Tag: Jürgen Mittag
The impact of COVID-19 on the sports industry
Paul M. Pedersen’s edited collection Research Handbook on Sport and COVID-19 (Edward Elgar) examines sport-related research and analysis pertaining to how the sport industry has been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and discusses how the sport industry and its stakeholders might move forward in post-pandemic times. Our reviewer is Leonardo Colares Castro, and he deals with this 462 pages, 34 chapters and 92 authors volume in the only way possible – taking a comprehensive view, finding the many advantages and making note of a few shortcomings.
A remastering of European football’s “greatest hits”, albeit with some original approaches
In our ambition to cover the whole book series ”Football Research in an Enlarged Europe”, we asked Matthew L. McDowell for a review of the 2015 edited volume European Football and Collective Memory by Wolfram Pyta & Nils Havemann (Palgrave Macmillan). Our reviewer finds an uneven collection that’s still relevant for analyses of European football and for football as a metaphor for the European project.
Sport in History, Volume 37, 2017, Issue 3
Sport in History is a history journal that publishes original, archivally-based research on the history of sport, leisure and recreation. The journal encourages the study of sport to illuminate broader historical issues and debates. Includes an extensive reviews section.
