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Informal sport and leisure, urban space and social inequalities - Editors’ Introduction.

Neal, S., Pang, B., Parry, K. D. and Rishbeth, C., 2023. Informal sport and leisure, urban space and social inequalities - Editors’ Introduction. Leisure Studies. (In Press)

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DOI: 10.1080/02614367.2022.2162109

Abstract

While informal sport may appear to be a poor relation of formal sport, participation in informal sport is now more popular than organised club sport. The Special Issue provides an opportunity to showcase international leisure studies research which variously explores the meaning and implications of informal sport as a growing form of collective leisure activity and the wider social affordances - and strains - of collective leisure practices. The Editors’ Introduction focuses on the ways in which informal sport and leisure depend on sometimes hard won public (parks, city squares, designed leisure spaces) and reused incidental urban space (e.g. post-industrial areas). It sets out the ways in which informal sport and leisure involves marginalised and precarious urban populations, gives rise to co-ethnic and ethnically diverse identifications, secures senses of belonging and citizenship, is gender and age ex/inclusive and is attractive to policy actors. It outlines how the articles collected in the Special Issue address what are still under-examined aspects of the informal sport phenomenon.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:0261-4367
Uncontrolled Keywords:Informal sport; Inclusion; Leisure; Public space; diversity
Group:Bournemouth University Business School
ID Code:37941
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:23 Dec 2022 11:24
Last Modified:11 Jul 2024 01:08

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