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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
From a dark place to a blue space: open water swimming transformed our lives23
A collaborative self-study of ethical issues in participatory action research with refugee-background young people in grassroots football18
Re-viewing the woman as fan: an examination of the narrative framing of the women in cinematic adaptations of Nick Hornby’s fever pitch16
Emerging technology as an essential factor in changing lifestyles and reshaping exercise behaviour in Taiwan14
A socio-ecological approach to understanding the experiences of women and girls playing male-dominated sports14
How media influence is perceived by professional soccer players: a qualitative case study in Portugal13
Women and Sport in Asia12
I Run, Therefore I Am: Marathon, Body Discipline and Middle-Class Self-Identity12
The ‘physician-athlete’ and the development of sports medicine as a ‘very peculiar practice’11
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: U11
Running, Identity and Meaning: The Pursuit of Distinction through Sport11
Sports experiences of elite athletes with intellectual disabilities and/or autism spectrum disorders10
Embodied regulation: the case of women collegiate athletes10
Negotiating spaces of urban sports and belonging: migrant football leagues in São Paulo and Rio De Janeiro10
Sport and parenthood9
Methodological challenges and opportunities in working within a participatory paradigm in the context of sport, forced migration and settlement: an insider perspective9
Impacts of urban regeneration on small business in preparation to host the Beijing 2022 winter Olympic games9
Introduction to the special issue—sport, the media and Ireland: intersections of gender, class and geography9
Challenges and complexities of imagining nationhood: the case of Hong Kong’s naturalized footballers9
New spatial practices in organised sport following COVID-19: the Swedish case9
Team performance and gendered parenthood in horse-riding activities for young children9
Purposeful and unintentional: Chinese adolescent golfers in the intergenerational transmission and feedback of cultural capital8
Bondi Days: An Obituary Bondi Days: An Obituary , by Monty Webber. Angourie, New South Wales: Monty Webber, 2022, Pbk: US$11.25, ISBN: 979-883-63-1456-98
Trans* inclusion and gender equality in sport and exercise – an (im)possible equation?8
‘Is she married, single or available?’ Standing out and blending in as a woman working in sports media8
The ‘integrative potential’ and socio-political constraints of football in Southeast Europe: a critical exploration of lived experiences of people seeking asylum7
Exploring the professionalisation of sports coaching from the athlete’s point of view: a study of professional players from Sweden7
Credible and salient: examining frame resonance through Athlete Ally7
’Should I really be here?’: Problems of trust and ethics in PAR with young people from refugee backgrounds in sport and leisure7
Sport, dominance, hegemonic culture, and rebellion: an introduction7
Volunteers’ collective memory of Youth Olympic Games: macro-level contextual understandings7
The professionalization of the role of the coach: transforming the last bastion of the Scandinavian welfare-sport model7
Can overcoming issues of gender be an Olympic legacy (Commentary): a need for comprehensive change7
Off the ice: an oral history of the Swift Current Broncos’ relationship with hockey7
Anders Zorn and naturalistic ski competitions versus the progress of the hegemonic Swedish sport policy at the beginning of the 20th century7
Esports under sports mega-event conventions: associational values, inclusivity, and national representation at the Commonwealth Games7
Virtual athlete or ultimate nerd? A framing analysis of eSports in Flemish printed media7
Participatory action research and visual and digital methods with refugees in Kampala, Uganda: process, ethical complexities, and reciprocity7
Out of the shadows into the limelight: the impact of commercialization on the Swedish men’s elite football coach from the 1960s until today7
Cricket, terrorism and security in contemporary South Asia6
In her own words: a refugee’s story of forced migration, trauma, resilience, and soccer6
How Covid changed sport – a case study of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games6
‘Nobody needs a label’: responses on Facebook to a Team GB equity, diversity and inclusion initiative6
Cricket and Contemporary Society in Britain: Crisis and Continuity6
The walks often give me a reason to get up and get out in the morning rather than hiding. Towards sustainable community-health enhancing interventions6
The competent child and (in)competent others. Horse-riding school activities for preschool children6
Getting a head start: the 2032 Olympic Movement through the preferred candidature bid involving Brisbane, Australia6
African Football Migration: Aspirations, Experiences, Trajectories6
Beyond the boundary: the Sandpapergate scandal and the limits of transnational masculinity6
‘We need a whole range of different views’: exploring the lived experiences of women leaders in Australian rules football6
Azerbaijan on the crossroad between Eastern and Western state building: the Baku 2015 European Games and the boundaries of Europe6
Country image and satire in sport management: analyzing America through sports inSouth Park6
Is there education in physical education? A narrative systematic review of research in physical education and learning5
First nation voices matter! Multi-level community consultations determine the design elements of a modified sport programme to promote healthy ageing in First Nation men5
A resource-based view of post-Games legacy strategy: the case of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic games5
Editorial: Sport, nationalism, and the importance of theory5
Sport for social cohesion: from scoping review to new research directions5
Nature and challenges of sports job training during the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics: listening to the lived experiences of sports managers5
Maidens and Man-kads: gendering cricket scholarship in the 21st century5
To trust or not to trust? Governance of multidimensional elite sport reality5
A rebel and a giant: change and continuity in the discursive construction of Chinese sport heroes5
Why sports? Sketching a typology of young people’s reasons for taking part in sports5
Exploring the relationship between corporate social responsibility and the marketing performance of professional sport organisations in South Africa5
An analysis of responses on Twitter to the English Premier League’s support for the anti-homophobia rainbow laces campaign5
Cricket and climate change: an integrative review5
Sport and imperialism today: time for an(other) anti-imperialist front4
Predicting climate impacts to the Olympic Games and FIFA Men’s World Cups from 2022 to 20324
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 context4
Children with disability in competitive Little Athletics: a systems thinking approach to rules and law4
The shy girl who became national team captain: a bioecological narrative of an Olympian’s life skills development4
Contextual factors in sport talent identification research4
A ‘token gesture’ in World Athletics governance? The IAAF Women’s Committee under Ilse Bechthold, 1990–20054
LIV and Let Die: The Inside Story of the War between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf4
Teens’ dreams of becoming professional athletes: the gender gap in youths’ sports ambitions4
Navigating fandom: how user generated content reflected the conflicting emotions of sport’s importance during COVID-194
Long-term sport participation after the Olympic Games: from ‘inspirational feelings’ to ‘inspirational effects’4
The Postmodern Picture of Sports Communication: Sports, Media and Culture4
Acceptance and commitment approaches for athletes’ well-being and performance4
Pixies in a windstorm: Tracing Australian gymnasts’ stories of athlete maltreatment through media data4
The role of sport in juvenile justice: benefits according to key informants4
The Olympics’ evolving relationship with human rights: an ongoing affair4
The nature experiences and environmental identity of physical education teachers in Sweden and Switzerland4
Female empowerment through sport: an exploratory narrative review4
Injury videos and the affective potentials of user-generated sports highlights4
Aikido’s self-regulation and co-regulation: a promising embodied pedagogy for intercultural communication training4
Corporate social responsibility, supply chain management, and football industry: a systematic review4
The Covid-19 pandemic and Asian Football Confederation match officials3
Sport and Physical Culture in Global Pandemic Times: COVID Assemblages3
One bird, one stone: professionalization of sport structures as a strategy for harnessing elite sport success in Uganda3
‘Why now’ for AFLW? Providing a new affirmative narrative for women’s football in the post-Covid world3
Walking the city – a case study on the emancipatory aspects of walking3
What is being uploaded on YouTube?: Analysis of fitness-related YouTube video titles pre- and post-Covid-19 in Korea3
At the forefront of racial tolerance?: African-Americans and high school football in Iowa in the 1930s3
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 Brazil3
The target of digital hegemonic masculinity: male sports journalists on Twitter3
Sport, British national identities and the land: reflections on primordialism3
Far beyond the four lines: the Group B fan pages at the 2018 World Cup3
And Now, No Word from Our Sponsors’: Yorkshire cricket, the Azeem Rafiq controversy and the silence of the University3
The sport mega-events of the 2020s: governance, impacts and controversies3
Physical activity of Sport Sciences students during COVID-19 home confinement3
Consuming esports and trash talking: how do social norms and moderating attributes influence behaviour?3
‘Born and bred Holden’: investigating the impact of holden on Australian sporting culture3
Game-based pedagogy in physical education and sports: designing rich learning environments3
Football fans’ contestations over security: between offline and online fan spaces and channels3
Don’t believe in miracles: the British sports film in the era of sporting rationalization3
Media coverage and public opinion of hosting a women’s football mega-event: the English bid for UEFA Women’s Euro 20223
‘Genuinely in love with the game’ football fan experiences and perceptions of women’s football in England3
The politics of East Asian Olympics: a post event review of PyeongChang 2018, Tokyo 2020, and Beijing 20223
The intersectionality of the sports labour market and gender inequality in South Korea2
We exist, play sports, and will persist: everyday lives of Palestinian sportswomen through the lens of the ‘politics of invisibility’2
Change or continuity? The impact of New Labour’s modernisation programme on grassroots football within Hampshire2
Increasing gender equity in sport organizations: assessing the impacts of a social learning initiative2
Running for inclusion: responsibility, (un)deservingness and the spectacle of integration in a sport-for-refugees intervention in Geneva, Switzerland2
Should it be “Chinese Taipei” or “Taiwan”? A strategic relations analysis of name rectification referendum for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games2
Ping-pong at the cinema: humor, love and more2
Examining the relationship among service quality, perceived value, and sport consumption at the Wuhan tennis open2
Throwing your hat in the ring: Women volunteers in boxing2
Perceived barriers to sports participation among adolescent girls from low socioeconomic status neighbourhoods2
‘Operación Feria’ : a critical analysis of body discourses on Instagram2
The Jersey of modernity: post-national masculinity and South Asian English Premier league football fans2
Exploring the social mediatization of action sports communities in South Korea2
Impression management of South Korean sports stars through image-based social media2
Conflicting rationalities of participation: constructing and resisting ‘Midnight football’ as an instrument of social policy2
World Wrestling Entertainment, Becky Lynch and the Irish media2
Conceptualising the notion of the ‘sport worker’ and ‘sport/s work’: a commentary2
The Rinaldi frame: the NCAA, College Gameday, and the commodification of Black hardship2
An explanatory model of the influence of consumer exposure to sport sponsoring event2
Dressed for success or undermining the achievement? Material culture of recreational sporting events for women in Sweden2
Naturalised athletes as national icons: official and netizen narratives of Eileen Gu in the 2022 Winter Olympics2
Esports: an exploration of the advancing esports landscape, actors and interorganisational relationships2
Affect and emotions in sports work: a research agenda2
Uniting, disuniting and reuniting: towards a ‘United’ 20262
From the Berlin Olympics marathon to a park in Seoul: Sohn Kee-Chung and the construction of sports heritage in South Korea2
Win-win cooperation: a review of parent-coach cooperation in sport parenting2
Cricket at the beginning of the long twenty-first century2
‘We sacrifice our bodies for this plank of wood’: girl skateboarders, risk, pain, and injury 12
New conceptual apparatus for political orientation in relation to sporting mega-events – case: the World Cup in Qatar 20222
Soccer and Society in Dublin: A History of Association Football in Ireland’s Capital2
The Summit of the Gods (2021): finding new heights for sport animation and transmedia storytelling2
‘Complaining’, ‘campaigning’, and everything in between: media coverage of pay equity in women’s tennis in 1973 and 20072
The Rider by Chloé Zhao (2017): a poethnic invitation to the world of rodeo2
‘You can’t be what you can’t see’: Indigenous Australian sportswomen as powerful role models2
Bondi Beach : Representations of an iconic Australian2
Understanding the 2021 Australian Open through an Elias lens: a case of tension, conflict and athlete outsiders2
Urban development, city planning, and hosting major events: the cases of Birmingham and Guangzhou2
Entrepreneurs’ perceptions of official sporting events’ capacity to promote their business in the long term2
From the boardroom to tee: understanding golf club volunteers during an era of change2
Escaping the position as ‘other’: a postcolonial perspective on refugees’ trajectories into volunteering in Danish sports clubs2
Parental perceptions of the impact of COVID-19 and returning to play based on level of sport2
Football, faith and family for the Australian Pacific Island diaspora: the role of the vā (‘space between’) in rugby league2
A debate on the use of artificial intelligence, as an electronic line judge, for line calls in tennis2
A Critical Realist Theory of Sport A Critical Realist Theory of Sport , by Graham Scambler. United Kingdom, Routledge, 2023, p. 188, £120.00 (hardcover); £34.99 (paperba2
Stories in photos: framing styles of women athlete images on Instagram2
Exploring the nexus of business and sport and its impact on society2
The concept of ‘policy windows’ in elite sport development: positive events and spatial domains of policy windows2
Race, gender and MMA fandom – imagining Asian masculinities in the online forum of the UFC fan club2
Researching women in sport development: an intersectional approach2
Soccer, the Saarland, and statehood: win, loss, and cultural reunification in post-war Europe2
A scoping review of the experiences of elite female athletes concerning pregnancy and motherhood2
The emergence of a paradox of assimilation: an analysis of Olympic and Paralympic athletes’ Instagram posts2
Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America2
Same, same but different? – A comparative discourse-theoretical content analysis of the constructions of football talent in German and Swedish newspapers1
‘Do full-grown men really play netball?’ Stigma and men’s experiences of playing for an elite London netball team1
Mud, sweat and cameras – Irish trail and mountain running vlogging1
Why do sports fans support or oppose the inclusion of trans women in women’s sports? An empirical study of fairness and gender identity1
Developing a multi-level framework for analyzing public sports-based programmes to integrate migrants and refugees into organized sports1
Perceived uniqueness of esports: players’ hyperconnected digital playground for self-improvement1
Accusations of racist language in Norwegian football: stakeholder management of whistleblowing1
Sport legacy impact on ethnic minority groups: the case of London 20121
Fantasy sports participation and the (de)humanization of professional athletes1
Cross-country comparison of the esports industry in China, South Korea and Japan1
Spectators longing for live action: a study of the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on (football) supporters in Sweden1
The successes and spirit of gravel cycling: providing freedom, challenge, and connection1
The new politics of sport1
Negotiating participation: African refugee and migrant women’s experiences of football1
Lifting weights, raising voices: an analysis of reactions to Hidilyn Diaz’s views on the South China Sea issue after her Olympic gold medal win1
Virtual games meet physical playground: exploring and measuring motivations for live esports event attendance1
The politics of ‘no politics’ in Pula, Croatia: an ethnography of the Demons football fan group1
The (in)significance of footballing pleasures in the lives of forced migrant men1
The emergence of new mountain biking media practices: toward a culture of inclusive mountain biking1
Sports, public spaces, and immigrant communities. Basketball tournaments among Mexican immigrants in California1
Kick like a girl: a qualitative exploration into community perspectives surrounding the Women’s Australian Football League1
Placing community at the heart of community sport development: introducing the community sport development framework (CSDF)1
Hegemony, domination and opposition: Fluctuating Korean nationalist politics at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang1
Politics, policy and legacies of the Olympics in Asia Pacific: a panoramic view1
Foucauldian biopower in action: the case of sports events for the disabled in Taiwan, 1972–19921
Football, football and more football? What French children read in the ‘youth’ press1
Analysing British Asian national sporting affiliations post-London 20121
‘Gold slaves’: unionism and football in Spain during the democratic transition 1
The impact of competitive youth athlete injury on parents: a narrative review1
Residents’ perceptions of sporting events: a review of the literature1
Count Me In: a sports participation intervention promoting inclusion for young people from migrant backgrounds in Australia1
The stakeholder–performance relationship in nonprofit sport clubs: the case of South-Eastern European basketball clubs1
Brothers, bruises, and the will to win: a social-ecological hegemony perspective on Swedish ice hockey’s past1
Technology, innovation, and the future of the sport industry in Asia Pacific1
Leaders building relationships with young refugees during a sport project1
Elegant violence: the promise and peril of a new ‘feminine’ sport ethic1
Gender, care, and sport: an attempt to understand the deficit of women among Norwegian elite-level coaches1
Navigating between mobility and immobility: precarious sporting trajectories of young Guinea-Bissauan footballers in Portugal1
Parents’ views on coaching in youth community sport settings1
Sustaining market competitiveness of table tennis in China through the application of digital technology1
Development of esports curriculum inside British universities: implications towards a national policy for Vietnamese ones1
The anatomy of body shaming in sports coaching1
Parent-spectators’ misbehaviour in grassroots football: an explorative qualitative study1
‘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 governance1
“Winning the women’s world cup”: gender, branding, and the Australia/New ZealandAs One 2023social media strategy for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™1
Professionalisation of sport coaching from a Scandinavian horizon: an introduction1
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Youth development and hockey in Heilongjiang and Beijing: comparative forms of growing youth hockey participation and interest in China1
Origins of non-racial school sport in South Africa1
‘There’s nothing you can do’: multi-level factors affecting the careers of female football coaches in Poland1
COVID-19 and the financial crisis in the sports sector around the world1
The forgotten body: history of sport and physical education for people with physical disabilities in Taiwan, 1945–19711
Virtual identities and women’s empowerment: the implication of the rise of female esports fans in China1
The concept of territorial capital: considerations for measuring sports events1
Sport schools in Europe: a scoping study of research articles (1999–2022)1
Parenting Special Olympians: an agenda for ethnographic engagement1
Rugby union, class and ‘Middle Ireland’ in Irish media1
Inside the ‘black box’ of a long-term sport-based youth development boxing academy in New Zealand1
Empowering and oppressive: the lived experiences and social politics of women golfers in regional Australia1
How do low-paid athletes in the United States understand the meaning of the word “professional” in “professional athlete”?1
A morphogenetic approach to sport and social inclusion: a case study of good will’s reproductive power1
Conceptualising the Global Touristic Football Club1
Black lives matter in the sports world1
On coaching and the ethics of care: a psychodynamic approach1
‘Cheating’ your way to the top: a focus on language in the Australian media’s representation of performance enhancing drugs1
Menstrual cycle, hormonal contraception and pregnancy in women’s football: perceptions of players, coaches and managers1
The national hero, the supercrip, and the self-reliant figure: Paralympic champions on China Central Television’s sports channel1
Anti-bribery and corruption in sport mega-events: stakeholder perspectives1
‘Girls on the field’ in Turkey: negotiating gender anxieties and norms through football1
Intersections of nativism and football fandom in Zimbabwean online spaces1
Go with the flow – menstrual health experiences of athletes and coaches in Scottish swimming1
A Star is Born: An analysis of the media construction of Linda Caicedo’s sporting star status in Colombia1
Changing Britain through the frame of snooker1
A political-institutional history of the Stellenbosch University physical education department, 1936–19391
‘Life is team play’: social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the context of Special Olympics1
Fit and proper? Analyzing the potential for illicit activity through English Premier League club ownership structures1
Cultural Succession: A Modern Social Theoretical Explanation of Sports Cultural Memory Cultural Succession: A Modern Social Theoretical Explanation of Sports Cultural Memory 1
Experiences of volt hockey from family members’ perspectives: an interview study1
(T)racing the Great North Run as a ritual process using GPS mapping1
Tracking the international discourse of the Chinese super league through social media analytics1
A double-edged sword: resource dependence of non-profit sports organisations in China within the government service procurement framework1
Exploring the somatic dimension for sport-based interventions: a refugee’s autoethnography1
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