Gebundenes Buch

Social Issues in Sport, Leisure, and Health

Beschreibung

This book examines how social issues shape and influence our engagement with sport, leisure time physical activity and health-promoting exercise. Connecting the personal with the public, it helps the reader to develop a deeper understanding of how social contexts and structures create or constrain opportunities for exercise, leisure and sport.

Autor

Sine Agergaard is Professor and Head of the Sport and Social Issues Research Group at Aalborg University, Denmark. Sine has pioneered research in sports and migration issues, and she is the current head of the International Network for Research in Sport and Migration Issues. Her previous publications include Rethinking Sports and Integration (Routledge, 2018) and Women, Soccer and Transnational Migration (Routledge, 2014). David Karen is Professor of Sociology at Bryn Mawr College, USA, and Adjunct Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research has focused on access, opportunity, and reproduction within education and within sport. He is the co-author and co-editor of Sociological Perspectives on Sport: The Games Outside the Games (Routledge, 2015, with Robert Washington) and The Sport and Society Reader (Routledge, 2009, with Robert Washington).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9781032300313
• ISBN-10: 1032300310
• Artikelnr.: 68100370