Tag: Andy Fuller

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. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The Sport Hero Concept in Czechoslovakia: The Phenomenon of Emil Zátopek, 1948–1956 by Václav Pechman (open access).

Running is all the rage, books are published on a scale rarely seen. So, we introduce Andy Fuller’s Everyday Runners Podcast. Apart from his podcast Andy is an independent researcher and a co-founder of Reading Sideways Press. If you are, or want to be, or want to know more about the everyday runner, you can do worse than to be a regular follower of this podcast. The podcast interviews are part of a research process for a book about the practices and projects of running which we undertake in our everyday lives.

Oliver Brooks’ ethnographic study of conflicting football fan cultures, Football, Fandom and Consumption (Routledge), builds on studies of three football clubs, Norwich City, MK Dons and Chelsea. The book is generously sprinkled with instructive quotes from football fans, much appreciated by our reviewer, Andy Fuller. Brooks’ study left him with a strong sense of having had his insights into contemporary UK fan cultures thoroughly enhanced.

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 landscape of sport, and sport scholarship, continues to change rapidly. The Journal of Emerging Sport Studies is committed to publishing scholarship that reflects the changing face of sport studies around the world. Our journal will publish scholarship from across academic disciplines and welcomes unique sport perspectives from established and emerging sport scholars.

Australian Rules football, footy, is a grassroots sport, but the AFL’s increasing corporatisation is distancing the game from the fans. The recent move towards alliances with big gambling companies, and lately with the Walt Disney Company taking the form of Marvel-isation of the game, argues Andy Fuller, may lead to fans looking elsewhere to enjoy their favorite game.

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.