Tag: John Hughson

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: ‘‘Masters of your fate and the captains of your soul’: media representations of the 2018 Invictus Games by Peter English, Bridie Kean, Simone Pearce, Timothy Peters, Katy Kirby & Angela Calder.

The considerable growth of interest in commerce, media and politics 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.

The anthology «Methodology in Sports History», edited by Wray Vamplew and Dave Day (Routledge) seemed to be just what the supervisor ordered for a Ph.D. student at a crucial point in the dissertation process. For our reviewer Robert Svensson, however, it was somewhat of a disappointment. The book confuses method with methodology, and deals more with history in general than with sport history.

Konflikten mellan sub-disciplinen idrottshistoria och moderämnet historia blommar ut för fullt i antologin New Directions in Sport History, redigerad av Duncan Stone, John Hughson och Rob Ellis (Routledge). Jens Ljunggren hittar trots bidragens skiftande kvalitet viktiga framåtsyftande tankegångar.

Britt-Marie Ringfjord has read what she deems an important contribution to contemporary sports media studies, Sport, Public Broadcasting and Cultural Citizenship: Signal Lost?, edited by Jay Scherer and David Rowe.

The Making of Sporting Cultures av professorn i Sport and Cultural Studies vid University of Central Lancaster John Hughson, tar upp en rad ”kulturella” aspekter på idrott, och vår recensent Ørnulf Seippel tycker både att den handlar lite för lite om lite för mycket, och att den gläder läsaren med en mångfald av infall som är både intressanta och som förtjänar uppmärksamhet.

Den som följt Londons OS-förberedelser vet att samtliga nationella och lokala idrottsorganisationer gjort stora ansträngningar för att uppnå bestående effekter av OS. Men kommer det att bli så? I ny bok i ämnet, antologin Sport in the City: Cultural Connections sammanställd av Michael P. Sam och John E. Hughson (Routledge), som recenseras av Karin Book, behandlas detta.