Routledge Handbook of Sport Leisure and Social Justice

<p>This is the first book to explore in breadth and in depth the complex intersections between sport leisure and social justice.</p><p>This book examines the relations of power that produce social inequalities and considers how sport and leisure spaces can perpetuate those relations or act as sites of resistance and makes a powerful call for an activist scholarship in sport and leisure studies. Presenting original theoretical and empirical work by leading international researchers and practitioners in sport and leisure this book addresses the central social issues that lie at the heart of critical social science – including racism sexism homophobia transphobia ableism religious persecution socio-economic deprivation and the climate crisis – and asks how these issues are expressed or mediated in the context of sport and leisure practices. Covering an incredibly diverse range of topics and cases – including sex testing in sport; sport for refugees; pedagogical practices in physical education; community sport development; events and human rights; and athlete activism – this book also surveys the history of sport and social justice research as well as outlining theoretical and methodological foundations for this field of enquiry.</p><p>The <i>Routledge Handbook of Sport Leisure and Social Justice </i>is an indispensable resource for any advanced student researcher policymaker practitioner or activist with an interest in the sociology culture politics history development governance media and marketing and business and management of sport and leisure.</p>