Tag: Alan Tomlinson

The purpose of NASSH is to promote, stimulate, and encourage study and research and writing of the history of sport, and to support and cooperate with local, national, and international organizations having the same purposes. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The Populism in Popular Games: Games of the Volk, Patriotic Gymnastics, and Heritage Populism in Europe by Tom Fabian.

Diego Maradona: A Socio-Cultural Study, edited by Pablo Brescia & Mariano Paz (Routledge), looks at representations of Maradona across a wide variety of media, including literature, cinema, popular music, printed and online press, and radio. Russell Holden has read this first English-language Maradona study, and he is fascinated and delighted – as an academic, as a football fan, as a Maradona admirer. He also finds that the book offers a template for the study of other major historical sporting figures.

The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society, edited by Lawrence A, Wenner (Oxford UP), features leading international scholars’ assessments of scholarly inquiry about sport and society. Divided into six sections, chapters consider dominant issues within key areas, approaches featured in inquiry, and debates needing resolution. Our reviewer is Richards Giulianotti, who edited the Sage four volume set The Sociology of Sport in 2012, and he finds that this new collection, some unnecessary omissions notwithstanding, is a welcome addition to the existing list of handbooks in the field.

Ett nyligt gräv bland gamla recensionsböcker frambringade vad som närmast får betraktas som ett fotbollshistoriskt fynd. 2014 utgavs The FIFA World Cup 1930–2010: Politics, Commerce, Spectacle and Identities, sammanställd av Stefan Rinke & Kay Schiller (Wallstein Verlag). Birger Hedén hade turen att få recensionsexemplaret av boken, och han använde det väl.

Märkligt nog har FIFA-presidenter en sådan makt att de kan sitta i evigheter vid makten och därtill berika sig själva på olika sätt, oftast otillbörliga. Om det kan man läsa i Football, Corruption and Lies: Revisiting Badfellas, the Book FIFA Tried to Ban av John Sugden & Alan Tomlinson (Routledge). Rasmus Storm reder ut allt detta i sin närläsning av boken.

Lawrence A. Wenner and Andrew C. Billings have gathered leading scholars in the field of sport media studies for their edited volume Sport, Media and Mega-Events (Routledge), in which each contribution takes stock of a mega-event in terms of the level of mediatization. Henk Erik Meier is our knowledgeable reviewer, and he’s impressed.

Arve Hjelseth har tagit sig an den brittiske idrottssociologen Alan Tomlinson bok om det internationella fotbollsförbundet FIFA, som ju ständigt är i blåsväder numera. Boken heter FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association): The Men, the Myths and the Money.

Christian Widholm Södertörns högskolaAntologin Sport and the Transformation of Modern Europe gör i undertiteln bruk av en periodisering jag inte hade sett förut: 1950-2010. Förvisso är alla...

Jon Helge Lesjø Lillehammer University CollegeJohn Sugden & Alan Tomlinson (red) Watching the Olympics: Politics, Power and Representation 258 sidor, hft. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge 2012 ISBN 978-0-415-57833-2Watching the Olympics is a book edited...

Anders Östnäs Institutionen för socialt arbete, Lunds universitetDE OLYMPISKA IDEALEN och de olympiska spelen har globalt samarbete, internationell förståelse och social gemenskap över nationsgränserna som några...