Commentators have suggested that action sports have provided space for more progressive
gendered power relations than many more traditional, institutionalized sex-segregated …

These are uncertain times in the Anthropocene, where the health and resilience of all urban
inhabitants should be key themes for cities striving for sustainability. To this end, local …

This important new study examines the changing place and meaning of lifestyle sports–
parkour, surfing, skateboarding, kite-surfing and others–and asks whether they continue to …

While 'the social'is problematized in diverse ways in current geographical debates this report
reflects on the ongoing relevance of social geographies, especially those that attend to the …

This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the global phenomenon of snowboarding
culture. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it offers key insights into the sport, lifestyle …

In recent years, a 'professional'digital gaming industry has emerged in North America: this
interconnected series of organisations and leagues host competitive gaming tournaments …

Research analysing the operation of power within sport and physical activity has exposed
the marginalisation and exclusion of women's sport in explicit and institutionalised ways …

This study employs a spatial analysis to critically examine gender relations within an
Australian football and netball community sports club that has sought to address gender …

This paper explores the seduction of pain within the increasingly popular practice of mixed
martial arts. It is based on a three-year ethnographic study of training schools in Minnesota …

Within this paper I draw on short vignettes and quotes taken from a two-year ethnographic
study of boxing to think through the continuing academic merit of the notion of the male …