International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Book Review BrigdenNoelle K.HejtmanekKatie RoseForbisMelissa M., Gender and Power in Strength Sports: Strong as Feminist, Routledge: London, 2023; 242 pp.ISBN: 978-1-003-37092-5. £37.79 (e-book).	94
Beyond the boundaries of humour: Disabled cricketers’ experiences of sledging	25
Paid work in voluntary sport clubs: An oxymoron with transformative potential?	22
Structural dynamics of whistleblowing on doping in sport: Empirical findings of a qualitative mixed methods approach	22
Becoming and being a masters athlete: Class, gender, place and the embodied formation of (anti)-ageing moral identities	21
Everyday racism in Australian community sport	20
After sport: Physical culture in the Anthropocene	19
Platformed risk culture: Youth equestrians’ framings of falling off the horse on TikTok	18
An ambition at a crossroads: Transiting out of the game in amateur and semi-professional football in Nigeria	18
The Black Continental African Soccer Club as a diasporic resource: (Not) playing to the whistle in men's recreational soccer	17
“Zheng Qinwen is the pure-blood ideal of Gu Eileen”: Exploring the sensemaking of elite female athlete identities on Chinese social media	16
‘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	16
Sport and migration in the age of superdiversity	15
‘ I think I could see the turning point … people just came for good cricket ’: The Women's Big Bash League, The Hundred and female cricketers’ experience	14
Developing social capital through sport? The case for an intersectional lens	14
Safeguarding in sport: Toward a performative compliance of international sports federations?	13
Identity negotiation and subculture recognition: Exploration of a sexual minority group in a Chinese grassroots sport	13
‘It is a grey area in sport, not just in school’: A figurational analysis of banter in secondary physical education in England	13
Exploring the “perfect physique”: Mind–body discourse in Netflix's Physical 100	13
Capitalizing on sport labor migration: The role of ethnic capitalism in the discriminatory, regulatory, and exploitative environment for international college athletes in the United States	12
Using panopticism to theorize the social role of the body in competitive gaming and electronic sport	12
Gain by losing: Chinese elite athletes’ understanding of playing hurt and lived experience	12
“Adults know what's best for children!”: A critical narrative analysis of children's participation rights in sports	12
Riding between fear, hope, and trust: A study of elite cyclists’ experiences of personal data sharing on TrainingPeaks	12
Conceptualising family well-being in elite swimming	12

From local isolation to transnational engagement: Differentiation in European football fan culture	12
Fan responses to ownership change in the English Premier League: Motivated ignorance, social creativity and social competition at Newcastle United F.C.	11
Social capital building through mega-sporting events: Did the Qatar 2022 World Cup foster bonding, bridging, and linking social capital?	11
Book Review	11
Public support for athlete activism in Germany: A survey experiment	11
“Keeping it lowkey”: Exploring the experiences of Korean women fans of women's volleyball	10
Constructalgia cured: Sports heritage in the Anthropocene and beyond	10
Precarity in sport coaching: Exploring the working conditions of Canadian university sports coaches	10
‘For those few minutes you are free’: The meaning of sport from imprisoned men's perspective	10
Navigating dynamics and dilemmas in Southern African sport for development collaborations: Analyses of Global North perspectives on safe sport policy development with a framing and postcolonial lens	10
Uncovering constraints in sports for children with disability: Insights from Danish parents	10
From league champion to community champion: Institutional entrepreneurship in Belgian soccer	9
Necropolitical institutions and state-sanctioned violence: Critical discourse analysis of institutional response to a professional boxer's death in Quebec	9
‘I want my child to participate in sport, but I have no information about it’ – a study of Ukrainain refugee's parent's perspectives on their children's sport participation in Norway	9
From combat boots to running shoes: The role of military service in shaping masculine identity in Israeli long-distance running groups	9
Newcomers in a neo-liberal sports world: The self-presentations of private football academies in Aotearoa New Zealand and Norway	9
Sculpting the ideal body: A narrative analysis of the body profile craze in South Korea using Honneth's pathologies of recognition	9
‘But she’s not even trans!’: A rhetorical analysis of ‘liberal feminist’ defences of Imane Khelif amid Olympic transvestigations	9
Surviving child sexual abuse in women's artistic gymnastics: ‘It's beautiful, because had I stayed in the past, I wouldn’t have evolved as a person’	8
‘What can a Latin American country offer?’: An analysis of publications on the sociology of sport in Colombia	8
"We are all Hersh": Grief, solidarity, and identity in a football fan community	8
Sharing gifts: The modus narrandi of athletes’ and former athletes’ interests in supporting sport for development and peace programmes in Brazil	8
Sport and physical activity policy in Scotland: An intersectional approach to addressing inequalities	8
In the shadow of sport mega-events: A critical analysis of the nexus between evictions, displacements, securitized gentrification and children's rights	8
Locating the Supporter Liaison Officer in the football field: Bridges, brokers and the ‘supporter gaze’	8
Mobile health cycling: How Eastern European amateur cycling enthusiasts frame their experiences with Zwift and Strava	8
The construction of esports careers in France: Are there gender-based inequalities right from the start?	8
Beyond local belonging: The socio-political construction of football fandom in Türkiye	8
Book Review ShoemakerTerry D., Religions and Sports: The Basics, Abingdon, Oxon, UK, Routledge, 2024, pp. 181., £19.99 (PBK) ISBN 9781032424026	8
Sport and policy in ‘contested nations’: Analysing policy and political considerations in Taiwan and Scotland	8
Spectator racism in three professional men's football codes in Australia: Observations from White spectators	8
Studying professional women footballers: A reflexive commentary on being benched from recruitment	7
Drive to Survive and symbolic capital in Formula One	7
Women athletes’ representation on Instagram: A feminist critical discourse analysis of Spanish media coverage during the Paris 2024 Olympics	7
‘Best run club in the world': Manchester City fans and the legitimation of sportswashing?	7
Towards more accountable journalism: An examination of Spanish sports reporters’ perceptions and practices regarding racism in football	7
Digital bonds: A gamers’ perspective on the role of online gaming communities in fostering social interaction and identity	7
“It's sort of help yourself” – DIY medical care and team-doctoring in amateur women's sport	7
‘I want to change minds and destroy stereotypes’: Wheelchair motocross rider portrayals on Instagram	7
Symbolic capital and the social construction of cricketer brand value	7
‘Inclusivity for who’?: An analysis of ‘race’ and female fandom at the 2022 UEFA European Women's Championships	7
Subculturalisation/tribalisation as a social process: The Yugoslav 1980s and the roots of the ultras subculture in Croatia	7
The politicization and polarization of the Afghanistan cricket team on Twitter (X): A critical discourse analysis approach	6
Social status and sport: A study of young Norwegians	6
“A little taste of what it would be like to be in the military”: Performing militarism at the Canada army run	6
The art of balance: Indigenous sport governance between traditional government and self-governance	6
‘I have a small window of time left that I’m going to do it’ : Transitions, risk and life-planning in the careers of mobile athletes	6
Book Review	6
Constructing self-identity through the spectrum of global gaze: Football and national identity in Saudi Arabia	6
What constitutes bodily difference? – An ethnographic study of a provincial men's blind football team in China	6

‘Free therapy’: Young woman skateboarders, mental health and body self-compassion	6
Book review	6
Disabled people's experiences of English football fandom: Inclusion, exclusion and discrimination	6
Paddling as ‘Pelagic Postcolonialism’: Pacific voyaging resurgence, ocean justice and outrigger canoe racing (Va’a) in Fiji	6
Horsing around: Animals, humans, sports, and platforms	5
A race against time: A critical analysis of elite student-athletes’ accelerated temporality through story completion	5
Embracing digital self-tracking for fitness and health: The rise of smartwatches in Ghana's fitness communities	5
Sport for development: Working with youth or youth work? A commentary	5
Sportswashing: Media headline or analytic concept?	5
Media (re)presentation of a black woman esports player: The case of Chiquita Evans in the NBA 2K League	4
‘Humans for sale’: Analysing The Guardian's representations of Qatar during the 2022 men's FIFA World Cup	4
Equal to, different from, better than: The multiple bodies of women Olympic Weightlifters	4
Athletes, support staff, and classifiers opinions on intentional misrepresentation in Para sport	4
Digital selves: A cross-cultural examination of athlete social media self-presentation during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics	4
Equality DanceSport doing transgender inclusivity in the United Kingdom: Cultural cisgenderism and transgender experiences	4
Navigating the playing field: Reimagining the sports industry in the face of accelerated climate change	4
‘The times they are a changing’: Negotiating diverse sexualities and masculinities in male rugby union	4
Redefining masculinities through street workout: Dynamics of hybridity and aesthetic capital	4
Breaking the mold or reinforcing norms? The digital construction of female athletes’ bodies on TikTok	4
European football fans’ resistance and protest in the face of legal restrictions: Towards a typology and continued research agenda	4
Book Review CliftBryan CBoykoffJules, Populism in Sports, Leisure, and Popular Culture, Routledge: New York, 2024; 1–289 PP. eBook: ISBN: 9781032507211. £35.69.	4
Anti-racism industrial complex in sport	4
“I thought we were useless”: K-skateboarding and socio-material pollution in Nanjido, Seoul	4
From gamers to players: Chinese Generation Z's perspectives on minors dropping out of school to become professional esports players	4
A critical feminist analysis of women's football in Türkiye: Challenges, opportunities, and societal implications	4
“It becomes a fight against who I am, rather than what I say”: Gender, positionality, and inclusion in esports leadership	4
Book Review: Football Presidents: Towards a Typology of Political Cultures by Burlamaqui Luiz Guilherme and de Waele Jean-Michel BurlamaquiLuiz Guilherme	4
Scandalization as catalyzer for marginalized stakeholders: The impact of the Luis Rubiales “kissing scandal” on gender relations in Spanish football	4
The production of distrust in anti-doping: The case of the 23 Chinese swimmers	3
Women, sport and social inclusion in Saudi Arabia	3
Sports following and social capital in the United States: Social networks and trust	3
Framing masculinity in the mountains: Gender representation in the documentary films Free Solo and 14 Peaks	3
Structuration theory investigation of elite Rugby players’ perceptions on how the transition from player to retired player impacted their significant others	3
Aspiring against the odds: Women Strength and Conditioning coaches in a gendered landscape	3
Role of fan engagement in the success of the Professional Women's Hockey League	3
‘Refugee footballers’: A socioecological exploration of forced migrants in the Italian and German elite football system	3
Engaging in sport during advanced years of life: A focus on the reactivation of the sporting habitus for dependent older people in care homes	3
From sport to the desire for elsewhere: The example of young athletes from disadvantaged Moroccan neighborhoods	3
Adult minority women's experiences of belonging through sport and recreational activities	3
A conditional inclusion: Participation, normalization and exclusions of young autistic people in sports spaces	3
Policy responses to reports of gender-based violence against women by Australian sporting organisations and best-practice principles	3
Book Review: Sport in Contemporary India: Society, Culture and Governance by Surajit C. Mukhopadhyay and Lovely Dasgupta MukhopadhyaySurajit C.DasguptaLo	3
Gendering strategic action fields in sports governance	3
Policing ‘sport sex’: Examining the legal challenge filed against World Athletics’ 2018 Differences of Sexual Development regulations	3
The gendered effect of gender-neutral anti-doping policy: Women athletes and their lived experience	3
Journeys to the ‘Other’: England fans’, Orientalism and the 2022 World Cup	3
The empowerment-subservience paradox in Filipina bodybuilding	3
Mainland Chinese first-generation immigrants and New Zealanders’ views on sport participation, race/ethnicity and the body: Does sport participation enhance cultural understandings?	3
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	3
The macro-structure of football's global migration system: How linguistic, economic, and geographic boundaries constrain player mobility	3
Willingness of voluntary sports clubs to implement integration programmes – A construction of organisational identity ideal types	3
Erratum to “The Beauty Builder: A Genealogical Analysis of the Production of Female Power and Knowledge in Artistic Swimming”	3
Muscle moves mass: Deconstructing the culture of weight loss in American Olympic Weightlifting	3
From the via Crucis to paradise. The experiences of women football players in Spain surrounding gender and homosexuality	3
‘I’m not a warrior, I’m a basketball player’: A narrative on professional sport in troubled times	2
From locker rooms to change rooms: The Beardy’s Blackhawks and transformative hockey spaces	2
Yoga practice through the prism of the quest for excitement: Emotional renewal and transcending the physical realities of the body	2
Clothes and caps: An exploration of the thing-power of objects and activism at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games	2
“Both a soccer player and a lawyer”: Multidimensionality, open future orientation, and cultural capital accumulation among upper-middle-class youth in professional soccer	2
Drafting behind LGB: Transgender athletes in the sport of cycling	2
Gender arrhythmia and sportswomen's drinking practices during COVID-19	2
Between lookism and bodily capital: Understanding female personal trainers’ appearance in occupational socialization	2
‘I can’t believe I just made history’: A temporal analysis of sports media reporting	2
Care as a strategy to navigate political tensions within the China–Norway sports coaching collaboration	2
Children's views on women in sport: Locating feminist narratives	2
Embodied knowing at the borderlands: Autohistoria-teoría and the lived story of a Brazilian Olympic athlete	2
The gendered bodies and working experience of fitness trainers	2
Spaces of football and belonging for people seeking asylum: Resisting policy-imposed liminality in Italy	2
Reflexivity of discomfort: Two women outsiders doing sport research in prison	2
A quest for legitimacy? An exploratory study of the new meanings of sports and physical activity in contemporary Saudi Arabia	2
The (ecologically) imperial mode of sport at the exterminist stage of capitalism: Counter stories of Dakar Rally's ride in South America (2009–2019)	2
Book Review: Handbook on Sport and Culture by Vassil Girginov, Katerina and Girginova Vassil Girginov, KaterinaGirginova (eds) (2025). Handbook on Sport	2
Money talks: Analysing the PGA Tour-LIV Golf jurisdictional contest via Western media narratives	2
Integrity governance: A new reform agenda for sport?	2
Is gender equality in brain damage ‘progress’ for women and sport?	2
‘Let's face it, it's not a healthy sport’: Perceived health status and experience of injury among Polish professional mixed martial arts athletes	2
Inclusive, inviting, inspiring: Insights into the experiences of women's football fans in Australia and Germany	2
‘No one wants to be the washed-up ex-cricketer sitting at the bar getting pissed talking of the good old days’: A narrative analysis of retirement as experienced by male professional cricketers in Eng	2
The ‘glow up imperative’: The fitness lifestyles of young women in Aotearoa New Zealand	2
Slow learners: Body pedagogics and learning slow ways in sport and physical cultures	2

Cohesion to life on the land of migration: Olympic education and refugees	2
The mediated carnivalesque: Performance and fan culture in contemporary sport spectatorship	2
Reconceptualising informality in sport participation: Towards understanding (in)formalisation of sport governance	2
Sports mega-events and cosmopolitan nationalism: A critical discourse analysis of media representations of Japan through the 2019 Rugby World Cup	2
‘Yes, I’m an Elite athlete and I’m Gay’: Experiences of elite gay male athletes in Spain	2
Civil repair and children's sports: The Norwegian welfare-state's reconstruction of unhealthy, undemocratic and unsafe sports	2
Reduce, re-use, re-ride: Bike waste and moving towards a circular economy for sporting goods	2
Career transitions from the English Premier League: Cooling out the mark with possible selves	1
Book Review: The Sociology of Sport: A Manifesto for the 21st Century by Malcolm Dominic DominicMalcolm (2026), The Sociology of Sport: A Manifesto for t	1
Of skills and tools: Skateboarding as city craft	1
Adapting to sport and country: Immigrant athletes with disabilities	1
Meanings given to (super-)diversity in the Dutch national team by Dutch football commentators: A historical approach	1
Sacrifice for success: How coaches, athletes and managers normalise commitment and conformity in Scandinavian elite football	1
From denunciation to therapy: Representing coach-athlete abuse in occidental cinema	1
Linking sports-related and socio-economic resources of retiring Olympic athletes to their subsequent vocational career	1
Socio-structural determinants of physical activity behavior in children and adolescents: The importance of social support	1
Burnout symptoms in elite athletes: Assessing the role of effort–reward imbalance, support and emotions	1
Citizenship without identity? Instrumentalism, nationalism and naturalization in Chinese men's football	1
Playing with dual purposes: A study of professional football players engagement in environmental advocacy and activism	1
From team attachment to sport appreciation: A concentric spheres model of contemporary sports fandom	1
“We haven’t agreed on that, and you’ll never get people to agree on that.” Contestation within the Canadian sport coaching professional project	1
Bruised and confused: An autoethnography of concussion in rugby union	1
Sporting mega-events, physical activity, and Actor Network Theory: Mapping actants of movement at the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup	1
Parental role in children's sport participation: A grounded theory interpretation of social support theory from an alternative perspective	1
A comparative analysis of the environmental sustainability of London 2012 and Rio 2016: A Capability Approach to inter-national inequality at the Olympic Games	1
21 years later: Reflecting on femininity, masculinity, physicality and the English tabloid press	1
Examining the socioemotional outcomes of social justice efforts on social media users: Evidence from the NFL's Inspire Change initiatives	1
New Zealand's princess of the pool: Post-ableism and the media narrativisation of Sophie Pascoe	1
Family ties and social capital among grand slam tennis champions	1
Representation of young sportswomen in cinema: From male domination to female devaluation	1
A critical race theory analysis of Black male college athletes’ identity development	1
Participation of girls and women in community sport in Ghana: Cultural and structural barriers	1
Beyond stereotypes: Women and their engagement in football fandom	1
“The spectators ask, is it a boy or a girl? What is it?”: Cultural cisgenderism and trans men's sporting experiences in Iran	1
A network analysis of the Belgian national platform against match-fixing	1
Intersectionality in research on equity, diversity, and inclusion in sport: A systematic review of the literature	1
Sponsorship, power dependence, and the institutionalisation of risk: A sociological study of high-altitude climbing in South Korea	1
Political protest on the Persian Twittersphere: Examining the dichotomy of World Cup framing by the Iranian regime’s proponents and opponents	1
Enclaved non-heteronormativity and pragmatic acceptance. The experiences of Polish female football players	1
Inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in Olympic legacy-shaping processes	1
Levelling the field? The English Football Association's promotion of their men's and women's national teams through Twitter	1
Corrigendum to “The construction of esports careers in France: Are there gender-based inequalities right from the start?”	1
‘I would have studied while I showered’: A Foucauldian reading of how young student-athletes regulate their free time	1
Collective sports success through effective social performances: The case of Olympic wrestling in Iran	1
Dear England: A critical discourse analysis of how sports stars and politicians battle for legitimacy in debates around athlete activism	1
‘A tradition unlike any other’: The Masters Tournament and controlled consumption in professional golf	1
Between stands and margins: Gendered hierarchies and intra-gender dynamics in Tunisian female football fandom	1
Staying active in sports during the transition from school to work: The role of social support in young adulthood	1
“Clenched fists, helping hand”: Peter Norman and media frame building of white allyship	1
A typological understanding of medical support in sport: What do we know and what’s next?	1
‘You must feel it. If you do karate without feeling it, it's empty: It doesn’t work’ – Aesthetic experience as motivation for women athletes’ continuity	1
Ticking the right boxes: A critical examination of the perceptions and attitudes towards the black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) acronym in the UK	1
Saudi women and sport participation: An examination of the ‘sport for all’ policy and its alignment with women's experiences	1
To touch or not to touch in Türkiye: physical education teachers’ decisions on physical contact	1
‘I feel I must work harder and still be overlooked’ – How the implementation of video assistant referee (VAR) influences gendered recruitment and working conditions in elite football refereeing	1
‘I keep forgetting them’: Lacrosse, indigenous women and girls and reconciliation in Canada	1
Texas high school coaches’ attitudes and perceptions of LGB + athletes: A qualitative analysis	1
Understanding the process of athlete eco-activism between individual and organisational conditions: The case of ultra-trail runners	1
Sport's hidden realities: A review of ‘ The End of Sport’ podcast	1
Women's representation in surf video games: A stereotyped, objectified and romanticized portrayal	1
Combatting sectarianism from the ground up: The Northern Irish Green and White Army and the football carnival	1
Corrigendum to From the via Crucis to paradise. The experiences of women football players in Spain surrounding gender and homosexuality	1
Is sport's ‘gateway for inclusion’ on the latch for ethnic minorities? A discourse analysis of sport policy for inclusion and integration	1
Conceptualising grey spaces in skateboarding: Generating theory and method for use beyond the board	1
Can the credibility of global sport organizations be restored? A case study of the athletics integrity unit	1