Tag: Ying Chiang
New book about sports as a potential force in political struggles for independence and sovereignty
Sport and Secessionism, edited by Mariann Vaczi and Alan Bairner (Routledge), examines how sporting cultures reflect, inform and sometimes frustrate secessionist movements around the world by investigating a wide range of cases. Our reviewer is Norwegian historian Matti Goksøyr, and his insightful presentation and critical assessment of the collection reveals new takes, new examples and hence new perspectives and more nuances to the ways sport can operate and be applied in secessionist contexts.
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Vol. 56, 2021, No. 4
IRSS is a peer reviewed academic journal. Its main purpose is to disseminate research and scholarship on sport throughout the international academic community. The journal publishes research articles of varying lengths, as well as book and media reviews. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The disengagement process among young athletes when withdrawing from sport: A new research approach by Inger Eliasson and Annika Johansson.
The International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 36, 2019, Issue 7–8 | Asian Sport Celebrity: The Nexus of Race, Ethnicity, and Regionality
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. As well as regular issues, the IJHS also offers regionally-focused issues on the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East, and special issues each year on significant topics and themes.
