Tag: Bryan Hogeveen
The impact of COVID-19 on the sports industry
Paul M. Pedersen’s edited collection Research Handbook on Sport and COVID-19 (Edward Elgar) examines sport-related research and analysis pertaining to how the sport industry has been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and discusses how the sport industry and its stakeholders might move forward in post-pandemic times. Our reviewer is Leonardo Colares Castro, and he deals with this 462 pages, 34 chapters and 92 authors volume in the only way possible – taking a comprehensive view, finding the many advantages and making note of a few shortcomings.
Knowledge between skill, talent and training in sport: Philosophical voices on the twist of nature and culture
In this hardcover representation of a 2016 special issue of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, Norwegian philosopher Gunnar Breivik leads a pack of mostly Scandinavian sport philosophy scholars in a discussion of the role of skills, knowledge and intentionality in sporting contexts. Mikael Lindfelt har read Skills, Knowledge and Expertise in Sport (Routledge) and helps us unravel the main threads in a volume of solid philosophy.
