Tag: Fred Coalter
International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, Volume 12, 2020, Issue 4
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: QUESTIONING REPRESENTATIONS OF ATHLETES WITH ELEVATED TESTOSTERONE LEVELS IN ELITE WOMEN’S SPORTS: A CRITICAL POLICY ANALYSIS by Annette Brömdal, Rebecca Olive & Brooke Walker
Journal of Sport & Social Issues, Vol. 43, 2019, No. 6
Journal of Sport and Social Issues (JSSI) brings you the latest research, discussion and analysis on contemporary sport issues. In JSSI scholars study the impact of sport on social issues from many perspectives, including Sociology, History, Economics, Media Studies, Gender Studies, Psychology, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Anthropology and Ethnic Studies.
Useful for almost anyone interested in sports, but primarily as introductions
Pam Sailors finds a useful metaphor in the Swiss army knife when reviewing Ethics and Governance in Sport: The future of sport imagined, edited by Yves Vanden Auweele, Elaine Cook & Jim Parry (Routledge) – both are brilliantly designed, with many small and useful implements/chapters, but one requires sturdier stuff in order to construct big houses or conceive and conduct in-depth studies of sports.
“Sport for Social Inclusion” | Special issue of Social Inclusion
New special issue, Vol 5, No 2 (2017), of Social Inclusion, "Sport for Social Inclusion”, is now out. All articles are free to download (open access). Please feel free to share the articles with your colleagues. Editor: Reinhard Haudenhuyse (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Om idrottens roll i samhället
Mats Franzén
Institutet för bostads- och urbanforskning, Uppsala universitet
Fred Coalter
A Wider Social Role for Sport: Who’s Keeping the Score?
206 sidor, hft.
Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge 2010
ISBN 978-0-415-36350-1
Vore sportens mening och betydelse begränsad till dess mål och värde – att vinna – hade den med all säkerhet en långt mer marginell plats i samhället än den nu har. Förväntningarna på sporten är emellertid stora –...