Tag: Jamie Cleland

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.

IRSS is a peer reviewed academic journal. Its main purpose is to disseminate research and scholarship on sport throughout the international academic community. The journal publishes research articles of varying lengths, as well as book and media reviews. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Studying professional women footballers: A reflexive commentary on being benched from recruitment by Laura Harris and Dawn E Trussell (open access).

Social Media in Sport: Evidence-Based Perspectives, edited by Gashaw Abeza and Jimmy Sanderson (Routledge), takes a close look at social media in sport and considers its significance for sport business and for the wider relationship between sport and society. Or, less of the latter, according to our reviewer Anna Adlwarth, who quite appreciates the business and marketing perspectives of the book but would have liked to see more reflections on the politics of the phenomenon that is social media.

Soccer, a.k.a (association) football is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, and aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Our city our crew: sense of place, cultural entrepreneurship and ‘thick’ cultural resistance in the #SaveTheCrew movement by M. C. McDougall, M. Saarinen, M. Ross & N. J. Ronkainen (open access).

Soccer, a.k.a (association) football is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, and aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Banter and the rise of LGBTQ+ awareness in football cultures: a bourdieusian approach by Kevin Dixon, Jamie Cleland & Ellis Cashmore.

Soccer, a.k.a (association) football is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, and aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘A little less conversation’: an exploration of soccer fan attitudes towards ‘the knee’ protest and the anti-racism message by Kevin Dixon, Ellis Cashmore & Jamie Cleland.

Academics in various disciplines are 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. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: A ‘ruthless’ victory? Reactions to the United States women’s national team victory over Thailand in the 2019 world cup bt Rachel Mack & Colleen English.

C&S is a cutting-edge peer-reviewed quarterly that publishes research to foster international scholarly understanding of the nexus of communication and sport that engages a broad intellectual community. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Wearable Fitness Devices: An Investigation into Co-constructed Meaning of Use by Matthew Blaszka, Natasha A. Rascon.

In Referees, Match Officials and Abuse: Research and Implications for Policy (Routledge), authors Tom Webb, Mike Rayner, Jamie Cleland & Jimmy O’Gorman explore issues related to the abuse of referees and match officials in sport, based on original empirical research. Our reviewer is idrottsforum.org founder Bo Carlsson, who gained insights from the chapters describing and analyzing the problem while remaining slightly skeptical about the proposed measures.

Academics in various disciplines are 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. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘The competent child and (in)competent others. Horse-riding school activities for preschool children by Annika Rosén, Gabriella Thorell & Susanna Hedenborg (open access).