Tag: Bevan Erueti
New book gives huge insights and new knowledge about worldwide sporting events and women’s football
The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup: Politics, Representation, and Management, edited and mostly written by Adam Beissel, Verity Postlethwaite, Andrew Grainger and Julie E. Brice, offers a critical examination of the 2023 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Women’s World Cup, being held in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Bente Skogvang is highly appreciative of this contribution to the academic literature on women’s sport, and women’ football in particular.
Highlighting the contested nature of sport in Aotearoa New Zealand: An edited collection
Damion Sturm’s and Roslyn Kerr’s edited collection Sport in Aotearoa New Zealand: Contested Terrain (Routledge) investigates the sporting traditions, successes, systems, “terrains” and contemporary issues that underpin sport in New Zealand, also known by its Māori name of Aotearoa. Our reviewer is Rod Philpot, who enjoyed reading the book and gained new understandings of sport, sportspeople and sporting and recreational activities that are occurring in his own backyard.
Ambitious scope unfulfilled in slim volume on sport, race and ethnicity
Papers from the biannual Sport, Race and Ethnicity conference 2012 have been collected and published in a book appropriately titled «Sport, Race and Ethnicity: The Scope of Belonging» edited by Katie Liston and Paddy Dolan (Routledge). Our reviewer Helge Chr. Pedersen is well versed in the field of minorities and indigenous sports.
