Social Issues in Sport, Leisure, and Health

This book examines how social issues shape and influence our engagement with sport, leisure time physical activity and health-promoting exercise. Connecting the personal with the public, it helps the reader to develop a deeper understanding of how social contexts and structures create or constrain opportunities for exercise, leisure and sport.

Sine Agergaard is Professor and Head of the Sport and Social Issues Research Group at Aalborg University, Denmark. Sine has pioneered research in sports and migration issues, and she is the current head of the International Network for Research in Sport and Migration Issues. Her previous publications include Rethinking Sports and Integration (Routledge, 2018) and Women, Soccer and Transnational Migration (Routledge, 2014). David Karen is Professor of Sociology at Bryn Mawr College, USA, and Adjunct Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research has focused on access, opportunity, and reproduction within education and within sport. He is the co-author and co-editor of Sociological Perspectives on Sport: The Games Outside the Games (Routledge, 2015, with Robert Washington) and The Sport and Society Reader (Routledge, 2009, with Robert Washington).

Introduction DAVID KAREN AND SINE AGERGAARD PART I Social issues in sport and leisure participation 1 Promoting access to sport for adolescents: Equality and equity approaches RIKKE LAMBERTZ-NILSSEN HJORT 2 Rethinking sport participation for children with special needs: The case of "Happy League" DORTHE LYSKJÆR NIELSEN, NIELS NYGAARD ROSSING, AND LOTTE STAUSGAARD SKRUBBELTRANG 3 Discrimination in Danish organised grassroots football: Gender, ethnicity, and sexuality SØREN BENNIKE, NIKOLAJ SCHELDE, AND ADAM B. EVANS 4 Social inclusion and institutionalisation of urban lifestyle sports LARS DOMINO ØSTERGAARD AND SIGNE HØJBJERRE LARSEN PART II Social issues in promoting physical activity and health 5 Moving beyond individual choice of (non-) participation: The significance of social relations CAMILLA BAKKÆR SIMONSEN 6 Physical inactivity: Understanding the influence of social determinants through adult life KNUD RYOM AND CAMILLA BAKKÆR SIMONSEN 7 Understanding disparities in healthy living from an intersectional perspective VERENA LENNEIS 8 Individual "lifestyle" diseases and the health care system SIMON THOMSEN PART III Social issues in developing sport and society 9 From individual fixing to relational guidance in narrative sport psychology NIELS NYGAARD ROSSING AND LUDVIG JOHAN TORP RASMUSSEN 10 Selection and de-selection in youth sport CHRISTIAN M. WRANG 11 Sport for newcomers: Individual and community empowerment JEPPE KLARSKOV HANSEN 12 Developing creative climates in sports: Vaccination against intensification? LUDVIG JOHAN TORP RASMUSSEN