Tag: Elien Claes

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 effects of capital and gender on German adolescents’ favourite sports by Sebastian Gehrmann, Uta Czyrnick-Leber & Pamela Wicker.

JGSM aims to be the global platform for focused, rigorous, and interdisciplinary research that has originality, depth, and clarity of insights into significant issues and developments of interest to sport management. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: THE MEDAL WAR IN PEACETIME: EXAMINING NATIONALISTIC NOTIONS EMBEDDED IN CCTV’S COVERAGE OF GYMNASTICS IN THE 2016 RIO SUMMER OLYMPICS by Qingru Xu & Andrew C. Billings.

The relationship between sport (con)federations and governmental bodies in 13 countries is the subject for Sport Policy Systems and Sport Federations: A Cross-National Perspective, edited by Jeroen Scheerder, Annick Willem & Elien Claes (Palgrave). Our reviewer is Hallgeir Gammelsæter, and he has some serious objections which render the book less than useful.