Monthly Archive for August, 2010

Latest Sport & Society Journal papers

Published on August 25, 2010 in Journal. 0 Comments

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The latest issue of The International Journal of Sport and Society includes:

Meaning of Inclusion throughout the History of the Paralympic Games and Movement by Gregor Wolbring, David Legg and Frank Stahnisch.
“Effect of a Program by using some Techniques of Attention on the Kinetic Expectation Level of the Basketball” by Ahmed Abdul Allah El Roby.
There’s No Balls in Derby: Roller Derby as a Unique Gendered Sports Context by Madeline Breeze.
The End of the Affair: After 47 Years Netball New Zealand Establishes a Relationship with a New Broadcasting Partner by Margaret Henley.
Sports Participation and Delinquent Peer Associations: Implications for Individual Behavior among Minority Girls by Matthew J. Taylor, Tara L. Shoemaker, Desiree Z. Welch and Maurice Endsley Jr..
Leadership Styles and Sex of Coaches: What do Athletes Prefer? By Danielle N. Grenier and Susan E. Mason.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Depictions of Women in Climbing Magazines by Brad Howard and Adam Cochran.

Sport and Society Journal – Become an Associate Editor

Published on August 8, 2010 in Journal and Newsletter. 0 Comments Tags: sticky-even.

As part of the process of publishing The International Journal of Sport and Society. all submissions are sent for peer refereeing, prior to publication. Assessment, comments and guidance by the referees are an essential part of the publication process and invaluable to the authors of the submitted papers.

In recognition of the important role of referees, the international advisory board acknowledges all referees who have refereed papers as an ‘Associate Editor’ in the volume of the journal they have contributed to.

If you would like to referee papers submitted to The International Journal of Sport and Society, please email journals@sportandsociety.com, with your professional details, areas of expertise and contact details. If we feel you are qualified and we require refereeing for papers within your expertise, we will contact you.

Series: Sport and Society

Published on August 8, 2010 in Book and Newsletter. 0 Comments Tags: sticky-even.

We are accepting book proposals for the imprint Sport and Society.

Common Ground is setting new standards of rigorous academic knowledge creation and scholarly publication.

Unlike other publishers, we’re not interested in the size of potential markets or competition from other books. We’re only interested in the intellectual quality of the work.

If your book is a brilliant contribution to a specialist area of knowledge that only serves a small intellectual community, we still want to publish it. If it is expansive and has a broad appeal, we want to publish it too, but only if it is of the highest intellectual quality.

FIFA’s Foul Play

Published on August 5, 2010 in News. 0 Comments

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By Tim Parks, in The New York Review of Books

For any practitioner of Zen who imagines he has achieved a state of detached equanimity, the ultimate test must be to watch his national side play at soccer’s World Cup. That England’s team is dull, I tell myself after the first game, I can handle; that they are truly dire, I reflect after the second and third, is perhaps only par for the course. When, in their first knockout match, England goes 2–0 down to a fluent and attractive Germany, it seems the perfect opportunity for resignation and acceptance.

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Eli Evans celebrates Spain, translates Millás

Published on August 3, 2010 in News. 0 Comments

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In honor of Spain’s World Cup victory, n+1 contributor Eli S. Evans introduces and translates a Juan José Millás column from El País:

On Sunday Spain’s soccer team won the World Cup for the first time, initiating a nationwide party that will probably last through the week. While such a victory, and the resulting celebration, may indeed lift spirits from Barcelona to Madrid, it will not change the fact that, thanks to some two decades of rampant real estate speculation and unregulated lending, Spain finds itself in the midst of arguably its worst economic crisis since the end of the Franco dictatorship. With that rather cruel irony in mind, I offer a translation of an El País column by Juan José Millás, published exactly one week before the World Cup opening ceremony. Among Spain’s most celebrated contemporary novelists, Millás is no less celebrated for his work as a literary journalist. He is known for his deceptively simple, mercilessly incisive commentaries on politics and daily life.

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