ABSTRACT
This is the first book to explore in breadth and in depth the complex intersections between sport, leisure, and social justice.
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.
The Routledge Handbook of Sport, Leisure and Social Justice 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|56 pages
Historicising and theorising social justice in sport and leisure
chapter 1|15 pages
Sport, leisure, and social justice at the neoliberal moment
part II|72 pages
Sex, gender, and sexualities
chapter 6|14 pages
Sport, masculinities, and homosexualities
chapter 9|15 pages
Doing and undoing gender in physical education and youth sport
part III|74 pages
‘Race’, forced migration, and religion
chapter 11|12 pages
Race, social justice, leisure, and sport in Brazil
chapter 12|13 pages
Sport and social justice for refugees
chapter 13|8 pages
Mental health, Drapetomania, and professional football
part IV|89 pages
Physical education, young people, and families
chapter 18|15 pages
Legitimate embodiment in formal education
part V|110 pages
Sport, development, and community
chapter 26|14 pages
Sport, Physical Education (PE) and Sport-for-All (SfA) programmes
chapter 28|14 pages
Addressing power dynamics in disability sport studies
part VI|85 pages
Elite sport, activism, and media
chapter 30|14 pages
English football, safe standing, and social movements
part VII|81 pages
Future directions and research methods for social justice