Dear all,
Back in 2012, idrottsforum.org moved to Word Press, a free and open-source web content management system. We have since then changed the theme originally applied to our content, which was called Unspoken, since upgrades were discontinued. The one we are using now is Newspaper, a modern theme suitable for the sort of web page publication we do.
Also the Forum blog uses the Newspaper theme, whereas, until a week or so ago, Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum SSSF), our peer review online journal was still using the same theme we applies back in 2012..
So, SSSF badly needed a technical upgrade, and we decided to use the Newspaper theme again, strengthening the brand appearance and making cross publishing and cross-referencing simpler. The thing with Word Press and the template system is that your site can change appearance by changing theme and that, ideally, is all you have to do – depending on your ambitions. In this case there was one or two changes that had to be made manually for each published article, and in that endeavor were about halfway done. There will surely also be a few tweaks required and fine points to attend to, but basically, we’re done and we’re happy with the outcome. Check out sportstudies.org and see what you think.
And later today the first article for the fall semester and with the new theme will be published.
Now, enough with the tech talk and self-promotion. 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
Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman’s Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet, by Jenny Graham
In 2018, amateur cyclist Jenny Graham became the fastest woman to cycle around the world. She tells her story in Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman’s Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet (Bloomsbury Sport), which we asked history professor and avid cyclist Duncan R. Jamieson – though avid might be understating it – to read. Not in it for the race himself, he can still see the psychology behind Graham’s quest, and his brilliant account of her fascinating book bears witness to his expertise in the history and sociology of cycling. (Review in English, published 231004.)
Svenska hockeyadeln: Hjältarna, händelserna och lagen under 5 decennier [Swedish hockey nobility: The heroes, the events and the teams over 5 decades], by Stickan Kenne
Svenska hockeyadeln: Hjältarna, händelserna och lagen under 5 decennier (Nygren & Nygren) is an epic about Swedish elite hockey where we get to follow heroes, events and the teams – all through photographer Stickan Kenne and his lens. We asked the country’s leading ice hockey researcher, Tobias Stark at Linnaeus University to review the book, and he does not mince words of praise: “The Swedish hockey nobility is a formidable masterpiece… a cultural achievement of a rarely seen kind… this close-to-the-skin and multi-faceted visual material”. (Book and review in Swedish, published 231004.)
Treningslære for idrettene: 2. utgave [Exercise theory for sports: 2nd ed.], by Jostein Hallén & Lars Tore Ronglan
Jostein Hallén’s and Lars Tore Ronglan’s Treningslære for idrettene (Fagbokforlaget) is based on the nature of the sports. Specific training must be combined with variety to stimulate the learning and training yield, and the training must contain a progression, where loads and challenges are gradually increased. Stephen Garland has had the first edition as required reading for his students, and he rather prefers that to this revised second edition. All in all, he concludes his review, it’s a very useful book. (Book in Norwegian, review in English and Swedish, published 231006.)
New Blog Post
Cricket and Conservatism: all too cosy bedfellows, by Duncan Stone
English (and Welsh) cricket, in the aftermath of the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (ICEC), has been in the midst’s of an existential crisis. As the Report highlighted, the game is not simply elitist and racist, it is sexist, homophobic and classist. While many within the game – most notably life peer and Chairman of Durham CCC, Sir Ian Botham OBE, and the old Etonian ex-commentator Henry Blofeld OBE – questioned the validity of ICEC’s findings, t-he evidence of more than 4000 victims, witnesses, journalists and researchers not only vindicated those who had long called-out discrimination (in its various forms), it forced the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to make an unreserved apology to all those who have suffered discrimination (this included the Black British community as a whole. (Published in English 231005.)
New Issues of Scholarly Journals
(We rely heavily on journal publishers delivering on their promises of new issue alerts. Sometimes they don’t.)
- The International Sports Law Journal, Vol. 23, 2023, Issue 1 (231003)
- Sport in Society, Volume 26, 2023, Issue 5 (231003)
News items (calls for papers, vacancies, etc.)
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(Shutterstock/Kues) Call for Papers | “Emotional and Cognitive Perspectives in Physical Activity and Sport”, Special Issue of Behavioral Sciences | Submission is open. Call ends July 1, 2024 (231003)
- Call for Papers | “(Re)claiming Leisure: Rights, Responsibilities, and Resistance” | Leisure Studies Association Conference 2024, University of the West of Scotland, July 10–12, 2024. Call ends January 15, 2024 (231003)
- Call for Papers | Physical Cultures of the Body IV, a Free, Hybrid Conference | The University of Texas at Austin, January 11 (virtual) & 12 (in-person), 2024. Call ends November 19, 2023 (231007)
