A practical guide to the relationship between sport and society. It helps students and researchers find their way within the diverse field of sport studies. It features the entries that explain the key concepts in the debates surrounding the social significance and social dynamics of sport.

Because I Tell a Joke or Two explores the complex relationship between comedy and the social differences of class, region, age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and nationhood.

Bringing together international writers on cricket and society, this book places cricket in the postcolonial life of the major Test-playing countries. Exploring the culture, politics, governance and economics of cricket in the twenty-first century, it dispels the age-old idea of a gentle game played on England's village greens.

The contributors to this book argue that the commercialized PR-driven British football world has either created, exacerbated or continued to ignore serious problems of social exclusion along lines of class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and age.

This introduction to popular media culture in Britain discusses the ways in which popular culture can be studied, understood and appreciated, and covers its key analytical issues and some of its most important processes.

This text examines current social and political issues involving childhood. It looks at the impact of the New Right who talk of family values, parent power in schools, irresponsible provision of contraception to young girls and the increase in child violence as a result of mass media.

Because I Tell a Joke or Two explores the complex relationship between comedy and the social differences of class, region, age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and nationhood.

A collection of essays on the symbolic role of sport in the delicate interplay of the superpowers during the Cold War, which shows how sport and politics became inextricably intertwined.

This introduction to popular media culture in Britain discusses the ways in which popular culture can be studied, understood and appreciated, and covers its key analytical issues and some of its most important processes.

A collection of essays, in which amateurism, both as ideology and practice, is subject to critical and unsentimental scrutiny, effectively challenging the dominant narrative of more conventional histories of British sport.

Ideal for students of sport, politics, history and postcolonialism, this important new book features contributions from leading international writers, placing cricket in the postcolonial life of the major Test-playing countries.

This text examines current social and political issues involving childhood. It looks at the impact of the "e;New Right"e; who talk of family values, parent power in schools, irresponsible provision of contraception to young girls and the increase in child violence as a result of mass media.