Tag: Renan Petersen-Wagner

The anthology Social Control and Disorder in Football: Responses, Regulation, Rupture (Routledge), edited by Mark Turner and Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen, shows how the ‘beautiful game’ illuminates our understanding of the mechanisms and techniques of social control and regulation in contemporary societies. In his review, Hans K. Hognestad appreciates that the book extends beyond issues of violence and crowd control since football in many places remains one of few public platforms for expressing not only patriotic identities but also various forms of political resistance.

In their book The UEFA European Football Championships: Politics, Media Spectacle and Social Change (Routledge), Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen and Renan Petersen-Wagner explore social and political issues and trends emerging around the UEFA European Football Championships. Björn Horgby, professor of history, is impressed by the large number of balls being kicked up in the air; however, he laments that the limited number of pages prevented the authors from following up on many ideas that would need in-depth analyses of UEFA and the championships.

The emphasis of Leisure Studies is on theoretically informed critical analyses within the social sciences and humanities of the topics that constitute leisure as a subject field – including the arts, tourism, sport and more. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: From television to YouTube: digitalised sport mega-events in the platform society by Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen & Renan Petersen-Wagner (open access).

Academics in various disciplines are writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: A morphogenetic approach to sport and social inclusion: a case study of good will’s reproductive power by Tony Blomqvist Mickelsson (open access).

In a new anthology from Routledge, Digital Football Cultures: Fandom, Identities and Resistance edited by Stefan Lawrence & Garry Crawford, a number of football scholars look at the digitalized future of the beautiful game. Our reviewer is Lise Joern, and she found interesting and critical insights to appreciate. She concludes, however, that technological development notwithstanding, much remains the same and is merely old wine in new bottles.