International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Vol. 54, 2019, No. 8

Research Articles

Social class, the elite hockey player career and educational paths
Orlan Moret and Fabien Ohl

Social class differences in youths’ participation in organized sports: What are the mechanisms?
Patrick Lie Andersen and Anders Bakken

Sport in liminal spaces: The meaning of sport activities for refugees living in a reception centre
Maikel Waardenburg, Margot Visschers, Ineke Deelen, and Ilse van Liempt

Football and the ‘mysterious nature of global capital’: A case study of Birmingham City FC and Birmingham International Holdings
Anthony May

Nationality swapping in the Olympic Games 1978–2017: A supervised machine learning approach to analysing discourses of citizenship and nationhood
Joost Jansen

Media portrayal of sportswomen in East Asia: A systematic review
Yue Xue, Tao Huang, Qilin Sun, and Ning Tang

‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a Korean woman’: Gender politics of female bodies in Korean weight-loss reality TV shows
Yoonso Choi

Film Review: Concussion
Adam J White and Benjamin Franks