Tag: Joseph Maguire

The considerable growth of interest in commerce, media and politics and their relationship to sport has resulted in academics in various disciplines writing about sport. Sport in Society is a 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: SCHOLAR, GENTLEMAN AND PLAYER: A TRIBUTE TO ERIC DUNNING by Dominic Malcolm & Ivan Waddington.

The pursuit of interdisciplinarity in sport studies in the hope of breaking the natural and biosciences hegemony in the field is the objective of editor Joseph Maguire’s collected volume Social Sciences in Sport. Alan Bairner reviews the effort and finds much to appreciate, but apparently, this is not the holy grail that the social sciences of sport urgently need.

Isabella Grujoska Medicinska fakulteten, Lunds universitet Joseph Maguire & Mark Falcous (red) Sport and Migration: Borders, Boundaries and Crossings 315 sidor, hft. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge 2010 ISBN 978-0-415-49834-0Skenet kan bedra! Vid en första...