Tag: Mark Turner

The International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics is published by Routledge, and aims to publish articles that address all aspects of sport policy irrespective of academic discipline. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Cricket Australia’s Code of Conduct and the need for a ‘clear family resemblance’ in purpose, values, and principles by Simone Pearce, Jay Sanderson, David Fleischman, Craig Cameron & Peter English (open access).

The anthology Social Control and Disorder in Football: Responses, Regulation, Rupture (Routledge), edited by Mark Turner and Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen, shows how the ‘beautiful game’ illuminates our understanding of the mechanisms and techniques of social control and regulation in contemporary societies. In his review, Hans K. Hognestad appreciates that the book extends beyond issues of violence and crowd control since football in many places remains one of few public platforms for expressing not only patriotic identities but also various forms of political resistance.

In his latest book The Safe Standing Movement in Football: Fan Networks, Tactics, and Mobilisations (Routledge), Mark Turner tells the important story of the social movement against all-seated stadia in football in England and Wales that developed in the wake of the Hillsborough stadium disaster. Based on his own extensive studies of supporter cultures in football, Jonas Havelund is well placed to review Turner’s book, and he recommends it for its insights into supporter activism and the phenomenon of social movements.

This journal publishes high-quality papers on the sociology of leisure that have a global interest, promote the development of this mature field within international sociology, and go beyond the traditional geographical areas of leisure studies. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: From The Anfield Wrap to Boss Night and the Paris Protests: Football, Politics, Identity and the Cultural Evolution of Fan Media and Supporter Activism in Liverpool by Joel Rookwood & Paddy Hoey (open access).

SSJ publishes original research, framed by social theory, on exercise, sport, physical culture, and the (physically active) body. The journal publishes peer-reviewed empirical, theoretical, and position papers; book reviews; and critical essays. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Weighing the Body: Women Olympic Weightlifters Negotiating Weight Class, Body Image, and the Unruly Body by Monica Nelson & Shannon Jette.

IRSS is a peer reviewed academic journal. Its main purpose is to disseminate research and scholarship on sport throughout the international academic community. The journal publishes research articles of varying lengths, as well as book and media reviews. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘These are “our” sports’: Kabaddi and Kho-Kho women athletes from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan by Umer Hussain and George B Cunningham.