Tag: sport history

Sport History Review encourages the submission of scholarly articles, methodological and research notes, and commentaries. SHR encourages graduate students and young professionals to submit their work for publication. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The English Style: Figure Skating, Gender, and National Identity by B.A. Thurber.

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: The Emergence of the Swedish Horse-Riding School from the Mid-Twentieth Century by Susanna Hedenborg, Gabriella Torell Palmquist & Annika Rosén.

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: Recorde: Revista de História do Esporte – An Overview of Its Publications (2008–2020) by Letícia Cristina Lima Moraes, Leonardo do Couto Gomes & Wanderley Marchi Júnior.

This essay collection will explore Berlin as a sports city, and the history of sport in Berlin, from a range of historical perspectives (political, social, cultural, diplomatic, environmental, global, media, and others). While we welcome submissions pertaining to Berlin’s history as a host of sport mega-events, we also encourage submissions pertaining to lesser-known histories of sport and physical activity in Berlin.

In recent years, global sport organisations have undergone various reforms in an attempt to tarnish the bad reputation of international sport politics. Amongst them, World Athletics, the governing body for track and field, has conducted a governance structure reform and dropped its former name, International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), in 2019. However, concerns about sport organisations’ dealing with their past remain and continue to influence current decision-making processes.

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: Recorde: Revista de História do Esporte – An Overview of Its Publications (2008–2020) by Letícia Cristina Lima Moraes, Leonardo do Couto Gomes & Wanderley Marchi Júnior.

STADION serves as scholarly platform for well-known historians, and is aimed both at experts and at all those who strive for a deeper and more differ entiated understanding of sport, play, physical education and physical culture from an historical perspective. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: South Africa, Apartheid and the Olympic Games by Jan Hangebrauck.

This special issue of IHJS will focus on examining new contexts and telling unheard stories related to competitive gymnastics. Moving beyond Olga Korbut and Nadia Comaneci, it will emphasise countries, athletes, codes, coaches and officials that have not featured heavily in the literature previously. It aims to showcase the variety of forms that competitive gymnastics has taken, and to highlight the many actors who have contributed to its development across a range of contexts. 

This panel seeks to explore the gaze that humanistic inquiry provides on soccer. What can the humanities tell us about soccer that social sciences, business, or sport studies cannot? The panel will contribute to defining how the humanities study a multifaceted and multicultural phenomenon such as soccer, which is deeply connected to several pressing contemporary matters—such as migration, national identities, and gender equality.

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: ‘The world will be watching and so will NSA!’: A History of Technology and Security at the Olympic Games by Austin Duckworth & Jörg Krieger.