International Review for the Sociology of Sport

Article	Citations
Structural dynamics of whistleblowing on doping in sport: Empirical findings of a qualitative mixed methods approach	85
After sport: Physical culture in the Anthropocene	27
Becoming and being a masters athlete: Class, gender, place and the embodied formation of (anti)-ageing moral identities	26
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).	24
Beyond the boundaries of humour: Disabled cricketers’ experiences of sledging	21
Exploring the “perfect physique”: Mind–body discourse in Netflix's Physical 100	20
‘It is a grey area in sport, not just in school’: A figurational analysis of banter in secondary physical education in England	18
The Black Continental African Soccer Club as a diasporic resource: (Not) playing to the whistle in men's recreational soccer	18
Developing social capital through sport? The case for an intersectional lens	18
Safeguarding in sport: Toward a performative compliance of international sports federations?	17
An ambition at a crossroads: Transiting out of the game in amateur and semi-professional football in Nigeria	17
Sport and migration in the age of superdiversity	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	15
“Zheng Qinwen is the pure-blood ideal of Gu Eileen”: Exploring the sensemaking of elite female athlete identities on Chinese social media	14
Identity negotiation and subculture recognition: Exploration of a sexual minority group in a Chinese grassroots sport	13
Gain by losing: Chinese elite athletes’ understanding of playing hurt and lived experience	13
“Adults know what's best for children!”: A critical narrative analysis of children's participation rights in sports	12
From local isolation to transnational engagement: Differentiation in European football fan culture	12
Using panopticism to theorize the social role of the body in competitive gaming and electronic sport	12
Conceptualising family well-being in elite swimming	11
Public support for athlete activism in Germany: A survey experiment	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
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	11
‘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	11

Precarity in sport coaching: Exploring the working conditions of Canadian university sports coaches	10
‘But she’s not even trans!’: A rhetorical analysis of ‘liberal feminist’ defences of Imane Khelif amid Olympic transvestigations	10
‘For those few minutes you are free’: The meaning of sport from imprisoned men's perspective	10
Sculpting the ideal body: A narrative analysis of the body profile craze in South Korea using Honneth's pathologies of recognition	10
Fan responses to ownership change in the English Premier League: Motivated ignorance, social creativity and social competition at Newcastle United F.C.	10
Uncovering constraints in sports for children with disability: Insights from Danish parents	10
Constructalgia cured: Sports heritage in the Anthropocene and beyond	10
From combat boots to running shoes: The role of military service in shaping masculine identity in Israeli long-distance running groups	9
“Keeping it lowkey”: Exploring the experiences of Korean women fans of women's volleyball	9
Necropolitical institutions and state-sanctioned violence: Critical discourse analysis of institutional response to a professional boxer's death in Quebec	9
Boxing, myths and reality building in sport for development programmes	9
Book Review ShoemakerTerry D., Religions and Sports: The Basics, Abingdon, Oxon, UK, Routledge, 2024, pp. 181., £19.99 (PBK) ISBN 9781032424026	8
Spectator racism in three professional men's football codes in Australia: Observations from White spectators	8
The construction of esports careers in France: Are there gender-based inequalities right from the start?	8
In the shadow of sport mega-events: A critical analysis of the nexus between evictions, displacements, securitized gentrification and children's rights	8
‘What can a Latin American country offer?’: An analysis of publications on the sociology of sport in Colombia	8
From league champion to community champion: Institutional entrepreneurship in Belgian soccer	8
Beyond local belonging: The socio-political construction of football fandom in Türkiye	8
"We are all Hersh": Grief, solidarity, and identity in a football fan community	8
Sport and physical activity policy in Scotland: An intersectional approach to addressing inequalities	8
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
‘Free therapy’: Young woman skateboarders, mental health and body self-compassion	7
“It's sort of help yourself” – DIY medical care and team-doctoring in amateur women's sport	7
‘We now have Catholics and Blacks’: Whiteness in a Northern Irish rugby club	7
‘I want to change minds and destroy stereotypes’: Wheelchair motocross rider portrayals on Instagram	7
Digital bonds: A gamers’ perspective on the role of online gaming communities in fostering social interaction and identity	7
Towards more accountable journalism: An examination of Spanish sports reporters’ perceptions and practices regarding racism in football	7
Subculturalisation/tribalisation as a social process: The Yugoslav 1980s and the roots of the ultras subculture in Croatia	7
Women athletes’ representation on Instagram: A feminist critical discourse analysis of Spanish media coverage during the Paris 2024 Olympics	7
Book review	7
Social status and sport: A study of young Norwegians	7
Studying professional women footballers: A reflexive commentary on being benched from recruitment	7
‘Inclusivity for who’?: An analysis of ‘race’ and female fandom at the 2022 UEFA European Women's Championships	7
‘Best run club in the world': Manchester City fans and the legitimation of sportswashing?	7
‘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	7
When sport is taken to extremes: A sociohistorical analysis of sport addiction	7
Book Review	7
The politicization and polarization of the Afghanistan cricket team on Twitter (X): A critical discourse analysis approach	7
Sport and policy in ‘contested nations’: Analysing policy and political considerations in Taiwan and Scotland	7
Sharing gifts: The modus narrandi of athletes’ and former athletes’ interests in supporting sport for development and peace programmes in Brazil	7
Locating the Supporter Liaison Officer in the football field: Bridges, brokers and the ‘supporter gaze’	7
Mobile health cycling: How Eastern European amateur cycling enthusiasts frame their experiences with Zwift and Strava	7
Disabled people's experiences of English football fandom: Inclusion, exclusion and discrimination	6
Constructing self-identity through the spectrum of global gaze: Football and national identity in Saudi Arabia	6
A race against time: A critical analysis of elite student-athletes’ accelerated temporality through story completion	6
Sportswashing: Media headline or analytic concept?	6
Athletes, support staff, and classifiers opinions on intentional misrepresentation in Para sport	6
Equal to, different from, better than: The multiple bodies of women Olympic Weightlifters	6
Sport for development: Working with youth or youth work? A commentary	6
Horsing around: Animals, humans, sports, and platforms	6

The art of balance: Indigenous sport governance between traditional government and self-governance	6
A critical feminist analysis of women's football in Türkiye: Challenges, opportunities, and societal implications	6
“It becomes a fight against who I am, rather than what I say”: Gender, positionality, and inclusion in esports leadership	6
How natural environments influence traditional sports and games: A mixed methods study from China	6
Paddling as ‘Pelagic Postcolonialism’: Pacific voyaging resurgence, ocean justice and outrigger canoe racing (Va’a) in Fiji	6
Embracing digital self-tracking for fitness and health: The rise of smartwatches in Ghana's fitness communities	6
“A little taste of what it would be like to be in the military”: Performing militarism at the Canada army run	6
‘The times they are a changing’: Negotiating diverse sexualities and masculinities in male rugby union	6
Media (re)presentation of a black woman esports player: The case of Chiquita Evans in the NBA 2K League	6
Scandalization as catalyzer for marginalized stakeholders: The impact of the Luis Rubiales “kissing scandal” on gender relations in Spanish football	5
Navigating the playing field: Reimagining the sports industry in the face of accelerated climate change	5
Anti-racism industrial complex in sport	5
Digital selves: A cross-cultural examination of athlete social media self-presentation during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics	5
Breaking the mold or reinforcing norms? The digital construction of female athletes’ bodies on TikTok	5
European football fans’ resistance and protest in the face of legal restrictions: Towards a typology and continued research agenda	5
“I thought we were useless”: K-skateboarding and socio-material pollution in Nanjido, Seoul	5
Book Review: Populism in Sports, Leisure, and Popular Culture by Bryan C Clift and Jules Boykoff CliftBryan CBoykoffJules, Populism in Sports, Leisure, a	5
From gamers to players: Chinese Generation Z's perspectives on minors dropping out of school to become professional esports players	5
Equality DanceSport doing transgender inclusivity in the United Kingdom: Cultural cisgenderism and transgender experiences	5
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	4
Framing masculinity in the mountains: Gender representation in the documentary films Free Solo and 14 Peaks	4
Mainland Chinese first-generation immigrants and New Zealanders’ views on sport participation, race/ethnicity and the body: Does sport participation enhance cultural understandings?	4
Journeys to the ‘Other’: England fans’, Orientalism and the 2022 World Cup	4
From sport to the desire for elsewhere: The example of young athletes from disadvantaged Moroccan neighborhoods	4
The empowerment-subservience paradox in Filipina bodybuilding	4
Sports following and social capital in the United States: Social networks and trust	4
Adult minority women's experiences of belonging through sport and recreational activities	4
Redefining masculinities through street workout: Dynamics of hybridity and aesthetic capital	4
‘Humans for sale’: Analysing The Guardian's representations of Qatar during the 2022 men's FIFA World Cup	4
Women, sport and social inclusion in Saudi Arabia	4
Book Review: Sport in Contemporary India: Society, Culture and Governance by Surajit C. Mukhopadhyay and Lovely Dasgupta MukhopadhyaySurajit C.DasguptaLo	3
Erratum to “The Beauty Builder: A Genealogical Analysis of the Production of Female Power and Knowledge in Artistic Swimming”	3
Reconceptualising informality in sport participation: Towards understanding (in)formalisation of sport governance	3
Aspiring against the odds: Women Strength and Conditioning coaches in a gendered landscape	3
Policy responses to reports of gender-based violence against women by Australian sporting organisations and best-practice principles	3
From the via Crucis to paradise. The experiences of women football players in Spain surrounding gender and homosexuality	3
The macro-structure of football's global migration system: How linguistic, economic, and geographic boundaries constrain player mobility	3
The (ecologically) imperial mode of sport at the exterminist stage of capitalism: Counter stories of Dakar Rally's ride in South America (2009–2019)	3
Willingness of voluntary sports clubs to implement integration programmes – A construction of organisational identity ideal types	3
Cohesion to life on the land of migration: Olympic education and refugees	3
Policing ‘sport sex’: Examining the legal challenge filed against World Athletics’ 2018 Differences of Sexual Development regulations	3
‘Refugee footballers’: A socioecological exploration of forced migrants in the Italian and German elite football system	3
Structuration theory investigation of elite Rugby players’ perceptions on how the transition from player to retired player impacted their significant others	3
Drafting behind LGB: Transgender athletes in the sport of cycling	3
Role of fan engagement in the success of the Professional Women's Hockey League	3
A quest for legitimacy? An exploratory study of the new meanings of sports and physical activity in contemporary Saudi Arabia	3
FIFA’s utopia: An analysis of FIFA’s football for hope movement	3
The gendered effect of gender-neutral anti-doping policy: Women athletes and their lived experience	3
Muscle moves mass: Deconstructing the culture of weight loss in American Olympic Weightlifting	3
Gendering strategic action fields in sports governance	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
‘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	2
A critical race theory analysis of Black male college athletes’ identity development	2
“Clenched fists, helping hand”: Peter Norman and media frame building of white allyship	2
Of skills and tools: Skateboarding as city craft	2
Inclusive, inviting, inspiring: Insights into the experiences of women's football fans in Australia and Germany	2
Responder or promoter? investigating the role of nation-state in globalization: The case of China’s strategies in the global wushu movement	2
‘I can’t believe I just made history’: A temporal analysis of sports media reporting	2
Integrity governance: A new reform agenda for sport?	2
Sports mega-events and cosmopolitan nationalism: A critical discourse analysis of media representations of Japan through the 2019 Rugby World Cup	2
Clothes and caps: An exploration of the thing-power of objects and activism at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games	2
The ‘glow up imperative’: The fitness lifestyles of young women in Aotearoa New Zealand	2
Care as a strategy to navigate political tensions within the China–Norway sports coaching collaboration	2
Antisemitism as a football specific problem? The situation of Jewish clubs in German amateur sport	2
Representation of young sportswomen in cinema: From male domination to female devaluation	2
Children's views on women in sport: Locating feminist narratives	2
Adapting to sport and country: Immigrant athletes with disabilities	2
Homophobia in Brazilian football: A critical discourse analysis of fans’ comments in online football forums	2
The gendered bodies and working experience of fitness trainers	2
Participation of girls and women in community sport in Ghana: Cultural and structural barriers	2
Between lookism and bodily capital: Understanding female personal trainers’ appearance in occupational socialization	2
Is gender equality in brain damage ‘progress’ for women and sport?	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
Gender arrhythmia and sportswomen's drinking practices during COVID-19	2
Money talks: Analysing the PGA Tour-LIV Golf jurisdictional contest via Western media narratives	2
Civil repair and children's sports: The Norwegian welfare-state's reconstruction of unhealthy, undemocratic and unsafe sports	2
A typological understanding of medical support in sport: What do we know and what’s next?	2
Family ties and social capital among grand slam tennis champions	2
Meanings given to (super-)diversity in the Dutch national team by Dutch football commentators: A historical approach	2

‘Yes, I’m an Elite athlete and I’m Gay’: Experiences of elite gay male athletes in Spain	2
Reduce, re-use, re-ride: Bike waste and moving towards a circular economy for sporting goods	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
Yoga practice through the prism of the quest for excitement: Emotional renewal and transcending the physical realities of the body	2
‘I’m not a warrior, I’m a basketball player’: A narrative on professional sport in troubled times	2
Slow learners: Body pedagogics and learning slow ways in sport and physical cultures	2
“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	2
Collective sports success through effective social performances: The case of Olympic wrestling in Iran	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
Saudi women and sport participation: An examination of the ‘sport for all’ policy and its alignment with women's experiences	1
Political protest on the Persian Twittersphere: Examining the dichotomy of World Cup framing by the Iranian regime’s proponents and opponents	1
Corrigendum to “The construction of esports careers in France: Are there gender-based inequalities right from the start?”	1
Beyond stereotypes: Women and their engagement in football fandom	1
‘I would have studied while I showered’: A Foucauldian reading of how young student-athletes regulate their free time	1
Parental role in children's sport participation: A grounded theory interpretation of social support theory from an alternative perspective	1
Who counts as a woman? A critical discourse analysis of petitions against the participation of transgender athletes in women's sport	1
Staying active in sports during the transition from school to work: The role of social support in young adulthood	1
New Zealand's princess of the pool: Post-ableism and the media narrativisation of Sophie Pascoe	1
Corrigendum to From the via Crucis to paradise. The experiences of women football players in Spain surrounding gender and homosexuality	1
Sponsorship, power dependence, and the institutionalisation of risk: A sociological study of high-altitude climbing in South Korea	1
Dear England: A critical discourse analysis of how sports stars and politicians battle for legitimacy in debates around athlete activism	1
Playing with dual purposes: A study of professional football players engagement in environmental advocacy and activism	1
Examining the socioemotional outcomes of social justice efforts on social media users: Evidence from the NFL's Inspire Change initiatives	1
Bruised and confused: An autoethnography of concussion in rugby union	1
Intersectionality in research on equity, diversity, and inclusion in sport: A systematic review of the literature	1
A network analysis of the Belgian national platform against match-fixing	1
Sacrifice for success: How coaches, athletes and managers normalise commitment and conformity in Scandinavian elite football	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
Conceptualising grey spaces in skateboarding: Generating theory and method for use beyond the board	1
Women's transnational migration through football: Possibilities, responsibilities, and respectability in Ghana	1
Inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in Olympic legacy-shaping processes	1
Citizenship without identity? Instrumentalism, nationalism and naturalization in Chinese men's football	1
Combatting sectarianism from the ground up: The Northern Irish Green and White Army and the football carnival	1
Governing Olympic education: Technologies of policy announcements and outsourcing	1
‘I keep forgetting them’: Lacrosse, indigenous women and girls and reconciliation in Canada	1
What’s in a game? A dialectic of competition and cooperation in Squid Game	1
From denunciation to therapy: Representing coach-athlete abuse in occidental cinema	1
Women's representation in surf video games: A stereotyped, objectified and romanticized portrayal	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
Texas high school coaches’ attitudes and perceptions of LGB + athletes: A qualitative analysis	1
Socio-structural determinants of physical activity behavior in children and adolescents: The importance of social support	1
Linking sports-related and socio-economic resources of retiring Olympic athletes to their subsequent vocational career	1
Career transitions from the English Premier League: Cooling out the mark with possible selves	1
21 years later: Reflecting on femininity, masculinity, physicality and the English tabloid press	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
Sport's hidden realities: A review of ‘The End of Sport’ podcast	1
Burnout symptoms in elite athletes: Assessing the role of effort–reward imbalance, support and emotions	1
Sporting mega-events, physical activity, and Actor Network Theory: Mapping actants of movement at the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup	1
To touch or not to touch in Türkiye: physical education teachers’ decisions on physical contact	1
Is sport's ‘gateway for inclusion’ on the latch for ethnic minorities? A discourse analysis of sport policy for inclusion and integration	1
Understanding the process of athlete eco-activism between individual and organisational conditions: The case of ultra-trail runners	1
Levelling the field? The English Football Association's promotion of their men's and women's national teams through Twitter	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
Enclaved non-heteronormativity and pragmatic acceptance. The experiences of Polish female football players	1
Can the credibility of global sport organizations be restored? A case study of the athletics integrity unit	1