Tag: Anna Kavoura

Kate Sylvester’s Women and Martial Art in Japan is based on extensive original research originally for her doctoral thesis. She examines the practice by women in a university sport setting of kendo, the Japanese martial art. Our reviewer is Anna Kavoura, with extensive experiences in combat sports, and she is highly appreciative of Sylvester’s study, which “offers profound insights into broader themes of gender dynamics, cultural identity, and ethnographic methodology in [a] non-Western cultural context”.

George Jennings’ Reinventing Martial Arts in the 21st Century: Eastern Stimulus, Western Response (Peter Lang Publishing) proposes a new definition of the martial arts to examine how such fighting systems are being re-imagined and reconstructed beyond the arenas of combat and sport in the 21st century Western context. According to our expert reviewer Anna Kavoura, the book offers a substantial and pioneering contribution to the field of martial art studies.

Psychology of Sport and Exercise is an international forum for scholarly reports in the psychology of sport and exercise, broadly defined. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Gritting One’s way to success – Grit explains skill in elite youth soccer players beyond (deliberate) practice by Paul Larkin, Dijana Cocić, David T. Hendry, A. Mark Williams, Donna O’Connor, Merim Bilalić (open access):

SSJ publishes original research, framed by social theory, on exercise, sport, physical culture, and the (physically active) body. The journal publishes peer-reviewed empirical, theoretical, and position papers; book reviews; and critical essays. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: “Just Existing Is Activism”: Transgender Experiences in Martial Arts by Anna Kavoura, Alex Channon, Marja Kokkonen.

IRSEP is the first scholarly, peer-reviewed journal that publishes critical reviews of research literature in sport and exercise psychology. Typically, these reviews evaluate relevant conceptual and methodological issues in the field. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Extraversion in sport: a scoping review by Mark S. Allen, Erin A. Mison, Davina A. Robson & Sylvain Laborde.

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. Editor’s pick from the current issue: COMPOSITE VIGNETTES OF SWEDISH MALE AND FEMALE PROFESSIONAL HANDBALL PLAYERS’ CAREER PATHS by Johan Ekengren, Natalia B. Stambulova, Urban Johnson, Ing-Marie Carlsson & Tatiana V. Ryba.

SSSF, a multidisciplinary social sciences sport study journal, welcomes articles that deal with sport and social change and social stability in a wide sense, articles about the profound and comprehensive processes affecting sports such as professionalization, globalization, commercialization, urbanization, technologization, medicalization and juridification.

To Anne Tjønndal, woman and boxer, Global Perspectives on Women in Combat Sports: Women Warriors around the World, edited by Alex Channon & Christopher R. Matthews (Palgrave Macmillan), was a satisfying read – a valuable contribution to the field of gender and sports.

I Virgin-förlagets serie om filmgenrer har boken Martial Arts: The step-by-step companion to the Martial Arts genre utkommit. Den är skriven av PTJ Rance, och den förvandlade vår skeptiske recensent Anna Kavoura till en veritabel kick flick-fantast. En bra bok, med andra ord.

Anna Kavoura University of Jyväskylä, Finland D. S. Farrer & John Whalen-Bridge (red) Martial Arts as Embodied Knowledge: Asian Traditions in a Transnational World 249 sidor, inb. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press 2011 ISBN 978-1-4384-3967-9 It was with great joy and excitement that I accepted to review this book. As a judo and Brazilian jiu jitsu athlete myself, and as a researcher interested in issues of...