Dear all,
Last week the following items were published on idrottsforum.org (see below; language and publication dates, YYMMDD, in brackets). Click on the red headings to go to content. Utilize the Google Translate service to turn Scandinavian language pages into (some sort of) English.
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Kjell Eriksson
Editor
Research Article
If you want to fight individual deviance such as corruption and doping in sport: What leadership, governance, and culture might work in sport management?
In this peer review article for Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, Petter Gottschalk asks the question of what might work best in sport management when the focus is on preventing, detecting, and correcting individual deviance, which is a negative phenomenon in sport as it refers to behaviors that go against and violate expectations, norms, values, as well as rules, regulations, and laws. While ethical and democratic leadership styles are normally recommended, sometimes dictatorial and narcissistic leadership styles are needed to fight deviance. (Published in English 260421.
Feature Article
If Fifa is not reformed in a democratic direction, Sweden should consider leaving the organization
Recent world events underline the need to see sport as a political arena in which democratic values must be defended. Continuing to participate without raising one’s voice risks, as history has shown, leading to a growing credibility problem. Sport is very much political. The question is: what kind of values should it promote? writes Daniel Svensson, Associate Professor of Sport Science at Malmö University. (Published in English 260424.
Book Review
This timely and interesting sociology of LGBT+ football supporters is required reading for students and scholars of sport
Peter Millward’s Football Fandom, Sexualities and Activism: A Cultural Relational Sociology (Routledge) is the first book to examine the growing movement of organised networks of LGBT+ football supporters, exploring activists’ biographies and the meanings they ascribe to participation in identity politics-centred social movements. Our reviewer Mads Skauge finds a swell of ambition and a swell of data – maybe enough for more books than this one – and the end product, he argues, presents an abundance of useful information about LGBT+ fandom and supporter culture in football. (Review in English, published 260422.)
Scholarly Journals
Since its inception 23 years ago, idrottsforum.org has been proudly presenting every new issue of almost all scholarly journals within the field of sport studies, widely defined. However, after carefully considering the whole situation – with increasing number of journals and number of issues per journal – we have decided to let go of the original ambition; it has become too time-consuming. Henceforth we will publish alerts about new journal issues on our social media accounts (Facebook, LinkedIn and X), and also special alerts when particularly interesting articles in scholarly journals are published online, giving priority to open access publications. The Scholarly Journals page will list all journals within the extended sport studies field for your information, and we will endeavor to update it with any new titles being launched.
