Tag: Andrei S. Markovits

Soccer, a.k.a (association) football is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, and aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘YOU CREATE YOUR OWN LUCK, IN A WAY’ ABOUT NORWEGIAN FOOTBALLERS’ UNDERSTANDING OF SUCCESS, IN A WORLD WHERE MOST FAIL by Pål Augestad, Mats Bruu & Frode Telseth.

IJSL publishes high-quality papers on the sociology of leisure that have a global interest, and promote the development of this mature field. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: THE INFLUENCE OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF TIME ON THE MAJOR NORTH AMERICAN SPORTS: WILL SOCCER INFILTRATE THE AMERICAN SPORTS SPACE? by Benjamin Sadis, Andrei S. Markovits.

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.

Lise Joern is excited about a book that, rather uniquely, studies female sports fandom. Sportista: Female Fandom in the United States, written by Andrei S. Markovits and Emily K. Albertson, gets thumbs up in spite of some flaws in the empirical material.

Ingela Kolfjord Hälsa och samälle, Malmö högskola Fan Hong & J. A. Mangan Soccer, Women, Sexual Liberation – Kicking Off a New Era 272 sid, hft. London: Frank Cass 2004 Ännu en välkommen bok om kvinnofotboll har producerats under 2004 och det är Soccer, Women, Sexual Liberation – Kicking Off a New Era som redigerats av  Fan Hong & J. A. Mangan. Antologin bjuder på fjorton artiklar som...