Dear all,
In terms of productivity and output, last week was a lost week. With this otherwise industrious – and perhaps overly ambitious – editor sidelined by illness (most likely the flu) and no one else around to step in, very little can be expected to happen.
In terms of productivity and output, last week was a lost week. With this otherwise industrious – and perhaps overly ambitious – editor sidelined by illness (most likely the flu) and no one else around to step in, very little can be expected to happen.However, on the first day of the second week of this malaise things are looking up, and it’s resonable to expect that the rest of October will offer more food for scientific thought, from all of me to all of you.
Last week the following items were published on idrottsforum.org (see below; language and publication dates, YYMMDD, in brackets). Click on the red headings to go to content. Utilize the Google Translate service to turn Scandinavian language pages into (some sort of) English.
And remember, if you’re not already hooked up to one of the social media outlets that we utilize, for now they are Facebook, LinkedIn and X, you’re missing quite a lot of information from idrottsforum.org that never appears on the website; this week no less than 34updates on each, the same on all three. So, if that is the case, check out, by clicking on the names, our Facebook, LinkedIn and X accounts.
Have a great week,
Kjell Eriksson
Editor
Book Review
Informative and entertaining history of football during the Cold War era
The Cold War is the supreme example of a ‘people’s war’. But what did the ‘people’s game’ have to do with it? In their book Cold War Football: A History in Ten Matches (Cambridge University Press), Tony Shaw and Alan McDougall chart the clash between capitalism and communism in ten iconic football matches. In his review, Hans Bolling generously acknowledges the solid historiographic ingenuity in the choice of the ten matches as well as the thoroughness of the research in archives and in literature, magazines and newspapers. A highly enjoyable read for history buffs and football fans alike. (Review in English, published 261015.)
Scholarly Journals
Since its inception 23 years ago, idrottsforum.org has been proudly presenting every new issue of almost all scholarly journals within the field of sport studies, widely defined. However, after carefully considering the whole situation – with increasing number of journals and number of issues per journal – we have decided to let go of the original ambition; it has become too time-consuming. Henceforth we will publish alerts about new journal issues on our social media accounts (Facebook, LinkedIn and X), and also special alerts when particularly interesting articles in scholarly journals are published online, giving priority to open access publications. The Scholarly Journals page will list all journals within the extended sport studies field for your information, and we will endeavor to update it with any new titles being launched.
News items (calls for papers, vacancies, etc.)
- Ledige stillinger, Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge | Postdoktor innen anlegg for egenorganisert aktivitet som arena for inkludering av ungdom | Søknadsfrist 18. oktober 2026 (261014)
- Lediga platser | Stipendiat innenfor det praktiske estetiske fagområdet rettet mot kroppsøving og idrettsfag, till Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge (USN) | Søknadsfrist 18. oktober 2026 (261014)
- Lediga platser | Doktorand inom området idrott som yrke och arbetsliv, till Högskolan i Gävle | Sista ansökningsdag 2026-11-08 (261014)
