Dear all,
As I reported last Monday, I picked up something nasty at the Swedish Book Fair last weekend. I am still suffering from whatever it was, but I’m certain that it’s not the flu, nor Covid-19, but most likely a bad cold. So I was still able to perform an almost normal work week in terms of stuff published.
But there is something else besides ill health that will affect idrottsforum.org activities the coming weeks. 2024 marks 50 years since the first “modern” sports research output in the form of a doctoral dissertation, Jan Lindroths Idrottens väg till folkrörelse: Studier i svensk idrottsrörelse till 1915 [Sports becoming a popular movement: Studies in the Swedish sports movement until 1915], was published. And so, at the initiative and subsequent hard work by Professor Tomas Peterson, an anthology celebrating 50 years of Swedish sport studies is under way. It will comprise 25 chapters, written by 38 representatives of the Swedish sport scholars community. All chapters but one, Alan Bairner’s, are written in Swedish; but, who knows, some of them may turn up in English on idrottsforum.org.
And guess what, your favorite editor has agreed to put it all together and make a proper book of it. This will take som time, and take that time away from my editorial duties with idrottsforum.org. Maybe 30 or 40 percent, certainly enough to be noticeable for the avid readers of the Forum. But, as I once contended, an editor’s gotta do what an editor’s gotta do, so, there it is. And in less than four weeks, it will be in the hands of the printers.
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
Sport Media Vectors: Gender and Diversity, Reconstructing the Field, by Laurel Walzak, Danica Vidotto & Francesco Collura (eds.)
In Sport Media Vectors: Gender and Diversity, Reconstructing the Field (Common Ground), editors Laurel Walzak, Danica Vidotto and Francesco Collura bring together an invited collection of writing from emerging scholars about sports, sports media and equity. Our reviewer is Christoph Wagner, and he appreciates the contributors’ focus on unequal media coverage and institutionalised sexism, which they hope to change. (Review in English, published 241002.)
Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe, by David Maraniss
Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. Most famously, he won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. In Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe (Simon & Schuster), David Maraniss details the life of the great athlete. Historian Hans Bolling, who has written extensively about the 1912 Olympics, is our reviewer, and he finds that Maraniss’ comprehensive biography really lets its reader meet Jim Thorpe. (Review in English, published 241003.)
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.)
- Sport, Education and Society, Volume 29, 2024, Issue 6 (241001)
- Sport in History, Volume 44, 2024, Issue 3 (241001)
- Sociology of Sport Journal, Volume 41, 2024, Issue 3 (241001)
- Sport, Education and Society, Volume 29, 2024, Issue 7 (241003)
- Journal of Sport Management, Volume 38, 2024, Issue 5 (241003)
News items (calls for papers, vacancies, etc.)
- Public Defence of doctoral thesis | After a decade of the Delaware-Oslo ACL Cohort treatment algorithm: Measurement properties and outcomes after reconstruction or rehabilitation alone for anterior cruciate ligament injury by Anouk Urhausen, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, October 10, 2024 (241001)
- Idrottshistoriska seminariet i Stockholm | Program hösten 2024 (241001)
- Call for Papers | 8th International Sport & Discrimination Conference | German Sport University, Cologne, Friday, June 13, 2025. Call ends January 31, 2025 (241001)
- Call for Papers | “In the Echoes of Reckonings”: Hockey Conference 2025 | Fort Garry Hotel, Winnipeg, June 17–19, 2025. Call ends November 15, 2024 (241001)
- Call for Paper | “Leisure in the lives of diasporic communities”, Special Issue of Leisure Studies | Call ends November 1, 2024 (241001)
- Call for Papers | “Vulnerable Bodies in Literature and Culture”, a Two-Day Conference | Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India, February 28 — March 1, 2025. Call ends October 20, 2024 (241003)
- Call for Papers | “Physical Cultures of the Body,” a Hybrid Conference at the Stark Center, Austin, Texas, January 16–17, 2025. Call ends November 15, 2024 (241004)
