Tag: Sport in Society

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: The community inclusion of athletes with intellectual disability: a transnational study of the impact of participating in Special Olympics by Roy McConkey & Sabine Menke.

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: Where do they all come from? Youth, fitness gyms, sport clubs and social inequality by Mads Skauge & Ørnulf Seippel.

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: New spatial practices in organised sport following COVID-19: the Swedish case by Karin Book, Susanna Hedenborg & Karin Andersson (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: What’s at play? Power, transnational coaches and the global hegemony of performance within Danish elite swimming by Jørgen Bagger Kjær & Sine Agergaard.

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: The co-development of inclusive tools in physical education for pupils with and without disabilities by Lars Kristén, Bodil Klingvall & Mikael Ring (open access).

The social sciences – such as sociology, history, cultural studies, anthropology, didactics, socio-legal studies – seem to have a rather marginal position in scholarly studies of coaching, whereas behavioral sciences, and especially psychology seem to dominate coaching studies. This special issue has the ambition to challenge and widen the contemporary understanding of the coach and coaching practices, particularly in relation to social issues, influences, culture and changes, by an imperative focus on social science.

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: From sport-for-development to sports mega-events: conflict, authoritarian modernisation and statecraft in Azerbaijan by Joel Rookwood.(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: We exist, play sports, and will persist: everyday lives of Palestinian sportswomen through the lens of the ‘politics of invisibility’ by Hillary Kipnis.

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: Masculinity constructing among street workout youth in post-Soviet Dagestan by Sviatoslav Poliakov.

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: The significance of ‘situated learning’ for doping in an elite sports community: an interview study of AAS-using powerlifters by David Hoff (open access).