Tag: Carwyn Jones

Sport and alcohol go way back in sport history, hand in hand. Drink manufacturers sponsor sport, sports people drink and endorse various alcoholic beverages. Is it a sort of symbiosis? Anyway, it’s been the subject of a number of academic studies, the latest being a collected volume by Sarah Gee, Sport, Alcohol and Social Inquiry: A Global Cocktail (Emerald), which is reviewed here by Alan Bairner – and “there could have been few better choices”.

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy is an international peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research contributions to scientific knowledge. It publishes high quality articles from a wide variety of philosophical traditions. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: PRENATAL PARANOIA: AN ANALYSIS OF THE BUMPY LANDSCAPE FOR THE PREGNANT ATHLETE by Charlene Weaving.

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.

The Journal of the Philosophy of Sport provides a forum for discussion of philosophical issues – metaphysical, ethical, epistemological, aesthetic, or otherwise – arising in sport, games, play, dance, embodiment, and other motor-related activities. Special Section: Sport, Narrative, and Drama.

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy publishes high quality articles from a wide variety of philosophical traditions, and is particularly open to essays of applied philosophy that engage with issues or practice, policy and scholarship concerning the nature and values of sports.

Carwyn Rh. Jones är professor i idrottsetik vid Cardiff Metropolitan University, med en imponerande publikationslista. Hans senaste bok tar upp ett känsligt kapitel inom idrotten. Sport and Alcohol: An ethical perspective (Routledge) recenseras av Kutte Jönsson, som ser mycket i Jones’ resonemang som belyser också svenska förhållanden.

Temanumret av Sport, Ethics and Philosophy som utkom inför OS i London 2012 finns nu som antologi, Olympic Ethics and Philosophy av redaktörerna Mike McNamee & Jim Parry (Routledge). Kutte Jönsson gläds åt bokutgivningen; värdet av de ingående texterna överskrider ett enskilt OS.

Kenneth Aggerholm has read Cesar R. Torres’ edited volume The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Sport, where a number of proficient scholars converge and contribute to what amounts to a truly good companion.

The Research Process in Sport, Exercise and Health: Case Studies of Active Researchers, sammanställd av Rich Neil, Sheldon Hanton, Scott Fleming & Kylie Wilson är en ny lärobok för forskarutbildning på grundnivå som bygger på verkliga case. Den recenseras av Andreas Ivarsson .

Kutte Jönsson Institutionen för idrottsvetenskap, Malmö högskola Alun R. Hardman & Carwyn Jones(red) The Ethics of Sports Coaching 222 sidor, hft. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge 2011 (Ethics and Sport) ISBN 978-0-415-55775-7 Om José Mourinho, den kontroversielle och frispråkige tränaren i Real Madrid, har det sagts att han blir mer aktiv i sin coachning i slutet av matcherna. Detta delar han i sådana fall säkert med många andra tränare. Det...