Tag: Max Mauro

FC Barcelona: History, Politics and Identity, edited by Jim O'Brien, Xavier Ginesta and Jordi de San Eugenio (Routledge) is the first critical, in-depth academic study of FC Barcelona (also known as Barça), one of the world’s great football clubs, exploring the historical, political, cultural and commercial dimensions of this global sporting institution. Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen is our appreciative reviewer, and he lauds the idiographic approach. His only complaint is the missing chapter on El Clásico.

C&S is a cutting-edge peer-reviewed quarterly that publishes research to foster international scholarly understanding of the nexus of communication and sport that engages a broad intellectual community. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Collegiate Student-Athletes as Health Advocates: The Role of Issue and Source Involvement in Students’ Information Processing about Binge Drinking by Sai Datta Mikkilineni, Gregory A. Cranmer, Erin Ash, and Bryan E. Denham.

The edited collection Sport, Globalisation and Identity: New Perspectives on Regions and Nations by Jim O’Brien, Russell Holden & Xavier Ginesta (Routledge) explores the complex interrelationships between nations, regions and states in the landscape of contemporary international sport, with a particular focus on identity. Christer Ericsson, a self-confessed anthology skeptic, had some reservations while reading but concluded that this anthology had done its job, presenting interesting new studies in a way as to create a coherent whole.

In Youth Sport, Migration and Culture: Two football teams and the changing face of Ireland (Routledge), Max Mauro looks closely at young people’s leisure practices in multi-ethnic contexts, and at issues of inclusion in relation to public discourses around ‘national identity’ and immigration. We asked Dilwyn Porter to read Mauro’s book, and he has written a knowledgeable and appreciative review that shows Mauro’s efforts to be insightful and recommendable.

Sport can be a vehicle for the expression of identity, and also a factor in the shaping of identity. In Sport, Globalisation and Identity: New Perspectives on Regions and Nations, edited by Jim O'Brien, Russell Holden, Xavier Ginesta, the complex interrelationships between nations, regions and states in the landscape of contemporary international sport, with a particular focus on identity, is explored.

The title of Max Mauro’s book The Balotelli Generation: Issues of Inclusion and Belonging in Italian Football and Society (Peter Lang) refers to the Italian footballer Mario Balotelli, a target of thousands of racist slurs. The book, appreciatively reviewed by Mattias Melkersson, highlights the inclusive power of sport and the sometimes bleak reality behind the ambitions and potentials.

David Holt Olsen har läst en brittisk antologi om fotbollens makt och vanmakt inför diskriminering på grund av etnicitet och ras, Ethnicity and Race in Association Football: Case Study Analyses in Europe, Africa and the USA sammanställd av David Hassan.