Psychoanalysis, with its attention to unconscious desire, psychic conflict, and the role of fantasy, provides a unique lens through which to interrogate the presence and function of aggression in sporting life. This special issue will advance psychoanalytic investigations of aggression in sport by bringing together interdisciplinary scholarship across clinical theory, cultural analysis, and critical sport studies. In doing so, it seeks to explore the psychic, social, and symbolic dimensions of aggression as they relate to athletes, spectators, institutions, and the media.

Sweden’s voluntary sport clubs would not function without the hundreds of thousands of people who volunteer as coaches, officials etc. How is the voluntary commitment doing today? How has it developed over time? What opportunities does the sports movement have to maintain voluntary and unpaid work in the future? These questions are addressed in this anthology in Swedish, where researchers and experts contribute knowledge and perspectives. Anders Östnäs offers a comprehensive presentation of the report.

The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: From Rikidôzan to the Roku Player: The Evolution of Japanese Television and Puroresu by Jonathan Foye & Lukasz Swiatek (open access).

Played by both migrants and native-born Americans, soccer created communities across the United States. In his new book Beyond the Field: How Soccer Built Community in the United States (University of Illinois press), Brian D. Bunk ranges from Pawtucket to Honolulu as he illuminates the deep and diverse origins of the American sport. Our reviewer Paul McFarlane finds much to enjoy in Bunk’s new book, both his adherence to a recent historiographical turn and his painstaking efforts to unearth early soccer club’s history and local soccer heroes lives.

ESMQ publishes articles that contribute to our understanding of sport organizations. The Journal sets out to enhance our understanding of the role of sport management and sport bodies in social life. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Organizational experience and cost-cutting agreements in the Formula One industry: a dynamic capabilities approach by Luis Carlos Sánchez & Carlos Varela-Quintana.

This symposium focuses attention on various attempts to use sport as a means of persuasion in pursuit of political objectives. Sport communication research cuts across a wide range of disciplines. This symposium will provide a common ground to host interdisciplinary discussions around key issues related to sport media’s role in the pursuit of political aims, and how they might be reimagined.

Samhällsidrotten och idrottssamhället. Humanistisk och samhällsvetenskaplig idrottsforskning under 50 år [Sport in society and the society of sports. Humanistic and social science sports research over 50 years] is edited by Tomas Peterson and published as a celebration of 50 years of Swedish sport studies within the social sciences and humanities. We went abroad to find a suitable reviewer – not a Swede but Swedish speaking – and Ansgar Molzberger accepted the cumbersome task of reviewing this 556 page tome. And he did well, we are happy to bring his review to your attention.

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Som professor i management vid GIH blir du en central kraft i att bygga en forskningsmiljö och etablera ett forskningsområde som bidrar till ny kunskap om organisering, ledning och utveckling av hälsa och idrott med fokus på exempelvis organisationskulturer, styrningsmodeller, ledarskapsfunktioner, etiska förhållningssätt och hållbarhetsperspektiv. I rollen ingår att ta ett helhetsansvar: att leda och samarbeta med andra forskare, samtidigt som du själv, på egen hand och/eller tillsammans med andra, bedriver forskning på hög nivå.

The mission of IJSC is to provide a platform for academics and practitioners to disseminate research and information from diverse fields such as critical studies, sport management, advertising, etc. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: “Criminals” and “Killjoys”: An Exploratory News Media Mapping of the Environment-Security Politics at the Olympics by Adam Ehsan Ali, MacIntosh Ross, jay johnson.

We are seeking a visionary and strategic leader to become our new Dean / Manutaki for the School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences. Renowned for its excellence in teaching, research, and community engagement, the School is looking for a leader who brings academic credibility, strategic vision, and a collaborative spirit. The successful candidate will demonstrate a deep appreciation for the diverse cultural context of Aotearoa New Zealand, embody manaakitanga, and foster an inclusive, respectful environment where people and ideas can thrive.

Public school education in the second half of the nineteenth century was completely dominated by classics and sport. Rejecting the view that these were competing strands resulting in friction between aesthetic scholars and athletic philistines, in Games, Greek and Pluck: Classicism, Masculinity, Elite Education and British Sport, 1850–1914 (Peter Lang) Andy Carter shows how classicism and athleticism were closely entwined. As usual, our reviewer Hans Bolling offers enlightening reflections and comparisons related to the work under review, concluding that Carter has produced an excellent book.

Board games to sports, digital games to party games, gambling to role-playing games. They all share one thing in common: rules – of which there are only five kinds. Indeed, rules are the one and only thing game scholars agree is central to games. But what, in fact, are rules? In The Rule Book (MIT Press), Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola explore how different kinds of rules work as building blocks of games. Our somewhat reluctant reviewer Bo Carlsson, sport law expert, claims no knowledge of game rules, but his review says otherwise.

IJSF serves as a high-level forum for the dissemination of current research on sport finance topics. The mission to communicate to sport industry executives and managers the practical benefits of research on finance related to current practice. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Reference Points, Loss Aversion, and Sport: Text Analysis of Football Highlight Comments by Eunsoo Park, Yoonji Ryu, Wonseok Jang, Gyemin Lee, Hyunwoong Pyun (open access).

The International Network for Doping Research (INDR) will host its 2026 conference at the Department of Public Health at Aarhus University, Denmark, on 20 and 21 August 2026. The conference welcomes scholars who examine doping, enhancement, and anti-doping in their varied cultural, social, political, ethical, and scientific dimensions. INDR supports research that contributes to more informed public debate and a stronger evidence base for sport organisations and policy makers.

The ISLJ is the only truly “international” peer-reviewed sports law journal consistently offering broad content coverage, such as significant case law analysis, legal commentary and sports related information from sports law experts around the world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Integrating the Olympic Truce into international law: legal implications of the Russian case by Antonio Du Marco (open access).

In recent years, the growth of esports industry has been driven by the development of computers, the internet, media, and live streaming. Moreover, esports have become a vital and popular aspect of video gaming communities, particularly amongst adolescents and young adults. Due to the tremendous growth of esport industry, many scholars have investigated diverse area related to esport. However, significant theoretical and practical gaps exist that necessitate further scholarly and industry attention in the realm of esport.

The knowledge base in sports physiology, exercise science and medicine is largely based on research conducted on men. Den kvinnelige idrettsutøveren [The female athlete], edited by Øyvind Sandbakk, Guro Strøm Solli & Hanne Staff (Fagbokforlaget) provides an updated knowledge base and practical recommendations in training, health and performance for the female athlete. Gunn Nyberg’s review, published in both English and Swedish, provides an overall assessment as well as comprehensive presentations of the chapters that our reviewer found particularly interesting.

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Our proposed session explores how the bicycle as an unassuming yet transformative technology, reshaped mobility, governance, and everyday life across diverse Asian contexts. We invite contributions that investigate the social and cultural dimensions of cycling, from its regulation and circulation to its roles in shaping class, gender, and aspiration.

This follow-up study by Søren Bennike, Claes Madsen and Adam B. Evans presents quantitative measures of diversity amongst 10,945 respondents, including club members (players), club boards, coaches, educated licensed referees and the Danish Football Association’s political level. Results illustrate multiple measures of diversity, including age, gender, sexuality, ethnic origin, and attitudes and experiences of participation. Results demonstrate continuous inequality regarding girls/women’s and immigrants/descendants’ representation in the DFA football landscape.

The International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics is published by Routledge, and aims to publish articles that address all aspects of sport policy irrespective of academic discipline. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘Merely plastering a deep cut? A critical policy analysis of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) human rights commitment by Zohreh Khani & Hans Erik Næss (open access).

This postgraduate and professional course travels backward through history, beginning with the modern Olympics of Paris 2024 and Athens 2004, then “digging down” through the modern Olympic revival of 1896, to arrive at the traditional origin of the Games at Olympia in 776 BCE. It is organised around elements common to the ancient and modern games: ceremonies, athletes, contests, and rewards. We look at the historical and philosophical origins of things like the Olympic flame, the athletes’ oath, and the link to peace.

Recent scholarship in sport and media has highlighted a range of ways that mediated sport has been appropriated for the exercise of soft power: a set of tactics for securing consent for various aims using persuasion rather than force. Sport for development and peace examines efforts undertaken by the United Nations and NGOs to leverage sport as means to foster humanitarian concerns. Others have studied how nations use sport to advance diplomatic efforts and foster international cooperation.

The Journal of Applied Sport Psychology is a refereed journal designed to advance thought, theory, and research on applied aspects of sport and exercise psychology. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: “I always just viewed it as part of sport”: Psychological maltreatment and conformity to the sport ethic by Sarah McGee, Gretchen Kerr, Michael Atkinson & Ashley Stirling