Tag: Grant Jarvie

The edited collection The Routledge Handbook of Mega-Sporting Events and Human Rights (Routledge) provides new perspectives on human rights as a lens for understanding modern sport and as a guiding principle for responsible sport that protects the interests of individuals and communities, as well as offering guidance on best practice. Lina von Petersdorff has read this vast collection and found it to be a successful venture where the chapters build upon each other to create a comprehensive understanding of the kind of problems involved in protecting human rights in mega-sporting events.

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.

Quest is the official journal of the National Association for Kinesiology in Higher Education (NAKHE). It is the leading journal for interdisciplinary scholarship for professionals in kinesiology in higher education. Quest provides a public forum for scholarship, creative thought, and research relevant to a broad range of interests held by faculty and leaders in higher education today.

Från konferens till tidskriftsnummer till antologi – och nu en recension av boken, Women’s Sport in Africa sammanställd av Michelle Sikes & John Bale (Routledge). Vår recensent är Anders Östnäs, och han har läst de olika bidragen med lite varierande intresse och entusiasm, men slutsatsen är ändå at det är en intressant antologi på ett viktigt tema.