December 2024
Soccer and Society
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December 2024
Soccer and Society
November 2024
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August 2024
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April 2024
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Football, diaspora, and Turkish Cypriot identity in London Rahşan İnal & Alan Bairner
March 2024
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Soccer and Society
The article explores how national and local identities influence Chinese football fandom. Previous research has failed to provide detailed analysis about how these two social identities influence the process of fans’ self-identification. This study uses fans of Henan Jianye Football Club and Shenzhen Football Club because they can typically represent native and internal immigrant fans in China as examples to fill the knowledge gap. By combining the experiences of these two fan groups, the article reveals that international games and the feeling of supporting the nation can strengthen the influence of national identity on fandom for the national football team. It also reveals that fans’ recognition of their teams’ local symbolic status stimulates local identity in developing native fans’ support for local football clubs. Although internal immigrant fans do not share their local identities, their desire to acquire local affiliation also allows local identity to affect their fandom.
December 2023
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September 2023
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Nations and Nationalism
The aim of this paper is to consider the relationship between sport and identity formation by examining testimonies of 24 British women who attended the Solheim Cup golf tournament in 2019 to support a transnational team made up of professional European women players. Relatively little is known about the effects of transnational sports teams on identity formation, not least because such teams are themselves rare. The Solheim Cup, contested by teams of female professional golfers representing the United States and Europe, is one such example. The data set consists of interviews with women who attended the competition that took place in a period of political uncertainty between the UK electorate voting to leave the European Union and Brexit actually taking place. The paper analyses the women's views in relation to national identity, European identity and cosmopolitanism. Although it emerges that most of the women felt more European in the context of a competition involving a team representing Europe and were opposed to the United Kingdom leaving the European Union, they could also be described as cosmopolitan as a result of their educational level, social class and experience of living in or regularly visiting foreign countries.
September 2023
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International Review for the Sociology of Sport
Representing the nation in sports mega events has become a highly contested issue with the acceleration of the transnational movement of athletes. This research has examined Chinese people's attitudes to the naturalization of football players. The article discusses the findings in the context of the qualifying stages for the 2022 FIFA Men's World Cup by presenting and analysing data collected from semi-structured interviews and social media extracts. Two main issues were debated by Chinese people concerning the identity of naturalized athletes. One was the ethnicity of the naturalized footballers in relation to nationality, with some people questioning whether they belong to China and can represent China. The other issue concerned the players’ skills and ability which influenced considerations of how much they could help China to qualify for the World Cup Finals. In relation to Chinese nationalism, national identity and Chinese sports, this study reveals, through the window provided by the presence of these naturalized footballers, how football, instrumentalism, nationalism and naturalization have been inextricably linked and have interacted with one another within the current context. The article analyses how pragmatic values have negotiated with ethno-cultural nationalism and impacted on the Chinese public's attitudes towards naturalized athletes, their image being presented in variable and dynamic ways by football fan netizens after each qualifying game.
August 2023
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January 2023
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Leisure Sciences
The purpose of this study is to explore football videogame playing experiences using a videogame esthetic that draws upon the MDA (mechanics–dynamics–esthetics) framework. In accordance with MDA, videogame esthetics comprises eight aspects—sensation, fantasy, narrative, challenge, fellowship, discovery, expression, and submission—derived from game-playing experiences. As a means of collecting and interpreting data, semi-structured interviews and qualitative thematic analysis were used. The study involved 30 interviewees who are both football players and football video game players. In view of the findings of the study, the concept of football videogame as sensual pleasure encompasses a number of attributes—game as make-believe, game as drama, game as a social framework, and game as self-discovery—because these attributes are valued in their relation to pleasure. Moreover, football videogames function as an uncharted medium in the field of football simulation due to their transcendence of time and space. For the esthetics of football videogames, the study proposes two major implications. It is essential to note that the esthetics of football videogames emphasize discovery and sensation, and playing football videogames is another way to consume football.
... The analysis of articles that met the inclusion criteria revealed key findings, showing that at least 23 articles were suitable based on the analysis (see Table 2). The studies included in Table 2 encompass various countries and different sports, such as cricket in Australia (Socolow, 2022), the Highland Games in Scotland (Whigham, 2023), Wushu in China and Southeast Asia (Kuo & Kuo, 2023), and football in various countries like China (Han et al., 2024) and South Korea (Kim, 2024). This diversity reflects efforts to understand how nationalism and national identity are mirrored and influenced by different types of sports in various cultural contexts. ...
September 2023
International Review for the Sociology of Sport
... Strategic foundations for the promotion of golf in countries with low popularity of this sport [1,5,6] One of the fundamental steps for developing golf in these countries is the implementation of educational initiatives aimed at engaging children and youth. Incorporating golf into school physical education programs helps generate interest among younger generations and dispels the myth that golf is an activity solely for the elite. ...
September 2023
Nations and Nationalism
... These games often incorporate elements such as tactical formations, player positioning, and decision-making challenges that mirror real football situations. As players navigate these virtual environments, they engage in activities that may parallel the cognitive demands of actual football play (Markovits & Green, 2017;Heffernan, 2024;Kim et al., 2023). ...
January 2023
Leisure Sciences
... El problema es que no existe un modelo o lineamientos claros para documentar la forma en que las universidades miden su impacto en los ODS. Estudios en Argentina, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ghana, Madagascar, Perú y Tonga, aseguran su adhesión a la Agenda 2030/ODS, pero dichos estudios carecen de medidas o impacto documentado (Consejo Iberoamericano del Deporte, 2019a; Charway y Houlihan, 2020; PVE, 2020; Gadais et al., 2021;Keane et al., 2021;Toscano y Molgaray, 2021;Li et al., 2022;Szto y Wilson, 2023). ...
October 2022
Sustainability
... Such potential stems from their immense geographical and social dissemination, which globally bonds together nations, regions, and local societies across divides of class, gender, sexuality, and race. Sport organizations reflect and showcase dominant societal values, cultures, and imageries that are publicly celebrated and contested (Bairner & Han, 2022). Thus, sporting events can act as symbols of, and models for, dominant cultural ideas about gender, such as the "true nature" of men and women (Adjepong, 2019). ...
September 2022
... Tədqiqatlar göstərir ki, onlayn yayım və sosial media vasitəsilə daha çox jurnalist və media qurumu izləyicilərlə birbaşa əlaqə saxlamağa çalışır, bu da ənənəvi media modellərini yenidən formalaşdırır (Kanallar, 2024). Bununla belə, idmançılar, komandalar, sponsorlar, təşkilatlar və s. xəbərlərlə idmanı izləyiciyə yaxınlaşdıran televiziya öz aktuallığını qoruyub saxlayır (Wenner, 2022). İdman kanalları auditoriyanın idman təcrübəsinə olan yanaşmasına təsir göstərir. ...
September 2022
... In addition, active promotion at the club level and the influence of the Olympics have further expanded wrestling's global appeal [Ridpath et al. 2008]. The efforts of the World Wrestling Federation (UWW) to promote and regulate the sport [Cho et al. 2024], coupled with the global appeal of the Olympic movement [Girginov 2017], have helped wrestling transcend national borders and connect with spectators and athletes around the world [Besnier et al. 2018]. These factors have been crucial in elevating wrestling's status as a global sport [Stone 2002]. ...
August 2022
European Sport Management Quarterly
... Both natural and artificial snow depend on the meteorological conditions, making the outdoor skiing industry climate sensitive 8 . The outdoor winter tourism sector, in particular the outdoor ski resorts, has been emphasized as one of the most vulnerable industries and have the increasing risks to climate change 1,[9][10][11][12][13][14] . ...
July 2022
Sustainability
... Women's sport has historically been considered second class in comparison to men (Lebel et al., 2021). For instance, Cheryl Cooky and associated scholars have analysed a selection of research examining the underrepresentation of women's sport in the mass media since the 1980s, demonstrating how men's sport is generally constructed as the pinnacle of sporting value and achievement, while women's sport is considered less worthy of attention (see Bernstein, 2002;Cooky, 2018;Cooky et al., 2013;Cooky et al., 2015;Cooky et al., 2021;Daniels, 2009;Kitching et al., 2022). However, change has been occurring; women's sport in the UK was gaining unprecedented attention circa 2019, with widespread discussions around equal pay, media coverage, and the increasing professionalisation of many women's sports (see . ...
June 2022
Leisure Studies
... Wushu is not only one of the national traditional sports but also an excellent cultural heritage of the Chinese nation, which has a unique style of movement and rich traditional cultural connotations. Similarly, the traditional national culture and the function of physical fitness represented by the national traditional sports are recognized and accepted by all walks of life [11][12][13]. The study of the value of traditional national sports programs represented by wushu is a good breakthrough for the promotion of Chinese traditional national culture, so it is very necessary to give the value of wushu and traditional national sports in the new era, that is to say, the study of the contemporary value of wushu and traditional national sports. ...
May 2022
International Review for the Sociology of Sport