Tag: Heather Sykes
Useful book on narrative approaches to inequality in the sporting field
The anthology Equity and Difference in Physical Education, Youth Sport and Health: A Narrative Approach, published by Routledge and edited by Fiona Dowling, Hayley Fitzgerald and Anne Flintoff, makes innovative use of narrative method to explore the issue of equity in sporting contexts. Mads Skauge has read a fine collection and found inspiration for new approaches in hs own future research. Can you ask for more?
Leisure Studies, Volume 37, 2018, Issue 6: Leisure Cultures & Glocal Challenges to National Populist Politics
Leisure Studies is the journal of the Leisure Studies Association. The emphasis of the journal is on theoretically informed critical analyses within the social sciences and humanities of the wide range of topics that constitute leisure as a subject field – including the arts, tourism, cultural, informal and virtual activities, urban and rural recreation, sport, media and physical activities.
A postcolonial analysis of the LGBT social movement and sport mega events
In her new book, The Sexual and Gender Politics of Sport Mega-Events: Roving Colonialism (Routledge), Heather Sykes studies the inclusion of the LGBT movement in mega sport-events, urging the former to recognise the exclusion of others in order for these events to take place. Maria Zuiderveld’s insightful review appreciates the book’s merits, while also pointing to its weaknesses.
