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Discussing Homosexuality on Association Football Fan Message Boards: A Changing Cultural Context
This article presents the findings of a discourse analysis carried out on 48 association football (soccer) message boards from across the United Kingdom concerning fans’ views towards the presence of gay footballers. It draws on over 3000 anonymous posts to examine whether hegemonic or more inclusive forms of masculinity existed. The overall findings are that, […]
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Cultural Citizenship: Media and Sport in Contemporary Australia
Mediated sport has assumed an extraordinary position in contemporary global culture. It is enormously popular, especially when stimulated by both artful and ‘carpet bomb’ marketing and promotion. It is, correspondingly, in high commercial demand in the transition from scheduled, ‘appointment’ broadcast television to a more flexible, mobile system of on-demand viewing on multiple platforms. The […]
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Cultural Consumption Through the Epistemologies of the South: ‘Humanization’ in Transnational Football Fan Solidarities
In 2014, Boaventura de Sousa Santos awoke the global sociological community to the need to privilege ‘humanization’ in the exploration of transnational solidarities. This article presents the cultural consumption of a football club – Liverpool FC – to understand the common ‘love’, ‘suffering’, ‘care’ and ‘knowledge’ that fans who are part of the ‘Brazil Reds’ […]
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Cultural Differences, Assimilation, and Behavior: Player Nationality and Penalties in Football
We examine the impact of a different cultural background on individual behavior, focusing on penalties in football matches of southern European and northern European football players in the English Premier League. Southern European football players collect on average more football penalties than their British colleagues, and northern European football players collect on average less football […]
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Cultural Sociology in Perspective: Linking Culture and Power
Cultural sociology aims at incorporating the central role of meaning-making into the analysis of social phenomena. The article presents an overview of cultural sociology, focusing on its main theoretical frameworks, methodological strategies and empirical investigations. The interplay between the cultural and the social and the focus on meaning variations are two central principles of analysis […]
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Cultural Studies: Which Paradigm?
This essay is a critical review of ‘Cultural Studies: two paradigms’ by Stuart Hall, published in this journal in 1980. The two paradigms are ‘experience’ and ‘ideology’, the respective master concepts of the first and second generation of Cultural Studies. I situate Hall’s article in the context of its time (the late 1970s) as a […]
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Cultural vs Economic Capital: Symbolic Boundaries Within the Middle Class
This article concerns an insufficiently studied link in cultural class analysis, namely that between class-structured lifestyle differences and social closure. It employs a modified version of Michèle Lamont’s promising, yet under-theorised approach to the study of symbolic boundaries – the conceptual distinctions made by social actors in categorising people, practices, tastes, attitudes and manners in […]
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Culture, Community, Consciousness: The Caribbean Sporting Diaspora
This study shows the utility of the concept of diaspora for physical cultural studies, and particularly for thinking through sport in a Canadian setting. The capacity of diaspora theory to specify a matrix of real and imagined cross-border cultural, kinship, and social relationships makes it useful for understanding community (re)generation in sport settings. Relatively little […]
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Cultures of Play During Middle Childhood: Interpretive Perspectives From Two Distinct Marginalized Communities
This article offers interpretive perspectives on play as a cultural activity during middle childhood by contrasting two communities targeted for aid by external sport and play programs: a Chicago public housing community and a community of Angolan refugee camps. Ethnographic anecdotes, along with some survey results, demonstrate that aside from any organized programs, informal sport […]
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Dark Cloud or Silver Lining? The Value of Bonding Networks During Youth
Social capital is fast becoming a salient and exciting area of youth study. While debates about social capital during youth usually focus on its presumed positive consequences, there is a current trend to label certain forms of networking, particularly bonding networks, as ‘perverse’, ‘bad’ or ‘dark’. What is often referred to as the ‘down side’ […]
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Contested Terrain and Terrain That Contests: Donald Trump Golf’s Environmental Politics and a Challenge to Anthropocentrism in Physical Cultural Studies
This article focuses on the case of Trump International Golf Links, Scotland (TIGLS), a golf course in Aberdeenshire that opened in 2012 after a lengthy and contentious application and development phase. Herein, we draw from a larger study of golf and the environment with the aim of assessing both the TIGLS case in itself and […]
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Contrasting Representations of Englishness During FIFA World Cup Finals
Football and English national identity have been interlinked for over a century. The increased display of the St George Cross rather than the Union flag when the England team compete in international football competitions has been linked to a rise in a specifically English national consciousness. Academics have assumed this to be a response to […]
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Conversion to Bodybuilding
This article aims to study the process of conversion to bodybuilding in order to understand how some gym enthusiasts progressively organise their lives around this activity. Our observations, drawn from an ethnography of a gym and 30 semi-structured interviews with different profiles of gym-goers in French-speaking Switzerland, suggest that the grip that bodybuilding takes on […]
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Corruption and Public Secrecy: An Ethnography of Football Match-Fixing
The topic of corruption has recently moved from the periphery to the centre of social scientific attention. Notwithstanding the increased interest, research into corruption has been empirically limited and under-theorized. This study addresses that gap by providing an ethnographic account of football match-fixing in the Czech Republic. By qualitatively analysing both primary and secondary data, […]
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Counting Young People is Not Youth Work’: The Tensions Between Values, Targets and Positive Activities in Neighbourhood-Based Work
The UK New Labour Government’s ideological preoccupations included tackling deprivation, addressing anti-social behaviour and persuading young people to engage in ‘positive activities’. In 2007, the report ‘Aiming High for Young People’ outlined policies intended to contribute to the achievement of associated goals. The Youth Sector Development Fund (YSDF) provided Civil Sector Organisations (CSOs) with the […]
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Creating or Awakening National Pride Through Sporting Success: A Longitudinal Study on Macro Effects in the Netherlands
Like many other countries, the Dutch government increased investments in elite sports in the last decennium, partly driven by the ambition to organise the Olympic Games in 2028 in the Netherlands. One of the most important legitimations for this ambition is that elite sports events and national achievements should foster national pride, social cohesion and […]
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Creating Social Change in and Through Intercollegiate Sport
The purpose of this paper is to introduce the work included in the special issue: Creating Social Change in and Through Intercollegiate Sport. In doing so, the author develops a multilevel conceptual model, demonstrating how the research included in the special issue addresses the antecedents and outcomes of social change initiatives in intercollegiate sport at […]
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Critical Discourse Analysis of Motivational Content in Commercially Available Exercise DVDs: Body Capital on Display or Psychological Capital Being Developed?
Guided by critical discourse analysis, commercially available exercise DVDs are described in terms of the instructor and model characteristics, and the motivational content being verbally conveyed by the instructors on the DVDs. Ten commercially available, contemporary, single instructor lead exercise DVDs were obtained from multiple sources. Instructor and model characteristics, emergent relationship patterns, and the […]
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Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Religion as “Character”: Football and Soccer in the United States and Germany
This study compares sports media coverage of American football (“football”) in the United States and association football (“soccer”) in Germany, with a specific focus on the portrayal of Christian athletes. Specifically, we contend that media coverage of Christian football players in the United States presupposes that religiosity necessarily equates with good character. Thus, American athletes […]
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CrossFit: Fitness Cult or Reinventive Institution?
Branded as ‘the sport of fitness’, CrossFit is a burgeoning exercise regime that has surpassed the growth of well-known fitness franchises. In addition to its comprehensive fitness regime, it claims to offer a supportive community, which aims to ensure that people do not exercise ‘together alone’. The tight-knit – almost insular – nature of this […]
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Cuddling and Spooning: Heteromasculinity and Homosocial Tactility Among Student-Athletes
This article examines the prevalence of homosocial tactility and the contemporary status and meaning of heteromasculinity among British male youth. Drawing on in-depth interviews with forty student-athletes at a British university, we find that thirty-seven participants have cuddled with another male. In addition to this cuddling, participants also engage in “spooning” with their heterosexual male […]
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Cul-de-sac Kids
Previous research indicates that adults who live on cul-de-sac streets are more likely to have positive experiences with neighbors than residents of other street types (Brown and Werner, 1985; Hochschild Jr, 2011; Mayo Jr, 1979; Willmott, 1963). The present research ascertains whether street design has an impact on children’s neighborhood experiences. The author interviewed 73 […]
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Competing With Her Mother-in-Law: The Intersection of Control Management and Emotion Management in Sport Families
Extensive ethnographic research with wives of professional athletes revealed that in certain sport families, the mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationship is among the numerous unique marital and occupational stressors these wives confront in their everyday life. Many wives believe they must compete with their mothers-in-law for their husbands’ attention, love, and support. This chapter makes a case for […]
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Competitive Sports Participation in High School and Subsequent Substance Use in Young Adulthood: Assessing Differences Based on Level of Contact
The objective of this study is to examine how participation in different types of competitive sports (based on level of contact) during high school is associated with substance use 1 to 4 years after the 12th grade. The analysis uses nationally representative samples of 12th graders from the Monitoring the Future Study, who were followed […]
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Complex Interaction of Religiousness With Other Factors in Relation to Substance Use and Misuse Among Female Athletes
Strength of religious faith (SRF) is rarely studied as a protective factor against substance use and misuse in sports. Herein, we studied the potential buffering effect of the complex socio-educational, sports, and religiousness factors in the protection against substance use and misuse, including cigarettes, analgesics, appetite suppressants, potential doping behavior, and binge drinking. The sample […]
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Complicating the Relationship Between Sport and National Identity: The Case of Post-Socialist Slovenia
Sociology of sport knowledge on national identity is grounded in research that focuses primarily on long established nation-states with widely known histories. The relationship between sport and national identity in postsocialist/Soviet/colonial nations that have gained independence or sovereignty since 1990 has seldom been studied. This paper examines the role of sports in the formation of […]
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Concussion Incidence and Return-To-Play Time in National Basketball Association Players. Results from 2006 to 2014
Background: Various research efforts have studied concussions in the National Football League, Major League Baseball, and the National Hockey League. However, no study has investigated the incidence and return-to-play trends in the National Basketball Association (NBA), which this study aims to do. Hypothesis: Increased media scrutiny and public awareness, in addition to the institution of […]
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Conducting Commissioned Research in Neoliberal Academia: The Conditions Evaluations Impose on Research Practice
The article deals with the unease we experience during various commissioned research projects. On the one hand, as social scientists, we feel committed to conducting ‘good research’ that acknowledges quality criteria such as flexibility and transparency and in particular allows for musing and reflexivity to ‘discover’ new aspects of our research topic. On the other […]
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Confronting Neoliberalism: Toward a Militant Pedagogy of Empowered Citizenship.
This article is structured along two particularly pressing fault lines: (a) the educational arena and our work as critical pedagogues and engaged public intellectuals, and (b) the location of our research to what we may term the street (or, the spaces in which neoliberal engagements are faced head-on). It presents a discussion on neoliberal fundamentalism, […]
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Confucianism, Baseball and Ethnic Stereotyping in Taiwan
Unlike the experience of indigenous people in some societies, notably North America and Australia, where there is a significant modern sporting culture to which indigenous people contribute relatively little, in Taiwan the situation is reversed. Here the sporting culture is relatively underdeveloped in large part, we argue, because of the continuing influence of Confucian ideas, […]
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Connecting Social Psychology and Sociology of Sport: Using Goffman as a Framework for Sociological Sports Research
Research on the sociology of sports has much to contribute to public discourse on sports and is well positioned to do so through the connection between sociology of sports and social psychology. This article uses the work of Erving Goffman () as a framework for situating research in the sociology of sports into the themes […]
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Consequences of Repeated Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption in Football Players
The acknowledgement of risks for traumatic brain injury in American football players has prompted studies for sideline concussion diagnosis and testing for neurological deficits. While concussions are recognized etiological factors for a spectrum of neurological sequelae, the consequences of sub-concussive events are unclear. We tested the hypothesis that blood-brain barrier disruption (BBBD) and the accompanying […]
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Constructing and Contesting the Olympics Online: The Internet, Rio 2016 and the Politics of Brazilian Development
The awarding of the 2016 Summer Olympics to the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil continues the trend of international sports mega-events being hosted in the global South and constructed and promoted as part of long-term development plans and policies. Rio 2016 also connects with the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) current commitment to international development […]
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Consuming Olympism
The roots of Olympism lie in the late 19th century and Baron Pierre de Coubertin’s revival of the Olympic Games. The values of Olympism Have been increasingly compromised by subsequent developments which have significantly transformed modern sport. Professionalism, commercialism, proliferating forms of spectacular media representation and a globalising consumer culture have transformed the Olympic Games […]
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Consuming Sports Media, Producing Sports Media: An Analysis of Two Fan Sports Blogospheres
The fan sports blogger, a sports fan who contributes their own narratives to the quotidian reportage of sports by publishing an online sports news site on platforms like Blogger and WordPress, is a relatively new fan presence. The scant research devoted to this nascent culture has questioned its potential impact on mainstream sports media, or […]
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Collegiate Sport Chaplaincy: Exploration of an Emerging Profession
Previous research has indicated there are no clearly defined qualifications and roles for collegiate sport chaplains. Among the concerns raised about the practice of sport chaplaincy were the provision of counseling services and the separation of church and state. The purposes of this study were to explore: 1. training among collegiate sport chaplains, 2. their […]
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Commemorating 9/11 NFL-Style: Insights Into America’s Culture of Militarism
This article explores how the National Football League’s (NFL’s) commemoration ceremonies on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 present a unique instance of sports–media-military convergence through their meticulous implementation across multiple games, broadcasting channels, and geographic locations. Expanding on themes of healing, the valorization of troops, and the sanitizing of war, as well as territorial conquest, […]
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Communism, Capitalism, and Images of Class. Effects of Reference Groups, Reality, and Regime in 43 Nations and 110,000 Individuals, 1987-2009
People differ vastly in perceptions of inequality, some seeing a small elite at the top of their society with a vast impoverished mass at the bottom, others a prosperous society with most people in the middle. This was found first for two nations, Australia and Communist-era Hungary. We extend these results to 43 nations and […]
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Community Sport Events and CSR Sponsorship: Examining the Impacts of a Public Health Agenda
Tobacco and alcohol companies have long faced criticism regarding the unhealthy nature of their products and decisions to sponsor community sport events (CSEs). Recent public health concerns have led to additional CSE sponsor products facing similar criticism, including soft drinks, confectionary, and fast food. With CSE sponsorship increasingly utilized as a corporate social responsibility (CSR) […]
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Comparative Analysis of University Sports in the U.S. and Turkey
The authors compare collegiate sports governance in Turkey and the United States using comparative analysis techniques. Using the U.S. National Collegiate Athletic Association as a model, the authors evaluate structural and political aspects of the Turkish University Sports Federation to identify new potentialities for its growth and for the support of collegiate sports within Turkey.
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Competing Constructions of British National Identity: British Newspaper Comment on the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony
This study used newspaper comment on the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London as an avenue to discuss and contemplate British national identity. Through analysis of 91 editorials and opinion columns in the British national press, we uncovered three prominent themes in newspaper discourse: the ‘greatness’ of Great Britain, the ceremony as […]
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Changing Work Routines and Labour Practices of Sports Journalists in the Digital Era: A Case Study of Postmedia
This article contributes to an emerging body of research that examines the transformation of sport, journalism and media practice in the digital era as part of what Raymond Williams has called the ‘long revolution’ of communications, culture and democracy. In so doing, we explore how Canadian sports journalists have attempted to make sense of, and […]
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Chasing Objectivity? Critical Reflections on History, Identity, and the Public Performance of Indian Mascots
Chasing Objectivity? Critical Reflections on History, Identity, and the Public Performance of Indian Mascots examines the role of the objectivity within the discipline of history via explorations of research into Native American sports mascots. I argue that Whiteness and other aspects of privilege are intimately, and publicly, entwined with the practice of “doing” history and […]
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Chasing Rx: A Spatial Ethnography of the Crossfit Gym
CrossFit is a group fitness program that incorporates a variety of weightlifting and gymnastic movements performed at high intensities. While scholars have examined CrossFit’s physiological and behavioral outcomes, few studies have examined the program’s psychological and sociological characteristics. Drawing from Henning Eichberg’s work on spatial geography, this 5-month ethnographic study examined the space and place […]
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Children’s engagement in leisure time physical activity: Exploring family structure as a determinant
This paper draws on Bourdieu’s key concepts in an effort to understand particular social practices and the effect of family as a social environment and determinant for participation in leisure time physical activity. As an exploratory study, the aim was to elicit children’s subjective views of their engagement in leisure time physical activity settings. Adopting […]
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Chinese Olympic Sport Policy: Managing the Impact of Globalization
The article examines the extent to which, and the manner in which, the Chinese government managed its relationship with the Olympic movement following its re-engagement with international elite sports competition in the mid 1970s. Locating the analysis in the literature on globalisation, the article notes the limited research exploring the role of the state in […]
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Christianity, Boxing and Mixed Martial Arts: Reflections on Morality, Vocation, and Well-Being
This essay provides a theological analysis of two violent combat sports, boxing and mixed martial arts (MMA, also known as cage fighting). The titles of the biographies of a number of well-known professional Christian boxers, such as God in My Corner (Foreman) and Humble Warrior (Holyfield) and the fact that “roughly 700 churches in the […]
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Churches as Targets for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention: Comparison of Genes, Nutrition, Exercise, Wellness and Spiritual Growth (GoodNEWS) and Dallas County Populations
Background We compared cardiovascular (CV) risk factors (CVRFs) of community-based participatory research (CBPR) participants with the community population to better understand how CBPR participants relate to the population as a whole. Methods Good News Participants in 20 African-American churches in Dallas, Texas were compared with age/sex-matched African-Americans in the Dallas Heart Study (DHS), a probability-based […]
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Citizen Consumer Citimer in Football Fan Cultures
This article examines how football, sport and other cultural fields are characterized by complex interrelations between ‘citizen’ and ‘consumer’ identities. Our analysis centres specifically on critically examining and developing the concept of ‘citimer’ (citizen-consumer) with respect to activist supporter groups within European professional men’s football. First, to establish the structural and cultural context for our […]
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Building Worlds: A Connective Ethnography of Play in Minecraft
Digital gameplay is enacted across many social platforms that can be described as affinity spaces, meaning informal learning environments where players share resources and knowledge. This article examines the ways that a young gamer stitches together several different spaces to play Minecraft. Our study focuses on the play of a single participant, collecting ethnographic data […]
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Bullshot: Sporting Shooting, Alcohol and the Two Cultures
This paper discusses the role and function of alcohol in sporting shooting in the UK. It seeks to understand and critically comment upon alcohol consumption relating to this sport, to widen empirical knowledge of sporting shooting and to use the lens of alcohol to enhance our theoretical understanding of changes taking place in the global […]
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Call Me Loyal: Globalization, Corporate Nationalism and the America’s Cup
This study examines the relationship between sport, globalization and national identity. Specifically, the article focuses on how Team New Zealand’s 2003 America’s Cup campaign represents and reproduces the concept of corporate nationalism. Located within a critical cultural studies perspective the analysis uses a multi-method approach including textual and contextual analysis and semi-structured interviews with key […]
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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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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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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: 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 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: 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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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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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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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: Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport
Book review: Floodlights and touchlines: A history of spectator sport
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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: 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: 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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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 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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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: 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: 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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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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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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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 Psychology Concepts and Applications
Sport Psychology: Concepts and Applications shows how concepts supported by current scientific research can be used to address issues and situations encountered everyday by physical activity specialists, coaches, athletic trainers, and athletes.
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Sportista: Female Fandom in the United States
The typical female sports fan remains very different from her male counterparts. In their insightful and engaging book,Sportista, Andrei S. Markovits and Emily Albertson examine the significant ways many women have become fully conversant with sports-acquiring a knowledge of and passion for them as a way of forging identities that until recently were quite alien […]
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Sports and Identity: New Agendas in Communication
This volume of essays examines the ways in which sports have become a means for the communication of social identity in the United States. The essays included here explore the question, How is identity engaged in the performance and spectatorship of sports? Defining sports as the whole range of mediated professional sports, and considering actual […]
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Sports Coaching Research: Context, Consequences, and Consciousness
This book raises critical questions about the explanatory framework guiding sports coaching research and presents a new conceptualization for research in the field. Through mapping and contextualizing sports coaching research within a corporatized higher education, the dominant or legitimate forms of sports coaching knowledge are problematized and a new vision of the field, which is […]
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Sports In Society: Issues and Controversies (13th Edition)
For over 30 years, Sports in Society has been a resource in the cultural, interactional, and structural dimensions of sports. The Thirteenth Edition provides a thorough introduction to the sociology of sport by raising critical questions to explore the relationships between sports, culture, and society. This text takes an issues-oriented approach to the study of […]
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