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Collective sports success through effective social performances: The case of Olympic wrestling in Iran International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Saeed Shamshirian, Vidar Halldorsson
This study argues that the athletic success of Iranian wrestlers is fused with success in social performances. Using Alexander's cultural sociology, we propose that individuals’ behavioral, emotional, and mental dispositions toward sports are shaped by tacit and invisible social forces encompassing them at a given time and place. Furthermore, we make use of Alexander's notion that the power of culture
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In the shadow of sport mega-events: A critical analysis of the nexus between evictions, displacements, securitized gentrification and children's rights International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen, Seamus Byrne
This paper explores what has been described as the ‘dark side’ of sport mega-events – namely, processes of gentrification and mega-event-induced human evictions and displacements. Whilst researchers have established the regularity of such practices before and during sport mega-events, and that children inevitably are among the displaced, this research has, hitherto, seldom been synthesized within the
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Rights-based policies for role-bearing people: Are geo-cultural norms a hindrance to cultivating safer sport? International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Minhyeok Tak, Yoon Jin Kim, Daniel JA Rhind
Many (inter)national governments and sports organisations are implementing standardised Safe Sport policies and guidelines. However, the Western-born, rights-based norm that underlies Safe Sport can collide with pre-existing geo-sociocultural norms of local contexts. Drawing from a case study of South Korea's elite sport pathway where tightened regulations on abuse challenge the long-lasting relational
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‘Seeing it as a whole’: A research agenda for the sociology of sport and climate change International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Chris McMillan
Climate change poses an existential, if varied, threat to sport. Equally, sporting activity is having a substantial impact on the natural environment, an impact to which sporting bodies have been slow to quantify and mitigate. Despite this bidirectional threat, social science research on the relationship between sport and climate change is underdeveloped. Much of the existing research is generated
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Navigating the playing field: Reimagining the sports industry in the face of accelerated climate change International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Attila Szathmári
Does faster-than-expected climate change represent a feasible challenge or an irresolvable dilemma for the sports industry? This paper acknowledges the sports sector's environmental impact. It aims to challenge the prevailing belief in constant economic growth by proposing integrating Degrowth principles into sports to support the shift towards sustainable practices. The study presents an innovative
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Sports following and social capital in the United States: Social networks and trust International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Adam Gemar
Scholarship on sports following represents a burgeoning field of inquiry in the sociology of sport, yet sport following's connections to, or ability to facilitate, social capital remains underexplored. Drawing on a contemporary nationwide survey of the United States and employing the foundational theories of social capital by which we operationalize statistical analyses using regression modeling, this
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“Keeping it lowkey”: Exploring the experiences of Korean women fans of women's volleyball International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Hyeeun Kim, Yunjung Kim, Sun-Yong Kwon
Recently, there has been a significant increase in female audiences and fans at professional sport events in South Korea (hereafter Korea), particularly women's volleyball. This growth in higher viewer ratings and stadium attendance is attributed to elements such as athletes’ sportsmanship and their dynamic athletic performances. However, there is little known about the Korean women's volleyball league's
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Bruised and confused: An autoethnography of concussion in rugby union International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Tom Kavanagh
In this autoethnography, I explore my experiences with sport-related concussion. I portray the challenges that the symptoms presented, but I also provide a wider social, cultural and political context that includes the normalisation of pain and injury in collision sports and the discourses that contribute to a culture where players minimise the severity of, and play through, concussion. Following my
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Reconceptualising informality in sport participation: Towards understanding (in)formalisation of sport governance International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Satoshi Miyashita, Justen O’Connor, Ruth Jeanes
The ongoing change in sport participation patterns is discussed often in the context of ‘informal’ sport on the rise and ‘formal’ sport struggling to attract more participants. While studies have revealed both ‘self-organised’ and ‘regulated’ aspects of ‘informal’ sport and indicated complex power relations in its governing processes, the possibly incongruent terms of ‘informal’ and ‘formal’ as modifiers
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Money talks: Analysing the PGA Tour-LIV Golf jurisdictional contest via Western media narratives International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Nicholas Jephson, Jonathan Grix, Hugh Cook
This paper analyses Western media narratives of the jurisdictional contest between LIV Golf, a novel upstart professional golf tour, and the long-established PGA Tour, generally understood to be the pinnacle of men's professional golf. In doing so, the paper seeks to answer two research questions: How do dominant incumbent sporting professions utilise the court of public opinion to defend their territory
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Being second among the second: Experiences of Indigenous sports among assimilated Sámi International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Eivind Skille, Josef Fahlen, Kati Lehtonen
This article reports on a study investigating the struggle for influence in an Indigenous community. With an eye on the potential further subordination on certain subgroups, we studied how Sámi sports club officials outside Sámi core areas perceive their relationship with clubs in core Sámi areas and the federative Sámi sports organization. Methodologically, we performed interviews with representatives
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The privilege to do it all? Exploring the contradictions of name, image and likeness (NIL) rights for women athletes and women's sports International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Daniel Sailofsky
In 2021, the US Supreme Court forced the NCAA to drop its name, image and likeness ban, allowing collegiate athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness rights. Women's basketball's biggest stars have been some of the bigger beneficiaries, profiting off of their attention, media coverage and social media presence to draw in fans, earn significant sums and grow the popularity of their sport
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Disabled people's experiences of English football fandom: Inclusion, exclusion and discrimination International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Connor Penfold, Paul Darby, Paul Kitchin
This article employs a novel theoretical framework, rooted in the social relational model of disability alongside the concept of ableism, to critically analyse disabled football supporters lived experiences of inclusion and exclusion in English Football. In seeking to shed light on this hitherto neglected field, this study utilised a dual-phased qualitative approach comprised of two complementary netnographic
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Sport's hidden realities: A review of ‘The End of Sport’ podcast International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Jon Dart
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A race against time: A critical analysis of elite student-athletes’ accelerated temporality through story completion International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Pau Mateu, José Devís-Devís, Miquel Torregrossa, Renato Francisco Rodrigues Marques
Numerous elite student-athletes (ESA) engaged in a dual career, balancing athletic pursuits with education, find themselves grappling with the perception of insufficient time to fulfil their demands. Existing research advocates for the implementation of programs promoting academic flexibility, alongside measures aimed at achieving balance between academic and sport-related activities. Other studies
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‘Free therapy’: Young woman skateboarders, mental health and body self-compassion International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Carrie Paechter, Michael Keenan, Lyndsey Stoodley, Chris Lawton
In this paper, we use a theoretical framework derived from Frank's concept of the communicative body, and Berry et al.'s typology of body self-compassion, to examine and understand the mental health benefits of skateboarding, as discussed by young woman skateboarders. In response to the open question, ‘What are the benefits of skateboarding’, we were given a wide variety of mental and, to a lesser
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Racialisation and the inequitable experiences of racialised minority coaches in men's professional football club youth academies in England International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Steven Bradbury, Dominic Conricode
This article offers an empirical and theoretical examination of racialisation and the inequitable experiences of racialised minority coaches in men's professional football club youth academies in England. More specifically, it examines the ways in which the normative application of racialised ideologies, discourses and practices has engendered some inequitable interactions, representations, evaluations
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Socio-structural determinants of physical activity behavior in children and adolescents: The importance of social support International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Laura Wolbring, Darko Jekauc, Thomas Hinz, Alexander Burchartz, Simon Kolb, Steffen Christian Ekkehard Schmidt, Alexander Woll, Hagen Wäsche
The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of socio-structural determinants of physical activity (PA) behavior in children and adolescents. We expected that socioeconomic status, social support, and physical environment influence PA directly while socioeconomic status also has an indirect influence via social support and physical environment. Cross-sectional data from the German Motorik-Modul
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Trajectories and figurations: An analysis of sports elite in Lebanon International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Axel Maugendre, William Gasparini
This study investigates the trajectories of elite sports actors in Lebanon, focusing on the three most popular sports in the country: football, basketball, and volleyball. Employing a combination of Life Course Theory and Norbert Elias's figurations, the research analyzes data gathered from interviews, academic literature, and official documents. It reveals that despite the complex Lebanese context
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An ambition at a crossroads: Transiting out of the game in amateur and semi-professional football in Nigeria International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Ikechukwu Ejekwumadu
Thousands of youths play in amateur and semi-professional clubs in Nigeria with the hope of achieving a professional contract or transnational migration through football. For the majority, however, the social and spatial mobility that is hoped for is never realised. This means that they would have to terminate their pursuit and transition into alternative adulthood pathways. Through semi-structured
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#Sportsball anti-fandom as identity performance on X: The case of Australian Football League Women's (AFLW) International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Tim Boots, Kim Toffoletti
This article identifies a novel form of sports anti-fan identity present amongst X (formerly Twitter) followers of The Australian Football League Women's (AFLW) competition – #sportsball fans – whose nascent attachment to women's Australian Rules football is publicly performed as an ironically detached becoming-a-fan-ness, often rooted in a self-identified, pre-existing aversion to both sport and sports
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Coping within the interstices of the neoliberal sports market: Using de Certeau to analyse the migration of African mixed martial arts fighters in South Africa International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Kevin Roșianu, Bastien Presset
This paper focuses on African migrant mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters enrolled in the Extreme Fighting Championship (EFC), a leading MMA organization established in 2009 in South Africa. It highlights their precarious work and living conditions, which are counterbalanced by the promise of real but rare career possibilities. Drawing from Michel de Certeau’s conceptual framework – notably his concepts
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Equality DanceSport doing transgender inclusivity in the United Kingdom: Cultural cisgenderism and transgender experiences International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Yen Nee Wong
In this article, cultural cisgenderism is adopted to investigate Equality DanceSport, a sporting context emerging out of an LGBT+ community. 1 The study questions the extent to which Equality DanceSport enforces regulations and practices which promote trans-inclusivity. Drawing on a constructivist grounded theory approach, I conducted autoethnography and 35 semi-structured interviews with LGBT+ dancers
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Women's representation in surf video games: A stereotyped, objectified and romanticized portrayal International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Paloma Sanz-Marcos, Guadalupe Meléndez González-Haba
This paper examines the relationship between the video game industry and sports. These two disciplines traditionally contribute to the perpetuation of stereotypes that create a reality around women based on inappropriate assumptions, which are generally interpreted from a masculinized perspective. Taking surfing as an example, a sport associated with a markedly masculine environment, this paper aims
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Entrenched maltreatment in sport: Unintended consequences of the mix of practices and narratives International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Haewan Park, Michael P Sam, Steven J Jackson
The concern for athlete maltreatment in elite sport emerged in response to a wide range of high-profile cases. While diverse theories and concepts have been used to explore the subject, there is a need for non-Western analyses that can attend to the cultures, practices and narratives of Asian states. Drawing on the case of South Korea's elite sport system, this paper scrutinises the mix of institutional
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(Re)Asserting organization as a lens in sport sociology: The meaning, workings, and consequences of rational design efforts International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Cecilia Stenling, Josef Fahlén, Michael Sam, Minhyeok Tak
The purpose of this article is to (re)assert the importance of an organizational lens in the socio-cultural study of sport. Specifically, we aim to demonstrate the often self-perpetuating and always value-infused nature of rational design, and the organizational processes through which problems, objectives, structures, roles, identities, and knowledges are (re)constituted and privileged in the context
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Studying professional women footballers: A reflexive commentary on being benched from recruitment International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Laura Harris, Dawn E Trussell
In this reflexive commentary we provide critical reflections on the challenges of recruiting professional women football players as experienced by the researchers. We posit that the same social, systemic inequities that make continued study of women's professionalized sport so important, also generate challenges to recruiting women athletes. As we share our reflections on the difficulties we experienced
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Inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in Olympic legacy-shaping processes International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Dilara Valiyeva, Anna-Maria Strittmatter, Inge Hermanrud
Scholars emphasise the need to understand how contested concepts, like social inclusion and legacy, are interpreted within specific contexts. However, there are a lack of critical studies on social legacies of sports mega-events. This study aims to analyse how social inclusion of marginalised groups is constructed in the legacy-shaping process of and bidding for the Olympic Games. Three cases were
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A comparative analysis of the environmental sustainability of London 2012 and Rio 2016: A Capability Approach to inter-national inequality at the Olympic Games International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Bradley Sharples
Major sporting events can act either as drivers of environmental degradation or catalysts for environmental sustainability, often dictated by the developmental level of the host nation. This article applies a Capability Approach, alongside World-Systems Theory, in its analysis of the environmental sustainability of the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games. The article suggests that it is the
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Observations on sport and eSport from a systems theory perspective: Theoretical reflections on differentiating sport and eSport and on the functions and consequences of an integration International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Carmen Borggrefe, Andreas Hoffmann
This article takes up the sport policy and sports science debate on the recognition of competitive computer and video games—so-called eSport—as sport and pursues the goal of differentiating sport and eSport on the basis of systems theory considerations and reflecting on the functions and consequences of recognizing eSport as sport. It begins by addressing the questions of how sport can be observed
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Conceptualising grey spaces in skateboarding: Generating theory and method for use beyond the board International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Paul O’Connor
This conceptual paper elaborates on the paradigm of ‘grey spaces’ in skateboarding. It presents the fundamentals of the grey spaces concept as a bond between the material and symbolic and provides three core arguments. Firstly, it suggests that the simplicity of the concept works to make the complexity of skateboarding accessible. In doing so it opens the opportunity to bond elements of research on
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From field to feed: Norwegian Football Players’ usage and self-presentation on Instagram throughout the UEFA Women's EURO 2022 Championship International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Egil Trasti Rogstad, Anne Berit Tjønnda, Stian Røsten, Sigbjørn Børreson Skirbekk
The UEFA Women's EURO 2022 and the FIFA 2023 Women's World Cup set new attendance records, thereby reflecting the growing popularity of women's football. In this context, social media platforms have become critical tools for women athletes offering opportunities for sponsorship and activism. This study focuses on the Instagram activity of five individual players from the Norwegian national team during
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“It's sort of help yourself” – DIY medical care and team-doctoring in amateur women's sport International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Debra Forbes, Reem AlHashmi, Ali Bowes, Katie Liston, Christopher R. Matthews
It has become something of a truism, that within various athletic subcultures pain and injury are regularly normalised as ‘part of the game’. One clear consequence which flows from this empirical reality is that athletes often need medical care in various forms. Recent developments in the gendered structuring of sport means that sportswomen are increasingly centred within this process. Yet, there is
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Burnout symptoms in elite athletes: Assessing the role of effort–reward imbalance, support and emotions International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Celine Hilpisch, Karsten Krüger, Markus Raab, Lena Wiese, Karen Zentgraf, Michael Mutz
Drawing on theories from the sociology of work and organizations, such as Leiter and Maslach's concept of burnout and Siegrist's model of effort–reward imbalance, this paper argues that burnout symptoms in elite sport are related to a mismatch of investment and gratification. Building on data from a sample of German elite athletes ( N = 312), findings show that high time investments for training and
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Spectator racism in three professional men's football codes in Australia: Observations from White spectators International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Jamie Cleland, Daryl Adair, Keith Parry, Connor MacDonald
This article explores spectator racism across three high-profile professional men's football codes in Australia (Australian Football League, National Rugby League and the A-League). To pursue this goal, the study conducted an online survey from April 2021 to June 2021, securing 2047 responses. Our focus in this article centres on those participants who self-identified as White to gather their insights
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“Now she has everything, a happy family story and an Olympic medal”: Representations of Gloria Kotnik in the Slovenian media landscape International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Kaja Poteko, Mojca Doupona
Over the last four decades, feminist sports media research has developed into an established transdisciplinary branch of research that contributes to highlighting the contradictions and unevenness of social change at the level of women's sports and its positioning in society. In this context, the increasing media visibility of athlete mothers as an expression of an emerging social phenomenon provides
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Between lookism and bodily capital: Understanding female personal trainers’ appearance in occupational socialization International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Byung-Youn Kim, Wooyoung Yang, Seungyup Lim
Witnessing that the appearance of female trainers has been regarded as a potential cause of appearance-based discrimination and a source of bodily capital, this study examined the influence of female trainers’ appearance on the process of occupational socialization. We invited eight research participants for in-depth interviews, including female trainers, Pilates instructors, and male fitness center
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Precarity in sport coaching: Exploring the working conditions of Canadian university sports coaches International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Alixandra Nastassia Krahn
Although the study of sport coaching as the body of knowledge and praxis is well established, very few studies have unpacked sport coaching through a sociological work and/or labour lens. Drawing on the findings from a larger institutional ethnographic study exploring gender, work, and professionalization in sport coaching within the Canadian university sport system, this article highlights the ways
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The Hundred: A sociological analysis of gender relations and the (semi-) professionalisation of women's cricket in England International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Thomas Fletcher, Philippa Velija, Rafaelle Nicholson
In this article, we adopt a critical sociological perspective to understanding gender relations and cricket, through the lens of The Hundred – a new, short-form tournament, described by the England and Wales Cricket Board as being part of its long-term commitment to making cricket a gender-equal sport. The Hundred is the first sporting tournament in the world which, from the outset, featured fully
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The framed and contested meanings of sport mega-event ‘legacies’: A case study of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Jamal A. Mckenzie, Jan A. Lee Ludvigsen, Andrea Scott-Bell, John W. Hayton
This article examines the ways in which envisioned sport mega-event legacies are publicly framed, communicated and contested. By employing Bourdieusian field theory, the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games (CWG) as a case, and drawing upon documentary and media analysis, this article questions how CWG 2022 legacies were framed in a pre-event context. The article makes two key arguments. First, dominant
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Forced migration, resettlement, and sport: Lessons from the Kabul-Edmonton soccer team International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Jay Scherer, Ashraf Amiri, Dallas B Ansell, Paul Nya, Nancy LI Spencer, Nicholas L Holt
Forced migration is one of the most pressing crises of our lifetime. Of the millions forced to migrate, many come to know the brutality of state-managed migration that habitually denies asylum seekers and places substantive restrictions on refugees who have been resettled. Sociologists of sport and leisure have examined the sporting experiences of refugees through an intersectional lens, foregrounding
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‘Every day we’d have an arranged activity, so she’d have football, swimming, dance, gymnastics’: A sociological analysis of parenting and sports-based enrichment activities for the under-fives International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Philippa Velija, Georgia Allen
In this article we provide a sociological analysis of parental choice in pre-school sports and physical activity, as a form of concerted cultivation, to understand the uptake of sports-based physical activity (PA) enrichment activities in England. Despite a growth in the under-five pre-school enrichment market, little is known about why parents pay for their under-five child(ren) to participate in
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Is gender equality in brain damage ‘progress’ for women and sport? International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Jack Hardwicke, Reem Al-Hashmi, Debra Forbes, Carrie Paechter, Molly Pocock, Katie Taylor, Dee Yeagers, Christopher R Matthews
This commentary sits within a context of growing cultural concern over brain damage that occurs in many of the Western world's most popular, profitable and prized sports. After laying out evidence demonstrating this point, we discuss the increasing inclusion of women within sports which involve regular and routinised brain injuries. We problematise this apparent ‘progress’ with the title of our commentary
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“A little taste of what it would be like to be in the military”: Performing militarism at the Canada army run International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Bridgette M Desjardins
While significant attention has been paid to the perpetuation of pro-military ideology via discourse and political practice, less attention has been paid to the role of the body in (re)producing militarism. Drawing on 40 interviews with primarily civilian Canada Army Run participants, I argue that militarism is reproduced in part via civilians’ embodied performances. Performances of militarism allow
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Dear Prime Minister, Mr Musk and Mr Zuckerberg!: The challenge of social media and platformed racism in the English premier league and football league International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Kevin Hylton, Dan Kilvington, Jonathan Long, Alex Bond, Izram Chaudry
This paper draws on original research from a larger study of racism and Islamophobia online around football, particularly a set of interviews with staff at English football clubs whose responsibility is to manage social media. We use that information alongside our reflections on “platformed racism” to appraise how expressions of racism on social media differ from those in and around the grounds, and
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A quest for legitimacy? An exploratory study of the new meanings of sports and physical activity in contemporary Saudi Arabia International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Arnošt Svoboda, Billy Graeff, Paul Bretherton, Simona Šafaříková, Daiana Viacelli, Abdul R Al Droushi, Jorge Knijnik
The Saudi Arabian Kingdom is currently undergoing significant socio-cultural changes, primarily driven by Vision 2030, a strategic document outlining the nation's future development. This initiative includes efforts to enhance sports participation and physical activity levels across various sectors of the country. This paper represents one of the first attempts to understand the effects of the Vision
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From combat boots to running shoes: The role of military service in shaping masculine identity in Israeli long-distance running groups International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Assaf Lev
This study examines the social construction of masculinity within the Israeli society, focusing on the associations between masculine identity, prior military service, and current involvement in long-distance running. A 2-year ethnographic research design was utilized, involving two running groups, which incorporated participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and running websites. The findings
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Grandmasters, distinct elite: Taste submitted to discussion from the social conditioning factors of the predilection for chess International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Jéssica dos Anjos Januário, Sérgio Settani Giglio, Sílvia Cristina Franco Amaral
This study analyzes the relations between the social conditioning factors and the taste for the cultural practice of chess manifested in the discourses of the grandmasters who compose its elite in the Brazilian contemporary context. The theoretical and methodological framework of Pierre Bourdieu was used. For the research method, retrospective semi-structured interviews were carried out personally
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‘I can’t believe I just made history’: A temporal analysis of sports media reporting International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Chloé Beaudoin, Nicolas Moreau, Mélissa Roy
Professional sport is a central element of our daily entertainment that contributes to shaping us individually and bonding us collectively: it provides us with shared ‘historic’ moments. This article is interested in these moments, and how the field of sports generates them, by asking the following questions: (1) has the frequency of ‘historic moments’ changed over time, and (2) is the way we make
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Unicorns, rainbows, and unicorn magic: Storying new knowledge of black masculinities within the WWE International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Nikolas Dickerson
This paper examines the story arc of a trio of Black male wrestlers called the New Day within the World Wrestling Entertainment industry (WWE) who go from militant nationalists, stereotypical singing/dancing preachers, and finally to self-described unicorns bringing magic back to the WWE. Wrestling is used to explore anti-Blackness, Black masculinity, and conceptions of the human/humanity. Drawing
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Levelling the field? The English Football Association's promotion of their men's and women's national teams through Twitter International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Steph Doehler
This study examines and compares the coverage of both the England men's and women's national football teams by their governing body, The Football Association (FA), immediately before, during and im...
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Sport and migration in the age of superdiversity International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Sine Agergaard, Paul Darby, Mark Falcous, Alan Klein
Taking Steven Vertovec's concept of Superdiversity as a starting point, this special issue examines the dynamic interaction of diversity variables in the field of sport and migration issues. The ar...
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‘I keep forgetting them’: Lacrosse, indigenous women and girls and reconciliation in Canada International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Avery Holmes, Audrey R Giles, Lyndsay Hayhurst
In Canada, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) released its list of Calls to Action (CTA) in 2015, and five Calls were directly related to reconciliation and sport. Within these five spor...
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The (ecologically) imperial mode of sport at the exterminist stage of capitalism: Counter stories of Dakar Rally's ride in South America (2009–2019) International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Chen Chen
This paper explores the voices of resistance against the Dakar Rally's decade-long operation in South America. Drawing upon the three-prong framework of environmental justice (EJ), the analysis sho...
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Balancing risk-taking and self-care: The ecology of athlete health behaviour during the Olympic qualification phase International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Astrid Schubring, Mathias Halltén, Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Anna Post
Athletes who aim to qualify for the Olympic Games need to stay healthy. Research demonstrates, however, that many elite athletes take health risks to achieve sporting success. Drawing on social eco...
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Subculturalisation/tribalisation as a social process: The Yugoslav 1980s and the roots of the ultras subculture in Croatia International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Benjamin Perasović, Marko Mustapić, Ivan Hrstić
As opposed to the discourse marking the division between the subculturalists and the post-subculturalists, we hold that subculturalisation and tribalisation are essentially the same social process....
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Sports mega-events and cosmopolitan nationalism: A critical discourse analysis of media representations of Japan through the 2019 Rugby World Cup International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Koji Kobayashi, John Horne, Jung Woo Lee
Sports mega-events, like the Rugby World Cup, are often considered as a major platform for the celebration and reinforcement of nationalism. However, there is an emerging strand of research which c...
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Private football academies—friend or foe? An analysis of Norwegian media's framing of arguments about private football academies and the monopoly of organized sport International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-02 Eivind Å. Skille, Anna-Maria Strittmatter, Cecilia Stenling, Josef Fahlén
Private football academies challenge the monopoly of Norwegian voluntary and democratic sport. Using field theory and framing approach as analytical perspectives, this article presents a media anal...
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Combatting sectarianism from the ground up: The Northern Irish Green and White Army and the football carnival International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 John Bell, Ian Somerville, Owen Hargie
This paper draws upon participant observation data conducted before and after all 10 qualifying matches for the 2016 UEFA European Football Championship to explore the dynamics underpinning the Nor...
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“The spectators ask, is it a boy or a girl? What is it?”: Cultural cisgenderism and trans men's sporting experiences in Iran International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Mohammad Sadegh Afroozeh, Catherine Phipps, Ali Afrouzeh, Ameneh Mehri, Zahra Alipour Asiri
In this article, we draw on cultural cisgenderism to analyse the sporting experiences of trans men in Iran. Utilising semi-structured interviews with twelve trans men in different stages of transit...