Bøker i Routledge Critical Perspectives on Equality and Social Justice in Sport and Leisure-serien

This book brings together leading researchers from around the world to examine key questions around `race¿, ethnicity and racism in sport coaching. It focuses on the ways in which `race¿, ethnicity and racism operate, and how they are experienced and addressed within the socio-cultural sphere of sports coaching.

Social inequalities are often reproduced in sport and leisure contexts. However, sport and leisure can be sites of resistance as well as oppression; they can be repressive or promote positive social change. This challenging and important book brings together contemporary cases examining different dimensions of inequality in sport and leisure, ranging from race and ethnicity to gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion and class. It is fascinating reading for all those with an interest in sport and politics, sport and social problems, gender studies, race and ethnicity studies, or the sociology of sport.

'Race', Youth Sport, Physical Activity and Health provides a resource that addresses 'race' and racism in an accessible way by contextualizing theory with practical evidence-based examples drawn from global geographical and cultural settings.

This book emphasizes that research should be done with rather than on young people. Engaging with the social changes in Irish society through the eyes of the first children of immigrants growing up in Ireland, it offers a compelling analysis of how ideas of race and racism emerge and are elaborated in the field of youth sport.

This challenging and important book brings together contemporary cases examining different dimensions of inequality in sport and leisure, ranging from race and ethnicity to gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion and class.

Through a social justice and equity lens, this book examines how families, sport and leisure connect to broader social issues in society. It goes beyond describing oppression and disadvantaged identities, and focuses on advocacy and ways forward to challenge the status quo.

This book analyses the increasing use of sport in European and Western welfare states as a tool of social policy and its promotion as a solution to social problems.

'Race', Youth Sport, Physical Activity and Health provides a resource that addresses 'race' and racism in an accessible way by contextualizing theory with practical evidence-based examples drawn from global geographical and cultural settings.