Tag: Gerard A. Akindes
Ambitious endeavor succeeds most often but falls short in some significant respects
The Geopolitical Economy of Sport: Power, Politics, Money, and the State edited by Simon Chadwick, Paul Widdop & Michael M. Goldman (Routledge), is the first book to define and explore the geopolitical economy of sport where power, politics, money, and state intersect. Harald Dolles is our reviewer, and while lauding many aspects of the book and the editors’ efforts, he points to the dangers of obsolescence as well as finding several instances where the book not quite measures up to reasonable demands of scholarly astuteness.
Mega-handbook on mega-events: The whole is bigger than the sum of its parts
The Research Handbook on Major Sporting Events, edited by Harry Arne Solberg, Rasmus K. Storm and Kamilla Swart (Edward Elgar) examines the hosting of major sporting events and the impacts they can have on stakeholders. Christian Tolstrup Jensen has read an impressive compilation of scientific studies in the field of major sport event research that gives the initiated reader a useful and nuanced overview of the state-of-the-art in event studies, its understudied areas and a who-is-who in the field.
Fotbollens mäktiga globalisering
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.
