have brought together a collection of papers by top applied environmental economists, providing professional economists and policy analysts with a comprehensive reference on the current state-of-the-art in recreation demand analysis. The papers encompass both the theory of welfare measurement and practical applications. This volume will be essential reading for those interested in 'tooling up' on revealed preference approaches. For long-term practitioners, the papers provide an invaluable reference on recent developments in their field.Trade Review'Although it deals with valuing recreational resorts using revealed preference methods, this is not a book to bring to your recreation resort. The papers which make up the content are so interesting, well-written and contain such a wealth of information that you will not find time to explore even the sunniest beaches or the most scenic landscapes.' -- Henk Folmer, Wageningen Agricultural University and Tilburg University, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The Behavioral Basis of Non-Market Valuation 2. Welfare Analysis with Discrete Choice Models 3. TWO RUMS UnCLOAKED: Nested-Logit Models of Site Choice and Nested-Logit Models of Participation and Site Choice 4. Mixed Logit Models for Recreation Demand 5. An Empirical Assessment of Multinominal Probit and Logit Models for Recreation Demand 6. Corner Solution Models of Recreation Demand: A Comparison of Competing Frameworks 7. Joint Estimation of Contingent Valuation and Truncated Recreational Demands 8. Nonresponse Bias in Mail Survey Data: Salience vs. Endogenous Survey Complexity 9. Recreation Demand Systems for Multiple Site Count Data Travel Cost Models 10. Can We Count on Count Models? Index

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Book SynopsisGambling, the risky enterprise of chance, is one of America’s favorite pastimes. Office March Madness brackets, a day at the race track, a friendly wager, the random ridiculous Super Bowl prop bet, bingo night, or the latest media frenzy over the Powerball jackpot—all emphasize the ubiquity of this major economic force and cultural phenomenon. Approximately 70 percent of Americans regularly engage in some form of betting, amounting to over $140 billion in combined casino and lottery revenue every year. A hundred years ago, however, legal gambling was a rarity in the United States. A fresh take on the history of modern American gambling, All In provides a closer look at the shifting economic, cultural, religious, and political conditions that facilitated gambling’s expansion and prominence in American consumerism and popular culture. In its pages a diverse range of essays covering commercial and Native American casinos, sports betting, lotteries, bingo, and more piece together a picture of how gambling became so widespread over the course of the twentieth century.Drawing from a range of academic disciplines, this collection explores five aspects of American gambling history: crime, advertising, politics, religion, and identity.In doing so, All In illuminates the on-the-ground debates over gambling’s expansion, the failed attempts to thwart legalized betting, and the consequences of its present ubiquity in the United States.Trade ReviewA diverse range of essays covering commercial and Native American casinos, lotteries, sports betting, pool rooms, bingo, and more, All In pieces together a picture of how gambling became so widespread in the United States and the cultural, political, and economic consequences of this ubiquity."" - Chloe Taft, author of From Steel to Slots: Casino Capitalism in the Postindustrial City

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Book SynopsisFor over 150 years the Lakota have tenaciously defended their culture and land against white miners, settlers, missionaries, and the U.S. Army, and paid the price. Their economy is in shambles and they face serious social issues, but their culture and outlook remain vibrant. Basketball has a role to play in the way that people on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation configure their hopes for a better future, and for pride in their community. In Lakota Hoops, anthropologist Alan Klein trains his experienced eye on the ways that Lakota traditions find a seamless expression in the sport. In a variety of way such as weaving time-honored religious practices into the game or extending the warrior spirit of Crazy Horse to the players on the court, basketball has become a preferred way of finding continuity with the past. But the game is also well suited to the present and has become the largest regular gathering for all Lakota, promoting national pride as well as a venue for the community to creatively and aggressively confront white bigotry when needed. Richly researched and filled with interviews with Pine Ridge residents, including both male and female players, Lakota Hoops offers a compelling look at the highs and lows of a community that has made basketball its own.Trade Review"Basketball is so much more than just a game; it is a cultural resource that allows the Pine Ridge community to express their identity against a social landscape of poverty, racism, and domination. In Lakota Hoops, Klein provides an important statement about sport in Indian Country, sketching out the larger structural landscape in which the actions of some Lakota basketball players unfold. In learning about the individuals, we learn the logic behind their actions and how they interact with the larger context of ongoing US colonization of native lands." -- Jeffery Montez de Oca * author of Discipline and Indulgence *"I've long thought that Alan Klein might be the most important anthropologist of sport in our midst. Lakota Hoops confirms that. Unflinchingly honest, brilliantly argued, and gracefully written, it's a tour de force about sport, Lakota culture, and a reality this nation has yet to fully confront." -- Rob Ruck * Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL *Alan Klein interview with Ramon Maclin about Lakota Hoops * Alan Klein interview with Ramon Maclin *Basketball is so much more than just a game; it is a cultural resource that allows the Pine Ridge community to express their identity against a social landscape of poverty, racism, and domination. In Lakota Hoops, Klein provides an important statement about sport in Indian Country, sketching out the larger structural landscape in which the actions of some Lakota basketball players unfold. In learning about the individuals, we learn the logic behind their actions and how they interact with the larger context of ongoing US colonization of native lands. -- Jeffery Montez de Oca * author of Discipline and Indulgence *I've long thought that Alan Klein might be the most important anthropologist of sport in our midst. Lakota Hoops confirms that. Unflinchingly honest, brilliantly argued, and gracefully written, it's a tour de force about sport, Lakota culture, and a reality this nation has yet to fully confront. -- Rob Ruck * Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL *Alan Klein interview with Ramon Maclin about Lakota Hoops * Alan Klein interview with Ramon Maclin *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Landmarks in Lakota LifeTHE GOOD Chapter 2: SWEATING, SMUDGING, AND SUN DANCING: Dusty LeBeau’s Fusion of Basketball and Tradition Chapter 3: THE LAKOTA NATION INVITATIONAL: Bryan Brewer’s Invented Tradition Chapter 4: “MANNING UP:” Jess Heart, Lakota Manhood and Hoops Chapter 5: LAURA BIG CROW: Coming Back, to Pass It ForwardTHE BAD Chapter 6: PINE RIDGE - RED CLOUD RIVALRY: The Tip of a Factional Ice Berg Chapter 7: CRABS IN A BUCKET: Lakota Factionalism and BasketballTHE UGLY Chapter 8: ENGAGING ACRIMONY: Racism and Lakota Basketball in South Dakota Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the NASSS Outstanding Book Award Hockey and multiculturalism are often noted as defining features of Canadian culture; yet, rarely are we forced to question the relationship and tensions between these two social constructs. This book examines the growing significance of hockey in Canada’s South Asian communities. The Hockey Night in Canada Punjabi broadcast serves as an entry point for a broader consideration of South Asian experiences in hockey culture based on field work and interviews conducted with hockey players, parents, and coaches in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. This book seeks to inject more “color” into hockey’s historically white dominated narratives and representations by returning hockey culture to its multicultural roots. It encourages alternative and multiple narratives about hockey and cultural citizenship by asking which citizens are able to contribute to the webs of meaning that form the nation’s cultural fabric.Trade Review"Changing on the Fly will force a rethinking of race, hockey, and the politics of citizenship in the social margins. In this pioneering text, Szto’s rich intertextuality highlights the competing and contradictory nature of race and representation in sport. There is nothing else like it." -- Stanley Thangaraj * author of Desi Hoop Dreams *"Changing on the Fly offers an original, powerful analysis of the hockey rink and the racial, national, gendered, and political landscape. Szto's ability to build on existing scholarship all while carving out new areas of analysis and her centering of South Asian Canadians' voices will change the ways we talk about sport, about hockey and about the (South) Asian Diaspora. Stzo is a force who will shape discussions in sports studies for decades to come. The future of sports studies is in good hands with Stzo leading the way." -- David Leonard * author of Playing While White: Privilege and Power on and off the Field *"A groundbreaking book. Courtney Szto’s insightful study of hockey’s growing significance in Canadian South Asian communities, as well as challenges faced by racialized Canadians when they play the game, makes an important contribution to the analysis of contemporary Canadian society." -- Richard Gruneau * Simon Fraser University *"This is a desperately-needed intervention from our most influential scholar of race and hockey through both a systematic and nuanced analysis of how multiculturalism and racism shape Canada and its beloved sport, and a powerful account of how those dynamics are experienced." -- Nathan Kalman-Lamb * author of Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport *"Interview: Dr. Courtney Szto, author of "Changing on the Fly: Hockey Through the Voices of South Asian Canadians" https://www.burnitalldownpod.com/episodes/interview-dr-courtney-szto-author-of-changing-on-the-fly-hockey-through-the-voices-of-south-asian-canadians * Burn It All Down podcast *"Changing on the Fly interrogates the culture of hockey honestly, and from a place of love, offering a critique that is meant to change the nature of the sport so that everyone — not just white, straight Canadian men and boys — can truly have a place in it." * The Tyee *"The groundbreaking work of Courtney Szto in Changing on the Fly captures the multiple ways that the Canadian national pastime of ice hockey constitutes an important site to examine the essential izing and shifting realms of race and belonging....[A] call to action and a demand to think about race critically in relation to sport and the nation. Changing on the Fly destabilizes the normative investments in sport and the nation while articulating forms of citizenship that can be liberating. With the increasing discussion and silence around race in professional sports, this book is vital to understanding the expansive infrastructure that secures whiteness and excludes communities of color." * Sociology of Sport Journal *Table of ContentsContents Dedication - iii List of Acronyms - vii Acknowledgements - 1 Introduction - 2 Complicating Canadian Culture - 7 Research Methods - 13 Overview of the Book - 17 Chapter 1 Myth Busting: Hockey, multiculturalism, and Canada - 21 Myth #1: Hockey is Canada - 21 Who or what are we integrating? - 26 Myth #2: Canada is a multicultural haven - 31 Whiteness in Canadian hockey - 38 Citizenship - 41 South Asians in Canada - 44 The Space of Surrey - 48 Chapter 2 Narratives from the Screen: Media and cultural citizenship - 53 Hockey Night in Punjabi - 55 Ethnic (Sports) Media - 59 Breaking Barriers - 62 Co-Authoring One’s Existence - 63 Limits of Ethnic Media - 71 Chapter 3 White Spaces, Different Faces: Policing membership at the rink and in the nation - 78 Who belongs in a space? Who is trespassing? - 79 Self-Identification - 88 Brown - 92 Being the Only One - 98 Chapter 4 Racist Taunts of Just Chirping? - 101 Just chirping? - 105 Was it really racist? - 111 An archive of evidence - 119 Chapter 5 South Asian Masculinities and Femininities - 124 The irony of hockey performativity - 124 South Asian masculinities - 132 Verbal trauma and the body - 138 South Asian femininities - 143 The noisiness of women’s hockey - 149 Chapter 6 Hockey Hurdles and Resilient Subjects: Unpacking forms of capital - 157 Navigating forms of capital - 166 Cost, time, and interconnections with other forms of capital - 166 Language and other aspects of cultural capital - 170 The gatekeepers - 175 Assumptions about diversity: Flaws in logic - 181 Meritocratic and resilient subjects - 185 Chapter 7 Racialized Money and White Fragility: Class and resentment in hockey - 192 Model minorities - 193 Throwing money at hockey - 199 White fragility - 204 Brown out hockey: Capitalism at its best - 209 Chapter 8 Taking Stock: Public memory and the re-telling of hockey in Canada - 217 Hockey Hall of Fame - 220 The role of media - 223 Writing in: DIY citizenship - 226 Conclusion: A commitment to the future - 232 Shifting labor - 235 Writing the wrong - 239 Appendix A: Qualitative methodology - 241 Appendix B: Participant information - 254 Appendix C: British Columbia competitive hockey structure - 256 References - 258 About the author - 296

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Book SynopsisFrom the FIFA World Cup to pick-up games at your local park, soccer is the closest thing in our world to a universal entertainment. Many writers use this global popularity to describe the game’s winners and losers, but what happens when we use social science to explore how soccer intersects with culture, society, and the self? This book provides a thinking fan’s guide to the world’s most popular game, proposing a way of engaging soccer that sparks intellectual curiosity and employs critical consciousness. Using stories and data, along with ideas from sociology, psychology, and across the social sciences, it provides readers with new ways of understanding fanaticism, peak performance, talent development, and more. Drawing on concepts ranging from cognitive bias to globalization, it illuminates meanings of the game for players and fans while investigating impacts on our lives and communities. While it considers soccer cultures across the globe, the book also analyzes what makes U.S. soccer culture special, including its embrace of the women’s game. As a scholar, former minor league player and coach, and fan, Andrew Guest offers a distinctive perspective on soccer in society. Whatever name you call it, and whatever your interest in it, Soccer in Mind will enrich your own view of the one truly global game.Trade Review"Andrew Guest uses sociology and psychology to guide readers into a world of complex and malleable meanings associated with global soccer. With an engaging writing style, he presents an insightful introduction to the ways that critical thinking about sports enables us to play with ideas as we develop a better understanding of ourselves and the social worlds in which we live."— Jay Coakley, author of Sports in Society: Issues and Controversies “Soccer in Mind is a fun and thought-provoking read. By bringing social science theories and research findings to some of the most well-known, thrilling moments from soccer past and present, Guest illustrates a ‘thinking fandom’ that encourages us all to be more curious observers of the global game. Ultimately, this book helps us to understand ourselves through soccer, offering a compelling take not only on who we are, but also how we can be better.”— Rachel Allison, author of Kicking Center: Gender and the Selling of Women's Professional SoccerTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1. Lenses: Psychology, Sociology, and the Ways Soccer Explains Us 2. Fans: Losing Your Mind and Finding Your Place 3. Cultures: Soccer is Familiar, Soccer is Strange 4. Players: Talent Development Versus Human Development 5. Performances: Mental Skills, People Skills, and the Psychology in Soccer 6. Impacts: Players, Games, and the Greater Good 7. Initiatives: Soccer for Development and Peace 8. Futures: Toward Thinking Fandom Notes Index

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Book SynopsisHonorable Mention - 2022 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award​Special Admission contradicts the national belief that college sports provide upward mobility opportunities. Kirsten Hextrum documents how white middle-class youth become overrepresented on college teams. Her institutional ethnography of one elite athletic and academic institution includes over 100 hours of interviews with college rowers and track & field athletes. She charts the historic and contemporary relationships between colleges, athletics, and white middle-class communities that ensure white suburban youth are advantaged in special athletic admissions. Suburban youth start ahead in college admissions because athletic merit—the competencies desired by university recruiters—requires access to vast familial, communal, and economic resources, all of which are concentrated in their neighborhoods. Their advantages increase as youth, parents, and coaches strategically invest in and engineer novel opportunities to maintain their race and class status. Thus, college sports allow white, middle-class athletes to accelerate their racial and economic advantages through admission to elite universities.Trade Review"With careful research and astute analysis, Kirsten Hextrum unveils the systemic ways privilege works in and through sport. Special Admission is a game-changer for anyone who cares about college sports and social justice." -- Michael A. Messner * Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, University of Southern California *"Kirsten Hextrum has perfect timing. Her work is not only topical but carefully researched and very well-argued. She reveals the extent of special admissions for athletes and its negative effects: on the university and, ironically, often on the athletes themselves. Special Admission is a must-read for everyone concerned with unfair college admission procedures, and especially for all those parents who are dreaming of athletic scholarships for their children." -- Murray Sperber * Indiana University, Bloomington, author of Beer and Circus: How Bigtime College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education *“Special Admission is a truly outstanding work that provides a point of informed entry into a previously largely neglected topic. It is a graphic indictment of an institution which–despite all reifying allusions to the contrary–is a highly effective engine of social differentiation.” -- David L. Andrews * Physical Cultural Studies Research Group, University of Maryland, author of Making Sport Great Again: The Uber-Sport Assemblage, Neoliberalism, and the Trump Conjuncture *"College athletics are routinely portrayed as a vehicle of social mobility. Kirsten Hextrum proves that the opposite is true. White-dominated sports, such as crew and lacrosse, offer a hidden pathway to college admissions that is known only to affluent, suburban parents. Meticulously researched and conversationally written, Special Admission exposes the fundamental unfairness and hypocrisy of college sports. It impels action." -- Evan J. Mandery * author of A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America *"What the NCAA ruling really means for student athletes" by Faith Karimi * CNN.com *"Supreme Court Roundup: Voting Rights And NCAA Athletes" interview with Kristen Hextrum * WORT - "A Public Affair" *"Readers engaging with this book can expect to understand the historical, political, and economic factors that influence current practices in college admissions, with a critical analysis about the racial and gender exclusion of non-white athletes and the concentration of resources in white, suburban areas. Central themes within the work focus on race, gender, economic status, state control and access to resources as the contextual factors that influence the favoritism of white athletes in college admissions." * International Journal of Educational Integrity *"Special Admission: Dr. Kirsten Hextrum Discusses How College Athletic Recruitment Favors White Suburbia" * Diverse: Issues in Higher Education *"With careful research and astute analysis, Kirsten Hextrum unveils the systemic ways privilege works in and through sport. Special Admission is a game-changer for anyone who cares about college sports and social justice." -- Michael A. Messner * Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, University of Southern California *"Kirsten Hextrum has perfect timing. Her work is not only topical but carefully researched and very well-argued. She reveals the extent of special admissions for athletes and its negative effects: on the university and, ironically, often on the athletes themselves. Special Admission is a must-read for everyone concerned with unfair college admission procedures, and especially for all those parents who are dreaming of athletic scholarships for their children." -- Murray Sperber * Indiana University, Bloomington, author of Beer and Circus: How Bigtime College Sports Is Crippling *“Special Admission is a truly outstanding work that provides a point of informed entry into a previously largely neglected topic. It is a graphic indictment of an institution which–despite all reifying allusions to the contrary–is a highly effective engine of social differentiation.” -- David L. Andrews * Physical Cultural Studies Research Group, University of Maryland, author of Making Sport Great Again *"College athletics are routinely portrayed as a vehicle of social mobility. Kirsten Hextrum proves that the opposite is true. White-dominated sports, such as crew and lacrosse, offer a hidden pathway to college admissions that is known only to affluent, suburban parents. Meticulously researched and conversationally written, Special Admission exposes the fundamental unfairness and hypocrisy of college sports. It impels action." -- Evan J. Mandery * author of A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America *"What the NCAA ruling really means for student athletes" by Faith Karimi * CNN.com *"Supreme Court Roundup: Voting Rights And NCAA Athletes" interview with Kristen Hextrum * WORT - "A Public Affair" *"Readers engaging with this book can expect to understand the historical, political, and economic factors that influence current practices in college admissions, with a critical analysis about the racial and gender exclusion of non-white athletes and the concentration of resources in white, suburban areas. Central themes within the work focus on race, gender, economic status, state control and access to resources as the contextual factors that influence the favoritism of white athletes in college admissions." * International Journal of Educational Integrity *"Special Admission: Dr. Kirsten Hextrum Discusses How College Athletic Recruitment Favors White Suburbia" * Diverse: Issues in Higher Education *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Gentlemen’s Agreement: College Sports Become a State Institution 2 The State Alignment: White Suburbia and Athletic Talent 3 Build a Wall: The State Segregates Sports 4 Activating Capital: Pay-to-Play Sports 5 A Guide: Socializing Future College Athletes 6 The Offer Letter: Athletic Talent Secures Preferential College Access Conclusion: Altering the Path Appendix A: Study Participant Background Characteristics Appendix B: Participant Recruitment Appendix C: High School Sports Relative to College Sports Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book Synopsis This book addresses important topics of coaching in order to better understand what sports coaching is and the challenges that arise when assuming this activity. It provides the reader with useful insights to the field of sports coaching, and discusses topics such as coaching education, areas of intervention, and main challenges. With contributions by experts and well-known authors in the field, this volume presents an up-to-date picture of the scholarship in the coaching field. It introduces key aspects on the future of the science of coaching and provides coach educators, researchers, faculty, and students with new perspectives on topics within the field to help improve their coaching effectiveness. Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction. 7 Part 1 - Becoming a sports coach. 12 1 – Coaching in the Sport Domain: Definitions and Conceptualisations. 13 2 – Coaching Educational Programs: (Re)conceptualising How Coaches Learn. 41 3 – Coaching Efficacy: The Leadership Effectiveness Model 68 4 – Coaching Impact: The Transformational Coach in Sports. 117 5 – Coaching Around the World: On Becoming a Profession. 147 Part 2 - Acting as a sports coach. 191 6 – Coaching Profession: Acting as a Coach. 192 7 – Coaching Youth Athletes. 218 8 – Coaching High Performance Athletes. 258 9 – Coaching Life Skills to Young Athletes in Sport Participation Contexts. 308 10 – Coaching for Adventures Sports. 345 11 – Coaching Aging Athletes. 378 12 – Coaching Athletes with Disabilities. 409 Part 3 - Challenges of sports coaching. 440 13 – Coaching and Athlete Mental Health. 441 14 – Coaching Life Skills in Sports People. 467 15 – Coaching Cohesive Teams. 494 16 – Coaching Girls and Women. 524 17 – Coaching Efficacy and the Use of Technology. 543 18 – Coaching under Stress and Burnout 570 19 – Coaching the Coach: Helping Coaches Improve Their Performance. 615 20 – Coaching and Effective Leaders: An Overview and Recommended Research Agenda 669 21- Coaching in Sports: Implications for Researchers and Coaches 711

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Book SynopsisThis book looks historically at the harm that has been inflicted in the practice of sport and at some of the issues, debates and controversies that have arisen as a result. Written by experts in history, sociology, sport journalism and public health, the book considers sport and injury in relation to matters of social class; gender; ethnicity and race; sexuality; political ideology and national identity; health and wellbeing; childhood; animal rights; and popular culture. These matters are, in turn, variously related to a range of sports, including ancient, pre- and early industrial sports; American football; boxing; wrestling and other combat sports; mountaineering; horseracing; cycling; motor racing; rugby football; cricket; association football; baseball; basketball; Crossfit; ice hockey; Olympic sports; Mixed Martial Arts; and sport in an imagined dystopian future.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Section 1: Bodily Damage and Pre- and Early Industrial Sport, Chapter 1 Honor, Injury, and Death in the Athletics of the Ancient World, Michael B. Poliakof.- Chapter 2. ‘Beastly fury and extreme violence’: pain, injury and death in pre-industrial British and Irish football, Ariel Hessayon.- Chapter 3 Violence, injury and the politics of the evolving football codes, Liam O’Callaghan.- Chapter 4 “Though he was evidently suffering great pain, he bore it well:” Early Twentieth Century Attitudes Toward Injury in North American Combat Sports, Nathan Hatton.- Section 2 The NFL: Politics, Injury and American National Identity, Chapter 5 Inflaming the Civic Temper: Head Injury and Violence Debates in Early U.S. American Football, Emily Harrison.- Chapter 6 A Problem That Cries Out For Standards: Football Helmets, Conceptions of Risk, and the National Commission on Product Safety, 1967-1970, Kathleen Bachynski.- Chapter 7 ‘Lights Out: The National Football League, Concussion Research, and the Suppression of Evidence’, Lucia Trimbur.- Chapter 8 Injuries as Usual: The Football Problem(s) in American Society, Peter Benson and Adam Rugg.- Section 3 Sporting Females and the Politics of Injury.- Chapter 9 Injury at the Extreme: Alison Hargreaves, mountaineering and motherhood, Carol Osborne.- Chapter 10 Gendered Bodies, Gendered Injuries, Kath Woodward.- Chapter 11 The Not So Glamorous World of Women’s Wrestling, Karen Corteen.- Section 4 Sport as Transport: Horse, Cycle and Motor Racing and the Politics of Safety.- Chapter 12 Fallers: Politics, Injury and Death in Horseracing, Patrick Sharman.- Chapter 13 “Dishing out the pain” in professional cycling, Peter Bramham.- Chapter 14. Flapping His Elbows and Making Chicken Noises at Me: The Politics of Driver and Spectator Safety in Formula One Motor Racing, Stephen Wagg.- Section 5: Sport, Injury and the Culture of Late Capitalism.- Chapter 15 McDonaldization and Sporting Bodies: The Irrationality of Sport Rationalization, David Andrews.- Chapter 16 The ‘Concussion Crisis’ and the Gift Economy: Athletes’ Brain Donation and the Political Economy of Dissection, Sean Brayton and Michelle Helstein.- Chapter 17 The Collegiate Arms Race: Aspiration, Injury and the Inner City Black Male in US Basketball, Scott Brooks.- Chapter 18 Consenting to Violence: The Politics of Sports Injury, Jill Weinberg.- Chapter 19 Forging Elite Fitness? Crossfit, Injury and the Politics of Risk, Shaun Edmonds.- Chapter 20 Medical Care as Self-Defence: Mixed Martial Arts, Sports Medics and the Politics of Injury, Alex Channon, Christopher R. Matthews and Mathew Hillier.- Chapter 21, Colour Blind and Ready to Play: Sport, Labour, and Whiteness in The Hunger Games Film Series, Nicholas Rickards.- Section 6: Sport and Injury – Case Studies, Chapter 22 Injury and Olympic Politics, 1896-1988 , Helen Jefferson Lenskyj and Lee Hill.- Chapter 23 ‘Fits and starts’: Re-examining the Mystery of Brazilian Footballer Ronaldo and the 1998 World Cup Final, John Sugden.- Chapter 24 The Cricket Pitch as ‘Unsafe Workplace’: Sports Culture and the Death of Phillip Hughes, David Rowe.- Chapter 25 Muhammad Ali, Sport Celebrity and Perceptions of Parkinson’s Disease, Nicole Eugene and Jenny Nelson.- Chapter 26 Contextualizing Jordan McNair: Injurious Practices, Disposable Black Bodies, and Regressive Nationalism, Physical Cultural Studies Research Group, University of Maryland.- Chapter 27 ‘Snipers Stop Play’ The Israeli Defence Force and the Shooting of Palestinian Footballers, Jon Dart.- Section 7: Sport, Harm and the Politics of Wellbeing, Chapter 28 Sport and Abuse of the Young, Melanie Lang.- Chapter 29 Side-lined: Boys, Sport, and Depression, Michael Atkinson and Kristina Smith.- Chapter 30 Deny, Conceal, Confuse, Conflate: Responses to Safety Suggestions in Schools’ Rugby, Allyson Pollock and Graham Kirkwood.- Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores generational differences in alcohol consumption practices and examines the changing role of alcohol across the life course. It considers generational patterns in where, how and why people buy and consume alcohol and how these may interact with identity and belonging and considers how drinking alcohol in adolescence, adulthood, middle-age or later life takes on different functions, meanings and tensions. Alcohol is shown to play an important role in biographical transitions, such as in the coming of age rituals that mark the passage from adolescences to adulthood, whilst drinking alcohol in adulthood and in later life takes on new meanings, pleasures and risks in light of shifting roles and responsibilities relating to work, leisure and the family. The empirically-informed contributions draw on a range of diverse disciplinary backgrounds and a range of cultural contexts provides a nuanced examination of the role of alcohol at different life course stages and explores both continuity and change between generations.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Alcohol, Age, Generation and the Life Course.Part I: Alcohol, Generations and Social Change.- From Abiding to Accelerating to Anomic: Generational Waves of Change in Irish Drinking Culture, 1845-Present.Realities or Mythologies: England’s rural pubs and the life course.Biographical and Generational Perspectives on Drinking in a Mediterranean Culture.‘I Would Never Dream of Drinking on a Lunch Hour, But…’: Intergenerational changes in attitude towards alcohol consumption.Part II: Alcohol, Youth and Adolescence.- Alcohol Use, Age, and (In)Appropriateness: Young adults’ conceptions and performances of ‘age’ in contexts of alcohol use.If You Can’t Beat Them, You Join Them’: Peer pressure and drinking to belong among Nigerian youths.Shifting Conceptions of Moderation, Risk and Danger amongst Non-Drinking University Students in the UK: A Case Study of Hyper-Moderation.Part III: Alcohol in Adulthood.- Blackening the Bride and Stripping the Stag: The Role of alcohol, gender and age in prenuptial wedding rituals.Female Drunkenness and the Life Course in Victorian Lancashire.De-Gendering Alcohol through Food Pairing: Women’s Shifting Position as Culinary Consumers in Japan.‘There’s nothing classy about a drunk 40-year-old’: Drinking biographies and ‘sobriety stories’ amongst women who stop drinking in midlife and beyond.Part IV: Alcohol in Later Life.- Alcohol Use, Its Meaning and Impact in Older AgeAlcohol Consumption in Older Drinkers and Its Links to “Successful Ageing”‘I Don’t Drink Much Now ‘cos I’m Old’: The Life-course and changing drinking practices among older male adults in Nigeria.

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Book SynopsisThis book looks at the potential of sport to contribute to wide-ranging development outcomes, which have been recognized across international policy declarations, most significantly in the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development. It provides a theoretical approach to sport and development. It begins by addressing the basic concepts of sport development and sustainability and then discusses the potential contribution of sport to five prioritized SDGs (SDGs 3, 4, 5, 8 and 16) and the environment as one of the sustainable development pillars that may contribute to SDGs 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15. This academic resource provides a macro view to students and researchers of sports sciences to know more about the fundamental concepts of sustainable development goals, and to enhance their knowledge about sport as a conduit that can help achieve wider development outcomes rather than being an end in itself. This book is of interest to students and researchers of sports studies, from sociology to management, and researchers and policy makers interested in sport and sustainable development.Table of ContentsConceptual and Theoretical perspectives.- Sport for Health and Well-being.- Sport for Inclusive and Equitable Education.- Sport for Gender Equality and Empowerment.- Sport for Sustainable Economic Growth.- Sport for Sustainable Environment.- Sport for Peace and Integration.

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Book SynopsisThis handbook explores the various ways in which disability sport is governed and organised across Europe, as well as examining the extent to which persons with a disability participate in sport at the grassroots level. Based upon a solid theoretical framework and up-to-date data, the 19 country-specific chapters in this handbook give a comparative overview of the structuring, steering and supporting elements of disability sport policy and sport participation levels amongst persons with a disability, as well as the extent to which countries adopt policies to promote inclusion in sport in this population. A multitude of authors also identify the various methods and challenges in collecting sport participation data with regard to persons with a disability. This handbook will be a valuable resource for academic study across a range of sport and disability related programs, as well as a point of reference for researchers and policymakers working in this area.Table of Contents1. Introduction. Sport participation a human right for persons with a disabilityCaroline van Lindert, Jeroen Scheerder, and Ian Brittain 2. Understanding disability, disability sport and inclusion Ian Brittain, Caroline van Lindert, and Jeroen Scheerder 3. Participation in sport and physical activity amongst people with a disability. A pan-European comparative approach Jeroen Scheerder, Kobe Helsen, Caroline van Lindert, and Ian Brittain 4. Denmark: Disability sports policy at arm’s length Christian Røj Voldby and Karsten Elmose-Østerlund 5. Finland. Facts behind the long and complicated process of disability inclusion in sports Kati Lehtonen and Aija Saari 6. Disability and sport in Iceland Ingi Þór Einarsson and Vidar Halldorsson 7. Norway Marit Sørensen and Nina Kahrs 8. Beyond inclusion - opportunity structures in sports for all in Sweden Kim Wickman and Linda Torége 9. Ireland Catherine Carty and Paul Kitchin 10. Northern Ireland: Disability Sport in a Shared Space Paul Kitchin and Catherine Carty 11. United Kingdom: An inclusionary approach to sport Matej Christiaens, Ian Brittain, and Christopher Brown 12. Austria: Half Way to Inclusion? Torsten Wojciechowski and Claudia Stura 13. Disability sport in Belgium/Flanders. From a fragmented mosaic towards a more inclusive landscape Debbie Van Biesen and Jeroen Scheerder 14. Complexity and Coexistence: Disability Sport in Germany Jürgen Mittag 15. The Netherlands, towards inclusive sport for people with a disability Caroline van Lindert and Maxine de Jonge 16. Switzerland Julia Albrecht, Siegfried Nagel, and Christoffer Klenk 17. Hungary: Rise of attention given to disability sports Szilvia Perényi and Zsuzsanna Szilárd 18. Disability Sport in Lithuania Jurate Pozeriene and Diana Reklaitiene 19. Structure of the analysis on the development and situation of disability sport in Slovenia Mojca Doupona and Simona Kustec 20. Portugal: pathways of sport for people with disabilities Leonardo José Mataruna-Dos-Santos, Anabela Vitorino and Nuno M. Pimenta 21. Disability sport in Spain Javier Pérez-Tejero and Cati Lecumberri 22. Turkey (Republic of Turkey): Disability Sports, Policies and Implementations Yeşim Albayrak Kuruoğlu 23. The landscape of sport for persons with a disability: a system within a system Caroline van Lindert, Jeroen Scheerder, and Ian Brittain

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Book Synopsis1 Feminist futures in sport: Exploring the affective dynamics of gender equity in Australian Rules Football and roller derby.-2 Affect and sport organizations: Conceptualizing the sport-gender assemblage.-3 Feminist new materialisms: Researching (how) sport matters.-4 The affective dynamics of sporting bodies.-5 Gendered sports monies.-6 Derby diffracted.-7 Feminist futures in sport: #sportaffects sport organizations, governance and leadership

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Book SynopsisRobert Rupp zeigt auf Basis einer qualitativen empirischen Studie fundiert und praxisorientiert auf, wie gesundheitsorientierte Bewegungsangebote für ältere Menschen so gestaltet werden können, dass sie auf Teilnehmende motivational bindend wirken. Unter der Leitidee der Befriedigung psychologischer Grundbedürfnisse werden potenzielle und realisierte Wege zur Erfüllung des Bedürfnisses nach Kompetenzerleben im Alterssport analysiert, welches zu den bedeutendsten Motivationsquellen für sportliche Aktivität zählt. Das breite Panorama identifizierter Befriedigungswege wird in eine Systematik überführt, um den Zielbereich der Motivationsförderung im Alterssport zielgerichtet ansteuern und evaluieren zu können.Table of ContentsAnalyse aktueller Alterssportkonzepte.- Theoretische Grundlagen einer Bedürfnisorientierung im Alterssport.- Explorative Pilotstudie zur Bedürfnissituation körperlich aktiver Älterer.- Systematisierte Praxisempfehlungen zur Motivationsförderung im Alterssport.

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Book SynopsisErik Aschenbrand untersucht, wie Vorstellungen von Landschaft durch Reiseveranstalter modifiziert und verfestigt werden, wo sich die Vorbilder touristischer Landschaftsmotive lokalisieren lassen und wer in der Lage ist, neue werbewirksame Vorstellungen zu erzeugen. Auf der Grundlage genauer Beobachtungen und eigener beruflicher Erfahrungen in der Tourismuswirtschaft analysiert er verschiedene Formen der touristischen Aneignung von Landschaft und erklärt die soziale Konstruktion des ‚Typischen‘, die Abläufe sozialen Distinktionsverhaltens sowie die Mechanismen der sozialen Konstruktion touristischer Landschaften im Besonderen und von Landschaft im Allgemeinen.Table of ContentsLandschaftstheorie.- Verbreitung und Entwicklung landschaftlicher Stereotype.- Diskursanalyse der Tourismuswerbung.- Tourismusforschung in teilnehmender Beobachtung.

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Book SynopsisBasierend auf einer repräsentativen Längsschnittstudie rund um die Fußballeuropameisterschaft2016 geht das Buch dem Zusammenhang zwischen Fußball und Nationalstolz nach. Es wird gezeigt, wie die Identifikation mit der Fußballnationalmannschaft mit einer Verbundenheit zumNationalstaat und mit expressiven patriotischen Verhaltensweisen einhergeht. In welchenBevölkerungsgruppen ein solcher fußballbezogener Patriotismus stärker verbreitet ist, wird ebensodiskutiert, wie die Frage, durch welche Bedingungen und Mechanismen dieser hervorgerufen oderverstärkt bwird. Es wird empirisch gezeigt, ob fußballbezogener Nationalstolz harmlos odergefährlich, ausgrenzend oder inklusiv, flüchtig oder länger anhaltend ist. Mit diesen Themen undFragestellungen zeigt das Buch am Beispiel des Fußballs konkret und anschaulich auf, wie derSpitzensport tief in die Gesellschaft hinein wirken kann.Table of ContentsWer hat Angst vor Schwarz-Rot-Gold? · Die Nation als soziale Konstruktion · Die Identifikationsfunktion(en) des Spitzensports · Zur Untersuchung · Ergebnisse der Studie im Querschnitt (u.a. Die Rezeption der Fußball-EM in der Bevölkerung, Erlebensqualitäten beim Zuschauen, Expressiver Fußballpatriotismus in Deutschland) · Ergebnisse der Studie im Längsschnitt (u.a. Die Identifikation mit der Nationalelf, Sportlicher Erfolg als Quelle für Nationalstolz, Einstellungen zum Nationalstaat im Längsschnitt, Die normative Aufladung des Nationalen) · Resümee und Ausblick

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Book SynopsisDer Sammelband hat zum Ziel, die vielfältigen Verflechtungen zwischen Landschaft und Tourismus aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln zu beleuchten und zu reflektieren. Er stützt sich auf ein Verständnis von Landschaft als eine individuelle Konstruktion auf Grundlage erlernter gesellschaftlicher Deutungs- und Bewertungsmuster, auf Basis derer eine synthetische Zusammenschau materieller Objekte erfolgt. Alle drei Dimensionen sind veränderlich (die materielle, die individuelle und die gesellschaftliche) und über das Individuum miteinander verbunden. Die Gestaltung und Veränderung von Landschaften ist gebunden an Aushandlungsprozesse. Dabei ist wichtig, dass Landschaft nicht normativ im Sinne einer bestimmten Landschaft verstanden wird, sondern dass ein Nebeneinander von unterschiedlichen landschaftsbezogenen Konstruktionen (etwa infolge unterschiedlicher Interessen, kultureller Gebundenheiten, heimatlicher Bezugnahmen) und Repräsentationen zu Grunde gelegt wird. Schließlich beschränkt sich das Landschaftsverständnis nicht im Sinne eines ‚engen‘ Verständnisses auf klassische natur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Deutungen von materiellen Räumen, sondern folgt dem ‚weiten‘ Landschaftsverständnis, dass z.B. auch städtische Räume oder (Alt)Industrieareale unter dem Konstruktionsmodus ‚Landschaft‘ gefasst werden können.Übertragen auf den Bereich des Tourismus können verschiedene touristische Destinationen und andere touristifizierte Räume als Landschaften bezeichnet werden (z.B. die Toskana, ein hippes Stadtquartier in Barcelona, ein idyllischer Strand auf einer Insel der Karibik, ein einsamer Hiking-Trail im Hochgebirge, altindustrielle Areale und ihre Umgebungen im Ruhrgebiet oder das Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando).Table of ContentsTheoretischen/Konzeptionelle Zugänge.- Forschungsfelder.- Wandel, Konflikt, Transformation, Innovation.- Fallbeispiele.

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Book SynopsisDie Einführung gibt einen Überblick über Inhalte und Methoden, holt den Leser mit seinen Vorverständnissen über Philosophie und Sport ab und eröffnet den Horizont für Themen, Fragen, Problemstellungen und Lösungsansätze einer Sportphilosophie.Der zweite Teil des Buches beschäftigt sich mit der Phänomenologie als einer der grundlegenden Strömungen der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er zeichnet Anliegen und Entwicklung der Phänomenologie anhand einiger ihrer Hauptvertreter nach und arbeitet mit „Phänomenologien der Leiblichkeit“ ein zeitgemäßes Verständnis von Körper respektive Leib heraus.Im dritten Teil geht es um eine „Phänomenologie des heutigen Sports“. Sport ist längst eine feste gesellschaftliche Größe und ein florierender wirtschaftlicher Bereich geworden. Das Buch analysiert die Verbindung des Sports zu Geld, Macht, Politik, Medien, Doping und die Rolle, die er hinsichtlich Körperkult, Spiel, Gesundheit, Bildung usw. spielt. Der Autor geht den Fragen nach, wie sich die Phänomene genauer darstellen, was sie „eigentlich“ zum Vorschein bringen, und ob der Sport tatsächlich einem Umgang mit dem Körper respektive dem Leib entspricht, wie er im philosophischen Verständnis der Leiblichkeit dargelegt wurde. Table of ContentsEinführung.- Vorbemerkung. - Warum eine phänomenologisch fundierte Sportphilosophie?.- Das Verständnis von Sport.- Das Verständnis von Philosophie.- Phänomenologie als grundlegende philosophische Strömung.- Anliegen und Entwicklung der Phänomenologie.- Phänomenologische Philosophien der Leiblichkeit.- Phänomenologie des gegenwärtigen Sports.- Einleitung.- Körper, Körperkult, Körperkultur – Sport.- Das globale Sportsystem.- Sport und Politik.- Sport und Leistung.- Sport und Doping.- Sport und Kommerz.- Sport und Medien.- Der (Spitzen)Sport und seine Fans.- Der erfolgreiche Athlet.- Spiel und Spiele – Sportspiele.- Erfolg oder Fairness.- Sport und Gesundheit.- Sport und Bildung.

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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.

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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.

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