Tag: identity

Sport can be a vehicle for the expression of identity, and also a factor in the shaping of identity. In Sport, Globalisation and Identity: New Perspectives on Regions and Nations, edited by Jim O'Brien, Russell Holden, Xavier Ginesta, the complex interrelationships between nations, regions and states in the landscape of contemporary international sport, with a particular focus on identity, is explored.

This special issue offers new theoretical, methodological and applied considerations on the important topic of identity in sport. The overriding consensus from existing research is that a strong identity (both athletic and practitioner) can foster motivation, commitment, and confidence, but a strong and exclusive identity is more likely to lead to difficulties and distress in career transition.

Skills required of applicant: Key skills would include: a demonstrable specialism in social science, sociology and/or the humanities or a related area; academic performance in these areas; and, evidence of the ability to undertake independent research. Supplementary skills might include: professional or vocational experience of sport and/or labour migration.

By reconstructing the urban social field of sport during the interwar period as a site of identity politics, the conference addresses the history and importance of Jewish sports in different major European cities.

An international conference hosted by the University of Waikato for academics researching the socio-cultural aspects of surfing, to be held at Solscape overlooking the famous Whaingaroa Raglan break in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Special Issue: Sporting Nations without States Guest Edited by Malcolm MacleanPerforming nations, disrupting states: sporting identities in nations without states Malcolm MacLean & Russell Field‘Je suis...

British Society of Sports History South of England Sport and Leisure History Network South Central Branch: Summer 2014 Workshop University of Winchester Saturday 14th June 2014The British Society...

The considerable growth of interest in commerce, media and politics in the modern world and their relationship to sport in international academia has resulted in academics in various disciplines writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life. Special Issue: Sport, Music, Identities

PositionProfessor i historie / Associate Professor in HistoryAddressInstitutt for Lærerutdanning og pedagogikk, UiT – Norges Arktiske Universitet, Campus Alta / Department of...

Special Issue Skiing and Identity: Between Nation, Class, Gender, and IndustrialisationIntroduction Annette R. Hofmann Pages: 561-562 DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2013.789177Articles Taking Ski Tracks to the North. The Invention and Reinvention of...