C&S is a cutting-edge peer-reviewed quarterly that publishes research to foster international scholarly understanding of the nexus of communication and sport that engages a broad intellectual community. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Narrative Storytelling as a Fan Conversion Tool in the Netflix Docuseries Drive to Survive by Caroline Soble and Mark Lowes (open access).

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The anthology Martial Arts in Latin Societies, edited by Augusto Rembrandt Rodríguez-Sánchez, Joaquín Piedra and George Jennings (Routledge), is the first book to explore martial arts and combat sports in Latin societies. We asked martial arts expert Anna Kavoura for a review, and her thorough reading and critical analysis is a clever companion to this sprawling collection of martial arts practices and national and cultural contexts within the Latin societies and the Philippines. Not without its flaws this is still an insightful and timely addition to the expanding body of martial arts scholarship.

Det vitenskapelige arbeidet må dreie seg om barn i norsk idrett i tida etter 1970. Barneidrettens plass i det norske samfunnet er et underbelyst tema i idrettshistorien. Norges idrettsforbund (NIF)s ulike og reviderte barneidrettsbestemmelser i perioden fra 1976-2027, og særforbundenes og særkretsenes tilknyttede retningslinjer for sin barneidrett, trenger å bli behandlet i sin helhet, og i en bredere samfunnskontekst. Også historisk orienterte studier av barneidrett og konkurransearenaer utenfor den organiserte rammen av NIF, kan tenkes i dette PH.D.-arbeidet.

In The Myth of Michael Jordan in Popular Culture (Routledge), Tomasz Jacheć examines the life and career of Michael Jordan, one of the greatest athletes in the history of sports, asking how he transcended his sport to become a canonical myth in popular culture. In his review, Brian Hillman notes that the author uses the framework of the “hero’s journey” from Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), and makes good use of the “mytheme” concept. Our reviewer concludes that Jacheć’s effort is an exemplary academic engagement with popular culture.

To offer a comprehensive overview of the current and perceived future state of sports journalism competition, Nicholas Buzzelli’s latest offer, Normalizing the Sports Journalism Niche: Coexisting in a Modern News Landscape (Peter Lang) examines how various disseminators of written sports information are able to coexist in the modern sports journalism ecosystem by catering to the niche. Rosarita Cuccoli finds that the book provides valuable insights into the evolving nature of sports journalism as viewed by people from different subsets of sportswriting.

The sport-media relationship is a long-standing and symbiotic one. Sport delivers key audiences while media coverage fosters sport’s popularity and development. Rosarita Cuccoli’s new book Sports Journalism in Society (Bologna University Press) is about the media’s role and responsibility in selecting what becomes news when covering sport. Nicholas R. Buzzelli, well versed in sport media studies, concludes that Cuccoli offers journalists and journalism scholars a framework for deciding how sports journalism and sport sociology should further intersect moving forward.

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The Beautiful Game Reimagined: Women’s Soccer in Brazil, edited by Lívia Gonçalves Magalhães, Tiago J. Fernandes Maranhão & Bernardo Buarque De Hollanda (Common Ground) challenges long-held notions of the country’s enduring football heritage by highlighting the influential and rapidly evolving sphere of women’s soccer. Jonny Hjelm finds a few flaws in the editorial work, which are however overshadowed by the strengths: the breadth of the subject, the intersectional perspective and some really good chapters coalesce to create valuable knowledge of women’s football in one of the major football nations.

I anställningen ingår forskning och undervisning. Arbetsuppgifterna kopplat till forskning innebär att du driver publiceringar och forskningsmedelsansökningar i samarbete med seniora forskare inom ämnesområdet för anställningen. I forskning ingår även att du samverkar med externa aktörer, arbetar för internationalisering, och att du aktivt deltar i utvecklingen av forskningen inom ämnet. Idrottsvetenskap är ett tvärvetenskapligt ämne med egna begrepp, teorier, metoder och modeller. Det är därför avgörande att du har kunskap inom ämnet.

Politics, Social Issues and the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, edited by Danielle Sarver Coombs and Molly Yanity (Routledge) takes a close look at politics and social issues in the context of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup that took place in Australia and New Zealand and is one of the most attended women’s sporting events in history. Christian Tolstrup Jensen appreciates that the book takes a broad view on women’s football with a global perspective. He also notes that the Cup in fact plays a very limited role in many chapters.

This PhD position is linked to the RESPONSE research group and its ongoing research profiles and invites studies of working life in sport and organisational aspects of sport. The professionalisation of sport in various national and international context has made sport an increasingly integral part of the labour market, with a growing presence of paid roles and commercial actors within the voluntary sector. This PhD position offers the opportunity to explore how shifts in the relationships among public, private, and voluntary actors impact working conditions and organisational practices in the sport field.

We welcome articles that consider women’s roles as athletes, coaches, officials, administrators, investors, athletic therapists, journalists, fans and even legislators. Submissions may focus on any chronological period and any geographic region and may centre amateur, community, professional and/or elite level of play. We are particularly interested in submissions offering critical analyses on how sexuality, age, race/racism, nationalism, feminism, or faith might have shaped women’s opportunities and experiences in basketball, including the organizational power of the gender binary itself.

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In this article, Gunn Engelsrud and Birgit Nordtug use the practice of well-known sport psychologist Britt Tajet-Foxell to elaborate on and theorize about how relationships become sources of embodied and verbalized knowing. As research material they chose a sample of media texts portraying collaboration between Tajet-Foxell and the Norwegian cross-country skier and the highly decorated winter Olympian, Marit Bjørgen. The selected media texts were analyzed to highlight the knowledge created in the dialectic relationship between the sport psychologist and the athlete.

Camilla Strömbergs doktorsavhandling Att vinna utan att förlora (Malmö universitet) handlar om barn- och ungdomsfotbolls­tränarnas balansgång mellan å ena sidan att låta alla få vara med, å andra sidan att vinna matcher. Idrottsrörelsen har – påhejad av staten – en ambition om att idrott ska vara till för alla. Men tävlingsidrott i en prestationskontext utmanar ledarna när de ska förhålla sig till denna ambition. Syftet är att visa hur spänningsförhållandet mellan ”idrott för alla” och tävlingsidrottens prestationslogik tar sig uttryck i barn- och ungdomsidrotten.

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Join us at Breaking Barriers, a transformative conference exploring Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Sports. Unveil the power of equality and sustainability, disrupting norms in the sports industry. Gain insights, forge collaborations, and be part of shaping a more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable future for sports. Break barriers with us! This conference offers not only innovative papers and engaging keynotes but also industry-expert led workshops and discussion panels. It is open to both academics and professionals, creating a unique platform for dialogue and collaboration.

In 1998, Bill Clinton hosted a town hall on race and sports. ‘If you've got a special gift,’ the president said of athletes, ‘you owe more back.’ The idea is that a gifted athlete who received something for nothing runs up a social debt, whereas the gritty athlete received nothing and owes no one. The distinction between gift and grit is racial, but also racializing. Our reviewer of Joseph Darda’s Gift and Grit: Race, Sports, and the Construction of Social Debt (Cambridge UP), Duncan R. Jamieson, finds that the author does not present a clearly organized and defined response to his title.

The University of South-Eastern Norway is looking for applicants with an exciting research idea who is motivated to pursue a doctorate in the fields of humanities, culture, and educational sciences in an academic and social scholarly environment. You could become our new colleague in one of our departments at the Faculty of Humanities, Culture, and Educational Sciences. The Ph.d. positions are available from spring 2026, with a start date no later than August 2026.

Institutionen för idrottsvetenskap vid Malmö universitet söker doktorander i idrottsvetenskap med inriktning samhällsvetenskap och humaniora. Vi önskar få in ansökningar inom något av följande två områden: Idrottspsykologi med inriktning mot mindfulness, samt Idrottspedagogik med inriktning idrottsdidaktik och praktiknära forskning avseende undervisning och lärande i förskola, skola eller lärarutbildning.

Fantasy and reality come together in sports, and in his latest book, Hockey on the Moon: Imagination and Canada’s Game (Athabasca University Press), Jamie Dopp argues that nowhere is this blurring of the borders of reality more evident than in Canadian hockey. We asked leading ice hockey historian and enthusiast Dr. Tobias Stark for a review. Spoiler alert: He proclaims his appreciation for Dopp’s book with his usual eloquence. Read and be dazzled.

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Mens vi venter på vinterlekene i Cortina 2026, går vi tilbake i historien til OL i Cortina i 1956 og tar en tur innom det i Oslo noen år før, i 1952. Vi får høre Andrea Goldstein – økonom og sakprosaforfatter og står bak den ferske utgivelsen Cortina 1956 – Et OL mellom den kalde krigen og La Dolce Vita (2025), og Tor Bomann-Larsen, tegner og forfatter av bl.a Den evige sne – en skihistorie om Norge.

JSM encourages the submission of manuscripts in a number of areas as they relate to the management, governance, and consumption of sport. Studies using quantitative and/or qualitative approaches are welcomed. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Do Minority Lead Executives Experience Inferior Labor Market Outcomes? Evidence From National Collegiate Athletics Association Men’s Basketball by Steven Salaga & Matthew Juravich.