Social Issues in Sport, Leisure, and Health (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Agergaard, Sine; Karen, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000955231
• Artikelnr.: 68523359

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
DAVID KAREN AND SINE AGERGAARD
PART I
Social issues in sport and leisure participation
1 Promoting access to sport for adolescents: Equality and equity approaches
RIKKE LAMBERTZ-NILSSEN HJORT
2 Rethinking sport participation for children with special needs: The case
of "Happy League"
DORTHE LYSKJÆR NIELSEN, NIELS NYGAARD ROSSING, AND LOTTE STAUSGAARD
SKRUBBELTRANG
3 Discrimination in Danish organised grassroots football: Gender,
ethnicity, and sexuality
SØREN BENNIKE, NIKOLAJ SCHELDE, AND ADAM B. EVANS
4 Social inclusion and institutionalisation of urban lifestyle sports
LARS DOMINO ØSTERGAARD AND SIGNE HØJBJERRE LARSEN
PART II
Social issues in promoting physical activity and health
5 Moving beyond individual choice of (non-) participation: The significance
of social relations
CAMILLA BAKKÆR SIMONSEN
6 Physical inactivity: Understanding the influence of social determinants
through adult life
KNUD RYOM AND CAMILLA BAKKÆR
SIMONSEN
7 Understanding disparities in healthy living from an intersectional
perspective
VERENA LENNEIS
8 Individual "lifestyle" diseases and the health care system
SIMON THOMSEN
PART III
Social issues in developing sport and society
9 From individual fixing to relational guidance in narrative sport
psychology
NIELS NYGAARD ROSSING AND LUDVIG JOHAN TORP RASMUSSEN
10 Selection and de-selection in youth sport
CHRISTIAN M. WRANG
11 Sport for newcomers: Individual and community empowerment
JEPPE KLARSKOV HANSEN
12 Developing creative climates in sports: Vaccination against
intensification?
LUDVIG JOHAN TORP RASMUSSEN