Tag: Jörg Krieger

Sport in History encourages the study of sport to illuminate broader historical issues and debates. Includes an extensive reviews section, an annual compendium of sports-related accessions to British archives and a 'Sport in Public History' section. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Women coaches, professionalisation, and national governing body mergers in England, 1989–2000 by Rafaelle Nicholson (open access).

The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Bold Ambitions, Austere Realities: On the Unfulfilled Plans for the Warsaw Olympic Games by Kamil Potrzuski.

What is left to do in anti-doping research? This was the question April Henning and Jörg Krieger, as the directors of the International Network of Doping Research, asked themselves and their colleagues two years ago at the 2022 conference, where international experts discuss research on the political, cultural, and social dimensions of doping in an independent setting. At this year’s INDR conference they will have much to discuss given the recent doping scandal in China.

Routledge Handbook of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, edited by Dikaia Chatziefstathiou, Borja García & Benoit Séguin (Routledge) presents new research and broad surveys exploring pressing debates, challenges and possible solutions surrounding the modern Olympic and Paralympic Games, across diverse socioeconomic and political contexts. Our reviewer Björn Sandahl contends that the handbook serves as a rich introduction to its field of study and thus should be of great interest to students and the interested general public.

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 morphogenetic approach to sport and social inclusion: a case study of good will’s reproductive power by Tony Blomqvist Mickelsson (open access).

Sport History Review encourages the submission of scholarly articles, methodological and research notes, and commentaries. SHR encourages graduate students and young professionals to submit their work for publication. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: “An Occupational Hazard”: Former Elite Male Professional Players’ Experiences of On-Field Violence in Australian Football (1970 to 1995) by John H. Kerr.

In the edited collection Restart: Sport After the Covid-19 Time Out by Jörg Krieger, April Henning & Lindsay Parks Pieper (Common Ground), practitioners and international scholars explore the “restart» of sport and fitness following the initial period of lockdowns during spring 2020. Sport sociologist Jan Ove Tangen is appreciative of the individual chapters, but not at all happy with the way they interact within the collection. A more instructive Introduction would have helped, as would a concluding summing-up chapter.

Sport in History encourages the study of sport to illuminate broader historical issues and debates. Includes an extensive reviews section, an annual compendium of sports-related accessions to British archives and a 'Sport in Public History' section. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘A history of transgender women in Australian Sports, 1976–2017 by Noah Riseman.

Jörg Krieger’s Power and Politics in World Athletics: A Critical History (Routledge) provides the first detailed history of one of the most powerful international sport organisations, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), critically assessing the internal power relations within the organization by focusing on its leadership. Our reviewer is Malcolm MacLean, and he concludes that this is an important contribution to the study of sports’ global federations, and specifically of the IAAF governance structure and regime of power.

By placing scholars from various disciplines side-by-side on the common topic of the Olympic Games, JOS (available in both print and electronic format and marketed to a global scholarly audience) aims to promote and encourage a multi-disciplinary understanding of the Olympic Movement. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Let Them Eat Games! A Review Essay of Barry Siegel’s Dreamers and Schemers by Sean Dinces.