Tag: Miroslav Imbrišević

On the 31st October, a group of UN Special Procedures mandate holders, who are independent, unpaid, voluntary experts, published a policy position urging states and other stakeholders ‘to uphold the ideal of sport that is inclusive of LGBT and intersex persons’. Miroslav Imbrišević has studied the policy position in detail and has found many questionable points of departure and objectionable conclusions.

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy is an international peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research contributions to scientific knowledge. It publishes high quality articles from a wide variety of philosophical traditions. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Patriarchy in Disguise: Burke on Pike and World Rugby by Miroslav Imbrišević.

Arguably, trans people are subject to discrimination, or worse. Whether or not they are also, as trans athletes, discriminated in sports is a moot point. In a new edited collection, Justice for Trans Athletes: Challenges and Struggles by Ali Durham Greey & Helen Jefferson Lenskyj (Emerald), the contributors argue for full inclusion of transwomen athletes in the female category of competitive sports. Our reviewer, legal and political philosopher Miroslav Imbrišević is a well-known exponent of the opposite view.

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy is an international peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research contributions to scientific knowledge. It publishes high quality articles from a wide variety of philosophical traditions. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Competitive Team Sport Without External Referees: The Case of the Flying Disc Sport Ultimate by Gerhard Thonhauser.

A group of scientists and humanities scholars has written an expert commentary about the recently published ‘Scientific Review’ by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport about transwomen’s participation in female sport. The CCES Review, claim the authors, doesn’t deserve its name; it is wholly unscientific, another attempt to replace materially based eligibility criteria in sport with ‘social identity’ as a passport to inclusion, and they highlight its shortcomings in methodology, and its sometimes incoherent, sometimes misleading argumentation.

On June 19, the International Swimming Federation (FINA) approved a significant change to its policy on the inclusion of transwomen, effectively banning any transwoman swimmer from competing in female competition if they have gone through any part of the process of male puberty. In this feature article Miroslav Imbrišević clears up a common misunderstanding that presently obfuscates the debate on transgenderism in sports – eligibility is a governing principle in sports, determining also inclusion.

The jurisprudence of sport is a fast-developing field of academic study which, unlike sports law, treats sports and games as legal systems to be studied in their own right. Legal philosopher Miroslav Imbrišević is well placed to review Mitchell N. Berman & Richard D. Friedman’s The Jurisprudence of Sport: Sports and Games as Legal Systems (West Academic Publishing), and his knowledgeable and thorough review demonstrates the value of jurisprudence as an area and method of study.

The final bout in the men’s karate (over-75 kg) at the Tokyo Olympics ended with a messy, confusing penalty for a kick that was apparently too spectacular for karate. In his feature article for idrottsforum.org, Miroslav Imbrišević takes a close look at kick itself and does a close reading of the rule book. Based on the incident at the Games and his own assessment of what happened and why, Imbrišević sees a bleak future for karate in the Olympics.

Miroslav Imbrišević is a political and legal philosopher. Until recently he taught political theory at Heythrop College, University of London. In 2018 he began publishing in philosophy of sport. In this feature article, while acknowledging that the rules allow it, he questions on physiological grounds the choice by transwomen athletes to compete with other women, not least when the athlete in question also is a professor of philosophy.

Miroslav Imbrišević, himself a trained martial artist (Tae-Kwon-Do) since the early 80s, just before the first Karate Kid movie premiered, has spent some time of late with the continuation of the Karate Kid saga, namely the successful Cobra Kai television series on Netflix. Season 3 will be released in January 2021 and season 4 is planned. Miroslav’s feature article is in part a review but mostly a reflection on learning and teaching martial arts.