International Review for the Sociology of Sport

Article	Citations
Structural dynamics of whistleblowing on doping in sport: Empirical findings of a qualitative mixed methods approach	59
Book Review: Gender and Power in Strength Sports: Strong as Feminist by Noelle K. Brigden BrigdenNoelle K.HejtmanekKatie RoseForbisMelissa M., Gender and Power in Streng	25
After sport: Physical culture in the Anthropocene	20
Becoming and being a masters athlete: Class, gender, place and the embodied formation of (anti)-ageing moral identities	20
The diplomatic roles of Korean state-run sport for development programs	19
Exploring the “perfect physique”: Mind–body discourse in Netflix's Physical 100	17
The Black Continental African Soccer Club as a diasporic resource: (Not) playing to the whistle in men's recreational soccer	16
An ambition at a crossroads: Transiting out of the game in amateur and semi-professional football in Nigeria	16
‘Every day we’d have an arranged activity, so she’d have football, swimming, dance, gymnastics’: A sociological analysis of parenting and sports-based enrichment activities for the under-fives	16
“Zheng Qinwen is the pure-blood ideal of Gu Eileen”: Exploring the sensemaking of elite female athlete identities on Chinese social media	15
Sport and migration in the age of superdiversity	14
From local isolation to transnational engagement: Differentiation in European football fan culture	14
Developing social capital through sport? The case for an intersectional lens	14
‘It is a grey area in sport, not just in school’: A figurational analysis of banter in secondary physical education in England	14
Capitalizing on sport labor migration: The role of ethnic capitalism in the discriminatory, regulatory, and exploitative environment for international college athletes in the United States	13
Identity negotiation and subculture recognition: Exploration of a sexual minority group in a Chinese grassroots sport	13
Using panopticism to theorize the social role of the body in competitive gaming and electronic sport	12
Social capital building through mega-sporting events: Did the Qatar 2022 World Cup foster bonding, bridging, and linking social capital?	11
Conceptualising family well-being in elite swimming	11
‘Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted’: Searching for the value of metrics and altmetrics in sociology of sport journals	11
Book Review	11
Public support for athlete activism in Germany: A survey experiment	11
Precarity in sport coaching: Exploring the working conditions of Canadian university sports coaches	10
Uncovering constraints in sports for children with disability: Insights from Danish parents	10
Fan responses to ownership change in the English Premier League: Motivated ignorance, social creativity and social competition at Newcastle United F.C.	10

Constructalgia cured: Sports heritage in the Anthropocene and beyond	10
Boxing, myths and reality building in sport for development programmes	9
From combat boots to running shoes: The role of military service in shaping masculine identity in Israeli long-distance running groups	9
‘But she’s not even trans!’: A rhetorical analysis of ‘liberal feminist’ defences of Imane Khelif amid Olympic transvestigations	9
Necropolitical institutions and state-sanctioned violence: Critical discourse analysis of institutional response to a professional boxer's death in Quebec	9
Sculpting the ideal body: A narrative analysis of the body profile craze in South Korea using Honneth's pathologies of recognition	9
‘For those few minutes you are free’: The meaning of sport from imprisoned men's perspective	9
“Keeping it lowkey”: Exploring the experiences of Korean women fans of women's volleyball	9
In the shadow of sport mega-events: A critical analysis of the nexus between evictions, displacements, securitized gentrification and children's rights	8
The construction of esports careers in France: Are there gender-based inequalities right from the start?	8
Sport and policy in ‘contested nations’: Analysing policy and political considerations in Taiwan and Scotland	8
Surviving child sexual abuse in women's artistic gymnastics: ‘It's beautiful, because had I stayed in the past, I wouldn’t have evolved as a person’	8
"We are all Hersh": Grief, solidarity, and identity in a football fan community	8
Spectator racism in three professional men's football codes in Australia: Observations from White spectators	8
Female elite sports achievements in Iran. The Case of the First Olympic Medalist	8
‘Best run club in the world': Manchester City fans and the legitimation of sportswashing?	8
From league champion to community champion: Institutional entrepreneurship in Belgian soccer	8
Book Review: Religions and Sports: The Basics by Terry D. Shoemaker ShoemakerTerry D., Religions and Sports: The Basics, Abingdon, Oxon, UK, Routledge, 2024, pp. 181., £	8
Locating the Supporter Liaison Officer in the football field: Bridges, brokers and the ‘supporter gaze’	8
‘I want to change minds and destroy stereotypes’: Wheelchair motocross rider portrayals on Instagram	7
Digital bonds: A gamers’ perspective on the role of online gaming communities in fostering social interaction and identity	7
Towards more accountable journalism: An examination of Spanish sports reporters’ perceptions and practices regarding racism in football	7
Mobile health cycling: How Eastern European amateur cycling enthusiasts frame their experiences with Zwift and Strava	7
‘Inclusivity for who’?: An analysis of ‘race’ and female fandom at the 2022 UEFA European Women's Championships	7
Opportunity and inequality in the emerging esports labor market	6
The Sentient, Skilled and Situated of Sustaining a Physical Activity Career: Pleasurable Interpretations of Corporeal Ambiguity	6
Book review	6
Disabled people's experiences of English football fandom: Inclusion, exclusion and discrimination	6
When sport is taken to extremes: A sociohistorical analysis of sport addiction	6
Studying professional women footballers: A reflexive commentary on being benched from recruitment	6
“It's sort of help yourself” – DIY medical care and team-doctoring in amateur women's sport	6
‘Free therapy’: Young woman skateboarders, mental health and body self-compassion	6
Book Review	6
‘I have a small window of time left that I’m going to do it’ : Transitions, risk and life-planning in the careers of mobile athletes	6
Subculturalisation/tribalisation as a social process: The Yugoslav 1980s and the roots of the ultras subculture in Croatia	6
Women athletes’ representation on Instagram: A feminist critical discourse analysis of Spanish media coverage during the Paris 2024 Olympics	6
The politicization and polarization of the Afghanistan cricket team on Twitter (X): A critical discourse analysis approach	6
‘We now have Catholics and Blacks’: Whiteness in a Northern Irish rugby club	6
Social status and sport: A study of young Norwegians	6
Sportswashing: Media headline or analytic concept?	5
The art of balance: Indigenous sport governance between traditional government and self-governance	5
Embracing digital self-tracking for fitness and health: The rise of smartwatches in Ghana's fitness communities	5
From fanzines to foodbanks: Football fan activism in the age of anti-politics	5
Media (re)presentation of a black woman esports player: The case of Chiquita Evans in the NBA 2K League	5
A critical feminist analysis of women's football in Türkiye: Challenges, opportunities, and societal implications	5
“A little taste of what it would be like to be in the military”: Performing militarism at the Canada army run	5
Sport for development: Working with youth or youth work? A commentary	5
How natural environments influence traditional sports and games: A mixed methods study from China	5
European football fans’ resistance and protest in the face of legal restrictions: Towards a typology and continued research agenda	5
“It becomes a fight against who I am, rather than what I say”: Gender, positionality, and inclusion in esports leadership	5

From gamers to players: Chinese Generation Z's perspectives on minors dropping out of school to become professional esports players	5
Horsing around: Animals, humans, sports, and platforms	5
Paddling as ‘Pelagic Postcolonialism’: Pacific voyaging resurgence, ocean justice and outrigger canoe racing (Va’a) in Fiji	5
A race against time: A critical analysis of elite student-athletes’ accelerated temporality through story completion	5
Navigating the playing field: Reimagining the sports industry in the face of accelerated climate change	5
‘The times they are a changing’: Negotiating diverse sexualities and masculinities in male rugby union	5
“I thought we were useless”: K-skateboarding and socio-material pollution in Nanjido, Seoul	4
Redefining masculinities through street workout: Dynamics of hybridity and aesthetic capital	4
Mainland Chinese first-generation immigrants and New Zealanders’ views on sport participation, race/ethnicity and the body: Does sport participation enhance cultural understandings?	4
From sport to the desire for elsewhere: The example of young athletes from disadvantaged Moroccan neighborhoods	4
Equal to, different from, better than: The multiple bodies of women Olympic Weightlifters	4
(Not) being granted the right to belong—Amateur football clubs in Germany	4
Coping within the interstices of the neoliberal sports market: Using de Certeau to analyse the migration of African mixed martial arts fighters in South Africa	4
Adult minority women's experiences of belonging through sport and recreational activities	4
Patriotism, competition, nationalism, and respect for the military in US sports: Public recognition of American institutionalized sports nationalism	4
Equality DanceSport doing transgender inclusivity in the United Kingdom: Cultural cisgenderism and transgender experiences	4
Digital selves: A cross-cultural examination of athlete social media self-presentation during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics	4
Journeys to the ‘Other’: England fans’, Orientalism and the 2022 World Cup	4
Sports following and social capital in the United States: Social networks and trust	4
‘If you haven't got the contacts … you have no choice’: A figurational examination of unpaid work in football scouting in men's professional football in England	4
Structuration theory investigation of elite Rugby players’ perceptions on how the transition from player to retired player impacted their significant others	3
FIFA’s utopia: An analysis of FIFA’s football for hope movement	3
Women, sport and social inclusion in Saudi Arabia	3
Gendering strategic action fields in sports governance	3
Corruption in sports: Lessons from Montenegro	3
Money talks: Analysing the PGA Tour-LIV Golf jurisdictional contest via Western media narratives	3
Erratum to “The Beauty Builder: A Genealogical Analysis of the Production of Female Power and Knowledge in Artistic Swimming”	3
Slow learners: Body pedagogics and learning slow ways in sport and physical cultures	3
The (ecologically) imperial mode of sport at the exterminist stage of capitalism: Counter stories of Dakar Rally's ride in South America (2009–2019)	3
From the via Crucis to paradise. The experiences of women football players in Spain surrounding gender and homosexuality	3
Representations of race/ethnicity and the nation: A content analysis of televised Polish international football	3
Reconceptualising informality in sport participation: Towards understanding (in)formalisation of sport governance	3
An Eliasian analysis of students’ views on guidelines against sexual harassment and abuse in sport	3
Reflexivity of discomfort: Two women outsiders doing sport research in prison	3
Bahraini uprising of 2011: The (No More) hidden political role of sports journalism	3
A quest for legitimacy? An exploratory study of the new meanings of sports and physical activity in contemporary Saudi Arabia	3
Gender arrhythmia and sportswomen's drinking practices during COVID-19	3
Muscle moves mass: Deconstructing the culture of weight loss in American Olympic Weightlifting	3
‘Refugee footballers’: A socioecological exploration of forced migrants in the Italian and German elite football system	3
The macro-structure of football's global migration system: How linguistic, economic, and geographic boundaries constrain player mobility	3
Drafting behind LGB: Transgender athletes in the sport of cycling	3
“Do you find it normal to be so fat?” Weight stigma in obese gym users	3
Clothes and caps: An exploration of the thing-power of objects and activism at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games	3
Cohesion to life on the land of migration: Olympic education and refugees	3
Homophobia in Brazilian football: A critical discourse analysis of fans’ comments in online football forums	2
The gendered bodies and working experience of fitness trainers	2
Antisemitism as a football specific problem? The situation of Jewish clubs in German amateur sport	2
The ‘glow up imperative’: The fitness lifestyles of young women in Aotearoa New Zealand	2
‘I can’t believe I just made history’: A temporal analysis of sports media reporting	2
Between lookism and bodily capital: Understanding female personal trainers’ appearance in occupational socialization	2
Responder or promoter? investigating the role of nation-state in globalization: The case of China’s strategies in the global wushu movement	2
Care as a strategy to navigate political tensions within the China–Norway sports coaching collaboration	2
‘I’m not a warrior, I’m a basketball player’: A narrative on professional sport in troubled times	2
Rising to the Gender Challenge in Scotland: Women's Embodiment of the Disposition to be Mountaineers	2
Spaces of football and belonging for people seeking asylum: Resisting policy-imposed liminality in Italy	2
Inclusive, inviting, inspiring: Insights into the experiences of women's football fans in Australia and Germany	2
Is gender equality in brain damage ‘progress’ for women and sport?	2
Yoga practice through the prism of the quest for excitement: Emotional renewal and transcending the physical realities of the body	2
Integrity governance: A new reform agenda for sport?	2
‘No one wants to be the washed-up ex-cricketer sitting at the bar getting pissed talking of the good old days’: A narrative analysis of retirement as experienced by male professional cricketers in Eng	2
“That's where you start to think like, does anyone actually listen to or watch women's sport?” Gender Regimes and Students Experiences on Higher Education Sport Courses	2
Sports mega-events and cosmopolitan nationalism: A critical discourse analysis of media representations of Japan through the 2019 Rugby World Cup	2
‘Let's face it, it's not a healthy sport’: Perceived health status and experience of injury among Polish professional mixed martial arts athletes	2
Children's views on women in sport: Locating feminist narratives	2
From denunciation to therapy: Representing coach-athlete abuse in occidental cinema	1
21 years later: Reflecting on femininity, masculinity, physicality and the English tabloid press	1
Governing Olympic education: Technologies of policy announcements and outsourcing	1
Levelling the field? The English Football Association's promotion of their men's and women's national teams through Twitter	1
‘I feel I must work harder and still be overlooked’ – How the implementation of video assistant referee (VAR) influences gendered recruitment and working conditions in elite football refereeing	1
Enclaved non-heteronormativity and pragmatic acceptance. The experiences of Polish female football players	1
Career transitions from the English Premier League: Cooling out the mark with possible selves	1
Sacrifice for success: How coaches, athletes and managers normalise commitment and conformity in Scandinavian elite football	1
A typological understanding of medical support in sport: What do we know and what’s next?	1
Meanings given to (super-)diversity in the Dutch national team by Dutch football commentators: A historical approach	1
Participation of girls and women in community sport in Ghana: Cultural and structural barriers	1
Corrigendum to “The construction of esports careers in France: Are there gender-based inequalities right from the start?”	1
Can the credibility of global sport organizations be restored? A case study of the athletics integrity unit	1
Beyond stereotypes: Women and their engagement in football fandom	1
“We haven’t agreed on that, and you’ll never get people to agree on that.” Contestation within the Canadian sport coaching professional project	1
Dear England: A critical discourse analysis of how sports stars and politicians battle for legitimacy in debates around athlete activism	1

Ticking the right boxes: A critical examination of the perceptions and attitudes towards the black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) acronym in the UK	1
Defining ‘woman': A governmentality analysis of how protective policies are created in elite women's sport	1
Examining the socioemotional outcomes of social justice efforts on social media users: Evidence from the NFL's Inspire Change initiatives	1
Women's representation in surf video games: A stereotyped, objectified and romanticized portrayal	1
Of skills and tools: Skateboarding as city craft	1
“Clenched fists, helping hand”: Peter Norman and media frame building of white allyship	1
‘Yes, I’m an Elite athlete and I’m Gay’: Experiences of elite gay male athletes in Spain	1
Playing with dual purposes: A study of professional football players engagement in environmental advocacy and activism	1
Collective sports success through effective social performances: The case of Olympic wrestling in Iran	1
Intersectionality in research on equity, diversity, and inclusion in sport: A systematic review of the literature	1
Conceptualising grey spaces in skateboarding: Generating theory and method for use beyond the board	1
What’s in a game? A dialectic of competition and cooperation in Squid Game	1
Corrigendum to From the via Crucis to paradise. The experiences of women football players in Spain surrounding gender and homosexuality	1
New Zealand's princess of the pool: Post-ableism and the media narrativisation of Sophie Pascoe	1
Bruised and confused: An autoethnography of concussion in rugby union	1
Is sport's ‘gateway for inclusion’ on the latch for ethnic minorities? A discourse analysis of sport policy for inclusion and integration	1
Socio-structural determinants of physical activity behavior in children and adolescents: The importance of social support	1
Texas high school coaches’ attitudes and perceptions of LGB + athletes: A qualitative analysis	1
Representation of young sportswomen in cinema: From male domination to female devaluation	1
Adapting to sport and country: Immigrant athletes with disabilities	1
Reduce, re-use, re-ride: Bike waste and moving towards a circular economy for sporting goods	1
Family ties and social capital among grand slam tennis champions	1
A comparative analysis of the environmental sustainability of London 2012 and Rio 2016: A Capability Approach to inter-national inequality at the Olympic Games	1
Theorising painkiller (mis)use in football using Bourdieu's practice theory and physical capital	1