Tag: Michelle Sikes

By placing scholars from various disciplines side-by-side on the common topic of the Olympic Games, JOS (available in both print and electronic format and marketed to a global scholarly audience) aims to promote and encourage a multi-disciplinary understanding of the Olympic Movement. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Viva Mexico! The Cultural Politics Behind the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Bid by Edgar Jesus Campos; Douglas Hartmann.

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. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Excavating the Ancestry of ‘Globetrotting’: New Perspectives on the Intersection of Racial Politics, Civil Rights Struggles and anti-Apartheid Crusades in US Track and Field from the 1920s through the 1980s by Michelle M. Sikes & Mark Dyreson.

Sport in History encourages the study of sport to illuminate broader historical issues and debates. Includes an extensive reviews section, an annual compendium of sports-related accessions to British archives and a 'Sport in Public History' section. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘What media coverage of the 1968 Olympic protests reveals about the deep structure of attitudes about athletic activism in the United States by Douglas Hartmann.

Sport History Review encourages the submission of scholarly articles, methodological and research notes, and commentaries. SHR encourages graduate students and young professionals to submit their work for publication. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The English Style: Figure Skating, Gender, and National Identity by B.A. Thurber.

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. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: SPORT IN ISOLATION? NEW PERSPECTIVES ON RACE, SPORT, AND POLITICS IN APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA by Michelle M. Sikes, Toby C. Rider & Matt P. Llewellyn.

The Journal of Sport History is published three times a year by the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH). The purpose of NASSH is to promote, stimulate, and encourage study and research and writing of the history of sport, and to support and cooperate with local, national, and international organizations having the same purposes.

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.

Från konferens till tidskriftsnummer till antologi – och nu en recension av boken, Women’s Sport in Africa sammanställd av Michelle Sikes & John Bale (Routledge). Vår recensent är Anders Östnäs, och han har läst de olika bidragen med lite varierande intresse och entusiasm, men slutsatsen är ändå at det är en intressant antologi på ett viktigt tema.