Tag: Hans Erik Næss

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 International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics is published by Routledge, and aims to publish articles that address all aspects of sport policy irrespective of academic discipline. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘Merely plastering a deep cut? A critical policy analysis of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) human rights commitment by Zohreh Khani & Hans Erik Næss (open access).

Taking the global sport of Formula 1 (F1) motor racing as a sustained case study, Raymond Boyle & Richard Haynes’ Streaming the Formula 1 Rivalry: Sport and the Media in the Platform Age examines how the relationship between the sport and the media has evolved in this new digital environment. In his review, Hans Erik Næss confesses that the book delights his academic sensibilities like a child in a candy store. Overall, he concludes, Boyle & Haynes’ book is a valuable contribution to the study of motorsport and the media.

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy is an international peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research contributions to scientific knowledge. It publishes high quality articles from a wide variety of philosophical traditions. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Anti-Doping Policy, Health, and Harm by Jo Morrison.

Progressive and broad-ranging, The Routledge Handbook of Gender Politics in Sport and Physical Activity edited by Győző Molnár and Rachael Bullingham, offers a comprehensive overview of the complex intersections between politics, gender, sport and physical activity. In her thorough, competent and highly useful review of this 32 chapters anthology, Anna Sätre highlights the underlying aims of the collection, some detectable trends among the contributions, and several of the chapters that stand out for their critical and innovative approaches.

The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The Bumpy Road to World Athletics: Foundation, People, Policies by Lina von Petersdorff & Jörg Krieger (open access).

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.

The Future of Motorsports: Business, Politics and Society, edited by Hans Erik Næss and Simon Chadwick (Routledge) takes stock of the position of motorsport in the 21st century and considers how it will continue to influence sport business, politics, and society in the future. Alex Twitchen knows a thing or two about motor racing, and he has read this “valuable contribution to the academic study of motorsport” with great interest, while also noting some of the conundrums involved in trying to predict the future.

SSSF, a multidisciplinary social sciences sport studies journal, welcomes articles that deal with sport and social change and social stability in a wide sense, articles about the profound and comprehensive processes affecting sport. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Motives, Motivation, and Motivational Climate of Young Norwegian Swimmers, and their Parents’ Belief by Ingeborg Ljødal, Bjørn Harald Olstad & Anne Marte Pensgaard (open access).

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: Children’s sport opportunities and parental support in single-parent families with a lower socio-economic status. An ecological perspective by Roman Zehl, Ansgar Thiel & Siegfried Nagel,