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

Authors: Neal, S., Pang, B., Parry, K. and Rishbeth, C.

Journal: Leisure Studies

eISSN: 1466-4496

ISSN: 0261-4367

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.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/37941/

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Informal sport and leisure, urban space and social inequalities: Editors' Introduction

Authors: Neal, S., Pang, B., Parry, K. and Rishbeth, C.

Journal: LEISURE STUDIES

eISSN: 1466-4496

ISSN: 0261-4367

DOI: 10.1080/02614367.2022.2162109

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/37941/

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

Authors: Neal, S., Pang, B., Parry, K.D. and Rishbeth, C.

Journal: Leisure Studies

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/37941/

https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2022.2162109

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

Authors: Neal, S., Pang, B., Parry, K.D. and Rishbeth, C.

Journal: Leisure Studies

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/37941/

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