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This book examines the ways in which cricket has reflected and reproduced some of the social and political tensions of the twenty-first century.Cricket's struggle for global …

The institution of the family is by far the most important of all the societal networks in which the lives of men, women and children are involved. Nowhere is this more true than …

With sport representing one of the last bastions of binary thinking, trans and nonbinary athletes face formidable hurdles in their struggles for inclusion, acceptance, and freedom. …

This handbook explores the various ways in which disability sport is governed and organised across Europe, as well as examining the extent to which persons with a disability …

This open access book adopts a cultural sociology of materiality to explore the hallmark of the female athlete: the ponytail. Studying a wealth of news articles about ponytails in …

This book combines pieces of work on Europe and Latin America, the two continents where football arouses the most ardent passions among its spectators. Curiously, an undertaking to …

Since its debut in 1993, Magic: The Gathering has grown to be an influential collectible card game, allowing its community of loyal fans to duel each other while enjoying its lore …

As unemployment soared in Zimbabwe in the early twenty-first century, betting on football/soccer emerged as a popular, if unsustainable, livelihood option, and the number of …

"e;The Richardson boys ganged up with two other big families in their buildings and, at various ages, had tried out most of the local youth organisations. Bert Richardson with …

In the early 1970s 'baby battering' accounted for an estimated 700 child deaths a year in Britain, while a further 4-5,000 children were seriously injured - all this in spite of …