Tag: Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen

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.

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: Americans’ attitudes towards the U.S. women’s national soccer team by Rachel Allison, Adam Gemar & Stacey Pope.

This journal publishes high-quality papers on the sociology of leisure that have a global interest, promote the development of this mature field within international sociology, and go beyond the traditional geographical areas of leisure studies. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Is Academia a Site of Struggle? A Critical Analysis of Resistance Scholarship in Leisure Studies by Daniel Theriault, Rasul Mowatt (open access).

Mark James and Guy Osborn’s Olympic Laws: Culture, Values, Tensions (Routledge) is the first book to analyse fully the Olympic legal framework and its application to the IOC and the Olympic Games through a socio-legal lens. According to our reviewer Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen, their analysis drives forward debates in the social and political scientific study of sport, and will figure as an important resource for researchers and students within all these areas in the years to come.

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: The framed and contested meanings of sport mega-event ‘legacies’: A case study of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games by Jamal A. Mckenzie, Jan A. Lee Ludvigsen, Andrea Scott-Bell, and John W. Hayton (open access).

FC Barcelona: History, Politics and Identity, edited by Jim O'Brien, Xavier Ginesta and Jordi de San Eugenio (Routledge) is the first critical, in-depth academic study of FC Barcelona (also known as Barça), one of the world’s great football clubs, exploring the historical, political, cultural and commercial dimensions of this global sporting institution. Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen is our appreciative reviewer, and he lauds the idiographic approach. His only complaint is the missing chapter on El Clásico.

The International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics is published by Routledge, and aims to publish articles that address all aspects of sport policy irrespective of academic discipline. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘Fog on the tyne’? The ‘common-sense’ focus on ‘sportswashing’ and the 2021 takeover of Newcastle United by Stephen Crossley & Adam Woolf (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: Beyond ‘good’ and ‘bad’ fans: exploring the mechanisms enabling football fans’ position as a stakeholder in the management of circulations by Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen (open access).