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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 2.689) 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 2.689) 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 2.689) 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 2.689) 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 2.689) 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 2.689) 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 2.689) 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 2.689) 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 2.689) 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 2.689) 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 2.689) 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 2.689) 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 2.689) 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 2.689) 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 2.689) 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 2.689) 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...
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It’s Just About Having Fun’? Interrogating the lived experiences of newcomers To Canada in introductory winter sport programmes International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Simon Barrick
This study examined the underexplored relationship between winter sport, newcomer participation, integration, and national identity. Winter sports hold a prominent place within Canadian culture and...
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Adapting to sport and country: Immigrant athletes with disabilities International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Michael Cottingham, Hannah Richard, Tiao Hu, Samantha Biskynis, Rashika Sunku, Gabriella Walters, Oluwaferanmi Okanlami
The benefits of disability sport are numerous and widespread; however, current research on motivations and lived experiences of athletes with disabilities has almost exclusively focused on white ma...
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Sex integration in equestrian sport: Challenging male dominance of horseracing in Mexico International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Carlos Monterrubio, Katherine Dashper
Unisex sport – where males and females compete directly against each other with no form of differentiation – offers a radical challenge to the norms of sex segregation that contribute to ongoing ge...
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The Paralympics on YouTube: Alternative content creation and the digital consumption of the Paralympics International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Renan Petersen-Wagner, Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen
This article aims to explore the digital consumption of the Paralympic Games on the video-sharing platform YouTube to understand how the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) engages consumers i...
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Can the credibility of global sport organizations be restored? A case study of the athletics integrity unit International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 P. Verschuuren, F. Ohl
This paper explores how the credibility of global sport organizations can be renegotiated in a post-scandal context. It draws on a dramaturgical interpretation of social performance and frame analy...
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From the via Crucis to paradise. The experiences of women football players in Spain surrounding gender and homosexuality International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Daniel Martos-Garcia, Wenceslao Garcia-Puchades, Susanna Soler, Anna Vilanova
The number of women in football has considerably grown in Spain, which in addition to increasing its media and social visibility is also attracting academic interest. In this regard, the objective ...
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Enhancing social inclusion in sport: Dynamics of action research in super-diverse contexts International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Ramon Spaaij, Carla Luguetti, Brent McDonald, Fiona McLachlan
There are systemic and longstanding inequalities in sport participation for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) migrants. Drawing on theoretical foundations of critical pedagogy and social...
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‘Do know harm’: Examining the intersecting capabilities of young people from refugee backgrounds through community sport and leisure programmes International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Robyn Smith, Louise Mansfield, Emma Wainwright
Young people from refugee backgrounds have been repeatedly denied the ability to lead a life that they value. Community sport and leisure has been positioned as a tool to foster positive wellbeing ...
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Feminine negotiations and patriarchal bargains: Contradictory resistance in women's flat track roller derby International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Torisha Khonach
Women in contact sports must negotiate hegemonic gender norms and expectations encoded with sexism and homophobia. Previous research has not fully taken into account the way roller derby athletes r...
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The Olympics, nationalism, and multiculturalism: News coverage of naturalized players in the Korean men’s national ice hockey team International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Yeomi Choi
The naturalization of athletes for the purpose of participating in the Olympics is a noticeable feature of today's superdiverse sporting contexts. Focusing on the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Ga...
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Meanings given to (super-)diversity in the Dutch national team by Dutch football commentators: A historical approach International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Gijs van Campenhout, Arne van Lienden, Jacco van Sterkenburg
International football can be considered the main site for meaning-making processes related to national and racial/ethnic diversity. Various scholars have argued how international football, with th...
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Beyond stereotypes: Women and their engagement in football fandom International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Radosław Kossakowski, Tomasz Besta
In common opinion, football fandom constitutes a male space as men are perceived to be more ‘authentic’ and engaged fans, more attached to the club. This article makes a contribution to the discuss...
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Career transitions from the English Premier League: Cooling out the mark with possible selves International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-12-04 Colm Hickey, Martin Roderick
Achieving and then maintaining a career as a professional athlete is hard. Saturated labour markets and the ever-present risk of deselection or injury means that career transitions are an inevitabl...
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Youth athlete learning and the dynamics of social performance in Norwegian elite handball International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-11-27 Marie Loka Øydna, Christian Thue Bjørndal
This study examines how the social interactions of youth handball players are entangled with the ideals, beliefs and norms associated with youth athlete learning in Norwegian handball and communica...
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New Zealand's princess of the pool: Post-ableism and the media narrativisation of Sophie Pascoe International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Mark Falcous, Georgia Scott
Recent research has highlighted the shifting media representation of para-athletes some of whom have been increasingly visible as national sporting figures. Their mediation entangles themes of disa...
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Reduce, re-use, re-ride: Bike waste and moving towards a circular economy for sporting goods International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Courtney Szto, Brian Wilson
What happens to our sporting goods when we are done with them? Even though Sustainable Development Goal 12 focuses on responsible consumption and production, very few in the sports industry (and ac...
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The “Boys’ Club”, sexual harassment, and discriminatory resourcing: An exploration of the barriers faced by women sport officials in Australian basketball International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Samantha Marshall, Nicola McNeil, Emma-Louise Seal, Matthew Nicholson
Sport official's experience of abuse in their role is well documented, but the additional gendered barriers that women officials face are not. This study used Concept Mapping to explore the most im...
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Gendering strategic action fields in sports governance International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Madeleine Pape, Lucie Schoch
How do meso-level field relations shape the ways that sports organizations act on gender equality? In this paper, we approach international sports governance as comprised of meso-level fields of st...
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Sportswashing: Media headline or analytic concept? International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Michael Skey
Sportswashing is a neologism that has begun to appear with increasing regularity in the English-language media over the past few years. However, there has been limited academic discussion of the te...
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Ticking the right boxes: A critical examination of the perceptions and attitudes towards the black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) acronym in the UK International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Keith D Parry, Beth G Clarkson, Emma J Kavanagh, Rebecca Sawiuk, Laura Grubb
The Black Lives Matter movement and coronavirus pandemic have raised awareness of society's categorisation of non-white people and institutional language used. We add to contemporary debate on the ...
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Reflexivity of discomfort: Two women outsiders doing sport research in prison International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Nagore Martinez-Merino, Nerian Martín-González, Oidui Usabiaga-Arruabarrena, Daniel Martos-García
When analyzing social relationships the idea of intersectionality allows for multiple dimensions to be brought forth. In this regard, discomfort becomes the core element of a reflective exercise ...
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Integrity governance: A new reform agenda for sport? International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-09-18 Michael Sam, Cecilia Stenling, Minhyeok Tak
Globally, “integrity” has emerged as a critical concept for sport, with scholars, government agencies and NGOs proposing the establishment of “integrity systems”, comprising measures such as new po...
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Linking sports-related and socio-economic resources of retiring Olympic athletes to their subsequent vocational career International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Michael J. Schmid, Merlin Örencik, Jürg Schmid, Achim Conzelmann
The aim of this study was to examine patterns of sports-related and socio-economic resources at the time of athletic retirement and their relation to the subsequent vocational career. We surveyed 3...
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Performative nationalism in Polish football stadiums and fans’ views and attitudes: Evidence from quantitative research International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Mateusz Grodecki
Football stadiums are one of the places where nationalistic views are presented. This is done by means of displays held by organised supporters – ultras. This study aims to examine (1) to what exte...
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Muscle moves mass: Deconstructing the culture of weight loss in American Olympic Weightlifting International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-08-15 Monica Nelson, Shannon Jette
Sport scholars have argued that to protect athlete health, competitive sport cultures must begin to de-emphasize the importance of leanness for athletic performance. However, there is a notable lac...
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‘Let's face it, it's not a healthy sport’: Perceived health status and experience of injury among Polish professional mixed martial arts athletes International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Michał Lenartowicz, A Dobrzycki, M Jasny
With this article we present findings from the research on professional MMA fighters and their perception of health and injury. The frequency and types of injuries they have sustained while practic...
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Boxing, myths and reality building in sport for development programmes International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Christopher R Matthews, Ashleigh Hurrell, Thomas B Oliver, Alex Channon
The training regimes which are associated with boxing are thought to impart lessons in discipline that are particularly valuable for social groups often associated with the sport. This leads to a v...
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Antisemitism as a football specific problem? The situation of Jewish clubs in German amateur sport International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Lasse Müller, Jan Haut, Christopher Heim
Despite the undisputed existence of antisemitic incidents in sport, little is known about their exact prevalence and forms of manifestation. Also in Germany, physical and verbal attacks against Jew...
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Tokyo 2020 Olympics sustainability: An elusive concept or reality? International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Sylvia Trendafilova, Walker J. Ross, Stavros Triantafyllidis, Jamee Pelcher
The Olympic Games continue to be a creator of adverse environmental impacts for host communities. Given the role that the Olympic Games play in sustainability due to their size, the number of people attending, new construction and infrastructure, and the extensive exposure by the media, this study investigated the Tokyo 2020 Games by evaluating the efficacy of their ecological sustainability efforts
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‘We now have Catholics and Blacks’: Whiteness in a Northern Irish rugby club International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Thomas Kavanagh
Northern Ireland is often considered in terms of the two majority communities, Catholics and Protestants, and the inter-communal conflict which structured, and continues to structure, much of Northern Irish society. However, situated within often volatile situations, the small ethnic minority communities of Northern Ireland have often been overlooked. This article investigates a Northern Irish rugby
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Homophobia in Brazilian football: A critical discourse analysis of fans’ comments in online football forums International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-06-26 Juliana Nabono Martins
Football is one of the many fields where the display of orthodox masculinity, often related to sexism and homophobia, reaches its peak. Studies indicate that such behaviors negatively affect athletes who do not fit heteronormative standards and closeted gay players, who fear coming out due to an intimidating and toxic environment. Fans have been central to some empirical studies investigating homophobia
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‘Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted’: Searching for the value of metrics and altmetrics in sociology of sport journals International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-06-26 Rebecca Olive, Stephen Townsend, Murray G. Phillips
Metrics, and increasingly altmetrics, are a pervasive aspect of academic life. A proliferation of digital tools available have seen greater emphasis on the quantification of the ‘performance’ of individual journals. Although metrics and altmetrics are justified in terms of increased accountability and transparency, there are significant inequities in the ways they are deployed. Key among these is the
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What’s in a game? A dialectic of competition and cooperation in Squid Game International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Soo Yeon Kim, Sungjoo Park
Squid Game, a Netflix original series about children's games turned into deathmatches, has become a phenomenal global success and has captivated the latest cultural and media scenes. This article examines the representation of games in Squid Game to argue that their unprecedented appeal to the masses derives from a paradoxical human desire for ruthless competition and moral cooperation. That is, while
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FIFA’s utopia: An analysis of FIFA’s football for hope movement International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Shawn D. Forde
This article offers an analysis of FIFA’s Football for Hope (FFH) movement with a particular focus on the 20 Centres for 2010 Campaign that was connected to the 2010 World Cup, and the FFH Festivals held during the 2010 and 2014 World Cups. Using document analysis and observations made during the FFH Festival at the 2014 World Cup and drawing on Levitas’ ( 2013) Utopia as Method, this article analyzes
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Momentum lost or creating new constellations? Insights from an exercise-at-work project during the COVID-19 pandemic – a mixed methods approach International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-06-12 Marie Overbye, Ulrik Wagner
Exercise-at-work programmes have been identified as venues to decrease inequalities in physical activity and exercise between socioeconomic groups and to improve employees' health and wellbeing. Drawing on a multiple institutional logics perspective and adopting a mixed-methods approach, this paper investigates how employees, exercise-ambassadors and managers at five Danish workplaces experience Covid-19
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How gender affects the newsworthiness of sports news on German TV: An application of the news-factors approach to understanding gender-biased sports news presentation International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Holger Ihle
Gender inequalities in sports media are well-documented. This study focuses on sports news composition and how gender influences the prominence of sports news stories. The news-factors approach offers a causal explanation for the lower prominence (i.e. newsworthiness) of women's sports in TV sports reporting. Following this theory's perspective, athletes’ gender is supposed to work as a moderating
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When sport is taken to extremes: A sociohistorical analysis of sport addiction International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-06-05 Emmanuelle Larocque, Nicolas Moreau
In the 1970s, the concept of sport addiction appeared in scientific literature, warning of the addictive properties of exercise when taken to extremes. Appearing in over 6500 peer-reviewed articles in Google Scholar from 1979 to 2017, this construct is of interest to the fields of mental health and sport sociology as it provides a heuristic case to consider the conditions which allow for a category-in-the-making
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Mondains and oblates. Body trajectories in high-level sport International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-05-22 Philippe Longchamp, Marion Braizaz, Amal Tawfik, Kevin Toffel
Most of the scientific literature concerning former high-level athletes is devoted to their professional retraining. There are comparatively few empirical studies dealing with their body representations and practices. Based on Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical framework, this article presents the results of an interview survey with 30 former high-level athletes. It shows that their relationships with their
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“That's where you start to think like, does anyone actually listen to or watch women's sport?” Gender Regimes and Students Experiences on Higher Education Sport Courses International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Philippa Velija, Catherine Phipps
In this article we apply theoretical tools from the work of Elias and Connell to critically discuss the ways in which gender relations on Higher Education sport courses are manifested and experienced by students. Drawing on data from an analysis of curriculum, as well as interviews, surveys and workshops with students across a range of sport courses at one university, we explore curriculum design and
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Sport, gender, and national interest during the Olympics: A comparative analysis of media representations in Central and Eastern Europe International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Dunja Antunovic, Sunčica Bartoluci
Researchers have documented patterns in sports media coverage across a variety of geographical and media contexts extensively, but relatively few studies focus on the Central and Eastern European region. This study examines the agenda diversity of European public service media in Hungary, Croatia, and Slovenia on their sport-related Facebook accounts during the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. A content analysis
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Examining the fabrics of match-fixing: The underground sport betting system International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Chien-Chun Tzeng, Fabien Ohl
This study aims to examine the very fabrics of underground sport betting system that is associated with match-fixing. Mafia, syndicates, and bookmakers are the three levels of actors in the hierarchy. Having grassroots bookmakers as our particular focus, we examine their roles and networks, what regulates the system, and how the system functions. Thanks to our academic links with the mafia, we had
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From fanzines to foodbanks: Football fan activism in the age of anti-politics International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Danny Fitzpatrick, Paddy Hoey
This article is concerned with an emerging trend in political participation: the role played by football fans in engendering activism and protest. The role of fan activism in the debate on patterns of civic and political (dis)engagement – in the age of so-called anti-politics – has been ignored by the scholarly literature thus far. As a corrective, this article examines the development of football
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Female elite sports achievements in Iran. The Case of the First Olympic Medalist International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Ali Ziaee, Jacco van Sterkenburg, Ivo van Hilvoorde
The present study aims to identify the societal implications of the first-ever Iranian female medalist in the Olympics to date. We explored the meanings given to Kimia Alizadeh's success within Iranian society. We collected data through an examination of online news agencies and social networking sites using Leximancer software, a computer-assisted program for qualitative content analysis. This analysis
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The meaning of democracy in an era of good governance: Views of representation and their implications for board composition International Review for the Sociology of Sport (IF 2.689) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Cecilia Stenling, Josef Fahlén, Anna-Maria Strittmatter, Eivind Å. Skille
Contemporary sport governance contexts are marked by a trend towards efficiency-based board composition and an increasing use of instruments aimed to (re)shape boards. Yet, democratic governance is integral to many countries’ sport systems, and research tells us that representation still matters in sport governance. Considering this, the aim with this paper is to provide researchers and practitioners