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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, Bluesky, LinkedIn and X, you’re missing quite a lot of information from idrottsforum.org that never appears on the website. So, if that is the case, check out, by clicking on the names, our Facebook, Bluesky, LinkedIn and X accounts.
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Kjell Eriksson
Editor
Book Review
Successful collection offers valuable contributions and insights
The edited collection The Routledge Handbook of Mega-Sporting Events and Human Rights (Routledge) provides new perspectives on human rights as a lens for understanding modern sport and as a guiding principle for responsible sport that protects the interests of individuals and communities, as well as offering guidance on best practice. Lina von Petersdorff has read this vast collection and found it to be a successful venture where the chapters build upon each other to create a comprehensive understanding of the kind of problems involved in protecting human rights in mega-sporting events. (Review in English, published 260303.)
The jurisprudential turn in sports law
In Sport, Law and Philosophy: The Jurisprudence of Sport (Routledge), edited by Miroslav Imbrišević, a number of contributions discuss the intersection of law and sport and highlights its usefulness to both legal scholars and philosophers of sport. We asked Westminster Law School Professor Guy Osborn for a review, and his reading of this timely collection gave rise to interesting reflections about the emerging area of jurisprudence of sport where law and philosophy intervenes in a field of human activity governed by rules – sport – that offers scholars a wide range of areas for intervention. (Review in English, published 260305.)
Sport development: How Canadian basketball took a major step forward
In The Golden Generation: How Canada Became a Basketball Powerhouse (ECW), basketball journalist Oren Weisfeld uncovers the growth of Canadian basketball through the lens of Team Canada and its most influential figures, alternating between key moments in the rise of the Canadian men’s national team, innovations in the grassroots community, and profiles of Canada’s top players. Łukasz Muniowski’s knowledgeable review reveals the strong as well as the weak sides of this non-academic book, and the bottom line is that it’s a vital contribution to the deeper understanding of the shift in world basketball. (Review in English, published 260306.)
New on the Sport Scholars List
Noemi Steuerwald | University of Bern, Switzerland
Noemi Steuerwald | University of Bern, SwitzerlandNoemi Steuerwald is completing her PhD in history while conducting interdisciplinary research across history, literature, and animal-human studies. Her PhD thesis focuses on the cultural and gender history of equestrian sport, examining how gender difference is constructed and reproduced in a discipline where physical differences do not disadvantage women. Looking ahead, she is interested in expanding her research on to the interplay between commercialization, power, and gender in sport, exploring how social hierarchies and institutional structures shape participation and meaning-making across both amateur and elite contexts. (260308)
News items (calls for papers, vacancies, etc.)
- Call for Papers | “Sport Romance”, Special Issue of The Journal of Popular Romance Studies | Call ends May 31, 2026 (260305)
