Tag: Chun Wing Lee

Soccer, a.k.a (association) football is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, and aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Beyond ‘good’ and ‘bad’ fans: exploring the mechanisms enabling football fans’ position as a stakeholder in the management of circulations by Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen (open access).

IRSS is a peer reviewed academic journal. Its main purpose is to disseminate research and scholarship on sport throughout the international academic community. The journal publishes research articles of varying lengths, as well as book and media reviews. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Promoting the Chinese martial arts internationally: Is it ‘Kung Fu’ or ‘Wushu’? by Qing-song Han, Marc Theeboom, Dong Zhu, Inge Derom.

The emphasis of Leisure Studies is on theoretically informed critical analyses within the social sciences and humanities of the topics that constitute leisure as a subject field – including the arts, tourism, sport and more. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘I didn’t realise the variety of people that are climbers’: a sociological exploration of young women’s propensities to engage in indoor rock climbing by Jack Ryan Hewitt & Nollaig McEvilly (open access).

EJSS’ function is to enable an international discussion about current issues and to foster collaboration between researchers from all social scientific sub-disciplines. It’s published 4 times per year. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The Rio 2016 Paralympic Games: inspiration as a possible legacy for disabled Brazilians by Doralice Lange Souza & Ian Brittain.

Soccer and Society is the first international journal devoted to the world’s most popular game. It covers all aspects of soccer globally from anthropological, cultural, economic, historical, political and sociological perspectives.

I den här recensionsessän undersöker Bill Sund fotbollens globalisering utifrån tre böcker, Global Perspectives on Football in Afrika: Visualising the Game av Susann Baller, Giorgio Miescher & Ciraj Rassool (red); Football in Asia: History, Culture and Business av Younghan Cho (red); och Soccer in the Middle East av Alon Raab & Issam Khalidi (red), samtliga från Routledge.