Tag: Ramón Llopis-Goig
A valuable resource for anyone with an interest in the relationship between sport and place
The Political Football Stadium: Identity Discourses and Power Struggle, edited by Başak Alpan, Albrecht Sonntag & Katarzyna Herd (Palgrave Macmillan) focuses on the football stadium as a political space and examines how stadiums can be viewed as the objects and catalysts of political change. Alan Bairner has read a well-researched and informative tome with a wealth of interesting materials, but he is still able to suggest a couple of politically interesting stadiums to include in a second volume.
International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, Volume 14, 2022, Issue 3
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: Translating care from policy to practice: limits and lessons from an institutional ethnographic study examining Ontario youth volleyball
Soccer & Society, Volume 22, 2021, Issue 4
Soccer, a.k.a (association) football is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, and aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ’Dark-skinned pioneers in European national football teams: patterns and stories by Przemysław Nosal & Natalia Organista.
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Vol. 55, 2020, No. 8
IRSS is a peer reviewed academic journal. Its main purpose is to disseminate research and scholarship on sport throughout the international academic community. The journal publishes research articles of varying lengths, as well as book and media reviews. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: FOOTBALL ACTIVISM AS POLITICAL CONTENTION: CONTEXTUAL DETERMINANTS OF MEMBERSHIP IN THE ASSOCIATION OF SUPPORTERS OF HAJDUK SPLIT by Josip Glaurdić.
The International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 37, 2020, Issue 5–6
The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘OUR SPORT’: THE FIGHT FOR CONTROL OF WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL ATHLETICS by Jörg Krieger, Michele Krech & Lindsay Parks Pieper.
European Journal for Sport and Society, Vol. 16, 2019, Issue 3
The European Journal for Sport and Society is the official journal of the European Association for Sociology of Sport, EASS. Its function is to enable an international discussion about current issues and to foster collaboration between researchers from all social scientific sub-disciplines. It’s published 4 times per year.
A remastering of European football’s “greatest hits”, albeit with some original approaches
In our ambition to cover the whole book series ”Football Research in an Enlarged Europe”, we asked Matthew L. McDowell for a review of the 2015 edited volume European Football and Collective Memory by Wolfram Pyta & Nils Havemann (Palgrave Macmillan). Our reviewer finds an uneven collection that’s still relevant for analyses of European football and for football as a metaphor for the European project.
Fra la furia til tiki-taka: Spansk fotballs suksessoppskrift
Vi har plockat upp en tidig utgåva i Palgrave-serien ”Football Research in an Enlarged Europe”, Ramón Llopis-Goigs Spanish Football and Social Change: Sociological Investigations från 2015, och vi bad Matti Goksøyr, som har god inblick i spansk fotboll, att recensera den. En i högsta grad läsvärd bok för såväl historiker och sociologer med eller utan intresse för spansk fotboll, menar vår recensent.
Women’s football in a man’s world – a never-ending story of subordination
Lise Joern reviews a collected volume from the impressive “Football Research in an Enlarged Europe” series at Palgrave Macmillan, Female Football Players and Fans: Intruding into a Man’s World, edited by Gertrud Pfister and Stacey Pope. She appreciates the book and its contributions but ends on a note of pessimism about the situation for women’s football and its fans.
Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, Volume 37, 2018, Issue 1
The purpose of the Journal of Teaching in Physical Education is to communicate national and international research and stimulate discussion, study, and critique of teaching, teacher education, and curriculum as these fields relate to physical activity in schools, communities, higher education, and sport.
