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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
How Covid changed sport – a case study of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games28
Editorial: Sport, nationalism, and the importance of theory26
Beyond the boundary: the Sandpapergate scandal and the limits of transnational masculinity16
Cricket and Contemporary Society in Britain: Crisis and Continuity16
Running, Identity and Meaning: The Pursuit of Distinction through Sport16
Waves of opportunity and sorrow: surfing in Atlantic Africa15
Off the ice: an oral history of the Swift Current Broncos’ relationship with hockey15
Athlete activism, advocacy, and awareness: mental health in the Olympic Games15
Impacts of urban regeneration on small business in preparation to host the Beijing 2022 winter Olympic games15
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: U15
Esports under sports mega-event conventions: associational values, inclusivity, and national representation at the Commonwealth Games14
Is there education in physical education? A narrative systematic review of research in physical education and learning13
Negotiating spaces of urban sports and belonging: migrant football leagues in São Paulo and Rio De Janeiro13
Acceptance and commitment approaches for athletes’ well-being and performance12
Inclusion and equality in Finnish ice hockey and football: a comparative study of organizational cultures11
The role of sport in juvenile justice: benefits according to key informants11
The Postmodern Picture of Sports Communication: Sports, Media and Culture11
Trans* inclusion and gender equality in sport and exercise – an (im)possible equation?10
A ‘token gesture’ in World Athletics governance? The IAAF Women’s Committee under Ilse Bechthold, 1990–200510
The Rider by Chloé Zhao (2017): a poethnic invitation to the world of rodeo10
‘Is she married, single or available?’ Standing out and blending in as a woman working in sports media10
Don’t believe in miracles: the British sports film in the era of sporting rationalization9
Conflicting rationalities of participation: constructing and resisting ‘Midnight football’ as an instrument of social policy9
Walking the city – a case study on the emancipatory aspects of walking9
The sport mega-events of the 2020s: governance, impacts and controversies9
A scoping review of the experiences of elite female athletes concerning pregnancy and motherhood9
Far beyond the four lines: the Group B fan pages at the 2018 World Cup9
Affect and emotions in sports work: a research agenda9
Perceived barriers to sports participation among adolescent girls from low socioeconomic status neighbourhoods8
The concept of ‘policy windows’ in elite sport development: positive events and spatial domains of policy windows8
Experiences of volt hockey from family members’ perspectives: an interview study8
Parental perceptions of the impact of COVID-19 and returning to play based on level of sport8
The Rinaldi frame: the NCAA, College Gameday, and the commodification of Black hardship8
The emergence of a paradox of assimilation: an analysis of Olympic and Paralympic athletes’ Instagram posts8
Physical activity of Sport Sciences students during COVID-19 home confinement8
Origins of non-racial school sport in South Africa8
Rugby union, class and ‘Middle Ireland’ in Irish media7
A morphogenetic approach to sport and social inclusion: a case study of good will’s reproductive power7
The politics of ‘no politics’ in Pula, Croatia: an ethnography of the Demons football fan group7
‘There’s nothing you can do’: multi-level factors affecting the careers of female football coaches in Poland7
Developing a multi-level framework for analyzing public sports-based programmes to integrate migrants and refugees into organized sports7
Parents’ views on coaching in youth community sport settings7
The (in)significance of footballing pleasures in the lives of forced migrant men7
Same, same but different? – A comparative discourse-theoretical content analysis of the constructions of football talent in German and Swedish newspapers7
Virtual identities and women’s empowerment: the implication of the rise of female esports fans in China7
Spatial transitions, levels of activity, and motivations to exercise during COVID-19: a literature review6
Interpreting and enacting ‘empowerment’ in sport for development: the perspectives of UK stakeholders on a partnership-based programme in Malawi6
Experiences of belonging and exclusion in sport and physical activity for individuals of diverse sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in rural Australia6
A Scandinavian perspective on high-performance coaching: an ethically based balancing act between four interrelated knowledge dimensions6
The nonexcludable function of sports stadiums in climate-changed cities6
The pre-stage of inclusion–conditions for the mainstreaming process of parasports within the Swedish Floorball Federation6
Football and ice hockey in the Polish sports landscape: a story of (relative) success and a story of a (complete) failure6
Sport and governance: peacebuilding in communities affected by the armed conflict in Colombia6
The state, the athlete, the symbolic exclusion: the ban of Russian and Belarusian athletes from the Olympic Movement6
‘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
The Chinese and South-East Asian sports world in the 2020s6
Inclusivity, diversity, and the absent presence of class: a logics approach to England and Wales cricket Board (ECB) policy discourse6
Sports Consumption: Development Trend and Policy Orientation Sports Consumption: Development Trend and Policy Orientation , by Jiang Xiaojuan et al., Beijing, CITIC Pres6
Can women escape the male influence when surfing? An ethnographic study of female surfers in Southern Spain6
Global sport in the post-COVID era6
Qatar’s soft power v. sportswashing allegations: perspectives of Chinese football fans during the 2022 men’s football World Cup5
The redefinition of a Chinese sports hero’s public image: evidence from the reactions on Chinese social media to Sun Yang’s international trial5
Physical Education in Irish Schools, 1900–2000: A History5
Communities in movement: football and basketball in transcultural spaces5
Neo-rituals under construction. How and what do the finals of the CONMEBOL Copa Libertadores tell us?5
What are we hiding? - The loud silence on the racialized experiences of Indigenous, Brown, and Black female athletes in Aotearoa New Zealand5
A decline in ping-pong in France: rumour or reality? (1934–1939)5
Called up: calling to social justice action (SJA) and mental health of athletes5
Sports Management in an Uncertain Environment5
National identity, state and social media discourse in Romania: the case of tennis4
‘It’s not our problem’: Czech online discourse on kneeling in football and Black Lives Matter4
Hooligans, ultras, activists: Polish football fandom in sociological perspective4
Corporate social responsibility within a global pandemic: a qualitative analysis of the population’s perception of sport organizations4
Local protests against the 2024 Olympic Games in European cities: the cases of the Rome, Hamburg, Budapest and Paris 2024 bids4
How do perceptions of non-mega sport events impact quality of life and support for the event among local residents?4
Sexual minorities in intercollegiate athletics: religion, team culture and acceptance4
The impact of a soccer team from a Romanian city on local community: a content analysis4
’There’s a new sheriff in town’: the Rodchenkov Act, anti-dopism, and the hegemony of WADA in international sport4
Professionalization of action sports: field- and organizational-level professionalization of new Olympic sports4
Taking the star-spangled knee: the media framing of Colin Kaepernick4
Discrimination on football Twitter: the role of humour in the Othering of minorities4
Structure vs culture: Judo’s values through the lens of criminology4
Home versus away: legitimizing and challenging home claims and social exclusion through football in Turkey4
Influences of sociocultural and historical constraints on athletes’ developmental experiences: a case study of baseball in Japan4
Assessment of the delivery and implementation of the Football Association’s Heads Up mental health promotion campaign4
African Football Migration: Aspirations, Experiences, Trajectories3
A resource-based view of post-Games legacy strategy: the case of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic games3
A socio-ecological approach to understanding the experiences of women and girls playing male-dominated sports3
Out of the shadows into the limelight: the impact of commercialization on the Swedish men’s elite football coach from the 1960s until today3
Exploring the professionalisation of sports coaching from the athlete’s point of view: a study of professional players from Sweden3
One bird, one stone: professionalization of sport structures as a strategy for harnessing elite sport success in Uganda3
’Should I really be here?’: Problems of trust and ethics in PAR with young people from refugee backgrounds in sport and leisure3
Predicting climate impacts to the Olympic Games and FIFA Men’s World Cups from 2022 to 20323
Nature and challenges of sports job training during the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics: listening to the lived experiences of sports managers3
Women and Sport in Asia3
Emerging technology as an essential factor in changing lifestyles and reshaping exercise behaviour in Taiwan3
Sport and parenthood3
A rebel and a giant: change and continuity in the discursive construction of Chinese sport heroes3
An explanatory model of the influence of consumer exposure to sport sponsoring event3
Virtual athlete or ultimate nerd? A framing analysis of eSports in Flemish printed media3
Embodied regulation: the case of women collegiate athletes3
Anders Zorn and naturalistic ski competitions versus the progress of the hegemonic Swedish sport policy at the beginning of the 20th century3
Methodological challenges and opportunities in working within a participatory paradigm in the context of sport, forced migration and settlement: an insider perspective3
Disrupting the global refugee crisis or celebrity humanitarianism? Media frames of the refugee olympic team at 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo summer games3
Sport brand coexistence, competition and synergy: case study of the Sparta Prague ice hockey and football clubs3
‘Born and bred Holden’: investigating the impact of holden on Australian sporting culture3
Beauties and beasts in the world of fans—the story of HC and ŠK Slovan Bratislava3
A debate on the use of artificial intelligence, as an electronic line judge, for line calls in tennis3
The Summit of the Gods (2021): finding new heights for sport animation and transmedia storytelling3
The new politics of sport2
Transnational unities, challenges and opportunities for sport volunteering: lessons from the European PlayGreen project2
‘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 governance2
Getting a head start: the 2032 Olympic Movement through the preferred candidature bid involving Brisbane, Australia2
Policing football-related violence in the Czech Republic: the football clubs’ quest for profit and security2
Sustainability, the Athens Marathon and Greece’s sport event sector: lessons of resilience, social innovation and the urban commons2
Making compromises without a hurting stalemate, the change of the emblem of the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games2
‘It’s always on’. Rituals and social structure within an international touch rugby team2
Skateboarding and contested public space in Portrush, Northern Ireland: exploring tensions between resortification and DIY space-claiming through co-creative methodology2
Politics, policy and legacies of the Olympics in Asia Pacific: a panoramic view2
Towards more equal power relations in physical education: power, resistance and social transformation2
Correction Notice2
Telling adults about it: children’s experience of disclosing interpersonal violence in community sport2
Development of esports curriculum inside British universities: implications towards a national policy for Vietnamese ones2
‘Gold slaves’: unionism and football in Spain during the democratic transition 2
‘Women were just there to ruin his day’: the lived experiences of women golfers and leadership roles in regional Australia2
World Wrestling Entertainment, Becky Lynch and the Irish media2
Centre of the house: youthful dominance and the creation of curling’s age order2
‘Life is team play’: social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the context of Special Olympics2
Quid interpersonal violence in the sport integrity literature? A scoping review2
Purposeful and unintentional: Chinese adolescent golfers in the intergenerational transmission and feedback of cultural capital2
The concept of territorial capital: considerations for measuring sports events2
Aikido’s self-regulation and co-regulation: a promising embodied pedagogy for intercultural communication training2
The hegemonic impact of the NHL and the ‘Americanization’ of Swedish ice hockey and resistance: Rögle BK as ‘hockey culture’2
Running free: recreational runners’ reasons for non-use of digital sports technology2
Sport and Quality of Life – Practices, Habits and Lifestyles Sport and Quality of Life – Practices, Habits and Lifestyles , by P.Corvo & F. M.Lo Verde (eds). Cham, S2
Understanding the expansion of running from a social practice theory perspective. A case study focused on the city of Valencia2
Understanding the authenticity of surf tourism: evidence from Chinese tourists2
Reflexive meanings of global and local sports culture: Chinese female sports fandom in the context of glocalization2
More than just religion ’: a case study of the psychological preparation of an African American division I female golfer at a HBCU2
We exist, play sports, and will persist: everyday lives of Palestinian sportswomen through the lens of the ‘politics of invisibility’2
‘Cheating’ your way to the top: a focus on language in the Australian media’s representation of performance enhancing drugs2
‘Basketball can be sold just like Coca-Cola’: an examination of the principle of amateurism in Israeli sport over time2
Technology, innovation, and the future of the sport industry in Asia Pacific2
Cultural Translation: Horse Racing, Greyhound Racing, and Jai Alai in Modern Shanghai Cultural Translation: Horse Racing, Greyhound Racing, and Jai Alai in Modern Shanghai 2
‘This experience has changed me and my view:’ the learning experiences of urban youth in outdoor-focused sport-for-development programming2
“They play together, they laugh together’: Sport, play and fun in refugee sport projects2
Beyond the Noise : the cultural (or subcultural) politics of Irish surf films2
Sustaining the unsustainable: meaningful longevity and the doing of coaching2
Accusations of racist language in Norwegian football: stakeholder management of whistleblowing2
Volunteers’ collective memory of Youth Olympic Games: macro-level contextual understandings2
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
The national hero, the supercrip, and the self-reliant figure: Paralympic champions on China Central Television’s sports channel2
Benefits and underlying mechanisms of organized sport participation on mental health among socially vulnerable boys. A qualitative study on parents’ perspective in the sport-based Icehearts programme2
The powers that changed dutch kickboxing2
Correction2
Cooperation policies among public institutions for the development and dissemination of sports: a qualitative study2
Coaching by doing: communities of practice at Swedish sport schools in XC skiing since the 1970s2
Modernising sport governance amid cultural constraints: a case study from Ireland2
Reading Michelle Kwan: cultural meanings of her youthfulness and hyper-sexual/exotic transformation in the 1994–1996 seasons2
The impact of competitive youth athlete injury on parents: a narrative review2
Negotiating participation: African refugee and migrant women’s experiences of football2
Reflections on modern physical activity: how can Graeber’s ideas help us to reconceptualise it and increase the value of play?2
And Now, No Word from Our Sponsors’: Yorkshire cricket, the Azeem Rafiq controversy and the silence of the University2
From English to Polish Disease. Conceptualising hooligans’ setup fights and their diffusion across Europe2
Confessions of a retired footballer: a Foucauldian reading of British working footballers’ longer-term retirement experiences2
Populism in Sport, Leisure, and Popular Culture2
Big fines and fake signs: lessons for natural recreation resource governance from surfing in the time of COVID-191
Naturalised athletes as national icons: official and netizen narratives of Eileen Gu in the 2022 Winter Olympics1
A collaborative self-study of ethical issues in participatory action research with refugee-background young people in grassroots football1
Critically examining a community-based participatory action research project with forced migrant youth1
The professionalization of the role of the coach: transforming the last bastion of the Scandinavian welfare-sport model1
Contextual factors in sport talent identification research1
Re-viewing the woman as fan: an examination of the narrative framing of the women in cinematic adaptations of Nick Hornby’s fever pitch1
‘Nobody needs a label’: responses on Facebook to a Team GB equity, diversity and inclusion initiative1
Escaping the position as ‘other’: a postcolonial perspective on refugees’ trajectories into volunteering in Danish sports clubs1
The signification of the body: a sociological field study of body-building and fitness practitioners1
Media coverage and public opinion of hosting a women’s football mega-event: the English bid for UEFA Women’s Euro 20221
Commercialization processes within Swedish child and youth sport – a Deleuzioguttarian perspective1
Parent-spectators’ misbehaviour in grassroots football: an explorative qualitative study1
Racial diversity in skateboarding: destabilising whiteness, decentring heartlands1
A double-edged sword: resource dependence of non-profit sports organisations in China within the government service procurement framework1
Consuming esports and trash talking: how do social norms and moderating attributes influence behaviour?1
Mud, sweat and cameras – Irish trail and mountain running vlogging1
The video assistant referee (VAR) as neo-coloniality of power? Fan negative reactions to VAR in the 2018 FIFA Men’s World Cup1
Exploring the somatic dimension for sport-based interventions: a refugee’s autoethnography1
Impact of perceived value on behaviour intention of parent-child runners in a marathon event1
Why do sports fans support or oppose the inclusion of trans women in women’s sports? An empirical study of fairness and gender identity1
Ice hockey and football in Norway: parallel lines, different levels1
The balancing act of conformity: aspiring leaders’ response to managerial pressure1
New spatial practices in organised sport following COVID-19: the Swedish case1
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
I Run, Therefore I Am: Marathon, Body Discipline and Middle-Class Self-Identity1
Negotiating Newlands: contesting a Rugby heritage site in Cape Town, South Africa1
Conceptualising the notion of the ‘sport worker’ and ‘sport/s work’: a commentary1
Global sport mega-events and local community impacts: the case of housing and redevelopment in Porto Alegre at the 2014 Men’s World Cup finals in Brazil1
A ‘ruthless’ victory? Reactions to the United States women’s national team victory over Thailand in the 2019 world cup1
Female empowerment through sport: an exploratory narrative review1
Exploring the relationship between corporate social responsibility and the marketing performance of professional sport organisations in South Africa1
The ‘integrative potential’ and socio-political constraints of football in Southeast Europe: a critical exploration of lived experiences of people seeking asylum1
Envisioning a green modernity? The future of cricket in an age of climate crisis1
Possibilities for tax optimization in Swedish sport? The case of football and ice hockey1
Understanding change in a sport’s development network: Korean ice hockey and the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Games1
Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America1
On the Ball: fan perspectives of a campaign to improve Scottish female football fans’ experiences of menstruation at football matches1
Inside the ‘black box’ of a long-term sport-based youth development boxing academy in New Zealand1
‘Genuinely in love with the game’ football fan experiences and perceptions of women’s football in England1
Why are there no female coaches in elite women’s soccer? A qualitative study of Spanish female coaches1
Anti-bribery and corruption in sport mega-events: stakeholder perspectives1
(Re)imagining capoeira: a study of Carybé’s illustrated book Jogo da Capoeira (1951)1
(T)racing the Great North Run as a ritual process using GPS mapping1
Stadia of Sanctuary? Forced migration, flawed football consumers and refugee supporters clubs1
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
Global challenges and innovations in sport: effects of Covid-19 on sport1
An organizational change perspective on the incorporation of parkour in a gymnastics federation1
‘You can’t be what you can’t see’: Indigenous Australian sportswomen as powerful role models1
The shy girl who became national team captain: a bioecological narrative of an Olympian’s life skills development1
Media interpretation of sports-related concussion in Irish rugby union: reinforcing or reshaping the sport ethic?1
Researching women in sport development: an intersectional approach1
How media influence is perceived by professional soccer players: a qualitative case study in Portugal1
They are not ‘Team New Zealand’ or the ‘New Zealand’ Warriors! An exploration of pseudo-nationalism in New Zealand sporting franchises1
Forced migration and sport: an introduction1
Introduction to the special issue—sport, the media and Ireland: intersections of gender, class and geography1
LIV and Let Die: The Inside Story of the War between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf1
Why sports? Sketching a typology of young people’s reasons for taking part in sports1
From a dark place to a blue space: open water swimming transformed our lives1
Cricket and climate change: an integrative review1
What is being uploaded on YouTube?: Analysis of fitness-related YouTube video titles pre- and post-Covid-19 in Korea1
Raise a fist, take a knee: the intersection of interscholastic sports and democratic education1
Professionalisation of sport coaching from a Scandinavian horizon: an introduction1
Stakeholders in venues of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games: a critical analysis1
The forgotten body: history of sport and physical education for people with physical disabilities in Taiwan, 1945–19711
Football, football and more football? What French children read in the ‘youth’ press1
Brothers, bruises, and the will to win: a social-ecological hegemony perspective on Swedish ice hockey’s past1
Reconciliation within the National Rugby League: where art and sport intersect1
Listening to football and ice hockey: music practices and supporter agency manifested in Finnish football and ice hockey songs1
Money laundering and compliance in professional football: the case of Belgium in light of the new EU AML single rulebook1
Fit and proper? Analyzing the potential for illicit activity through English Premier League club ownership structures1
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
What’s at play? Power, transnational coaches and the global hegemony of performance within Danish elite swimming1
Self-organized sports and place: a narrative review accompanied by Gilles Deleuze1
Sport and sustainable social development in Ghana: analysing the policy-implementation gap1
’We too will have to wait a year’: The impacts of COVID-19 and the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games from Brazilian athletes and coaches’ perspectives1
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