Tag: Andrew M. Guest
This book helps fans understand football as the powerful popular culture product it constitutes
From the FIFA World Cup to pick-up games at your local park, soccer is the closest thing in our world to a universal entertainment. Andrew M. Guest’s Soccer in Mind: A thinking fan’s guide to the global game (Rutgers University Press) provides a guide to the world’s most popular game. We asked Arve Hjelseth for a review, and his reading has unearthed refreshing theoretical insights we might have forgotten, and an academic breadth so great that everyone learns at least something new.
Sport in Society, Volume 21, 2018, Issue 7: Women’s Soccer in the United States
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.
