Pub Date : 2021-11-10DOI: 10.1080/16138171.2021.2001174
Ikechukwu Ejekwumadu
Abstract Across Dakar are many small football training centres where youth prospects start what could grow into professional careers. At these centres, imaginations of career and social mobility develop. In this paper, I explore the mobility imaginations of the youth athletes. I argue that the imaginations are shaped by existing social and class structures, and that the imaginations among the athletes from poor and working-class backgrounds are predominantly unidimensional. Such imaginations that construct mobility exclusively along a career in football produce barriers to the social mobility that the athletes strive for, thereby, reinforcing the structures of social immobility.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-10DOI: 10.1080/16138171.2021.2001171
Emma Calow
Abstract In September 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, professional tennis player Naomi Osaka wore a black face mask for each of her seven matches towards her U.S. Open victory in protest against systemic racism. While Osaka has lived much of her life in America, she does not compete as American; her father is Haitian and her mother is Japanese. Informed by Black feminist thought and intersectionality, this conceptual paper will reflect upon the importance of Osaka’s protest as a Black female athlete in the larger context of the reenergization of the Black Lives Matter movement. Given that tennis is a sport that historically and culturally values and represents whiteness, Osaka’s protest is emblematic of a new wave of Black athlete activism against systemic racism in the twenty-first century. This is especially critical in our colourblind society wherein Black women’s experiences and voices are often ignored and/or dismissed. Framing Osaka’s overt form of protest in the larger context of the (re)awakened anti-racist efforts, I conclude that in these unprecedented moments in an unprecedented time Osaka self-amplifies her voice through her peaceful protest emphasising the names of those who have been murdered at the hands of American law enforcement. In other words, in this particular social context this is how Osaka demonstrates resistance against discriminatory practices based on race. This, at the end of the day, matters. As a young professional Black tennis player with significant social capital and cultural influence, Osaka’s mask-wearing demonstrates her discursive power as a globally recognised athlete and as a woman of colour. Importantly, it also explicitly disrupts the notion that athletes should merely ‘shut up and play’ and take an apolitical stance in matters outside of sport.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-09DOI: 10.1080/16138171.2021.1997456
J. Clarke
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Pub Date : 2021-10-05DOI: 10.1080/16138171.2021.1918896
B. Soulé, Gonzalo Marchant, Raphaël Verchère
Abstract Sport and fitness mobile applications (SFMAs) have led to significant changes in how people engage in sport and physical activity. This development is part of a broader trend of self-tracking (the ‘quantified self’) and gamification, whose effects are discussed in an increasing number of publications in the humanities and social sciences. The aim of this interdisciplinary literature review is to provide an overview of the main research results on these apps. It summarises their emergence and the discourse of those who promote them, the factors leading to their adoption, their uses in practice, the reasons for their abandonment or rejection, and the risks and perverse effects linked to their use. The main sociological, psychological and philosophical interpretations of the phenomenon are also outlined: mobile applications as a tool for behaviour change, the agentive capacities of these sociotechnical systems, and the contemporary imperative of self-management. Some users find real support in SFMAs to set goals, plan their sessions, and/or to make physical activity a regular routine. However, for others, their use becomes excessive, leading to frustration or changes in social behaviour. Many studies point out the difficulty of engaging athletes in the use of SFMAs in a lasting way. While instances of long-term and balanced use are not uncommon, they coexist with use that borders on obsession, or even forms of dependence. We conclude with current research priorities and highlight avenues of research that merit further study.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/16138171.2021.2006949
Adam Evans, Georgia Clay, Josef Fahlén, R. Hoekman, Verena Lenneis, Maureen Smith, P. Wicker, Laura Wilcock
With the advent of online submissions and a proliferation of academic periodicals (including many wholly online, open-access scientific journals), the number of prospective academic papers entering the review process has increased over the past decades. Indeed, it has even been argued that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this trend in some fields (e.g. Nigrovic & Napper, 2021). The European Journal for Sport and Society (EJSS) is no different, seeing almost a 200% increase in the numbers of papers submitted yearly between 2017 and 2021. Concurrently, the journal’s print capacity has remained constant throughout this period, resulting in a lower proportion of papers being published. Inevitably, such changes place increasing pressure on our Editorial and Scientific Boards, as well as the wider sociology of sport community, to manage this high volume of manuscripts and to conduct peer reviews. What’s more, our experience in the editorial process (and as reviewers for other periodicals) is that the time and resources to contribute in this way are increasingly stretched across the community. Indeed, not all of the papers we receive move forward into the peer review process. When a new manuscript is received, it is always screened in two ways before going to peer review. Typically, this involves two ‘levels’ of screening prior to the peer reviewed process; (1) a technical screening in which manuscript style, length, anonymity and other practical information are reviewed, and (2) an editorial screening in which originality, contribution and issues concerning scientific rigour are considered by several members of the editorial board. Failure to pass either screening will result in the decision not to take a paper forward to review; a ‘desk reject’ decision. Of course, such screening is not considered a ‘full’ peer review, although we endeavour to provide feedback where possible. Yet it is an essential process in ensuring the journal runs in both an ethical and efficient way. Consequently, we feel that it is important to communicate how and why a paper might not pass these screening processes. In particular, the Editorial boardhave discussed what we consider the minimum standards we expect a paper to aachieve in order to justify our asking colleagues to spend their time conducting an anonymous review. In concluding these discussions, we felt it would be beneficial to the community to share our considerations. Our hope is that this supports authors to address these issues in the preparation of manuscripts, and in turn to increase the chances of their paper moving into the review process and to save time for all concerned. In so doing, we outline three interrelated issues below in brief. Notably, these standards are not dissimilar to those offered elsewhere i(e.g. Stolowy, 2017; Tadajewksi & Hewer, 2019), yet they do contain several considerations specific to EJSS and the sociology of sport in general. So, why might a paper be ‘desk rejected’ from EJS
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Pub Date : 2021-09-28DOI: 10.1080/16138171.2021.1948210
Michael Barth, F. Schröder, E. Emrich, T. Schlesinger
Abstract Unlike many top athletes in other Olympic sports, professional footballers in the first and second German football leagues generate disproportionately high incomes during their active sports careers. Due to these high incomes, it should be possible for players to save sufficient money during their sports career so that they can autonomously secure their lives afterwards. Despite their high incomes, however, not all players are able to build up sustainable assets. A study from the German players' union VDV shows that the surveyed players believe that about 20% of active professionals in Germany have financial problems regardless of the league that they play in, and they expect that every second player is threatened with financial problems after the end of his career. The paper aims to identify and systematically combine economic and sociological explanation mechanisms to analyse certain aspects of the saving and consumption behaviour of professional footballers. Finally, the methodological consequences for an empirical study are discussed and specific analytical units with research-guiding questions are derived.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-15DOI: 10.1080/16138171.2021.1974220
R. Weber, A. Brand, F. Koch, A. Niemann
Abstract Across Europe, national professional football leagues have seen increasing numbers of players from other EU states, while the Champions League and the Europa League have become a focal point for many teams. This article seeks to investigate how far this Europeanisation on the organisational level of football is reflected in identities and discourses of fans. We developed a framework to analyse the Europeanisation of identities among football fans. In the empirical part, we conducted a qualitative content analysis of fan discussions on publicly available message boards among fans of four first league teams in England and Austria. Our empirical findings indicate that fans’ identities are to some extent Europeanised, albeit in very different ways and to varying degrees. The participation in European club competitions and the Europeanisation of player markets seem to shape fan perceptions in that respect.
{"title":"A European mind? Europeanisation of football fan discussions in online message boards","authors":"R. Weber, A. Brand, F. Koch, A. Niemann","doi":"10.1080/16138171.2021.1974220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/16138171.2021.1974220","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Across Europe, national professional football leagues have seen increasing numbers of players from other EU states, while the Champions League and the Europa League have become a focal point for many teams. This article seeks to investigate how far this Europeanisation on the organisational level of football is reflected in identities and discourses of fans. We developed a framework to analyse the Europeanisation of identities among football fans. In the empirical part, we conducted a qualitative content analysis of fan discussions on publicly available message boards among fans of four first league teams in England and Austria. Our empirical findings indicate that fans’ identities are to some extent Europeanised, albeit in very different ways and to varying degrees. The participation in European club competitions and the Europeanisation of player markets seem to shape fan perceptions in that respect.","PeriodicalId":45735,"journal":{"name":"European Journal for Sport and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43991696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-09-03DOI: 10.1080/16138171.2021.1971410
M. Mutz, M. Gerke, H. Meier
Abstract Previous research has shown that consuming media broadcasts of national athletes participating in international sporting competitions can inspire national pride and heighten identification with the nation. Extending these accounts, this paper asks whether major sporting events can also shape meanings attached to the nation; specifically how strongly certain traits and characteristics are associated with the collective. Since prior research shows that TV broadcasts of international sporting competitions prioritise their own nation’s athletes and frequently draw on national stereotypes in their commentary, we hypothesise that these sportscasts have the potential to heighten the association of the nation with national stereotypes in TV viewers. Using large-scale, representative panel data from Germany, the paper tests these assumptions. Findings demonstrate that German TV viewers associated their nation more strongly with characteristics like achievement, diligence and solidarity during the 2016 UEFA football championship than at a baseline assessment about four weeks earlier. We find more pronounced effects among certain football-affine groups, who are socially and emotionally more strongly involved. Even two months after the conclusion of the event, a stronger association of the German nation with these particular traits was detectable in these groups, lending support to the notion that effects are more than just a short-term by-product of national euphoria.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-09DOI: 10.1080/16138171.2021.1947616
I. Dubinsky
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/16138171.2021.1947615
Chen Chen
Abstract Not all claims for ‘racial justice’ are created equal. While ‘racial justice’ became an important term deployed by various sport figures and organisations, there have been few deliberations of its actual meanings and/or connotations. I argue that the underlying goals, visions, and theories of change of different ‘racial justice’ enunciations can vary significantly and that it is therefore urgent to unpick the seemingly assumed coherence across different discursive spaces. In this reflective piece, I tentatively map the possible interpretations of ‘racial justice’ enunciated in sport and discuss the potentials and limitations of this term in the long struggles towards creating a (sport) world free of racial injustices.
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