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