Tag: Remco Polman

The Science of Esports by Craig McNulty, Remco Polman, Matthew Watson & Kabir Bubna (Routleedge) draws from contemporary research and coach expertise to examine esports athlete health and performance from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Leonardo Colares Castro appreciates the many undeniable qualities of the book under review; however, there are quite a few things that he would have liked to see included or elaborated on.

Bringing together leading esports experts from Europe, North America, and Australia, Anne Tjønndal’s edited collection Social Issues in Esports (Routledge) provides new sociological analyses that define and locate esports in social studies. Kalle Jonasson, who wrote about esports on idrottsforum.org already back in 2005, is highly appreciative of Tjønndal’s book, notwithstanding the fact that he would have liked to see a bit more of conceptual and philosophical thinking around the social issues surrounding esports.

Psychology of Sport and Exercise is an international forum for scholarly reports in the psychology of sport and exercise, broadly defined. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Multiple group memberships promote health and performance following pathway transitions in junior elite cricket by Tim Rees, Jodie Green, Kim Peters, Mark Stevens, S. Alexander Haslam, Wil James, Simon Timson.