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.
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.And remember, if you’re not already hooked up to one of the social media outlets that we utilize, for now they are Facebook, LinkedIn and X, you’re missing quite a lot of information from idrottsforum.org that never appears on the website; this week no less than 43 updates on each (the same on all three). So, if that is the case, check out, by clicking on the names, our Facebook, LinkedIn and X accounts.
Have a great week,
Kjell Eriksson
Editor
Research Article
The Institutionalisation of Amateur Esports in Denmark: New Values, New Opportunities, and New Constraints?
Esports is often portrayed as a rapidly expanding cultural field, yet its global development has been marked by an increasing concentration of commercial power. As publishers, media platforms, and tournament organisers consolidate control over competitive infrastructures, the space for non-professional forms of esports appears to narrow. This peer review article by Anna Brus and David Ekholm critically examines the institutionalisation of organised amateur esports within DGI, Denmark’s second largest sport association, through a qualitative case study using documents and interviews. (Published in English 260601.
Book Reviews
Useful contribution to the study of race, inequality, and identity in American professional boxing
Professional boxers work inside a capitalistic and neoliberal sports culture that they both challenge and uphold. Rings of Dissent: Boxing and Performances of Rebellion, edited by Rudy Mondragón, Gaye Theresa Johnson & David J. Leonard (University of Illinois Press), delves into professional boxing’s capacity for brilliance, contradiction, resistance, and complicity. Our reviewers Daniele Canini and Anne Tjønndal found several compelling individual contributions, but given the academic provenance would have expected a stronger emphasis on analytical rather than descriptive writing. (Review in English, published 260603.)
Are sport scientists finally addressing the elephant in the womb?
Petra Kolić’s and Christopher I. Morse’s edited collection Menstruation and the Menstrual Cycle in Sport, Exercise, and Physical Activity (Routledge) is the first book to offer students, researchers, and professionals an evidenced-based reference on considerations and concepts relevant to sports performance and physical activity during menstruation and the menstrual cycle. Leah Monsees has been waiting for a book like this, and minor critical points aside she concludes that the book makes a meaningful contribution to this emerging field.recommends the book to his sport social science peers as well as to their students. (Review in English, published 260604.)
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.
News items (calls for papers, vacancies, etc.)
- Call for Papers | “Charting What’s Next”, the 2027 Global Sport Business Association (GSBA) Annual Conference | February 18–21, 2027. Call ends August 1, 2026 (260602)
- Call for Papers | “Safeguarding in Sport Psychology: Cultural Contexts, Case Studies, and Applied Practice”, Special Issue of Case Studies in Sport and Performance Psychology | Call ends March 1, 2027 (260602)
- Call for Papers | “Global Perspectives on Soccer (Football)”, Special Issue of Journal of Multidisciplinary Research | Call ends July 17, 2026 (260603)
- Call for Book Proposals | Critical Issues in Sport and Society, a series from Rutgers University Press (260605)
- Call for Book Proposals | Emerald Studies in Sport and Gender (260605)
