Tag: Michael Edwards
Important handbook that takes a broad approach to its subject without losing analytical depth
With sport sustaining a prominent place in international development policymaking, discourse and delivery, the collected volume Handbook of Sport and International Development (Edward Elgar) investigates the role that different sport initiatives – from community-focused projects to large-scale events – can play across a great variety of development contexts. Our reviewers Derrick Charway and Umair Asif are appreciative of the comprehensive approach and they find the critical stance vital to combat the narratives about the “inherent purity and goodness of sport” (Coakley).
Psychology of Sport and Exercise, Vol. 53, March 2021
Psychology of Sport and Exercise is an international forum for scholarly reports in the psychology of sport and exercise, broadly defined. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: RETROSPECTIVE AND CONCURRENT PERSPECTIVES OF THE TRANSITION INTO SENIOR PROFESSIONAL FEMALE FOOTBALL WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM by Michael McGreary, Robert Morris, Martin Eubank.
An ambitious introduction to the wide-ranging field of sport management
For her edited volume Contemporary Issues in Sport Management: A Critical Introduction (Sage Publications), Terri Byers have engaged a large number of contributing scholars of sport management, probing central issues in the field. Søren Bennie is our reviewer, and while pointing to a few weak points, his balanced assessment is that it’s a valuable and useful contribution to this research field.
