Dear all,
I spent last Saturday at the annual Swedish Book Fair in the city of Gothenburg, together with many thousands of other book lovers. It’s a great inspiration just being there, walking about, looking in at the many publisher’s stalls, picking up interesting-looking books, catching interviews with authors, and so on. Regrettably, back in Malmö yesterday afternoon, it became obvious that I had picked up something other than books at the Fair, as I experienced all the classic symptoms of a bad cold or possibly a mild flu – time will tell which.
I am able to produce this newsletter, but we’ll have to see how the rest of the week turns out in terms of publishing.
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
International Sport Business: Current Issues, Future Directions, by Hans Westerbeek & Adam Karg
International Sport Business: Current Issues, Future Directions by Hans Westerbeek and Adam Karg offers a contemporary and forward-looking survey of the global sport industry, introducing the key themes, trends and critical issues. Our reviewer is Giuseppe Telesca, and he finds much to learn from, and like about Westerbeek & Karg’s efforts. He does, however, point out the absence of a chapter on the important geopolitical aspects of the globalization of sport and sport business. (Review in English, published 240924.)
Helt i mål: Lær statistisk tenkning med tall fra sportens verden [Right on target. Learn statistical thinking with numbers from the world of sport], by Christer Thrane
Christer Thrane’s book Lær statistisk tenkning med tall fra sportens verden (Humanist Forlag) makes even those with advanced statistics anxiety competent to judge the credibility of statistical news material. And it requires no prior knowledge. Sports sociologist Mads Skauge has read Thrane’s book with pleasure – although not uncritically – and like Thrane, he does not shy away from peppering his text with sporting metaphors. Fun reading. (Review in Norwegian, published 240925.)
Pressure: Lessons from the psychology of the penalty shootout, by Geir Jordet
In Pressure: Lessons from the psychology of the penalty shootout (New River Books), psychologist Professor Geir Jordet presents his studies of the psychological elements of the penalty shootout, and the universal human stress mechanisms that it triggers. Professors Kjetil Kåre Haugen and Alex Krumer read Jordet’s book, and in their review for idrottsforum.org they find the book to be well-written but regrettably also marred by fundamental flaws in its statistical analyses. (Review in English, published 240926.)
New Issues of Scholarly Journals
(We’re currently reviewing this service, since it’s a rather time-consuming undertaking. In the meanwhile we’re presenting some of the journals in line with the Forum’s core mission.)
- European Physical Education Review, Vol. 30, 2024, No. 3 (240923)
- Sport, Education and Society, Volume 29, 2024, Issue 5 | LGBTQIA+ Topics in Sport, Human Movement and Education (240924)
- Journal of Arabian Studies, Volume 13, 2023, Issue 1 | Qatar’s World Cup Goals (240925)
News items (calls for papers, vacancies, etc.)
- Public defence of doctoral thesis | Exploring ways of empowering pupils in physical education through circus – an action research project | Matilda Lindberg, Malmö University, September 27, 2024 (240923)
- Call for Papers | International Football History Conference | Belfast, Northern Ireland, June 13–14, 2025. Call ends January 6, 2025 (240923)
- Call for Papers | POLIS Workshop 2025 – Polity, Politics, and Policies of promoting physical movement | University of Southern Denmark, Odense, February 4, 2025. Call ends December 6, 2024 (240924)
- Hvordan kan kritisk sportsjournalistikk endre spillet? Debatt om nordisk sportsjournalistikk (240925)
- Call for Papers | The 7th annual conference for the Center for Sociocultural Sport and Olympic Research (CSSOR) | California State University, Fullerton, March 13–14, 2025. Call ends December 2, 2024 (240925)
- Public Defence of doctoral thesis | Physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness and cardiometabolic risk factors from childhood to young adulthood by Anders Husøy, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, October 9, 2024 (270929)
