Tag: Nancy Malcom

JSB publishes original, empirical, investigative, and theoretical papers dealing with the studies of behavior in the areas of game and sport. Essentially, the JSB is interested in sociological, psychological, anthropological, and related applications to the science of sport. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Ghost Games: Crowds, Referee Bias, and Home Advantage in European Football Leagues by Amy Wolaver, Christopher Magee.

With her new anthology, Social Innovation in Sport (Palgrave Macmillan), Anne Tjönndal aims at providing fresh insights on how social innovations are utilized as strategies to make sport more accessible and inclusive. Our reviewer Alan Bairner is doubtful however, seeing sport’s adaptability to change as more often than not driven by market logics, since sport, he claims, is inherently conservative, reactionary even, in its refusal to change its core values and renew its traditional hierarchies.