Tag: James Riordan

JSM encourages the submission of manuscripts in a number of areas as they relate to the management, governance, and consumption of sport. Studies using quantitative and/or qualitative approaches are welcomed The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Building and Sustaining Organizational Capacity in Voluntary Sports Clubs: Findings From a Longitudinal Study by Karsten Elmose-Østerlund, Graham Cuskelly, Jens Høyer-Kruse, and Christian Røj Voldby.

Playing for Change: The Continuing Struggle for Sport and Recreation, edited by Russell Field (University of Toronto Press) is an homage, albeit in a very low-keyed, Canadian sort of way, to Bruce Kidd, athlete, activist and scholar. In his review for idrottsforum.org, Alan Bairner is very pleased with what he reads; however, he is unable to find in this book about struggle a discussion of gender and sexuality.

Annika Eliasson Fil dr, Malmö Högskola I antologin European Cultures in Sport gör ett dussintal europeiska sporthistoriker en genomgång i form av fallstudier av idrottens (i ordets bredaste bemärkelse) utveckling i England, Wales, Skottland, Danmark, Tyskland, Sovjetunionen och de forna östeuropeiska enpartistaterna, Frankrike, Spanien och Italien. De flesta följer utvecklingen några sekel tillbaka, från den tid då den moderna idrotten kan spåra sina...