Dear all,
So, four weeks to go until the summer recess, and in our in tray there are four articles and c. 10 book reviews, and, you know, that’s about all we can manage to get published in the weeks leading up to Midsummer. So, all of you with deadlines (well) overdue (15) or deadline between now and Midsummer Eve (15) – you may as well aim for mid-August submissions. I will get in touch with all of you personally as well.
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.
Have a great week,
Kjell Eriksson
Editor
Book Reviews
Globalized Sport Management in Diverse Cultural Contexts, by James J. Zhang & Brenda G. Pitts (eds.)
Cross-cultural management is an important facet of the globalized sport industry. Globalized Sport Management in Diverse Cultural Contexts, edited by James J. Zhang & Brenda G. Pitts (Routledge), brings together research on this issue from sport scholars around the world. Our reviewer is Derrick Charway, and he finds that the book does what it intended to, bud he would have liked an abstract for each chapter, and he points out that micro level analyses would have added important insights about cultural diversity in practice. (Review in English, published 230524.)
21st Century Sports: How Technologies Will Change Sports in the Digital Age, by Sascha L. Schmidt (ed.)
Sascha L. Schmidt’s edited collection 21st Century Sports: How Technologies Will Change Sports in the Digital Age (Springer) outlines the effects that technology-induced change will have on sport within the next five to ten years. A collective of sport sociologists at Nord University, Norway has read the book as a book group, bringing many various experiences and perspectives into a rich review highlighting the book’s strong points as well as its weaknesses, one of which is a paucity of critical perspectives throughout. (Review in English, published 230525.)
Hälsosamma läromedel? Recension av Idrott & Hälsa 7–9 [Healthy learning materials? Review of Sport & Health 7–9], by Mikael Gardestrand Bengtsson & Stina Gardestrand
Sports and health 7-9 by Mikael Gardestrand Bengtsson & Stina Gardestrand (Liber) gives concrete suggestions on how to work with the curriculum’s central content and its learning objectives. In each chapter there are tasks that are connected to relevant grading criteria. Based on their master’s thesis, two physical education teacher students, Viktor Elm and Adam Pilfors, review the digital learning tool. Their main criticism is that the curriculum’s salutogenic health perspective in the teaching material rather becomes pathogenic. (Book in Swedish, review in Swed, published 230526.)
New Issues of Scholarly Journals
(We rely heavily on journal publishers delivering on their promises of new issue alerts. Sometimes they don’t.)
- Leisure Studies, Volume 42, 2023, Issue 2 (230526)
News items (calls for papers, vacancies, etc.)
- Call for Participants | University of Chichester Sports History Conference, June 17, 2023 | Tickets now available (230524)
- Call for Participation | Understanding and Measuring Value in Culture, (Sport) Events & Tourism | CCSE Online Symposium, June 8, 2023 (230524)
- Call for Participants | Socio-Legal Approaches to Protecting Athletes from Financial and Physical Harm: Challenges, Reflections and Solution | Manchester Law School, June 9, 2023 (230524)
- Susanna Hedenborg, professor i idrottsvetenskap och docent i ekonomisk historia, Malmö universitet tilldelas IKSU Idrottsvetenskapliga pris till Jan Åmans minne 2023 (230526)
- Call for Participants | Zoom webinar launching a new book series from de Gruyter: RERIS Studies in International Sport Relations | June 13, 2023 (230527)
