Ethnography has become an important method for researching and interpreting the social world, not least in the field of sport and exercise studies. Ethnographies in Sport and Exercise Research is the first book to provide a contemporary overview of the current state of ethnographic research and its application within sport and exercise, introducing and explaining a range of well-established and emerging ethnographic approaches.
Featuring a heavyweight line-up of sport and exercise researchers, the book is divided into three parts. The first considers the methodological and theoretical aspects of ethnographic research, including:
- a history of ethnography in sport and exercise research
- the definition of the ethnographic field
- methods of gathering ethnographic data
- methods of representing ethnographic research.
In the second part of the book, a series of chapter-length case studies, span
