Tag: Scott Fleming

Gerald R. Gems’ latest book Mental Health, Gender, and the Rise of Sport (Lexington Books) examines the historical role of sport as both a mental and physical remedy during the late-nineteenth-century epidemic of neurasthenia in the US, a debilitating neurological condition that gripped American society. We asked Scott Fleming, seasoned scholar of sport studies, for a review. He found Gem’s book thoroughly enjoyable, rigorously researched, engagingly written, and dealing with this neurasthenia epidemic, the curing of which prescribed sport, exercise and physical activity.

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: Public funding of Russian football clubs: historic formation and implications of the current system Timur Absalyamov & Mathias Schubert (open access).

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: Politics of the group draws in football. The case of restricted team clashes by Michał Marcin Kobierecki.

The Research Process in Sport, Exercise and Health: Case Studies of Active Researchers, sammanställd av Rich Neil, Sheldon Hanton, Scott Fleming & Kylie Wilson är en ny lärobok för forskarutbildning på grundnivå som bygger på verkliga case. Den recenseras av Andreas Ivarsson .