Tag: Katarzyna Herd
Dealing with sportswashing – an exercise in honour and popular culture
In this feature article, Katarzyna Herd delves into the thorny concept, phenomenon and research object sportswashing. According to Wikipedia, the first usage of the term may have been applied to Azerbaijan and its hosting of the 2015 European Games in Baku, but the practice of nations or governments using sports to improve reputations tarnished by wrongdoing goes all the way back to the Berlin Olympics in 1936. Herd’s investigative rumination about sportswashing includes philosophical as well as cultural aspects.
Soccer & Society, Volume 25, 2024, Issue 3
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: Video Assistant Referee (VAR), gender and football refereeing: a scoping review by Sigbjørn Skirbekk (open access).
A valuable resource for anyone with an interest in the relationship between sport and place
The Political Football Stadium: Identity Discourses and Power Struggle, edited by Başak Alpan, Albrecht Sonntag & Katarzyna Herd (Palgrave Macmillan) focuses on the football stadium as a political space and examines how stadiums can be viewed as the objects and catalysts of political change. Alan Bairner has read a well-researched and informative tome with a wealth of interesting materials, but he is still able to suggest a couple of politically interesting stadiums to include in a second volume.
Soccer & Society, Volume 24, 2023, Issue 3 | Nordic football: local and global impact, influences and images
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: Zlatan Ibrahimović: a monument and a mirror of his times(b> by Roger Johansson, Per-Markku Ristilammi & Helena Tolvhed (open access).
Football narratives anchored in the past
Katarzyna Herd’s doctoral dissertation “We can make new history here”: Rituals of producing history in Swedish football clubs (Lund University) is reviewed by the external reviewer at the dissertation Birgitta Svensson, Professor of Ethnology, Stockholm University, and she is quite impressed by this maiden voyage into the realm of advanced academic research.
