Tag: amateurism
Introducing Journal of Amateur Sport (JAS) with a Call for Papers
We are excited to announce the launch of the Journal of Amateur Sport (JAS). JAS is an open-access, online only journal developed as a partnership between the Laboratory for the Study of Sport Management at the University of Kansas and the Partnership for the Advancement of Sport Management at Wichita State University.
The overarching mission of JAS is to provide...
Sport and Working-class Amateurism – a symposium at Leeds Metropolitan University, 04 July 2014
Amateurism is an important theme in the history of modern British sport. That it is so often preceded by the word ‘gentlemanly’ is indicative of the way in which most historians have studied it to date: (1) as an ideology associated primarily with aristocratic and/or middle-class sport; (2) as a set of principles which, when embodied in the form...