Tag: Mike O’Mahony

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: A Basketball Height Limit? FIBA, the 1936 Olympics, and the Ruling that Saved the Game by Chad R. Carlson.

The considerable growth of interest in commerce, media and politics and their relationship to sport in international academia has resulted in academics in various disciplines writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life.

Allt fler forskare i allt fler discipliner gör ”the visual turn”, som inte är en dans utan innebär en insikt om och ett erkännande av att andra källor än skriftliga kan tjäna som forskningsunderlag. Leif Yttergren recenserar The Visual in Sport som undersöker värdet av "artefakter" i idrottshistorisk forskning.