Human Rights and Events Leisure and Sport

<p>This edited book aims to capture the functioning of human rights and civil activism at the level of the relationships between the individual and the social and in relation to abuses contestations and transformations. Chapters cover the ways human rights are denied articulated and not realised. Mega-events either sporting or otherwise (e.g. Gay Pride) tend to be the focus of this inquiry although there are important contributions on grassroots non-governmental organisations. Overall a range of research methodologies are deployed; the chapters vary between using primary research using commissioned research and presenting theoretically grounded arguments. The tendency is towards approaches that capture the empirical everyday experiences e.g. ethnography autoethnography interviews focus groups and observation. </p><p></p><p>This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>Leisure Studies</i>.</p>