Neal, S. orcid.org/0000-0002-2585-1245, Pang, B. orcid.org/0000-0003-2763-4321, Parry, K. orcid.org/0000-0001-9025-9101 et al. (1 more author) (2024) Informal sport and leisure, urban space and social inequalities: editors’ introduction. Leisure Studies, 43 (6). pp. 875-886. ISSN 0261-4367
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.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
Keywords: | Informal sport; social life; leisure practices; social inequalities; cities; urban public space |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Landscape Architecture (Sheffield) The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Sociological Studies (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ES/W008343/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 22 Feb 2023 11:28 |
Last Modified: | 12 Feb 2025 10:14 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Informa UK Limited |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/02614367.2022.2162109 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:196624 |
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