Tag: Curtis Fogel

Through a detailed examination of over 300 cases appearing in news media and legal files across Canada from 1990 to 2020, Curtis Fogel and Andrea Quinlan’s Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport (UBC Press) uncovers an enduring institutional tolerance and silencing of sexual assault in Canadian sport. Maddie Brockbank is our reviewer, and she readily acknowledges the book’s importance and vital contribution towards solving a lasting problem in Canadian sports – a development she can only hope will happen.

The Journal of Emerging Sport Studies is committed to publishing scholarship from across academic disciplines that reflects the changing face of sport studies around the world from established and emerging sport scholars. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: “It’s still Cleveland baseball”: Exploring the media response to the Cleveland Guardians rebrand by James Bingaman & John Leach (open access).

Sport has the potential to be a powerful platform for positive change. Sport and Sustainable Development: An Introduction, edited by Stavros Triantafyllidis & Cheryl Mallen (Routledge) examines how sport can be made more sustainable and how sport can achieve more comprehensive social and ecological objectives. Our reviewer is Daniel Svensson, and he identifies an ongoing environmental turn in sports studies, evidenced by a growing body of literature into which this pedagogical textbook fits nicely.

The International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics aims to publish articles that address all aspects of sport policy irrespective of academic discipline. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: THE COMPETITION FOR GOVERNMENT FUNDING OF MAJOR SPORTS EVENTS: WHY DO SOME APPLICANTS PASS THE NEEDLE’S EYE? by Eva Lechner & Harry Arne Solberg.