Tag: Kevin D. Tennent

A long time contributor to the book review section of idrottsforum.org, over the years Hans Martin Lundberg has lamented the state of sport studies and research, the problem to his mind being that sport was studied for the sake of sport itself, with consequences such as a view of sports as inherently good and positive, and a paucity of critical perspectives. However, having been asked to review Foundations of Managing British Olympics: Institutions through Time by Alex G. Gillett & Kevin D. Tennent (Emerald Publishing), he finds that his calls for an upgrade of the scholarly treatment of sport have been heard.

Soccer a.k.a (association) football, the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, has become a major social phenomenon since the late nineteenth century. Through the social prism of soccer, scholars across the world have tended to understand various aspects of life. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world.

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. As well as regular issues, the IJHS also offers regionally-focused issues on the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East, and special issues each year on significant topics and themes.