Tag: Mahfoud Amara
The International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 34, 2017, Issue 13: The Olympic Movement and the Middle East and North African Region: History, Culture and Geopolitics
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.
Two text books on the sociology of sport that probably work best together
In this original review for idrottsforum.org, Jay Coakley takes on two introductory textbooks in the sociology of sport, Sport Sociology by Peter Craig and Sport and Society, edited by Barrie Houlihan & Dominic Malcolm (both Sage Publications). His critical analysis from the point of view of the academic teacher leads him to a well-argued conclusions that will be rewarding reading for teachers as well as for the respective author/editors.
The future for public service media, sport and cultural citizenship are far from lost
Britt-Marie Ringfjord has read what she deems an important contribution to contemporary sports media studies, Sport, Public Broadcasting and Cultural Citizenship: Signal Lost?, edited by Jay Scherer and David Rowe.
Uncritical reflections on Arab sport and society
Den arabiska våren har flyttat världens fokus till Nordafrika och Arabiska halvön. Också idrotten i den arabiskan världen har hängt med i den utvecklingen, och nu ökar utgivningen av böcker som behandlar sport i arabvärlden. Halvdan Haugsbakken har läst en av de första i den vågen.
