Tag: Peter Donnelly

With sport sustaining a prominent place in international development policymaking, discourse and delivery, the collected volume Handbook of Sport and International Development (Edward Elgar) investigates the role that different sport initiatives – from community-focused projects to large-scale events – can play across a great variety of development contexts. Our reviewers Derrick Charway and Umair Asif are appreciative of the comprehensive approach and they find the critical stance vital to combat the narratives about the “inherent purity and goodness of sport” (Coakley).

In most areas of society, children are afforded a protected status that safeguards their health and well-being. However, in sport, children are often denied such protection due to the autonomy of sport organizations and the belief that sport has certain inherent characteristics that set it apart from other social institutions (i.e., the specificity of sport). In this reprinted Conversation piece Peter Donnelly and Marcus Mazzucco argue for children to be recognized as a protected class in sport.

The Centre for Sport Policy Studies at U of T’s Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education invites one and all to an insightful event celebrating Dr. Donnelly’s impact and legacy in the fields of public sociology, critical sport studies and policy development. The lecture by Parissa Safai, the first doctoral student of Dr. Donnelly, will explore current issues and challenges regarding public health, access to safe, inclusive physical activity, and the values of sport.

The ISLJ is the only truly “international” peer-reviewed sports law journal consistently offering broad content coverage, such as significant case law analysis, legal commentary and sports related information from sports law experts around the world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Evolution of CAS human rights jurisprudence: observations from Keramuddin Karim v. FIFA by Surbhi Kuwelker.

The International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics aims to publish articles that address all aspects of sport policy irrespective of academic discipline. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Women’s Tennis Diplomacy: Australia–China Cultural Relations and Li Na as a Sports Celebrity Diplomat of the Australian Open by Chuanqian Zhao & Jorge Knijnik.

Pam Sailors finds a useful metaphor in the Swiss army knife when reviewing Ethics and Governance in Sport: The future of sport imagined, edited by Yves Vanden Auweele, Elaine Cook & Jim Parry (Routledge) – both are brilliantly designed, with many small and useful implements/chapters, but one requires sturdier stuff in order to construct big houses or conceive and conduct in-depth studies of sports.

New special issue, Vol 5, No 2 (2017), of Social Inclusion, "Sport for Social Inclusion”, is now out. All articles are free to download (open access). Please feel free to share the articles with your colleagues. Editor: Reinhard Haudenhuyse (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

Playing for Change: The Continuing Struggle for Sport and Recreation, edited by Russell Field (University of Toronto Press) is an homage, albeit in a very low-keyed, Canadian sort of way, to Bruce Kidd, athlete, activist and scholar. In his review for idrottsforum.org, Alan Bairner is very pleased with what he reads; however, he is unable to find in this book about struggle a discussion of gender and sexuality.

Anders Östnäs Nordic Evaluation Group, NORDEG Peter Donnelly (red) Taking Sport Seriously: Social Issues in Canadian Sport 370 sidor, . Toronto, ON: Thompson Educational Publishing 2011 ISBN 978-1-55077-206-7InledningDen här boken utgör...

Bosse CarlssonRoutledge har nyligen gett ut fyra volymer (1 700 sidor) med den ambitiösa, men mindre upplysande, titeln Sport. Det är Eric Dunning och Dominic Malcom...