Tag: Paul Dimeo

The International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics is published by Routledge, and aims to publish articles that address all aspects of sport policy irrespective of academic discipline. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: To let go or to control? Depoliticisation and (re)politicisation in Chinese football by Qi Peng, Shushu Chen & Craig Berry (open access).

The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society, edited by Lawrence A, Wenner (Oxford UP), features leading international scholars’ assessments of scholarly inquiry about sport and society. Divided into six sections, chapters consider dominant issues within key areas, approaches featured in inquiry, and debates needing resolution. Our reviewer is Richards Giulianotti, who edited the Sage four volume set The Sociology of Sport in 2012, and he finds that this new collection, some unnecessary omissions notwithstanding, is a welcome addition to the existing list of handbooks in the field.

Drawing on case studies from the early twentieth century to the present day, April Henning and Paul Dimeo, authors of Doping: A Sporting History (Reaktion Books), explore why the current anti-doping system looks as it does, charting its origins to the founding of the modern Olympic Games. Andrew Bloodworth is no stranger to the thorny issues associated with doping and anti-doping, and his reading of this book turns up important historical roots as well as many useful suggestions for reforming the WADA policy and its implementation.

Performance Enhancement & Health (PEH) is an international, peer-reviewed journal that critically explores the health implications of pharmacological, genetic, psychological and other technological enhancements of the human being. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: WHY ARE PLACEBOS NOT ON WADA’S PROHIBITED LIST? by Bengt Kayser.

In his latest book, Making Sport Great Again: The Uber-Sport Assemblage, Neoliberalism, and the Trump Conjuncture (Palgrave), sociologist and leading left-leaning sport critic David L. Andrews, Professor of Physical Cultural Studies, University of Maryland, delivers a fiercely critical analysis of the state of sport under neoliberalism. However, as our reviewer Paul Dimeo notes, Andrews’ ideas of democracy and inclusion are cloaked in nigh on impenetrable sociological vernacular.

Den internationella idrottens kris är nära sammankopplad med förekomsten av och kampen mot dopning. Dessa frågor behandlas i Paul Dimeos och Verner Møllers kritiska studie av dagens antidopningsregim under WADAs ledning, The Anti-Doping Crisis in Sport: Causes, consequences, solutions (Routledge). Men lyckas författarna övertyga vår kritiske recensent Björn Sandahl?

Doping in Sport and the Law by Ulrich Haas & Deborah Healey (eds., Hart Publishing) is a couple of years old, but, as our reviewer Paul Dimeo points out, “yet key texts such as this can help us understanding contemporary and future problems”. Paul recommends the book for anyone interested in anti-doping, sports ethics and/or sports law.

Björn Sandahl har läst två Routledge-antologier, A Global History of Doping in Sport: Drugs, Policy, and Politics av John Gleaves & Thomas M. Hunt (red) och Anti-doping: Policy and Governance av Barrie Houlihan & Mike McNamee (red). En del bra bidrag, tycker vår recensent, men varför har dessa två gamla tidskriftsnummer publicerats som böcker, rakt av?