Tag: Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen

In Football and Racism: How Colonialism Shaped the Modern Game (Pitch), journalist Ronny Blaschke digs for the truth in this groundbreaking study of racism in football and its roots spanning five continents, assessing the role played by colonialism and how a misguided notion of European superiority still persists. Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen has read a timely and well-researched book about the causes of racist structures and thinking in football, with a bottom-up focus. A book not only for readers interested in football, but also in post-colonialism, and anti-racism initiatives.

Journal of Sport & Social Issues< brings you the latest research, discussion and analysis on contemporary sport issues. In JSSI scholars study the impact of sport on social issues from many perspectives. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue:: The Global Security Field of Sports and How the World Health Organization Shapes Mega-Events in a (Post-)Pandemic World by Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen (open access).

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: Paddling as ‘Pelagic Postcolonialism’: Pacific voyaging resurgence, ocean justice and outrigger canoe racing (Va’a) in Fiji by Yoko Kanemasu.

The anthology Social Control and Disorder in Football: Responses, Regulation, Rupture (Routledge), edited by Mark Turner and Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen, shows how the ‘beautiful game’ illuminates our understanding of the mechanisms and techniques of social control and regulation in contemporary societies. In his review, Hans K. Hognestad appreciates that the book extends beyond issues of violence and crowd control since football in many places remains one of few public platforms for expressing not only patriotic identities but also various forms of political resistance.

This Special Issue will take a broad-minded and holistic approach to Euro 2028. It welcomes contributions from researchers situated in different academic fields, including, for example, sociology, international relations, history, media and communication, sport management, urban geography and more. As situated in a pre-event setting, the types of papers that are encouraged include not only original research articles, but also shorter commentaries or discussion pieces, case studies or review articles.

Telling an important story about the development of modern Turkey, John Konuk Blasing’s Nationalism and Globalization in Turkish Football: Voices from Fan Culture (Routledge) examines the place of football in Turkish society and the relationship between Turkish sport, nationalism, and globalization. Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen finds much to enlighten him in Blasing’s well-researched, theory-driven ethnographic study. A strong contribution to the sociology of football, his book should also be read for its wider scope of cultural sociology and its impressive writing style.

Against the backdrop of the recent and renewed political and policy interest in the safety and security in European football contexts, Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen produces an updated empirical but theoretically informed account of how insecurities in football have been responded to in his book Insecurities in European Football and Supporter Cultures (Routledge). Eivind Skille is largely positive to the author’s efforts; impressed by the theoretical groundwork and appreciative of the empirical studies, but he would have liked to see an elevated analysis and a further elaborated conclusion.

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: Beyond the game: Panathinaikos’ fandom and the political arena by Angeliki- Sofia Bakali & Torbjörn Andersson.

Thijs A. Velema, an Associate Professor in Sociology at National Taipei University, has been examining labor markets in professional football from the perspective of football clubs rather than players. In his book Football Clubs and the Global Transfer Market (Routledge) Velema endeavors to develop a sociological theory about football clubs as myopic gamblers playing the transfer market. Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen has read “an important and ambitious monograph”, “well-written and very clear in its argumentation”.

In Sport and Crime: Towards a Critical Criminology of Sport, authors Peter Millward, Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen and Jonathan Sly explore the connections between sport studies and criminology with the aim of opening up critical new frontiers in the study of sport and crime. In his review, Aurélien Daudi foregrounds a mainly successful attempt to develop a criminology of sport derived from Critical Theory, however not unobjectionable; our reviewer points to terminological weaknesses in more than one instance, and he finds the critical element surprisingly opaque.