Tag: Alan Bairner

Mark Brooke, Senior Lecturer at the Centre for English Language Communication, National University of Singapore, lists as his foremost research interest the sociology of sport. His first book in that field, Case Studies in Sport Socialisation (Common Ground), is well received by Alan Bairner. The author, says our reviewer, deserves great praise for his use of sociological theory throughout.

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. As well as regular issues, the IJHS also offers regionally-focused issues on the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East, and special issues each year on significant topics and themes.

The International Review for the Sociology of Sport is a peer reviewed academic journal. Its main purpose is to disseminate research and scholarship on sport throughout the international academic community. The journal publishes research articles of varying lengths, from standard length research papers to shorter reports and commentary, as well as book and media reviews.

The considerable growth of interest in commerce, media and politics and their relationship to sport in international academia has resulted in academics in various disciplines writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life.

As the editors of No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport, and the Unevenness of Social Change (Rutgers UP), Cheryl Cooky and Mike Messner has collected articles from the last few years by themselves alone or with others on the subject of gender and sport. Alan Bairner expected “an original and possibly highly innovative contribution", but finds solace in the availability of good, albeit oldish, articles in a single volume.

The considerable growth of interest in commerce, media and politics and their relationship to sport in international academia has resulted in academics in various disciplines writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life.

Soccer and Society is an international peer-reviewed journal and the first international journal devoted to the world’s most popular game. It covers all aspects of soccer globally from anthropological, cultural, economic, historical, political and sociological perspectives. Soccer and Society encourages and favours clearly written research, analysis and comment.

The International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics aims to publish articles that address all aspects of sport policy irrespective of academic discipline. Articles that adopt a multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary or comparative approach are particularly welcome.

“A new book by Rick Gruneau is a major event for the academic study of sport.” Thus begins Alan Bairner’s review of Gruneau’s Sport and Modernity (Polity Press). For 35 years Gruneau has been an insightful and influential critical sport scholar, and his new book includes thoughts on ancient Greece as well as Weimar, Marx as well as Gramsci, and German modernism and anti-modernism.

Soccer and Society is the first international journal devoted to the world’s most popular game. It covers all aspects of soccer globally from anthropological, cultural, economic, historical, political and sociological perspectives.