Consuming Sport offers a detailed consideration of how sport is experienced and engaged
with in the everyday lives, social networks and consumer patterns of its followers. It …

'Space'and'place'are concepts central to both geography and sport. Places, for example, are
the means of identifying most sports teams, while sport both affects, and is affected by, the …

In this new edition of his acclaimed book, Richard Giulianotti provides a critical sociological
interpretation of modern sport. As global festivals such as the Olympic Games and football's …

Professional football is one of the most popular television'genres' worldwide, attracting the
support of millions of fans, and the sponsorship of powerful companies. In A Game of Two …

The story of British football's journey from public school diversion to mass media
entertainment is a remarkable one. The Association Game traces British football from the …

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme
and is available on www. bloomsburycollections. com. How has globalization impacted on …

The study of built environments such as gymnasiums, football stadiums, swimmimg pools
and skating rinks provides unique information about the historical enclosure of the gendered …

The academic discourses on football hooliganism have attracted scholars from various
disciplines and localities. The distinctive, mostly English, theoretical and methodological …

This study's goal was to create and test a tool for identifying different types of sport
spectators. Based on four types of sporting-event consumers–aesthete, interactive …

This is a succinct and comprehensive account of the contemporary sociology of sport. It
starts by tracing the key 'moments' in the transition from pre-modern to modern sport, giving …