Book Reviews
Gender, sport and politics: A Handbook from the margins
Progressive and broad-ranging, The Routledge Handbook of Gender Politics in Sport and Physical Activity edited by Győző Molnár and Rachael Bullingham, offers a comprehensive overview of the complex intersections between politics, gender, sport and physical activity. In her thorough, competent and highly useful review of this 32 chapters anthology, Anna Sätre highlights the underlying aims of the collection, some detectable trends among the contributions, and several of the chapters that stand out for their critical and innovative approaches.
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Call for Papers | Towards Development of Mediatization Research IX: Youth, Sports, and Media | Online workshop, December 5, 2025. Call ends October 27,...
Continuing our series of research meetings focused on specific issues in mediatization research — chaired in past years by eminent experts such as Johan Fornäs (2018) and Kirsten Frandsen (2023) — this year’s workshop will be held online on 5 December 2025. It will be led by Michael Skey from Loughborough University. The title of this year’s edition is Youth, Sports, and Media. We invite researchers who wish to discuss their current projects within a focused and closed group of media scholars, under the guidance of an expert.
That Was The Week That Was, April 14–20, 2025
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That Was The Week That Was, April 7–13, 2025
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