Book Reviews
This timely and interesting sociology of LGBT+ football supporters is required...
Peter Millward’s Football Fandom, Sexualities and Activism: A Cultural Relational Sociology (Routledge) is the first book to examine the growing movement of organised networks of LGBT+ football supporters, exploring activists’ biographies and the meanings they ascribe to participation in identity politics-centred social movements. Our reviewer Mads Skauge finds a swell of ambition and a swell of data – maybe enough for more books than this one – and the end product, he argues, presents an abundance of useful information about LGBT+ fandom and supporter culture in football.
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Public defense of doctoral thesis | Leading across multilevels. Understanding leadership and management in high-performance sport in Norway and Denmark by Allan Grønkjær, Norwegian...
Allan Grønkjær’s PhD study examines the management and leadership of high-performance organisations in elite sport. He works from a conceptual framework of multi-level leadership. This approach acknowledges the variation of different influences, which a leader, e.g., a high-performance director, experiences in the short term (everyday work life) and in the long term (creating and implementing strategy). There is a clear focus on how the context of sport affects leadership.
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