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Sport,Fiction and Sociology: Novels as Data Sources
This paper is primarily concerned with the types of data that are of value to sociologists – in this instance, particularly to sociologists of sport. It is argued here that we can and should add works of fiction to the…
Sport, Violence and Society
Is violence an intrinsic component of contemporary sport? How does violence within sport reflect upon the attitudes of wider society? In this landmark study of violence in and around contemporary sport, Kevin Young offers the first comprehensive sociological analysis of…
Sport, Theology, and the Special Olympics: A Christian Theological Reflection
The authors explore the potential of the Special Olympic movement to act as a counternarrative and prophetic message to the big-business world of professional sports. Drawing on the work of pioneers in the field of theology of disability, such as…
Sport, Religious Belief, and Religious Diversity
In this paper I examine some issues raised by conspicuous displays of religiosity in sports. In particular, important questions have been occasioned by the relatively recent pronouncements and behavior of a celebrated evangelical Christian athlete in American professional football. I…
Sport, Race, and Bio-Politics: Encounters with Difference in “Sport for Development and Peace” Internships
This article analyzes young Canadian volunteer interns’ encounters with sociocultural difference within the Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) movement. Using Foucauldian biopower, Third Wave, or transnational feminism and Hardt and Negri’s Empire, it examines how interns interpreted difference as…
Sport, Politics and the Charity Industry: Running for Water
Sport is commonly used by charities and philanthropic organisations as a way of acquiring donors and fundraisers. In this groundbreaking study, Kyle Bunds examines the nexus of sport, politics and the charity industry through an investigation of water development agencies…
Sport, Physical Culture, and the Environment: An introduction
We1 were excited that day in December of 2015 when world leaders in Paris announced that representatives of 196 countries—all living in very different circumstances, constraints, politics, and economic disadvantages—had committed to reducing their respective country’s environmental footprint. As Domonoske…
Sport, Islam, and Muslims in Europe: In Between or on the Margin?
The aim of this paper is to reveal how misconceptions-or using the concept of Arkoun, “the crisis of meanings”-about the role and position of Islam in Europe is impacting on the discourse on sport, Islam, and immigration. France is selected…
Sport, Celebrity and Religion: Christianity, Morality and the Tebow Phenomenon
Sporting celebrities are rarely discussed within the broader realms of theological debate. Yet that is not to say that their identities cannot offer insight into wider patterns of cultural influence. Indeed, it is our contention within this paper that the…
Sport-Specific Yearly Risk and Incidence of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tears in High School Athletes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Background: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury rates are affected by frequency and level of competition, sex, and sport. To date, no study has sought to quantify sport-specific yearly risk for ACL tears in the high school (HS) athlete by sex…
Sport-for-Development in the South Pacific Region: Macro- Meso- and Micro-Perspectives
As the field of sport-for-development (SFD) has developed, there has been increasing debate over the ability of SFD programs to effect lasting structural change on target communities. Highlighting the barriers to SFD program delivery in five Pacific Island nations, in…
Sport-for-Development Impact Study: A Research Initiative Funded by Comic Relief and UK Sport and Managed by International Development Through Sport
This report provides an analysis of data collected as part of a major research project funded by Comic Relief and UK Sport and managed by International Development through Sport (IDS). The research sought to test the hypothesis that ‘sport contributes…
Sport-for-Change: Some Thoughts from a Skeptic
Sport’s historic attraction for policy makers has been its claims that it can offer an economy of remedies to seemingly intractable social problems–“social inclusion”, “development”. Such usually vague and ill-defined claims reflect sport’s marginal policy status and its attempts to…
Sport Transitions as Epiphanies
Sport managers design development systems with the intent of retaining and advancing athletes through that system (Green, 2005). Important to this basic goal is the participant’s transition from one sport context to another. Transition research has focused primarily on elite…
Sport on the Move: The Unfolding Impact of Mobile Communications on the Media Sport Content Economy
The increased popularity of mobile smartphones and tablet computers in developed economies is transforming how and where sports footage, highlights and information are accessed. These developments are contributing to new commercial arrangements in the media sport sector, as well as…
Sport Mega-Events: Can Legacies and Development Be Equitable and Sustainable?
Sport mega-events (SMEs) involve struggles to determine the definition of legacy and the outcome priorities that guide legacy planning, funding, and implementation processes. History shows that legacies reflect the interests of capital, and legacy benefits are enjoyed primarily, if not…
Sport Mega-Events and Public Opposition: A Sociological Study of the London 2012 Olympics
This article examines the diverse forms of public opposition, protest, criticism, and complaint in the United Kingdom on the staging of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London. Our discussion draws heavily on empirical research, primarily fieldwork and interviews…
Sport in the Underlife of a Total Institution: Social Control and Resistance in Canadian Prisons
While it is clear from a small body of scholarly literature that sport and physical activity play important roles in the daily lives of many inmates in diverse prison contexts around the world, there remains relatively little research that sociologically…
Sport in Malaysia: National Imperatives and Western Seductions
Professional sport has been radically altered by global capitalism, expanding from its once highly localized origins into an increasingly internationalized, mediatized, and commoditized cultural form. Like other commodities, sport has branched out from saturated domestic markets in the West. The…
Sport in a Youth Prison: Male Young Offenders’ Experiences of a Sporting Intervention
The numbers of children under the age of 18 being incarcerated in England and Wales has decreased of late, with official figures indicating that the current population of just over 1500 has halved during the last decade. But levels of…
Sport for Development and Peace: A Public Sociology Perspective
In the increasing amount of published research and critical commentary on sport for development and Peace (SDP) two related trends are apparent. The first is a clear belief that, under certain circumstances, sport may make a useful contribution to work…
Sport for Development and Peace in Action: Building Facts for Funding
The aim of this article is to provide insight on how claims that sport contributes to development or peace are transformed into facts. Beyond a theoretical discussion about how sport for development and peace (SDP) facts are built, this article…
Sport for Decolonization: Exploring a New Praxis of Sport for Development
Sport is now mobilized as a novel and effective means of achieving international development goals, leading to an increasingly institutionalized relationship between sport and development. While there is recent evidence of the effectiveness of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP)…
Sport for All. Play for Life
THE NEEDS OF MOST CHILDREN ARE NOT BEING MET. Start with the need to be active: fewer than half of children ages 6 to 11 meet the U.S. Surgeon General’s recommendation for engaging in at least 60 minutes of moderate…
Sport Education: A Panacea for Hegemonic Masculinity in Physical Education or More of the Same?
Sport education has received considerable support from teachers, teacher educators and the sport pedagogy literature as a cure for much that ails physical education. The purpose of the study described in this paper was to determine the extent to which…
Sport Education as a Pedagogical Application for Ethical Development in Physical Education and Sport
The purpose of this paper is to consider four pedagogical applications within the Sport Education model to examine the ways in which a young person can become a literate sports person and develop ethical behaviour through engagement in physical education…
Sport as Context for the Development of Women’s Same-Sex Relationships
Based on semistructured interviews with 56 women who had at least one same-sex relationship prior to age 30, I conclude that sport both nurtures, and to a lesser degree hinders, development of these relationships. Homophobia on particular teams, sometimes triggered…
Sport and the Resettlement of Young People from Refugee Backgrounds in Australia
Within recent years, policy makers and practitioners have increasingly drawn on sport as a vehicle to assist with the resettlement of young people from refugee backgrounds. This article presents the views of sport development and resettlement service staff responsible for…
Sport and terrorism: Two of Modern Life’s Most Prevalent Themes
The purpose of this introduction is to establish the context for the ensuing collection examining the relationship between sport and terrorism within a range of international sporting settings. Drawing upon a host of recent examples this article serves to demonstrate…
Sport and Spirituality: An Introduction
In September 2007 the first international conference on sport and spirituality was held in York, England. There, an international collection of philosophers, theologians, kinesiologists and sports team ministers gathered to present papers and investigate the common ground of philosophy, theology,…
Sport and Social Mobility: Crossing Borders
Can sport serve as a vehicle for social mobility of disadvantaged social groups? How and to what extent are different forms of social capital created through sport participation? Sport and Social Mobility: Crossing Boundaries takes up these questions through a…
Sport and Social Development: Promise and Caution From an Incipient Cambodian Football League
One of the enduring controversies found in the literature on the role that sport plays in social development is whether this assumed relationship is weak or robust. Despite evidence both for and against the ‘sport-enhances-social-development’ model, a rapidly expanding cluster…
Sport and Social Cohesion in a Provincial Town in South Africa: The Case of a Tourism Project for Aid and Social Development Through Football
This article examines sport and social cohesion in South Africa through a case study of a project on aid and social development through tourism and football in the provincial town of Stellenbosch, in the Western Cape. The field of study…
Sport and Social Class: The Case of Finland
Sports have often been neglected in the research on taste and cultural consumption. This article investigates lifestyle choices in the area of sports, with particular focus on the differences that can be drawn from occupational class and other background variables.…
Sport and Prosumption
This article engages and extends understanding of the interrelated concepts of prosumption, the prosumer, prosumer capitalism, and McDonaldization in relation to the highly commodified and spectacularized world of professional sport. Developing an understanding of modern sport forms as having always…
Sport and Physical Culture in North Korea: Resisting, Recognizing and Relishing Globalization
There is little doubt that the globalization process has developed unevenly across time and space. This is most pronounced in the context of North Korea, one of the very few remaining communist societies, which has been isolated from the rest…
Sport and Neoliberalism: Politics, Consumption, and Culture
Offering new approaches to thinking about sports and political ideologies, Sport and Neoliberalism explores the structures, formations, and mechanics of neoliberalism. The editors and contributors to this original and timely volume examine the intersection of sport as a national pastime…
Sport and migration: Borders, boundaries and crossings.
Over the past two decades, the rate of sport-related migration across the globe has intensified, as has academic interest in the causes and effects of these migratory patterns. As editors, Maguire and Falcous sought to summarise the ways in which…
Sport and Feminism in China: On the Possibilities of Conceiving Roller Derby as a Feminist Intervention
The spread of contemporary roller derby presents an opportunity to examine the ways sport can act as a form of feminist intervention. This article draws on a qualitative case study of a roller derby league in China, made up predominantly…
Sport and Exercise Medicine’s Professional Project: The Impact of Formal Qualifications on the Organization of British Olympic Medical Services
This article documents the intended and unintended outcomes of recent organizational change in UK elite sport. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 14 doctors and 14 physiotherapists who are current members of the British Olympic Association medical and physiotherapy committees, it…
Sport and Disability: Pistorius Does Not Fit with the Categories
Oscar Pistorius presents a major issue to sports organisations, as exposed in the media. First and foremost, media wrongly perceive him as the first disabled athlete to participate in the Olympic Games. Second, they openly question the legitimacy of his…
Sport and Development: An Overview, Critique, and Reconstruction
“Development” has become both a watchword and a fascination in sporting circles worldwide. Yet sport officials, policy makers, and advocates often have relatively unsophisticated understandings of development and the role of sport therein. This can result in programs and initiatives…
Sport and Alcohol – Who’s Missing? New Directions for a Sociology of Sport-Related Drinking
This paper presents a series of emerging research avenues and agendas for under-represented aspects of sport-related drinking. Extending the findings of a previous paper, which mapped the dominant themes in sociological treatments of drinking and sport to date, this paper…
Spectator Demand, Uncertainty of Results, and Public Interest: Evidence From the English Premier League
This article tests the impact of match outcome uncertainty on stadium attendance and television audiences of English Premier League football. The method accounts for different measures of outcome uncertainty, an issue identified as a potential source of discord between existing…
Spatialities of Anger: Emotional Geographies in a Boxing Program for Survivors of Violence
The primary aim of this article is to begin to articulate the spatiality and sociality of emotion in an action research project called Shape Your Life, a project designed to teach recreational boxing to female and transgendered survivors of violence…
Solo Sailing: An “Ordinary Girl”, Voluntary Risk-Taking and (Ir)Responsibility
This article draws on material associated with a solo sailing circumnavigation, undertaken by 16 year old Jessica Watson in 2009–2010, to discuss how her voyage provided a focal point for debates relating to voluntary risk-taking conducted within the sport and…
Sojourner Perceptions of the St George Cross Flag During the FIFA 2010 World Cup: A Symbol of Carnival or Menace?
Researchers have observed that during a major sporting event, participating nations are transformed into sites of carnival and patriotic celebration. National flags are important symbols, increasingly used to denote support for the national team and to express group identity. Using…
Socioeconomic Differences in Sport and Physical Activity Among Italian Adults
We aimed to assess the extent of socioeconomic differences in sport and physical activity among Italian adults. A secondary data analysis of a multipurpose survey carried out by the National Institute of Statistics in 2006 in Italy was performed. We…
Socioeconomic Determinants of Success at the Summer Paralympics
For the first time, the determinants of a country’s success at the Paralympic Games are studied, using data from four editions, starting in 1996. By means of a tobit panel, the authors find that gross domestic product (GDP) per capita,…
Socialisation Into Organised Sports of Young Adolescents with a Lower Socioeconomic Status
Studies investigating sport socialisation often focussed on the barriers for youngsters from lower socio-economic status (SES) families to participate in sport. In the present study, the socialisation into sports of young adolescents from lower SES families that do participate in…
Social Stratification and Sports in Amsterdam in the 20th Century
Participation in organized sports is considered as a lifestyle characteristic that is dependent on social class and status considerations. It has been argued that each sport, to a certain extent, can be considered as a representative of certain status categories.…
Social Responsibility and the Competitive Bid process for Major Sporting Events
The 2016 Summer Olympic Games 1 bids were selected as a case study to explore how the focus on social responsibility (CSR) and community development (CD) differs in traditional versus nontraditional bid cities. We employed a media framing methodology to…
Social Class the Elite Hockey Player Career and Educational Paths
This paper focuses on how engaging in hockey as an elite athlete influences educational paths. It relies on qualitative and quantitative methods, including interviews with 36 ice hockey players in Switzerland and 605 respondents who completed a questionnaire. We argue…
Social Capital, Network Governance and the Strategic Delivery of Grassroots Sport in England
There has been a growing debate concerning the increasing salience of sport to government in the UK and the role and value of community-level sport policy. Much of this debate has centred on the role of voluntary sport clubs (VSCs)…
Social Capital and College Sport: In Search of the Bridging Potential of Intercollegiate Athletics
Intercollegiate athletics in the United States have been linked with enhancing the sense of community between students on campus (Clopton, 2008). Still, little evidence confirms that maintaining a prominent athletics program contributes to the social capital of students on campus…
Social Benefits of Playing Wii Bowling for Older Adults
This research study investigated whether playing a digital game, Wii Bowling, with others can enhance the social life of older adults. Our research used a mixed-methods approach. Results showed that players’ levels of social connectedness increased and loneliness declined over…
Social Aspects of Physical Education and Sport in Schools
The paper entitled Social Aspects of Physical Education and Sport in Schools follows the tradition of social research on physical culture, focusing on the evolution of physical education and sport in schools. The subject is analysed using terms and theories…
Soccer Nation/Corporation
I miss living in Cape Town, South Africa. I miss lots of things: planting seeds in soil as deep and rich as chocolate pudding; the way the ocean curls around the land like a cat; being able to look up…
Soccer Fan Violence: A Holistic Approach: A Reply to Braun and Vliegenthart
Building on Braun and Vliegenthart’s recent study of soccer hooliganism, this article develops an explanatory model of soccer fan violence and collective violence more generally. The fabric of soccer fan violence becomes a richer tapestry if the diversity of the…
Soccer Attendees’ Preferences for Facilities at the Fionia Park Stadium: An Application of the Discrete Choice Experiment
The discrete choice experiment (DCE) is introduced in sports economics by empirically investigating soccer attendees’ preferences for facilities at a soccer stadium in Denmark. The appropriateness of the strategy of differentiating prices based on quality of opponents (A vs. B…
Slim to Win: An Ethnodrama of Three Elite swimmers’ ‘Presentation of Self’ in Relation to a Dominant Cultural Ideology
Ethnodrama combined with Goffman’s ‘presentation of self’ is used to explore three elite swimmers’ ‘presentation of self’ in relation to the dominant ideology of ‘slim to win’. The ‘presentation of self’ of three swimmers is presented and analyzed according to…
Slam Dunk: Strategic Sport Metaphors and the Construction of Masculine Embodiment at Work
Purpose – This article examines the relationship between strategic sports metaphors, such as “slam dunk” and “trash talk,” and white middle-class heterosexual masculine embodiment in competitive work environments. Competitive organizations, like sports arenas are contested spaces, and in these environments…
Skin Tone and Wages: Evidence From NBA Free Agents, John Robst, Jennifer VanGilder
Although the vast majority of research focuses on differences across races, recent research has also considered disparities within racial groups. Intraracial discrimination or colorism is defined as a bias between members of the same racial group. Prior research has found…
Skills in Motion: Boys’ Trail Motorbiking Activities as Transitions into Working-class Masculinity in a Post-Industrial Locale
During an ethnographic research project exploring young people’s perceptions of living in a post-industrial semi-rural place, boys aged 13/14 years revealed their semi-clandestine motorbiking activities across mountains trails. It was found that riding motorbikes and fixing engines were potential resources…
Skating Femininity: Gender Maneuvering in Women’s Roller Derby
This article contributes to the discussion of hegemonic and alternative femininities through an ethnographic study of Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby. As a site for construction of alternative femininities in the image of a “derby girl,” derby reveals how the…
Skateboarding, Community and Urban Politics: Shifting Practices and Challenges
This paper examines how skateboarding is impacted by the current neoliberal economic and cultural climate of youth sport in the United States. Presently, youth sport is highly influenced by private entities and often packaged as a means to assuage parents…
Skateboarding in Dude Space: The Roles of Space and Sport in Constructing Gender Among Adult Skateboarders
This study aims to address how, to what extent, and under what conditions may those who are not cisgendered as male do the work of negotiating access to male sporting space. In doing so, it brings together critical geographies of…
Skateboarding Helmets and Control: Observations from Skateboard Media and a Hong Kong Skatepark
Skateboarding has a global reach and will be included for the first time in the 2020 Olympic Games. It has transformed from a subcultural pursuit to a mainstream and popular sport. This research looks at some of the challenges posed…
Skate Life: Re-Imagining White Masculinity
An in-depth look at skateboarding culture by a promising young scholar
Showcasing the Springboks: The Commercialization of South African Rugby Heritage
This article is concerned with how sport museums, and in particular rugby museums, in South Africa tell the story of South Africa’s rich rugby heritage. By drawing on the author’s observations at the opening of the Springbok Experience Rugby Museum,…
Show Racism the Red Card: Potential Barriers to the Effective Implementation of the Anti-Racist Message
This discussion paper focuses on anti-racist groups associated with British Association football (soccer) and the barriers that they face in relation to effective implementation of the anti-racism message and aspirational cultural change. In order to address those issues (above) this…
Shifting Boundaries in Sports Technology and Disability: Equal Rights or Unfair Advantage in the Case of Oscar Pistorius?
In Paralympic sports, athletes often depend on some form of equipment to enable activities of daily living, including the ability to participate in sport. Determining precisely when technology assists sports performance and when it transforms or distorts them presents a…
Shadowed by the Corpse of War: Sport Spectacles and the Spirit of Terrorism
Since the early 2000s, there has been a groundswell of research on terrorism and sports mega-events, including investigations into the impact of ‘9/11’ on fear and risk management strategies at high profile sports events. In this article, we re-examine the…
Sex, Sport and Justice: Reframing the ‘Who’ of Citizenship and the ‘What’ of Justice in European and UK Sport Policy
Universalist claims are often made about sport which is, as a consequence, increasingly written into national and international policy as an entitlement of citizenship or even human right. Further, in most countries physical education (PE) is a compulsory component of…
Sex-based Differences in Cognitive Deficits and Symptom Reporting Among Acutely Concussed Adolescent Lacrosse and Soccer Players
Background: Research on the acute effects of a concussion among lacrosse players is limited, and postconcussion patterns between male and female athletes have yet to be clearly established. Differences in the style of play and protective gear worn among male…
Sex-based Differences as a Predictor of Recovery Trajectories in Young Athletes After a Sports-Related Concussion
Background: To date, few studies have delineated clear sex-based differences in symptom resolution after a sports-related concussion (SRC), and equivocal results have been identified in sex-based differences on baseline assessments. Purpose: To assess whether female athletes displayed prolonged recovery and…
Sex Testing, Maked Inspections and the Olympic Games – A Correction to: The London 2012 Olympics – A Gender Equality Audit
In a research Report on gender equality at the London 2012 Olympics, we made an incidental statement about sex testing in the form of naked inspections of women athletes at Olympic Games in the 1960s. In stating this, we were…
Sex Differences in Sport Remain When Accounting for Countries’ Gender Inequality
The spectator lek hypothesis argues that sex differences in preferences for sport largely stem from evolved predispositions and thus should be universal or near universal, whereas socioconstructivist hypotheses argue that such sex differences are entirely socially constructed and thus should…
Serving up Change? Gender Mainstreaming and the UNESCO–WTA Partnership for Global Gender Equality
In 2006, UNESCO partnered with the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) claiming that women’s tennis can help foster gender equality. This partnership was based on the notion that the empowerment of women and girls is integral to sustainable international development; yet,…
Serving the State and the Private Sector: The Paradoxical Effects of the Reconstruction of Public Action on the Career Paths of Sports Ministry Agents in France
Faced with the problems of governing high-level sports policy in France caused by the mobilisation of various categories of private actors, and with the downgrading of France in the ranking of leading sports nations, the Sports Ministry instigated a reform…
Seriousness and Women’s Roller Derby: Gender, Organization, and Ambivalence
This book explores seriousness in practice in the unique sports context of contemporary women’s flat track roller derby. The author presents a stimulating argument for a sociology of seriousness as a productive contribution to understandings of gender, organization and the…
Seniors in Sport: The Experiences and Practices of Older World Masters Games Competitors
This study aims to understand the views, practices and experiences of seniors who participate regularly in sport within the context of identity management and cultural notions of sport and aging. We conducted on-site interviews and observations of male and female…
Selling Health and Fitness to Sporty Sisters: A Critical Feminist Multi-Modal Discourse Analysis of the Lorna Jane Retail Website
In this paper, I conduct a feminist multimodal critical discourse analysis(FMCDA) of the Lorna Jane (LJ) retail website ( ), an Australian fitness fashion company, to examine the discursive strategies used by the company to authorize a particular notion…
Self-Tracking in the Digital Era: Biopower Patriarchy and the New Biometric Body Projects
This article employs Foucauldian and feminist analytics to advance a critical approach to wearable digital health- and activity-tracking devices. Following Foucault’s insight that the growth of individual capabilities coincides with the intensification of power relations, I argue that digital self-tracking…
Sedentary Activities, Peer Behavior, and Delinquency Among American Youth
Delinquent behavior of one’s peers is one of the most robust predictors of adolescent delinquency. However, no study to date has explored the role of this relationship among those who engage in high rates of nonproductive sedentary activities (e.g., video…
Security Governance and Sport Mega-Events: Toward an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda
In the post-9/11 context, security issues have become increasingly central to the hosting of sport mega-event (SMEs). Security budgets for events like the Olympic Games now run into billions of dollars. This article seeks to advance the emerging field of…
Second-Time Global Citizen
A perpetual motion machine is a hypothetical device that repeats a certain motion indefinitely without an energy source. You might have seen a windmill-looking device in a physics book, which has bearing balls rolling around inside of the wheel or…
Schooling Taiwan’s Aboriginal Baseball Players for the Nation
One of the major challenges that faces nation-builders in postcolonial societies is the incorporation of subaltern groups, particularly aboriginal peoples, into a collective national project. One vehicle for addressing this challenge is sport with schools being amongst the most important…
School Board Decision-Making and the Elimination of Sport Participation Fees
Public schools in the US are increasingly charging ‘pay-to-play’ fees for participating in sports. Although these fees can cause reductions in participation, particularly for children from lower-income families, pay-to-play has become a legitimate practice within the field of public education.…
Saving Lives with Soccer and Shoelaces: The Hyperreality of Nike (RED)
Product (RED) was launched in 2006 as an initiative to activate the corporate sector in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa. In 2009, Nike joined Product (RED)’s list of corporate partners with its “Lace Up, Save Lives” campaign. Nike (RED)…
Saved at Home: Christian branding and faith nights in the ‘church of baseball’
Baseball has enjoyed its status as the “national pastime” in part because it has been associated with democracy. To the extent that baseball, as an institution of civil religion, fosters pluralism and inclusion, it can indeed be viewed in democratic…
Saturday Night’s Alright for Tweeting: Cultural Citizenship, Collective Discussion, and the New Media Consumption/Production of Hockey Day in Canada
Drawing upon data collected during the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s 2011 Hockey Day in Canada broadcast, this paper examines how users of Twitter variously reproduced or contested this mediated television program. Three emergent themes from these data are discussed: the sociocultural…
Same But Different? Exploring the Organizational Identities of Swedish Voluntary Sports: Possible Implications of Sports Clubs’ Self-Identification for Their Role as Implementers of Policy Objectives
The aim of this study is to contribute to the ongoing discussion of sports clubs’ propensity to act as policy implementers. Theoretically, we conceptualize this propensity as contingent on an alignment between a sports club’s organizational identity and the cultural…
Salvaging National Pride: The 2010 Taekwondo Controversy and Taiwan’s Quest for Global Recognition
In this article, we analyze Taiwan’s grassroots reactions to the disqualification of taekwondo icon Yang Shu-chun in the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, in order to examine how a technical dispute induced political and popular campaigns that variously blamed the governing…
Rustic Obsessions: The Role of Slovenian Folk Pop in the Slovenian National Imaginary
The article explores the relationship between Slovenian national identity and popular music. A substantial empirical research (150 interviewees from 4 different Slovenian regions) has been conducted to find out what kind of music Slovenians themselves perceive as typically Slovenian and…
Running for Jesus! The Virtues and the Vices of Disability and Sport
The author explores some of the virtues and the vices of sport for Christians. Although sport is clearly a popular and potentially fruitful enterprise for human beings, it has its glories and its temptations. On the one hand, sport can…
Roller Derby Uniforms: The Pleasures and Dilemmas of Sexualized Attire
Previous research on gender and sports has focused on the ways women athletes emphasize their femininity to counter critics who conflate female athleticism with mannishness and lesbianism. My findings from an ethnographic study of three roller derby leagues suggest that…
Rio 2016 and the Sport Participation Legacies
The aim of this study was to investigate the perceptions held by physical education professionals of the sport participation legacy associated with the 2016 Olympic Games (Rio 2016). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 24 professionals who resided in Rio de…
Rights Through Sport: Mapping “Sport For Development and Peace”
Rights Through Sport: Mapping “Sport for Development and Peace” Edit Sign provides an overview of the actors involved in SDP and outlines how their work incorporates human rights principles.
Riding the Lines: Academia, Public Intellectual Work, and Scholar-Activism
This article expands a plenary lecture I delivered at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport’s 2017 conference in Windsor, Canada.1 Windsor sits on the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations, comprised of the…