Calling for a Time-Out: The Theology of Disability Sport and the Broader Understanding of Competition
The author seeks to interrogate technological trends in economic competition by means of theological reflection on the practices of disability sport, particularly the Special Olympics. He discusses the increasing influence of an algorithmic rationale that has been established in mainstream sport within wider society, especially in the economic sphere. The capturing of time is the […]
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Calling the Screens: Self-Reported Developmental Outcomes in Competitive Basketball
The purpose of this study was to examine female players’ motives for participation in competitive sports, how they felt involvement has aided in their development, and explore negative experiences that had served as detractors to enjoyment. Focus groups were conducted with 31 players who currently participate on a competitive youth basketball team. Player responses revealed […]
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Camaraderie Reincorporated: Tough Mudder and the Extended Distribution of the Social
Tough Mudder, a market-leading event in the burgeoning practice and industry of mud running, is a 21 km “military-style” obstacle course with a curiously collaborative ethic. Teams of runners traverse the course in the name of fun, fitness, bravado, and much more besides, galvanized around Tough Mudder’distinctive ethos of togetherness. This essay sets out to […]
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Can ‘The Ghetto’ Really Take Over the County? ‘Race’, Generation & Social Change in Local Football in the UK
The involvement of people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds in local sports clubs is little used as a route for examining questions of their wider identity politics and exploring the impact of generational change in local sport. This is often because of difficulties involved in conducting qualitative research at the same site over an […]
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Can Sport Really Help to Meet the Millennium Development Goals? Evidence from children in Peru
In contrast to the popular policy claim that sport might serve as vehicle to meet the Millennium Development Goals, empirical evidence based on large-scale survey data is largely missing. We use panel data based on a cohort of children and employ propensity score matching to identify the effects of sports participation on child development in […]
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Can There be a Moral Duty to Cheat in Sport?
This article examines and defends the claim that whether or not to cheat can be a genuine moral dilemma within the ethics of team sports. That is, although there is always something morally wrong in cheating there may also be moral reasons in its favour and thus some (and perhaps an overriding) duty to cheat. […]
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Can We Consider Changes in Sports Participation as Institutional Change? A Conceptual Framework
The aim of this paper is to gain conceptual understanding of changes in leisure-time sports participation (LTSP) as an issue of institutional change. The study is elaborated in the LTSP research context of Flanders (Belgium) and Denmark. Data originate from the Flemish Household Study on Sports Participation (1969, 1979, 1989, 1999, 2009), Danish National Surveys […]
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Cannabis in Sport: Anti-Doping Perspective
Since 2004, when the World Anti-Doping Agency assumed the responsibility for establishing and maintaining the list of prohibited substances and methods in sport (i.e. the Prohibited List), cannabinoids have been prohibited in all sports during competition. The basis for this prohibition can be found in the World Anti-Doping Code, which defines the three criteria used […]
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Capital Matters: Social Sustaining Capital and the Development of Black Student-Athletes
How is social capital nurtured and made meaningful in the development of black student-athletes in historically white institutional (HWI) settings? Research explicitly exploring an understanding of nurturing social capital related to the development of black student-athletes is scarce. This collective case study investigates black student-athletes’ accrual and meaning-making of social capital in historically white settings […]
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Caring for the Young Athlete: Past, Present and Future
What’s so ‘special’ about kids playing sports? A previous longitudinal cohort study of 453 elite young British athletes outlined the positive benefits of sport, while identifying a knowledge gap of when coaches, parents and athletes should initiate intensive training or specialisation in a single sport. 1 Recently, multiple organisations have published general recommendations on youth […]
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Carnivalesque Culture and Alcohol Promotion and Consumption at an Annual International Sports Event in New Zealand
This study investigated the promotion and consumption of alcohol at the 2012 New Zealand Rugby Sevens Tournament. The paper uses a quantitative survey to gain insight into how attendees experienced the event in relation to alcohol promotions and alcohol consumption. One hundred and six participants completed the survey, the results of which highlight respondents’ opinions […]
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Caster Semenya, Gender Verification and the Politics of Fairness in an Online Track & Field Community
The sex testing of South African runner Caster Semenya in 2009 was widely discussed in media, but the most serious and significant sites of debate may have been within the cultures and institutions of track & field itself. In this article, we report findings from an analysis of an online track & field community—TrackNet Listserv—through […]
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Celebrity, Ageing and the Construction of ‘Third Age’ Identities
This article explores celebrity as a point of articulation between consumer culture and the reconfiguration of ageing lifestyles and identities in contemporary culture – described by cultural gerontologists as the ‘Third Age’. We focus on ageing stars whose celebrity is used to promote a particular vision of successful ageing, describing the cultural basis and significance […]
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Challenge and Relief: A Foucauldian Disciplinary Analysis of Retirement From Professional Association Football in the United Kingdom
The aim of this study was to consider the retirement experiences of British male professional association footballers by utilising Foucault’s analysis of discipline discussed in Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Specifically, we drew upon Foucault to consider how, through the various techniques and instruments of discipline, the professional football context produces ‘docile […]
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Challenges to Promoting Health for Amateur Athletes Through Anti-Doping Policy
Anti-doping regulations are intended, at least in part, to promote the health of athletes. While most anti-doping efforts target elite and professional competitors, there have been recent moves by sport governing bodies to expand anti-doping testing to include amateur athletes. Drawing on previous critiques of anti-doping policies and illustrating cases, this article outlines five of […]
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Challenging the Gender Binary: The Fictive and Real World of Quidditch
Despite the recent emergence of women and gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, intersexuals and transsexuals (GLBITs) in sport, gender equity has been far from realized. Dominant forms of sport are bimodal in gender classification, a construction that creates an ideology of male superiority and marginalizes women and GLBITs. One recent example of a sport that confronts […]
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Challenging the Gender Binary? Male Basketball Practice Players’ Views of Female Athletes and Women’s Sports
Kane’s ‘sport as a continuum’ theory posits many women can outperform many men in a variety of athletic endeavors. However, because sports are typically sex-segregated, this athletic continuum is rarely seen but provides a potentially powerful mechanism of transformation relative to views of female athletes and women’s sport. In women’s intercollegiate basketball, it is common […]
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Book review: Steven J Jackson & Stephen Haigh (eds), Sport and Foreign Policy in a Globalizing World
In 2010 two international mega-sports events took place: the XXI Winter Olympic and X Paralympic Games in Vancouver and FIFA’s World Cup football competition in South Africa. It is appropriate therefore to review a book titled Sport and Foreign Policy in a Globalizing World. The book, edited by Steven J. Jackson and Stephen Haigh, first […]
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Book Review: Steven J Jackson and Stephen Haigh (eds), Sport and Foreign Policy in a Globalizing World
In 2010 two international mega-sports events took place: the XXI Winter Olympic and X Paralympic Games in Vancouver and FIFA’s World Cup football competition in South Africa. It is appropriate therefore to review a book titled Sport and Foreign Policy in a Globalizing World.
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Book Review: Testing for Athlete Citizenship: Regulating Doping and Sex in Sport by Kathryn E. Henne (2015)
Book review: Testing for athlete citizenship: Regulating doping and sex in sport by Kathryn E. Henne (2015)
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Book Review: The Big Fix: The Hunt for the Match-Fixers Bringing Down Soccer by Brett Forrest
Ternes, Neal. 2015. Book review: The big fix: The hunt for the match-fixers bringing down soccer by Brett Forrest (2014). New York: HarperCollins. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 50(6): 752-755.
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Book Review: The Future of Feminism
Book Review: The Future of Feminism
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Book Review: The Insider’s Guide to Match-Fixing in Football
The title to Declan Hill’s 2013 book The Insider’s Guide to Match-fixing in Football is potentially misleading. It is not, however, maliciously intended. Nor can Hill be faulted for his marketing acumen. Hill himself is not inside the match-fixing network, nor does he purport to have fixed a game on his own terms. However, through […]
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Book Review: Why Minorities Play or Don’t Play Soccer
Book review: Why Minorities Play or Don’t Play Soccer
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Book Review: Youth Sport and Spirituality: Catholic Perspectives
How do you stretch the boundaries of self by playing inside the lines? In Youth Sport and Spirituality: Catholic Perspectives, Patrick Kelly provides an engaging edited text that shifts the paradigms by which we evaluate sport and faith through a carefully designed exploration of our individual beliefs and socially held values. Employing a diverse yet […]
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Boosting the Late-Blooming Boy: Use of Growth-Promoting Agents in the Athlete With Constitutional Delay of Growth and Puberty
Context: The indications for use of growth hormone have broadened with the availability of unlimited recombinant human growth hormone. The Food and Drug Administration’s approval for use of growth hormone in growth hormone–sufficient patients with idiopathic short stature includes some children with constitutional delay of growth and puberty. This is a normal growth pattern variation […]
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Boozing Brawling and Community Building: Sport-Facilitated Community Development in a Rural Ontario Community
Sport, and specifically hockey, is discussed extensively in relation to social identity formation and other social outcomes, both positive and negative, within Canadian society. In this article, we utilize a collaborative analysis to examine an autoethnographic account of participation in a rural community hockey tournament and its various social outcomes. Through this analysis, we discuss […]
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Bowling for Dollars: Title Sponsorship of College Football Bowls
Corporate title sponsorship of college football bowl games has proliferated over the past two decades, yet little analysis has been made concerning the returns to these investments. This article examines the impact that title sponsorships have had on the stock value of the corporate sponsors. Using event study analysis, we find that there was no […]
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Boxers Briefs or Bras? Bodies Gender and Change in the Boxing Gym
In this ethnography of Full Contact, a San Francisco Bay Area boxing gym, I use Bourdieu’s theory of practice to illustrate how ‘rules of the game’ shape people’s perceptions, interactions and positions (capital). First, I show how the unwritten, unspoken rules of boxing as a field (its doxa) impact readings of bodies and bodily capital, […]
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Boys’ Bodies and the Constitution of Adolescent Masculinities
In the social transition between childhood and adolescence, boys draw on discourses of masculinity that address the male body in constituting themselves as adolescents. They make themselves as no longer children and acquire a sense of themselves as adolescents by performing bodily practices that position them within some of these discourses. Repeated personal interviews conducted […]
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Branded Fitness: Exercise and Promotional Culture
This article develops a theory of branded fitness within the United States through a focus on two of its most visible examples: CrossFit and Bikram yoga. We argue that highly successful forms of branded fitness such as these give insight into the enormous power and permeation of branded sensibilities into everyday life – in this […]
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Bread or Games? A Social Cost–Benefit Analysis of the World Cup Bid of the Netherlands and the Winning Russian Bid
Many countries compete fiercely for the right to host mega-events like the World Cup. Proponents of hosting mega-events claim that yields economic gains. Many available studies focus on partial effects of hosting or concern ex post analysis. The authors utilize the existing literature to perform a detailed cost–benefit analysis (CBA) of the Netherlands bidding jointly […]
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Break Points: Narrative Interruption in the Life of Billie Jean King
This article explores intertextual representations of Billie Jean King, focusing on the announcement of her relationship with Marilyn Barnett in 1981 as a disruptive moment that occasioned remedial narrative work on King’s part. Media framing of the incident is examined through three mainstream newspapers, U.S. magazines, television interviews, and King’s autobiography. Analysis of the coverage […]
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British Football: Where are the Muslim Female Footballers? Exploring the Connections Between Gender, Ethnicity and Islam
This research article explores the ways in which self‐recognition as a footballer, in terms of ethnicity, along with cultural values and religious adherence have impacted on the identities of members of the British Muslim Women’s Football Team and their choice to compete at the Women’s Islamic Games (WIG) in Iran in 2005. The article offers […]
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Brown Bodies, Racialisation and Physical Education
This article explores how school physical education (PE) can both reinforce stereotyped notions of the brown body as inherently physical while also allowing young people to gain educational success. Drawing on a critical ethnographic study of Māori and Pasifika (Pacific Island) youth in PE in New Zealand, the article explores how the academic status of […]
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Building a System to Safeguard Children in Sport: The Eight CHILDREN Pillars
In October 2014, the International Safeguards for Children in Sport were launched. These Safeguards were developed, implemented, and evaluated based on a pilot process which took place over the preceding 2 years. Throughout this piloting phase, a range of qualitative techniques were employed to capture the experiences of people within 32 of the organizations that […]
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Building Social and Cultural Capital Among Young People in Disadvantaged Communities: Lessons from a Brazilian Sport-Based Intervention Program
This article explores the concepts of social and cultural capital as analytical tools for investigating the capacity of sport-based intervention programs to contribute to the personal, social and professional development of disadvantaged young people. It draws on survey data (n=129) and qualitative interviews (n=53) with participants of the Vencer program in Rio de Janeiro to […]
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Book Review: Fighting for Recognition: Identity Masculinity and the Act of Violence in Professional Wrestling by R. Tyson Smith
Book Review: Fighting for recognition: Identity masculinity and the act of violence in professional wrestling by R. Tyson Smith
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Book Review: Fighting for Recognition: Identity, Masculinity, and the Act of Violence in Professional Wrestling
R. Tyson Smith’s Fighting for Recognition is the culmination of more than two years ethnographic research about professional wrestlers training at the Rage Professional Wrestling School (pseudonym) in New York. Through observation and interviews with male wrestlers, Smith explores issues surrounding masculinity, violence/pain, and identity specifically as it pertains to those who endeavour to be […]
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Book Review: Fighting for Recognition: Identity, Masculinity, and the Act of Violence in Professional Wrestling by R. Tyson Smith
The phenomenon known as “pro wrestling” is dominated by the World Wrestling Entertainment Corporation (WWE). WWE is one of the most watched “sports” events on television (though pro wrestling is not technically a sport, given that its outcome is fixed). This is not the world of pro wrestling that Smith studies. Instead, his qualitative research […]
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Book Review: Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport
Book review: Floodlights and touchlines: A history of spectator sport
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Book Review: Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry by Helen J. Lenskyj
After 30 years of engagement with the Olympic spectacle, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj presents disturbing findings in Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry (2013). The book could not have arrived at a better time. The 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games garnered a plethora of media coverage proclaiming the success and the progress of women globally. […]
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Book Review: In Motion, At Rest: The Event of the Athletic Body
Grant Farred’s In Motion, At Rest theorizes “the event” through the lens of sport, and makes the argument that understanding the event in this way allows for a new understanding of “the event” as a philosophical problem. Specifically, In Motion, At Rest explores three now infamous sporting events involving male athletes Ron Artest, Eric Cantona, […]
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Book Review: Jack Johnson Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line
Book review: Jack Johnson Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line
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Book Review: Making Meaning out of Mountains: The Political Ecology of Skiing
In Making Meaning Out of Mountains: The Political Ecology of Skiing, Mark Stoddart exposes the contradictions and ‘ecologies ironies’ (p. 5) that lie at the heart of skiing. The modern and popular variant of the sport, we are told, is far removed from its Scandinavian philosophical heritage. Where Norwegians once preferred a form of skiing […]
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Book Review: Migration and New Media: Transnational Families and Polymedia
The thesis of this book crystallizes the findings of Madianou and Miller’s research into the use of diverse online media by the Filipino diasporic community and their families. Driven by a simple yet well-defined motive, their book taps into convergent media and migration as two of the most important areas for studying transnational human flows. […]
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Book Review: Qualifying Times: Points of Change in U.S. Women’s Sport by Jamie Schultz and A Locker Room of Her Own: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Female Athletes Edited by David C. Ogden and Joel Nathan Rose
Ponytails, sports bras, and tampons may not readily come to mind when imagining the significant factors that enabled women’s sports participation. In Qualifying Times, Jamie Schultz provides a feminist history of these “ostensibly banal elements” (p. 8) of women’s sports participation in the United States during the twentieth century. Applying the work of feminist historian […]
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Book Review: Researching Embodied Sport: Exploring movement cultures
BOOK REVIEW: Researching Embodied Sport: Exploring movement cultures
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Book Review: Rickey & Robinson: The True, Untold Story of the Integration of Baseball
BOOK REVIEW:It has been nearly seventy years since Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson integrated Major League Baseball (MLB). Yet, their place in history remains one of debate and contestation. Scholars and commentators, alike, continue to discuss what might be assumed to be settled history. The fluidity of their place in history embodies how time does […]
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Book Review: Sex Testing: Gender Policing in Women’s Sports by Lindsay Parks Pieper
Over the past 25-30 years, a number of journal articles and books have been published on the history of sex testing, offer a critique of the various methods employed to determine sex/gender, or provide a feminist criticism of sex testing/gender verification policies. Moreover, white papers published in medical journals have outlined the limits of scientific […]
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Book Review: Soccer, Culture and Society in Spain: An Ethnography of Basque Fandom
Book review: Soccer, Culture and Society in Spain: An Ethnography of Basque Fandom
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Book Review: Sociology of Football in Global Context
Book review: Sociology of football in global context
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Book Review: Sport & Peace: A Sociological Perspective
Book review: Sport & Peace: A Sociological Perspective
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Book Review: Sport for Development and Peace: A Critical Sociology and Sport for Development: What Game Are We Playing?
Book review: Sport for Development and Peace: A Critical Sociology and Sport for Development: What Game Are We Playing?
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Book Review: Sport Gender and Power: The Rise of Roller Derby by Adele Pavlidis & Simone Fullagar
Book review: Sport gender and power: The rise of roller derby by Adele Pavlidis & Simone Fullagar
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Book Review: Sports and Christianity: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Book review: Sports and Christianity: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
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Book Review: Sports, Religion and Disability
The topic of religion and sports has long been marginalised in sports studies and ‘studies focused purely on the secular dimensions of sport can be unhelpfully narrow’ (Shilling and Mellor, 2014: 352). Thankfully, this secular bias is now being addressed by a number of scholars writing from theological, philosophical, psychological, historical and sociological perspectives. Nick […]
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Black Male Athlete Activism and the Link to Michael Jordan: A Transformational Leadership and Social Cognitive Theory Analysis
Have you ever thought about the potentialities coming about if Michael Jordan chose to emulate previous figures such as Muhammad Ali, John Carlos, and Tommie Smith regarding social activism? Michael Jordan has often been criticized for his failure to speak on social matters. Like Jordan, contemporary Black male athletes’ engagement in social activism has been […]
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Black Skiing, Everyday Racism, and the Racial Spatiality of Whiteness
This article examines how structural and symbolic forces combine to produce racialized discourses of belonging and geographies of exclusion in and around downhill skiing. Drawing from literatures in Whiteness studies, sports sociology, leisure studies, and environmental history, I advance the concept of racial spatiality to illustrate how processes of everyday racism work to secure skiing’s […]
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Blue Skies Over Beijing: Olympics, Environments, and the People’s Republic of China
During the 2008 Olympic Games, after years of environmental regulations, two months of short-term measures, and opportune weather, Beijing measured a record number of “blue sky days,” at the same time reassuring international athletes and journalists the air was safe for competition and Beijing residents. We use this case to understand how environmental objectives are […]
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Blurring the Boundaries: Prosumption, Circularity and Online Sustainable Consumption Through Freecycle
This article explores the digital exchange and moral ordering of sustainable and ethical consumption in online Freecycle groups. Through interactive exchanges in digital (online posts) and material (consumer items) modes, Freecycling blurs three common binaries in analysis of consumption: (1) consumption/production, (2) digital/material and (3) mainstream/alternative. Drawing on Ritzer’s notion of ‘implosions’ as well as […]
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Bodies Matter: Professional Bodies and Embodiment in Institutional Sport Contexts
Bodies are always present in organizations, yet they frequently remain unacknowledged or invisible including in sport organizations and sport management research. We therefore argue for an embodied turn in sport management research. The purpose of this article is to present possible reasons why scholars have rarely paid attention to bodies in sport organizations; to offer […]
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Body Image and Prosthetic Aesthetics: Disability Technology and Paralympic Culture
The success of the London 2012 Paralympic Games not only revealed new public possibilities for the disabled, but also thrust the debates on the relationship between elite Paralympians and advanced prosthetic technology into the spotlight. One of the Paralympic stars, Oscar Pistorius, in particular became celebrated as ‘the Paralympian cyborg’. Also prominent has been Aimee […]
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Body Image, Prostheses, Phantom Limbs
The body image with respect to physical disability has long been a woefully under-theorized area of scholarship. The literature that does attend to the body image in cases of physical abnormality or functional impairment regularly offer poorly articulated or problematic definitions of the concept, effectively undermining its historic analytic scope and depth. Here, I revisit […]
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Body Mass Index and Percentage of Body Fat as Indicators for Obesity in an Adolescent Athletic Population
Background: Body mass index (BMI) is widely accepted in determining obesity. Skinfold thickness measurements have been commonly used to determine percentage of body fat. Hypothesis: The authors hypothesize that because BMI does not measure fat directly but relies on body weight alone, a large percentage of athletic adolescents will be misclassified as obese by BMI. […]
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Body Projects: Making, Remaking, and Inhabiting the Woman’s Futebol Body in Brazil
Drawing on data from an experiential ethnographic project undertaken in Brazil, this paper explores how gender is being experienced and negotiated by women football players within the context of the game’s incorporation into Western capitalism. Acceptance of women into this historically male sport is growing and opportunities are increasing, but access is heavily contingent on […]
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Bodywork and Bodily Capital Among Youth Using Fitness Gyms
In this article, we explore what had become a predominant focus on the body and on shaping and refining the body through frequent, intensive workout and strict, controlled diets among a group of young people engaged in strength training in fitness gyms in Denmark. Theoretically and analytically, we draw inspiration from French sociologist Loïc Wacquant’s […]
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Book Review of Sport and Social Exclusion in Global Society by Ramón Spaaij, Jonathan Magee and Ruth Jeanes
Sport and Social Exclusion in Global Society adds another layer to the growing body of literature in the sport for social change/development field. Three devoted academics and activists came together and shared their experiences “on and off the field” highlighting social exclusion not only theoretically but also exhibiting successful practices on the ground. This book […]
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Book Review: A Companion to Sport
In A Companion to Sport, Andrews and Carrington seek ‘to encourage students…to develop a more critical approach that strikes a delicate balance between taking sports seriously as an important cultural and social phenomenon in their own right, whilst trying to locate “linkages” and interconnections to the wider social structures and forces that give sport its […]
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Book Review: Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London
Jules Boykoff’s Activism and the Olympics offers a critical analysis of the Olympic Games in Vancouver and London by examining the intersection of politics and sports. The Olympics always have important political implications for the hosting city. For example, an economic implication that almost invariably characterizes mega-sporting events is the escalation of the final cost […]
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Book Review: Artistic Impressions: Figure Skating Masculinity and the Limits of Sport
Book review: Artistic Impressions: Figure Skating Masculinity and the Limits of Sport
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Book Review: Beyond Sport for Development and Peace: Transnational Perspectives on Theory, Policy and Practice
Book review: Beyond Sport for Development and Peace: Transnational Perspectives on Theory, Policy and Practice
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Book Review: Christos Kassimeris, Football Comes Home: Symbolic Identities in European Football
Book Review: Christos Kassimeris, Football Comes Home: Symbolic Identities in European Football
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Book Review: Come Out Swinging: The Changing World of Boxing in Gleason’s Gym
Scholars interested in the role and evolution of boxing in a capitalist society should welcome this study of Gleason’s Gym in New York City. Lucia Trimbur provides nuanced insight into the users of one of the world’s most famous boxing gyms. She illustrates the usefulness of ethnography, offering analysis of the data collected during a […]
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Book Review: Desi Hoop Dreams: Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity by Stanley I. Thangaraj
Book Review: Desi Hoop Dreams: Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity by Stanley I. Thangaraj
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Book Review: ESPN: The Making of a Sports Media Empire
ESPN stands alone. The four-letter acronym carries unmatched global clout in sport media. From humble beginnings in Connecticut trailers in 1979 to a multibillion dollar powerhouse, the story of ESPN’s rise to the top of the media mountain is remarkable. ESPN is no longer a cable sports network. It is a brand that trails only […]
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The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-time College Football
COLLEGE FOOTBALL has never been more popular—or more chaotic. Millions fill 100,000-seat stadiums every Saturday; tens of millions more watch on television every weekend. The 2013 Discover BCS National Championship game between Notre Dame and Alabama had a viewership of 26.4 million people, second only to the Super Bowl. Billions of dollars from television deals […]
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The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer
James M. Dorsey introduces the reader to the world of Middle Eastern and North African football–an arena where struggles for political control, protest and resistance, self-respect and gender rights are played out. Politics was the midwife of soccer in the region, with many clubs being formed as pro- or anti-colonial platforms and engines of national […]
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Transformed Bodies and Gender: Experiences of Women Pro Wrestlers in Japan
Women’s pro wrestling in Japan has been controlled by an organization of which the members have only been women. Their bodies are unique, transformed into a deviation from the ideal female body image in Japan to enable them to engage in pro wrestling. In addition, through professional training, they acquire “combat skills”. This kind of […]
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Understanding Sports Coaching: The Pedagogical, Social and Cultural Foundations of Coaching Practice
Every successful sports coach knows that good teaching and social practices are just as important as expertise in sport skills and tactics. Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Understanding Sports Coaching is still the only introduction to theory and practice in sports coaching to fully explore the social, cultural and pedagogical concepts […]
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Vital Connections: Harnessing the Power of Relationship to Impact the Lives of Young People
Young people the world over face challenges that prevent them from reaching their fullest potential. Lou Bergholz has spent decades working for children and adolescents from Boston to Zimbabwe, and he found that the caring adult relationship holds the key to supporting them as they navigate their journey to adulthood. More than enrichment programs or […]
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Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way)
Explore the role the bicycle played in the women’s liberation movement.
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Williams’ Nutrition for Health, Fitness, and Sport (12th Edition)
Nutrition for Health, Fitness and Sport uses a question-answer approach, which is convenient when you may have occasional short periods to study, such as riding a bus or during a lunch break. In addition, the questions are arranged in a logical sequence, the answer to one question often leading into the question that follows. Where […]
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Youth Sport and Spirituality: Catholic Perspectives
Unsportsmanlike behavior by student athletes or parents at youth sporting events happens with regularity these days. Much recent research reveals that young people are dropping out of sport at alarming rates due to the often toxic elements in the culture of youth sports. The timely, innovative essays in Youth Sport and Spirituality present a wide-ranging […]
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Big-Time Sports in American Universities
For almost a century, big-time college sport has been a wildly popular but consistently problematic part of American higher education. The challenges it poses to traditional academic values have been recognized from the start, but they have grown more ominous in recent decades, as cable television has become ubiquitous, commercial opportunities have proliferated and athletic […]
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Religion and Sports: An Introduction and Case Studies
Like religion, playing and watching sports is a deeply meaningful, celebratory ritual enjoyed by millions across the world. The first scholarly work designed for use in both religion and sports courses, this collection develops and then applies a theoretically grounded approach to studying sports engagement globally and its relationship to modern-day issues of violence, difference, […]
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Beyond Bend It Like Beckham: The Global Phenomenon of Women’s Soccer
Though it burst into public consciousness only with the 1999 World Cup, women’s soccer has been around almost as long as its male counterpart, flourishing in England during and after World War I. From the rise of women’s soccer following Title IX legislation in the early seventies to the watershed 1999 World Cup performance that […]
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Beyond Black: Celebrity and Race in Obama’s America
Beyond Black is Ellis Cashmore’s compelling appraisal of the impact of black celebrities on the cultural landscape of contemporary America. In recent years a new variety of African American celebrity has emerged: acquisitive, ambitious, flamboyantly successful and individualistic – more interested in channelling their energy into career development than into the political struggles that animated […]
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Bigotry, Football and Scotland
In this collection, contributors from a range of disciplinary positions present the latest empirical research evidence and social theory to examine and debate fundamental issues about bigotry in Scottish football and society.
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21st Century Jocks: Sporting Men and Contemporary Heterosexuality
From macho huddles to gentle cuddles, the ways in which sportsmen relate as friends has radically changed. With homophobia stigmatized and gay teammates revered, today’s jocks no longer fear being thought gay for behaviors that constrained men of the previous generation. In this eye-opening book, Professor Eric Anderson draws on hundreds of interviews with 15-22 […]
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A Brief Theology of Sport
Sport is extremely popular. This groundbreaking book explains why. It shows that sport has everything to do with our deepest identity. It is where we resonate with the most-basic nature of reality. A Brief Theology of Sport sweeps across the fields of church history, philosophy and Christian doctrine, drawing the reader into a creative vision […]
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Play and Shut Up: The Silencing of Palestinian Athletes in Israeli Media
In this paper we contrast two opposing theoretical views in the sociology of sport. The first sees sport as a field that brings together different groups and bridges social divides. In this view, minority sport stars serve both as role models and as a mouthpiece voicing the feelings and needs of their ethnic groups. The […]
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Playing on the Break: Karl Polanyi and the Double-Movement Against Modern Football
While the popularity of English football increases worldwide, there has been a marked rise in the discontent expressed by a small but growing group of domestic fans. This dissent has led to the emergence of a movement broadly defined as being ‘Against Modern Football’ (AMF), a banner under which fans of rival clubs have gathered […]
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Bike Racing Neutralization and the Social Construction of Performance-Enhancing Drug Use
Drawing from participant observation and interviews, I examine the attitudes and beliefs of elite and former professional cyclists and team personnel regarding performance-enhancing drug (PED) use and the neutralization techniques they employed to excuse and justify PED consumption. Participants most frequently adopted accounts in which they condemned the condemners, viewing as hypocrites those labeling PED […]
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Binge Drinking and Sports Participation in College: Patterns Among Athletes and Former Athletes
This study draws on a nationally representative sample to examine the relationship between participation in organized sport and alcohol use. We build on prior studies by re-examining the relationship between participation in organized sport and binge drinking and how this varies by both race and gender. We expand upon previous research by analyzing the long-term […]
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Black Guys and White Guise: The Discursive Construction Of White Masculinity
This article explores how discursive repertories about black masculinity inform the construction of white masculinity in two settings assumed diametrically opposed: white nationalists and white anti racists. Drawing from in-depth semi-structured interviews, year-long ethnographic field notes, and content analysis from two nationwide white nationalist and white anti racist organizations, the author finds three common discursive […]
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Sport and Migration: Borders, Boundaries and Crossings
From Major League Baseball to English soccer’s Premier League, all successful contemporary professional sports leagues include a wide diversity of nationalities and ethnicities within their playing and coaching rosters. The international migration of sporting talent and labor, encouraged and facilitated by the social and economic undercurrents of globalization, mean that world sport is now an […]
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Sport and the English
A thorough, innovative yet entertaining and readable analysis of sport as an expression of the values and social relations of a nation. Covering the years between the two World Wars, the central place of sport in English life is brought into sharp focus, providing insight into issues of gender, class, religion and locality, ideas of […]
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Sport for Development: What Game Are We Playing?
Sport is increasingly regarded as a powerful tool in international development. In this comprehensive introduction to the area of ‘sport-for-development’, leading researcher Fred Coalter critically evaluates the strengths and weaknesses and successes and failures of sport-for-development policies and programs. Beginning with an outline of the historical development of policies of sport-for-development, this book explores the […]
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Sport History in the Digital Era
The Internet has transformed industries across the globe and while segments of the research sector have embraced it quickly, sport historians have stepped into the digital era at a more considered pace. The editors Gary Osmond and Murray G. Phillips admit sport historians have in fact been “slow to adapt” to digital technologies (p. 6). […]
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