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 that a strong family belief in sport capital predisposes athletes to leave school early, for […]
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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 examine how the bids were represented through media and articulated by various stakeholders. Of specific […]
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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. These social status categories are dynamic and their size, exclusiveness, and even existence are related […]
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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 organised sports was investigated. A total of 9 girls and 12 boys from lower SES […]
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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, population, having many participants per million inhabitants, being a former communist country, hosting the Paralympics, […]
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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 found marked differences in the practice of physical activity and sport by socioeconomic position. Subjects […]
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Socioeconomic Status and Sport Participation at Different Developmental Stages During Childhood and Youth: Multivariate Analyses Using Canadian National Survey Data
This study examines the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and sport and physical activity involvement at different stages of childhood and adolescence in Canada. From the previous literature on SES and health-related behavior, there was reason to test competing hypotheses on the direction of the predicted relationship. The data employed in our analysis came from […]
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Socratic Case-Method Teaching in Sports Coach Education: Reflections of Students and Course Tutors
Despite reported increases in higher education (HE) sports coach education provision there are very few studies which have investigated student self-learning curricula as a mechanism to prepare sports coaches with the complexities of learning how to coach. Using an action research methodology, this article examines how case-method teaching (CMT) was introduced into an undergraduate sports […]
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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 findings from a qualitative study of sojourner perceptions of a transformed England during the FIFA […]
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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 leisure context. Specifically, we illustrate how public and media commentaries on her voyage reflect discourses […]
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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 in Toronto. In particular, the article is a theoretical and empirical examination of anger, the […]
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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 evidence. Results show that more certain matches are preferred by spectators at the stadium yet […]
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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 argues for the importance of widening the empirical and theoretical base so as to better […]
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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 that are unfocused, ineffective, or even counterproductive. Drawing on critical theory and informed by our […]
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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 participation mainly based on the inequity introduced by his prosthetic legs. Content analysis, in English […]
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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 argues that attempts by managers in sports medicine to create a highly specialized area of […]
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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 of expatriate workers, to explore some of the possibilities roller derby presents in activating glocal […]
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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 academe has analysed these changing patterns and highlight possibilities for further research. The greatest strength […]
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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 and also an engine for urban policy–e.g., stadium building–as well as a powerful force for […]
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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 of the world since the end of the Korean War in 1953. This paper explores […]
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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, making several visits to the museum, sourcing hitherto untapped archival sources from the South African […]
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Skate Life: Re-Imagining White Masculinity
An in-depth look at skateboarding culture by a promising young scholar
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Skate Parks as Context for Adolescent Development
All people influence, and are influenced by, the contexts they inhabit. Leisure contexts are no exception. The current research comprised three studies investigating the links between one leisure context, skate parks, and adolescent development. Using interview, observation, and questionnaire methods, the research shed light on several of the demographic, psychosocial, and subcultural correlates of skate […]
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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 by the opening of a new skatepark in Hong Kong and the introduction of a […]
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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 masculinity and the critical literature on skateboarding to address the role of particular kinds of […]
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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 that their children are gaining competitive life skills as well as character enhancing attributes. Skateboarding […]
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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 understudied intra gender relations between femininities can be important in challenging hegemonic gender relations. The […]
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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 for young boys’ transitions into adult working-class masculinity and sources of competence, pride and enjoyment […]
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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 a strong relationship between skin tone of African American men and economic outcomes. This article […]
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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 employees, like athletes, work to “position” themselves to maximize their chances of winning valuable projects […]
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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 their front stage (e.g., posting of specific images; direct media quotes) and backstage (e.g., an […]
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Small-sided Games for Young Athletes: Is Game Specificity Influential?
This study aimed to quantify and compare the physiological, physical and technical demands of a sport-specific and non-sport-specific small-sided game (SSG) in young athletes. Ten male soccer players (mean ± SD: age, 13.0 ± 0.3 years, O2peak, 54.4 ± 4.9 ml · kg−1 · min−1) completed 3 vs. 3 and 6 vs. 6 soccer and […]
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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 matches) is investigated. The results indicate that respondents are capable of understanding the exercise. The […]
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Soccer Changes Lives: From Learned Helplessness to Self-Directed Learners
Coaches Across Continents uses a three-year Hat-Trick Initiative to work alongside partners in developing communities globally. This paper examines their Chance to Choice curriculum, and shows how they use this to guide local community coaches, teachers, and leaders from learned helplessness towards self-directed learning. Program participants learn applicable life skills in parallel to football skills […]
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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 phenomenon is recognized and the focus is moved towards a more holistic approach to explaining […]
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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 to Table Mountain’s shoulder to see the weather coming in from the south. Where I […]
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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 that are characteristic of sociology, most notably the sociology of physical culture, historical sociology and […]
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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 an 8-week period. Qualitative results described participants’ perceptions of their interactions with others, conversations with […]
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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 who follow those teams. Consisting of networks of relationships based on trust and norms of […]
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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) and the extent to which they can contribute to the creation of social capital. This […]
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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 bearing balls swinging attached to the outer side of the wheel. That is called a […]
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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 SME security research in substantive and analytical terms. We identify three sets of issues and […]
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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 gaming, TV viewing, and watching movies); a growing public health concern. Here, this issue is […]
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Seeking Spirituality Through Physicality in Schools: Learning from ‘Eastern Movement Forms
This paper argues that we might learn from the ways in which Eastern movement forms with a self-cultivation focus approach the development of spirituality through physicality. It also argues that these movement forms have potential to assist in the development of children’s spirituality in school and Physical Education (PE) settings. First, the paper highlights a […]
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Self-concept Organisation and Mental Toughness in Sport
The present study examines the relationship between individual differences in evaluative self-organisation and mental toughness in sport, proposing that motivation and emotional resiliency (facets of mental toughness) stem from differences in core self. A cross-sectional assessment of 105 athletes competing at a range of performance levels took part in an online study including measures of […]
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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 devices (DSTDs) expand individuals’ capacity for self-knowledge and self-care at the same time that they […]
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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 ( http://www.lornajane.com.au ), an Australian fitness fashion company, to examine the discursive strategies used by the company to authorize a particular notion of “active living” for women. Specifically, I shall examine how the semiotic choices on the […]
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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 World Masters Games competitors (aged 55 years and over). Participants were involved in a variety […]
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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 mid-ranges of agency between dichotomies of voluntarism and determinism.
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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 of this policy based on the principles of New Public Management. While some studies have […]
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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, girls and women are positioned as both the barrier and solution to development. This document […]
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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 vary as a function of a society’s gender inequality. To test these competing hypotheses, cross-national […]
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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 following in the footsteps of numerous academics and journalists who had made a similar assertion. […]
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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 more symptoms at baseline and after an SRC compared with male athletes. Study Design: Cohort […]
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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 and female lacrosse players potentially confound a direct comparison of sex-based differences in this population. […]
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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 children’s education, and sport is seen as central to this. Consequently, in the interests of […]
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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 case of the Salt Lake City Winter Games of 2002 around Baudrillard’s (1995) concept of […]
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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 philosophical and ethical dilemma. We raise the conceptual problem of line-drawing between promoting rights of […]
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Shooting for Lithuania: Migration, National Identity and Men’s Basketball in the East of England
The accession of the ‘A8 states’ into the European Union initiated considerable migration into Western Europe. The impact upon local communities has seen significant attention, yet little research exists that focuses upon migrant experiences and identity specifically in sport. This study used a figurational framework to investigate the lived experiences of basketball among male Lithuanian […]
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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 essay draws on the educational charity Show Racism the Red Card (SRTRC) and their work […]
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Review of Women and Fitness in American Culture
Review of Women and Fitness in American Culture
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Review: Diana Tracy Cohen, Iron Dads: Managing Family, Work, and Endurance Sport Identities
This book revolves around the central idea of how triathletes manage the multiple identities of father, husband, worker and athlete in their day-to-day life, thus earning the title of Iron Dad. Taking part in the 140.6-mile triathlon requires not only great physical stamina but also immense emotional and mental strength. The author has beautifully captured […]
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Revising Canada’s policies on Harassment and Abuse in Sport: A Position Paper and Recommendations
By the late 1990s Canada had produced one of the most progressive examples in the world of a policy to deal with harassment and abuse in sport. Sport Canada’s funding regulations required all national sport organizations (NSOs) in receipt of federal funding to have a policy: (a) to deal appropriately with incidents of harassment and […]
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Riding in the Shadows: The Reaction of the British Print Media to Chris Froome’s Victory in the 2013 Tour de France
On 21 July 2013 Chris Froome became only the second British cyclist to win the Tour de France. This paper examines how the events surrounding Froome’s victory in the 2013 Tour de France were reported in the British (London-based) print media the day after his victory. Data were collected from nine different daily newspapers on […]
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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 Ojibwa, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi peoples. Mentioning this fact is no mere historical courtesy; […]
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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.
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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 Janeiro at the time of the study. In general, apart from the tangible legacies, individuals […]
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Road Cycling Over Forty: Fitness, Friends, and Fondos
The recent growth in the aging population taking up road cycling and participating in Gran Fondo events has gained attention in popular media. However as of yet, little research exists regarding why, at this time, road cycling is drawing this demographic. This paper explores experiences and perspectives of aging cycling enthusiasts, coaches, and bike store […]
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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 many “rollergirls” view their hyper-feminine, sexualized uniforms as a playful and pleasurable expression of their […]
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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 be a magnificent exhibition of the beauty, diversity, power, and God-given potential of the human […]
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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 what are for them the defining characteristics of these music acts or styles. The results […]
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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 party, the People’s Republic of China, and South Korea for inflicting shame on both the […]
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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 material, that is, ends and means of a given policy. Building on data from short, […]
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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 importance of hockey to Canadians; the corporate sponsorship of Hockey Day in Canada ; and […]
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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 terms. In recent years, the advent of conservative Christian events called “Faith Nights” threatens the […]
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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) directs 100% of its profits toward HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention through the Global Fund to […]
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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. This study examines what leads some school districts to abandon sport participation fees, despite the […]
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School Sports and Identity Formation: Socialisation or Selection?
It seems common knowledge that school sport participation leads to all kinds of social, educational and health outcomes. However, it may also be that students with a certain predisposition, sometimes referred to as sporting habitus, are more inclined to participate in school sports and that the ‘outcomes’ were already present before participation. Several studies indicated […]
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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 venues. This article offers an empirical study of the role of aboriginal players in Taiwanese […]
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Representation in the First African World Cup: ‘Worldclass’, Pan-Africanism, and Exclusion
This paper explores the representation of the first African World Cup in the British and South African press. Drawing on the output of a variety of media outlets between 2004, when South Africa was awarded the right to host the 2010 event, and the culmination of the tournament in July 2010, this paper contends that […]
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Representations of Sport in the Revolutionary Socialist Press in Britain, 1988–2012
This paper considers how sport presents a dualism to those on the far left of the political spectrum. A long-standing, passionate debate has existed on the contradictory role played by sport, polarised between those who reject it as a bourgeois capitalist plague and those who argue for its reclamation and reformation. A case study is […]
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Representing Taiwan: International Sport, Ethnicity and National Identity in the Republic of China
This article outlines and analysis the political character of Taiwan’s relationship with international sport, and in particular with the Olympic movement. In so doing, it seeks to add to the understanding of the links between sport and the formation and reproduction of national identities, with specific reference to the various cultural and ethnic identities of […]
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Reproduction of the Female Image and Nationalism in Taiwanese Sport Documentaries
In Taiwan, female athletes receive little media attention or are objectified when they win international competitions. However, this objectification does not merely demonstrate sexism toward female athletes, but it also indicates current social views toward national identity and nationalism in Taiwan. This study examined the representation of female athletes from the perspectives of historical background, […]
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Requiem for a “Tough Guy”: Representing Hockey Labor, Violence and Masculinity inGgoon
This paper explores the ongoing construction of hockey in Canada through a textual analysis of the popular comedy, Goon (2012). Touted by its authors as “the Canadian sequel to Slap Shot” and “an homage to enforcers”, Goon is analyzed in relation to simmering debates about fighting in hockey as well as the broader crisis of […]
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Research Note: Estimates of College Football Player Rents
Past research indicates that top college football players generate over $500,000 annually in team revenues, well beyond the effective compensation of an athletic scholarship. This article supplements past empirical literature using the most comprehensive, detailed financial information yet compiled on college athletics. An alternative method estimates an equations system to account for the endogeneity of […]
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Resilience as Embedded Neoliberalism: A Governmentality Approach
This article looks at resilience as a form of governmentality. In particular, it is concerned to show that resilience, despite its claims to be about the operation of systems, is, in practice, closer to a form of governance that emphasises individual responsibility. It traces this line of argument through looking at a range of documents […]
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Resisting the World-Class City: Community Opposition and the Politics of a Local Arena Development
While the public subsidy of major league sport franchises and associated urban development projects remains wildly popular in some constituencies, these expenditures have, increasingly, been met with organized resistance. This article examines the formation of Voices for Democracy (VFD)—a grassroots community group that opposed the use of public funds to build a CAD $606.5 million […]
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Response to Andreas Wimmer
I think highly of Andreas Wimmer’s project and consider him a friend. In some ways we may be talking past each other, or just have very different ideas about what race, political sociology, and indeed politics, mean. I am not sure whether Emirbayer and Desmond, Bonilla-Silva, or Feagin are responding to Wimmer’s editorial. I can […]
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Response to Comment on “Investigating Allegations of Point Shaving in NCAA Basketball Using Actual Sportsbook Betting Percentages”
Response to Comment on “Investigating Allegations of Point shaving in NCAA Basketball Using Actual Sportsbook Betting Percentages”
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Rethinking Identity Politics: The Multiple Attachments of an ‘Exclusive’ Sport Organization
This paper draws on a multi-sited ethnography of the North American Chinese Invitational Volleyball Tournament and examines the attachments and relationships that participation nurtures. I argue that rather than being exclusive, the NACIVT and its participants foster and nurture multiple relationships that extend beyond the NACIVT and Asianness. In doing so, I aim to do […]
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Reverse Integration in Wheelchair Basketball: A Serious Leisure Perspective
Wheelchair basketball is one of the most popular sport activities among persons with disabilities. The current study focuses on “reverse integration” (RI) groups of athletes with and without disabilities playing wheelchair basketball in Israel. A qualitative analysis approach was chosen to examine whether the able-bodied participants in RI wheelchair basketball training and competition identify their […]
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Review of Football Fascism and Fandom: The Ultra-S of Italian Football
Football fascism and fandom provides a rare look beneath the surface of Italian neo-fascist hardcore football fandom. The book is the product of ethnographic dissertation research conducted by Alberto Testa on two of these fan groups (called UltraS) in Rome, Italy. Based on academic research, the book seems to have been adapted for a mass-market […]
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Review of Marvin Miller, Baseball Revolutionary
A strong case could be made that a person who never played professional baseball was one of the most influential individuals in the history of that sport. Marvin Miller, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLPBA) from 1966 to 1982, transformed not only the business and economics of baseball but the very […]
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Review of Red nails, Black Skates: Gender, Cash, and Pleasure on and off the Ice
Erica Rand’s Red Nails, Black Skates: Gender, Cash, and Pleasure On and Off the Ice is primarily a series of critical essays on figure skating, and adult figure skating in particular. Rand uses her involvement in the sport, which began in earnest when she was in her 40s, as an entry point into intersecting conversations […]
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Review of Sexual Diversity and the Sochi 2014 Olympics: No More Rainbows
Review of Sexual Diversity and the Sochi 2014 Olympics: No More Rainbows
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Review of The Challenge of Modern Sport Ethics: from Doping to Cyborgs
I begin this review by stating from the outset that I love sport. Being Australian I am immersed in a culture where sport is revered and we are constantly inundated with sporting stories from our dominant codes. Whilst this love means I acknowledge the many redeeming qualities it possesses, I am also glaringly aware there […]
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Review of The Fantasy Sport Industry: Games Within Games
Review of The Fantasy Sport Industry: Games Within Games
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Review of The Global Football League: Transnational Networks, Social Movements and Sport in the New Media Age
Globalisation has had a profound impact on European football and English football in particular. A series of political and economic transformations took place in the 1990s which reflected wider global transformations outside of the sport. Clubs sought additional funding from more commercial practices. New global media companies used football to establish new audiences and wider […]
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Review of The Urban Geography of Boxing
The Urban Geography of Boxing makes a valuable contribution to the ever expanding literature on what is social, cultural and political about sport. Benita Heiskanen’s focus is an empirical study of the culture of boxing, including the key players, promoters, trainers, media networks and audiences, as well as boxers in the gym. This book, a […]
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Recycling Religion: Lance Armstrong’s Postmodern Spirituality of Suffering and Survivorship
For much of his triple career as heroic cancer survivor, sports champion, and, latterly, fallen idol, Lance Armstrong, a professed atheist, has worn a silver necklace with a cross pendant. Why does he wear this Ur-symbol of Christian religious faith? Speculative answers range from ‘residual superstition’ to ‘fashion jewellery’ and ‘tactical deception’. Here, Armstrong’s own […]
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