Sport in Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Sport in Society is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Cricket and Contemporary Society in Britain: Crisis and Continuity29
Off the ice: an oral history of the Swift Current Broncos’ relationship with hockey27
On the 8 th Day: A Catholic Theology of SportOn the 8 th Day: A Catholic Theology of Sport, by M. Hoven, J. J. Carney, & M. T. Engel. Cascade Books, 2022, Pbk: U27
Impacts of urban regeneration on small business in preparation to host the Beijing 2022 winter Olympic games25
Inclusion and equality in Finnish ice hockey and football: a comparative study of organizational cultures23
Acceptance and commitment approaches for athletes’ well-being and performance19
The Postmodern Picture of Sports Communication: Sports, Media and Culture18
A ‘token gesture’ in World Athletics governance? The IAAF Women’s Committee under Ilse Bechthold, 1990–200516
Esports under sports mega-event conventions: associational values, inclusivity, and national representation at the Commonwealth Games15
Exploring cross-cultural conceptual metaphors in Chinese and English table tennis news discourse15
Waves of opportunity and sorrow: surfing in Atlantic Africa15
The 2020 EventRights Mobility Project: investigating Atlanta’s compliance with FIFA’s human rights bidding requirement in planning and designing security and safety measures for the 2026 FIFA Men’s Wo14
Trans* inclusion and gender equality in sport and exercise – an (im)possible equation?14
‘Robbing Peter to Pay Paula’: a netnographic exploration of Facebook user responses to the amended 2022 Women’s Australian Football League Collective Bargaining Agreement13
“What about the rest of me?”: a post-colonial and critical disability analysis of the Invictus Games docuserie s and its representation of war, injury, a13
‘Is she married, single or available?’ Standing out and blending in as a woman working in sports media13
Is there education in physical education? A narrative systematic review of research in physical education and learning13
Athlete activism, advocacy, and awareness: mental health in the Olympic Games12
Experiences of volt hockey from family members’ perspectives: an interview study12
The role of sport in juvenile justice: benefits according to key informants12
The Rider by Chloé Zhao (2017): a poethnic invitation to the world of rodeo12
The concept of ‘policy windows’ in elite sport development: positive events and spatial domains of policy windows11
Walking the city – a case study on the emancipatory aspects of walking11
Whiteness in the production of televised football: Spanish sports journalists reflecting on race/ethnicity and diversity10
What do we really know about fraud in sports? An exploratory study in Belgium10
Dark undershorts and leaking body control: a critical review of the Wimbledon all-white dress code exception9
A scoping review of the experiences of elite female athletes concerning pregnancy and motherhood9
Don’t believe in miracles: the British sports film in the era of sporting rationalization9
The Rinaldi frame: the NCAA, College Gameday, and the commodification of Black hardship9
Origins of non-racial school sport in South Africa9
Leveraging Olympic champion athletes as a communication tool: a neuromarketing study9
Perceived barriers to sports participation among adolescent girls from low socioeconomic status neighbourhoods9
‘In any women’s sport …, it’s hard work because it’s a male dominated society’ – exploring forms of gendered media labour in relation to elite women’s cricket in England8
Rising from irrelevance: the media framing of Brock Purdy’s rookie season in the NFL8
The concept of political neutrality – where we are at? 18
Affect and emotions in sports work: a research agenda8
Football and ice hockey in the Polish sports landscape: a story of (relative) success and a story of a (complete) failure8
Brand equity of football in India: an exploratory study to understand why millennials have a love hate relationship with Indian football8
‘There’s nothing you can do’: multi-level factors affecting the careers of female football coaches in Poland7
Parents’ views on coaching in youth community sport settings7
Rugby union, class and ‘Middle Ireland’ in Irish media7
The pre-stage of inclusion–conditions for the mainstreaming process of parasports within the Swedish Floorball Federation7
Playing with the odds: negotiation of precarity through sevens in Sudani from Nigeria7
Developing a multi-level framework for analyzing public sports-based programmes to integrate migrants and refugees into organized sports7
Virtual identities and women’s empowerment: the implication of the rise of female esports fans in China7
Sports Consumption: Development Trend and Policy Orientation Sports Consumption: Development Trend and Policy Orientation , by Jiang Xiaojuan et al., Beijing, CITIC Pres7
Inclusivity, diversity, and the absent presence of class: a logics approach to England and Wales cricket Board (ECB) policy discourse7
The politics of ‘no politics’ in Pula, Croatia: an ethnography of the Demons football fan group7
Athlete participation in decision-making in elite sport: a scoping review7
Same, same but different? – A comparative discourse-theoretical content analysis of the constructions of football talent in German and Swedish newspapers7
The state, the athlete, the symbolic exclusion: the ban of Russian and Belarusian athletes from the Olympic Movement7
Native tongue - Indigenous language revitalisation at the nexus of professional sport and culture: how Māori and Pacific sport stars are aiding endangered languages7
Interpreting and enacting ‘empowerment’ in sport for development: the perspectives of UK stakeholders on a partnership-based programme in Malawi6
The nonexcludable function of sports stadiums in climate-changed cities6
A decline in ping-pong in France: rumour or reality? (1934–1939)6
National identity, state and social media discourse in Romania: the case of tennis6
The redefinition of a Chinese sports hero’s public image: evidence from the reactions on Chinese social media to Sun Yang’s international trial6
Sport and governance: peacebuilding in communities affected by the armed conflict in Colombia6
‘What should I do as a coach?’: an interview study with Swedish national team coaches about their professional practice and experiences in addressing potential health risks in elite sport6
Called up: calling to social justice action (SJA) and mental health of athletes6
Constitutive outsiders in and of sports: the case of transgender athletes6
Physical Education in Irish Schools, 1900–2000: A History6
A Scandinavian perspective on high-performance coaching: an ethically based balancing act between four interrelated knowledge dimensions6
Experiences of belonging and exclusion in sport and physical activity for individuals of diverse sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in rural Australia6
Global sport in the post-COVID era6
What are we hiding? - The loud silence on the racialized experiences of Indigenous, Brown, and Black female athletes in Aotearoa New Zealand6
Sports Management in an Uncertain Environment6
Sport-based social justice movements and activism: a narrative review5
Under the postcolonial global sports order: the sportification, cultural re-creation, and shifting local identity of Miaoli Bombing dragons5
Qatar’s soft power v. sportswashing allegations: perspectives of Chinese football fans during the 2022 men’s football World Cup5
Discrimination on football Twitter: the role of humour in the Othering of minorities5
Corporate social responsibility within a global pandemic: a qualitative analysis of the population’s perception of sport organizations5
Emerging technology as an essential factor in changing lifestyles and reshaping exercise behaviour in Taiwan5
The crowd management failure at 2022 champions league final: inter-organisational analysis of a collective powerlessness5
Influences of sociocultural and historical constraints on athletes’ developmental experiences: a case study of baseball in Japan5
Queering bodies: subversive gender performance and embodied defiance through female bodybuilding in the digital public sphere5
The impact of a soccer team from a Romanian city on local community: a content analysis5
Exposed bodies: hypersexualisation and prostitution in the scene of Brazilian female bodybuilding5
Home versus away: legitimizing and challenging home claims and social exclusion through football in Turkey5
Professionalization of action sports: field- and organizational-level professionalization of new Olympic sports5
‘Born and bred Holden’: investigating the impact of holden on Australian sporting culture5
Structure vs culture: Judo’s values through the lens of criminology5
Fiction or reality? What the movie une belle équipe shows about women’s football in the Hauts-de-France region5
Women and volleyball in Leap : a study of female bodies from a semiotic perspective5
Lundy’s model and beyond: exploring a girl’s perspective on participation in voluntary sports organizations5
‘It’s not our problem’: Czech online discourse on kneeling in football and Black Lives Matter5
Assessment of the delivery and implementation of the Football Association’s Heads Up mental health promotion campaign5
African Football Migration: Aspirations, Experiences, Trajectories5
Out of the shadows into the limelight: the impact of commercialization on the Swedish men’s elite football coach from the 1960s until today5
A socio-ecological approach to understanding the experiences of women and girls playing male-dominated sports4
Beauties and beasts in the world of fans—the story of HC and ŠK Slovan Bratislava4
The metaverse and sport fandom: revolutionising sport consumption4
Eating’s cheating and the peculiarity of male professional road cycling4
Sport and parenthood4
Sport brand coexistence, competition and synergy: case study of the Sparta Prague ice hockey and football clubs4
Embodied regulation: the case of women collegiate athletes4
Exploratory foray into the nexus between football and climate change in Africa4
Nationalism, market logic, and cultural tradition: a labor politics analysis of media representations of Chinese female athletes in Olympic coverage4
Being a Chinese while fighting against China: badminton and the nationalist identity construction of Malaysian Chinese4
Exploring the professionalisation of sports coaching from the athlete’s point of view: a study of professional players from Sweden4
Sport communication digital ecosystem development: Lega Basket Italia case study4
Correction4
Outsiders, underdogs and bohemians in sport: an introduction4
Behind the support of esports in Hong Kong: a study on public perception4
Cultural Translation: Horse Racing, Greyhound Racing, and Jai Alai in Modern Shanghai Cultural Translation: Horse Racing, Greyhound Racing, and Jai Alai in Modern Shanghai 3
Sustainability, the Athens Marathon and Greece’s sport event sector: lessons of resilience, social innovation and the urban commons3
From chants to glitter: Thai sports fans as cultural producers in public space3
The impact of competitive youth athlete injury on parents: a narrative review3
Cooperation policies among public institutions for the development and dissemination of sports: a qualitative study3
Running free: recreational runners’ reasons for non-use of digital sports technology3
‘Cheating’ your way to the top: a focus on language in the Australian media’s representation of performance enhancing drugs3
A debate on the use of artificial intelligence, as an electronic line judge, for line calls in tennis3
World Wrestling Entertainment, Becky Lynch and the Irish media3
Even eagles struggle to fly: Matti Nykänen, Eddie the Eagle, and Jan Boklöv in the era of commercialisation, professionalisation, and mediatisation3
‘This experience has changed me and my view:’ the learning experiences of urban youth in outdoor-focused sport-for-development programming3
Technology, innovation, and the future of the sport industry in Asia Pacific3
Populism in Sport, Leisure, and Popular Culture3
Reflexive meanings of global and local sports culture: Chinese female sports fandom in the context of glocalization3
‘Basketball can be sold just like Coca-Cola’: an examination of the principle of amateurism in Israeli sport over time3
Development of esports curriculum inside British universities: implications towards a national policy for Vietnamese ones3
The nonwestern takeover of global sports: sportswashing or global power shift?3
Correction3
‘It’s always on’. Rituals and social structure within an international touch rugby team3
The new politics of sport3
And Now, No Word from Our Sponsors’: Yorkshire cricket, the Azeem Rafiq controversy and the silence of the University3
Exploring youths’ perceptions of self and external initiatives for their football talent development in Tanzania3
One bird, one stone: professionalization of sport structures as a strategy for harnessing elite sport success in Uganda3
The concept of territorial capital: considerations for measuring sports events3
‘We are going to the right direction… but we are not in ideal world yet’: understanding gender (in)equality within leadership positions in Nordic football governance3
Reflections on modern physical activity: how can Graeber’s ideas help us to reconceptualise it and increase the value of play?3
‘It’s crucial to have someone that recommends you’: female immigrants’ pathway into sports leadership in Sweden3
Beyond the Noise : the cultural (or subcultural) politics of Irish surf films3
Accusations of racist language in Norwegian football: stakeholder management of whistleblowing3
Quid interpersonal violence in the sport integrity literature? A scoping review3
Correction Notice3
The powers that changed dutch kickboxing3
Stadiums of commercial and social control: overlapping rationalities within European football’s transformation3
Confessions of a retired footballer: a Foucauldian reading of British working footballers’ longer-term retirement experiences3
Insiders, outsiders and allies: Inga Löwdin and the promotion of women’s international XC skiing, 1946–19603
The national hero, the supercrip, and the self-reliant figure: Paralympic champions on China Central Television’s sports channel3
The Summit of the Gods (2021): finding new heights for sport animation and transmedia storytelling3
Sustaining the unsustainable: meaningful longevity and the doing of coaching3
Re-viewing the woman as fan: an examination of the narrative framing of the women in cinematic adaptations of Nick Hornby’s fever pitch2
Older Australian gay men’s long-term alienation from sport: a phenomenological investigation2
The professionalization of the role of the coach: transforming the last bastion of the Scandinavian welfare-sport model2
Effects of a physical activity programme using active methodology on physical and cognitive parameters in children under 6 years of age2
From English to Polish Disease. Conceptualising hooligans’ setup fights and their diffusion across Europe2
Telling adults about it: children’s experience of disclosing interpersonal violence in community sport2
The facilitators and constraints of simulated racing professionalization: a cross cultural analysis between Europe and Asia Pacific2
Understanding the authenticity of surf tourism: evidence from Chinese tourists2
Corporate social responsibility framework in esports: evidence from China2
College athletes’ perceptions and understanding of abortion rights: a Post-Dobbs Study2
‘I can have a baby, I can come back’: high-performing dancers and athletes perceptions of motherhood compatibility and how to support the preconception to pregnancy announcement journey2
Naturalised athletes as national icons: official and netizen narratives of Eileen Gu in the 2022 Winter Olympics2
Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America2
Consuming esports and trash talking: how do social norms and moderating attributes influence behaviour?2
Sport successes, ‘against all odds’2
Possibilities for tax optimization in Swedish sport? The case of football and ice hockey2
Skateboarding and contested public space in Portrush, Northern Ireland: exploring tensions between resortification and DIY space-claiming through co-creative methodology2
The role of an environmental perspective among skiers in the changing landscapes of alpine skiing2
Empowerment & anxiety: social identity of Chinese women in combat sports2
Coaching by doing: communities of practice at Swedish sport schools in XC skiing since the 1970s2
Bondi Days: An Obituary Bondi Days: An Obituary , by Monty Webber. Angourie, New South Wales: Monty Webber, 2022, Pbk: US$11.25, ISBN: 979-883-63-1456-92
Making compromises without a hurting stalemate, the change of the emblem of the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games2
Listening to football and ice hockey: music practices and supporter agency manifested in Finnish football and ice hockey songs2
Policing football-related violence in the Czech Republic: the football clubs’ quest for profit and security2
Conceptualising the notion of the ‘sport worker’ and ‘sport/s work’: a commentary2
Female empowerment through sport: an exploratory narrative review2
From a dark place to a blue space: open water swimming transformed our lives2
Aikido’s self-regulation and co-regulation: a promising embodied pedagogy for intercultural communication training2
LIV and Let Die: The Inside Story of the War between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf2
The influence of social media in the training on physical activity and health of future physical sports educators2
Centre of the house: youthful dominance and the creation of curling’s age order2
Fight like a freak: the phenomenon of Poland’s freak fights and the redefinition of sports spectacles2
Sporting synergy: football and the colonial peoples of Eastern Nigeria2
More than just religion ’: a case study of the psychological preparation of an African American division I female golfer at a HBCU2
Correction2
Purposeful and unintentional: Chinese adolescent golfers in the intergenerational transmission and feedback of cultural capital2
Sport and Quality of Life – Practices, Habits and Lifestyles2
Professionalisation of sport coaching from a Scandinavian horizon: an introduction2
Towards ethical guidelines for AI in sport2
Sustainability at stake: evaluating the Beijing Winter Olympics through a conceptual model2
She is a Beijing girl: an examination of how Eileen Gu’s Chinese identity was constructed in Chinese media during the Beijing 2022 Olympics1
Conceptualising the Global Touristic Football Club1
Researching women in sport development: an intersectional approach1
The shy girl who became national team captain: a bioecological narrative of an Olympian’s life skills development1
On uncertain terrain: how teachers reflect on sexuality in PE and what patterns of action they establish in dealing with students’ sexuality1
Identity, nationalism and orientalism: media representation of football player Wu Lei in China and Spain1
An exceptional country and city? Football–ice hockey rivalry in modernizing Finland and Helsinki1
Money laundering and compliance in professional football: the case of Belgium in light of the new EU AML single rulebook1
Football, football and more football? What French children read in the ‘youth’ press1
Ice hockey and football in Norway: parallel lines, different levels1
What is being uploaded on YouTube?: Analysis of fitness-related YouTube video titles pre- and post-Covid-19 in Korea1
Framing the idealistic Bohemian and the rational outsider: on Swedish sports media narratives of individualism and defiance1
Mapping the nexus between sports and soft power: a bibliometric analysis1
Sport for social cohesion: from scoping review to new research directions1
On the fringes of the skiing nation: integration, marginalization and regionalism in Northern Norway1
Introduction to the special issue—sport, the media and Ireland: intersections of gender, class and geography1
Sport and sustainable social development in Ghana: analysing the policy-implementation gap1
I Run, Therefore I Am: Marathon, Body Discipline and Middle-Class Self-Identity1
On the Ball: fan perspectives of a campaign to improve Scottish female football fans’ experiences of menstruation at football matches1
Negotiating Newlands: contesting a Rugby heritage site in Cape Town, South Africa1
Why are there no female coaches in elite women’s soccer? A qualitative study of Spanish female coaches1
Reconciliation within the National Rugby League: where art and sport intersect1
Becoming a football fan for Tunisian women. The interlocking socialisation processes1
Brothers, bruises, and the will to win: a social-ecological hegemony perspective on Swedish ice hockey’s past1
Skiing like no others: idealization and exoticization of boreal athletes from Swedish Lapland in the 1890s1
Adana Demirspor and Murat Sancak: the controversial relationship of success with power and authority in Turkish football1
The impact of physical activity leadership training on establishing an active school culture: teacher and staff perspectives1
Mud, sweat and cameras – Irish trail and mountain running vlogging1
Big fines and fake signs: lessons for natural recreation resource governance from surfing in the time of COVID-191
‘You can’t be what you can’t see’: Indigenous Australian sportswomen as powerful role models1
The ‘swagger’ of a nation: insider/outsider Canadian identity and the Toronto Raptors’ ‘We the North’ campaign1
The video assistant referee (VAR) as neo-coloniality of power? Fan negative reactions to VAR in the 2018 FIFA Men’s World Cup1
‘We felt like we belonged’: black Rhinos Junior Basketball – strengthening community belonging and engagement in learning1
Sport didn’t change the scoreboard. It changed the script1
Similarities and differences in male and female First Nations hockey players’ experiences of moving away from their home communities to play elite hockey in the Canadian mainstream context1
(Re)imagining capoeira: a study of Carybé’s illustrated book Jogo da Capoeira (1951)1
‘Outsiders’ - the intersection of the Enhanced Games, abjection, telos, and virtues1
Breaking the huddle: reframing mental health and academic success for student-athletes through research, advocacy, and experience1
Football vs. ice hockey in the European sport landscape: an introduction1
Stakeholders in venues of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games: a critical analysis1
What about me? Exploring the lived experience of the partners of elite athletes in supporting athletes throughout their playing career and into retirement from sport1
Racial diversity in skateboarding: destabilising whiteness, decentring heartlands1
Research on the memory field and national identity construction in sports museums: taking the ITTF and CTT museum as an example1
‘Comfortable in my own skin’: the intersecting identities of Black women student-athletes at an HWIHE1
Fit and proper? Analyzing the potential for illicit activity through English Premier League club ownership structures1
Ghada Mahat: whistling against the odds—female refereeing, gender dynamics, and resistance in Algerian soccer1
The gender-progressive institutional entrepreneurs in mountain biking media1
Envisioning a green modernity? The future of cricket in an age of climate crisis1
Parent-spectators’ misbehaviour in grassroots football: an explorative qualitative study1
Self-organized sports and place: a narrative review accompanied by Gilles Deleuze1
The impact of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on the labour market. Between spatiality and inequality1
Natural to artificial: a spectrum of sport spaces fit for the Anthropocene1
A double-edged sword: resource dependence of non-profit sports organisations in China within the government service procurement framework1
The balancing act of conformity: aspiring leaders’ response to managerial pressure1
Media interpretation of sports-related concussion in Irish rugby union: reinforcing or reshaping the sport ethic?1
Navigating the future: parental decisions and contextual influences in Irish tennis1
From local passion to global business: the influence of corporate ownership on two Mexican football clubs1
‘Nobody needs a label’: responses on Facebook to a Team GB equity, diversity and inclusion initiative1
An organizational change perspective on the incorporation of parkour in a gymnastics federation1
A gown called malice: undergraduate PE students’ belonging in university, social-class and race1
Imperialism through sports: China’s strategy for global hegemony1
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