Sport in Society

Article	Citations
Thinking outside the ‘box’: a discussion of sports fans, teams, and the environment in the context of COVID-19	55
Live sport during the COVID-19 crisis: fans as creative broadcasters	46
The rise of E-Sports and potential for Post-COVID continued growth	44
Defining physical literacy: making sense of a promiscuous concept	28
The ‘how’ and ‘why’ of fitness app use: investigating user motivations to gain insights into the nexus of technology and fitness	20
The sports world in the era of COVID-19	19
‘He is like a Gazelle (when he runs)’ (re)constructing race and nation in match-day commentary at the men’s 2018 FIFA World Cup	18
The natural life cycle of sports fans	17
The social construction of integrity: a qualitative case study in Dutch Football	15
COVID-19 and the financial crisis in the sports sector around the world	13
The changing faces of fandom? Exploring emerging ‘online’ and ‘offline’ fandom spaces in the English Premier League	13
The sport mega-events of the 2020s: governance, impacts and controversies	13
Inclusionary and exclusionary banter: English club cricket, inclusive attitudes and male camaraderie	13
’I am German when we win, but I am an immigrant when we lose’. Theorising on the deservedness of migrants in international football, using the case of Mesut Özil	12
Football (as) Guanxi: a relational analysis of actor reciprocity, state capitalism, and the Chinese football industry	12
How do perceptions of non-mega sport events impact quality of life and support for the event among local residents?	11
Predicting climate impacts to the Olympic Games and FIFA Men’s World Cups from 2022 to 2032	11
Where do they all come from? Youth, fitness gyms, sport clubs and social inequality	11
eSports diplomacy: towards a sustainable ‘gold rush’	11
The Olympics’ evolving relationship with human rights: an ongoing affair	11
COVID-19 and the cancellation of the 2020 Two Oceans Marathon, Cape Town, South Africa	10
Stakeholders’ perceptions of athletic career pathways in Paralympic sport: from participation to excellence	10
The long-term implications of mega-event projects for urban public spaces	10
Signaling soft power through medal success: China as an example	10
The urban and economic impacts of mega-events: mechanisms of change in global games	10

COVID-19 and the cutting of college athletic teams	9
“They play together, they laugh together’: Sport, play and fun in refugee sport projects	9
Life skills from sport: the former elite athlete’s perception	9
Covid-19 and sport in the Asia Pacific region	9
The unstoppable rise of athlete power in the Olympic system	9
When women surf the world’s biggest waves: breaking gender barriers	8
Understanding parental support in elite sport: a phenomenological approach to exploring midget triple a hockey in the Canadian Maritimes	8
Exploring new trends of sport business: Japanese companies’ investment in ownership of foreign football clubs	8
How do perceptions of non-mega sport events impact quality of life and support for the event among local residents?	8
Virtual games meet physical playground: exploring and measuring motivations for live esports event attendance	8
Effects of an entrepreneurship sport workshop on perceived feasibility, perceived desiderability and entrepreneurial intentions: a pilot study in sports science students	8
Chinese football fandom and civic identities: a study of the fans of Shanghai Shenhua and Beijing Guoan	8
Why do sports fans support or oppose the inclusion of trans women in women’s sports? An empirical study of fairness and gender identity	8
’Should I really be here?’: Problems of trust and ethics in PAR with young people from refugee backgrounds in sport and leisure	8
The community inclusion of athletes with intellectual disability: a transnational study of the impact of participating in Special Olympics	7
Sport for social cohesion: from scoping review to new research directions	7
Bullying in male physical education: a figurational sociological analysis	7
The ‘30-gold’ ambition and japan’s momentum for elite sport success: feasibility and policy changes	7
Impact of perceived value on behavior intention of parent-child runners in a marathon event	7
Black lives matter in the sports world	7
“The ‘blazer boys’ were getting all the chances”: South Asian men’s experiences of cricket coaching in England	7
Does size matter? Entrepreneurial orientation and performance in Spanish sports clubs	7
Taking the star-spangled knee: the media framing of Colin Kaepernick	6
Sexual minorities in intercollegiate athletics: religion, team culture and acceptance	6
The impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on Norwegian athletes’ training habits and their use of digital technology for training and competition purposes	6
Sport CSR as a hidden marketing strategy? A study of Djarum, an Indonesian tobacco company	6
Sustaining market competitiveness of table tennis in China through the application of digital technology	6
Challenges and complexities of imagining nationhood: the case of Hong Kong’s naturalized footballers	6
’I’m quite tired of people saying that I don’t do enough or know anything’: male hegemony and resistance in the context of women’s online communication on doping	6
Banal Europeanism? Europeanisation of football and the enhabitation of a Europeanised football fandom	6
Can international sports mega events be considered physical activity interventions? A systematic review and quality assessment of large-scale population studies	6
Influence of sports fan ethnocentrism on identification and media consumption intention: a preliminary investigation with Taiwanese baseball fans	6
An analysis of responses on Twitter to the English Premier League’s support for the anti-homophobia rainbow laces campaign	6
From inspiration to nostalgia: the football participation legacy of the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan	6
The video assistant referee (VAR) as neo-coloniality of power? Fan negative reactions to VAR in the 2018 FIFA Men’s World Cup	6
Residents’ perceptions of sporting events: a review of the literature	6
Anti-bribery and corruption in sport mega-events: stakeholder perspectives	6
The influence of macrocultural change on national governing bodies in British olympic sports	6
Football and cultural citizenship in China: a study in three embodiments	5
Negotiating participation: African refugee and migrant women’s experiences of football	5
Mapping the role of grassroots sport in public diplomacy	5
Increasing gender equity in sport organizations: assessing the impacts of a social learning initiative	5
Potemkin neoliberalism: developing Volgograd through the 2018 Men’s World Cup in Russia	5
Exploring Vietnamese sport for development through the capabilities approach: a descriptive analysis	5
A morphogenetic approach to sport and social inclusion: a case study of good will’s reproductive power	5
Sports entrepreneurs and the shaping of the SportsWorld	5
Football fans’ contestations over security: between offline and online fan spaces and channels	5
Disrupting the global refugee crisis or celebrity humanitarianism? Media frames of the refugee olympic team at 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo summer games	5
The impact of gender quotas in sport management: the case of Spain	5
Forced migration and sport: an introduction	5

Hegemony, domination and opposition: Fluctuating Korean nationalist politics at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang	5
‘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 governance	5
To trust or not to trust? Governance of multidimensional elite sport reality	5
From idyllic past-time to spectacle of accelerated intensity: televisual technologies in contemporary cricket	5
The LPGA’s global tour and domestic audience: factors influencing viewer’s intention to watch in the United States	4
‘There is nothing else to do!’: the impact of football-based sport for development programs in under-resourced areas	4
Global challenges and innovations in sport: effects of Covid-19 on sport	4
Spatial transitions, levels of activity, and motivations to exercise during COVID-19: a literature review	4
Gender inequity in media coverage and athletes’ welfare in Nigerian sports: impact of the Nigeria sports policy and African union agenda 2063	4
“Winning the women’s world cup”: gender, branding, and the Australia/New Zealand As One 2023 social media strategy for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™	4
Exploring the relationship between corporate social responsibility and the marketing performance of professional sport organisations in South Africa	4
Teens’ dreams of becoming professional athletes: the gender gap in youths’ sports ambitions	4
England’s summer of sport 2017	4
Discrimination on football Twitter: the role of humour in the Othering of minorities	4
Impact of perceived value on behaviour intention of parent-child runners in a marathon event	4
Norbert Elias’s concept of the ‘drag-effect’: implications for the study of the relationship between national identity and sport	4
Parental perceptions of the impact of COVID-19 and returning to play based on level of sport	4
Benefits and underlying mechanisms of organized sport participation on mental health among socially vulnerable boys. A qualitative study on parents’ perspective in the sport-based Icehearts programme	4
Examining the relationship among service quality, perceived value, and sport consumption at the Wuhan tennis open	4
Escaping the position as ‘other’: a postcolonial perspective on refugees’ trajectories into volunteering in Danish sports clubs	4
Re-viewing the woman as fan: an examination of the narrative framing of the women in cinematic adaptations of Nick Hornby’s fever pitch	4
‘It’s not our problem’: Czech online discourse on kneeling in football and Black Lives Matter	4
Sport and the ‘national Thing’: exploring sport’s emotive significance	4
Commercialization processes within Swedish child and youth sport – a Deleuzioguttarian perspective	4
Sporting Indianness: challenging the cinematic representation of Native American athletes	4
‘Life is team play’: social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the context of Special Olympics	4
Spectators longing for live action: a study of the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on (football) supporters in Sweden	4
Talent migration in NCAA division I tennis: an exploratory study	4
Running for inclusion: responsibility, (un)deservingness and the spectacle of integration in a sport-for-refugees intervention in Geneva, Switzerland	4
Pixies in a windstorm: Tracing Australian gymnasts’ stories of athlete maltreatment through media data	4
Should it be “Chinese Taipei” or “Taiwan”? A strategic relations analysis of name rectification referendum for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games	3
Menstrual cycle, hormonal contraception and pregnancy in women’s football: perceptions of players, coaches and managers	3
In her own words: a refugee’s story of forced migration, trauma, resilience, and soccer	3
The co-development of inclusive tools in physical education for pupils with and without disabilities	3
Engagement with Special Olympics by the general public in 17 countries world-wide	3
Who cares about gladiators? An elite-sport-based concept of Sustainable Sport	3
A quest for relaxation? A figurational analysis of the transformation of yoga into a global leisure time phenomenon	3
Nurturing and sidelining capitalism in discourses of player potentiality in Finnish ice hockey	3
“The guys love it when chicks ask for help”: an exploration of female rugby league fans	3
Improving school sport: teacher-coach and athletic director perspectives and experiences	3
Conflicting rationalities of participation: constructing and resisting ‘Midnight football’ as an instrument of social policy	3
Shame, pain and fame: sportswomen losing in Australia’s mainstream media reporting	3
‘Genuinely in love with the game’ football fan experiences and perceptions of women’s football in England	3
Sport, British national identities and the land: reflections on primordialism	3
’There’s a new sheriff in town’: the Rodchenkov Act, anti-dopism, and the hegemony of WADA in international sport	3
Credible and salient: examining frame resonance through Athlete Ally	3
Enablers and barriers in ultra-running: a comparison of male and female ultra-runners	3
Examining attitudes towards homosexuality among young, athletic BME men in the UK	3
Scholar, gentleman and player: a tribute to Eric Dunning	3
Go with the flow – menstrual health experiences of athletes and coaches in Scottish swimming	3
The (in)significance of footballing pleasures in the lives of forced migrant men	3
The Germans: no sports but only drills and exercises?	3
Esports: an exploration of the advancing esports landscape, actors and interorganisational relationships	3
Throwing your hat in the ring: Women volunteers in boxing	3
Building American Supermen? Bernarr MacFadden, Benito Mussolini and American fascism in the 1930s	3
Red-flagging the leagues: the U.S. Sports most in danger from match-fixing	3
Guerrilla patriotism and mnemonic wars: cursed soldiers as role models for football fans in Poland	3
Participatory action research and visual and digital methods with refugees in Kampala, Uganda: process, ethical complexities, and reciprocity	3
Cricket has no boundaries with NatWest? The hyperreality of inclusion and diversity in English cricket	3
Black Lives Matter: perspectives from South African cricket	3
Sport and sustainable social development in Ghana: analysing the policy-implementation gap	3
An empirical use of organizational habitus and ethnography to explore how sport cultures are negotiated	3
Listening to the voices of teachers: primary physical education in Ireland	3
‘Why now’ for AFLW? Providing a new affirmative narrative for women’s football in the post-Covid world	3
Health and democratization as contradictory policy goals: sport in Zaragoza city	3
The positive impact of sports participation on life skills’ development: a qualitative study with medical students	2
A rebel and a giant: change and continuity in the discursive construction of Chinese sport heroes	2
Understanding the expansion of running from a social practice theory perspective. A case study focused on the city of Valencia	2
Adapting to a new normal: the impact of COVID-19 on the mediatization of professional sport organizations	2
The competent child and (in)competent others. Horse-riding school activities for preschool children	2
Count Me In: a sports participation intervention promoting inclusion for young people from migrant backgrounds in Australia	2
Restorative justice in sports: does restorative justice have a place in anti-doping governance?	2
A collaborative self-study of ethical issues in participatory action research with refugee-background young people in grassroots football	2
Sport legacy impact on ethnic minority groups: the case of London 2012	2
The development of cricket in China	2
‘We sacrifice our bodies for this plank of wood’: girl skateboarders, risk, pain, and injury 1	2
Impression management of South Korean sports stars through image-based social media	2
Media coverage and public opinion of hosting a women’s football mega-event: the English bid for UEFA Women’s Euro 2022	2
‘(Simply) the best’, or remembering when tina turner met the winfield cup: Nostalgia and the construction of authenticity in rugby league online spaces	2
‘Girls on the field’ in Turkey: negotiating gender anxieties and norms through football	2

Marketing professional clubs to a foreign market: the brand image of Real Madrid and its impact on behavior intentions from a Chinese perspective	2
Bigger than ourselves: the Southgate narrative and the search for a sense of common purpose	2
The international journalistic coverage of the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games: analysis by media framing	2
‘You can’t be what you can’t see’: Indigenous Australian sportswomen as powerful role models	2
Everyday bordering. Theoretical perspectives on national ‘others’ in sport and leisure time physical activity	2
Study of football social responsibility in Iran with Fuzzy cognitive mapping approach	2
Making sense of ‘Ireland’, sport and identity: the craft of doing sociology	2
Nation as a product of resistance: introducing post-foundational discourse analysis in research on ultras’ nationalism	2
‘We need a whole range of different views’: exploring the lived experiences of women leaders in Australian rules football	2
The spectacularization of violence in contemporary US bare-knuckle fighting	2
How are fans teams’ consumption behaviors impacted by their federations’ innovativeness perceived organizational legitimacy	2
Politics, policy and legacies of the Olympics in Asia Pacific: a panoramic view	2
What is being uploaded on YouTube?: Analysis of fitness-related YouTube video titles pre- and post-Covid-19 in Korea	2
Physical activity of Sport Sciences students during COVID-19 home confinement	2
Digital media routine and audience engagement during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in Hungary	2
Uniting, disuniting and reuniting: towards a ‘United’ 2026	2
Roman Abramovich and his principles of management	2
Cricket at the beginning of the long twenty-first century	2
Stakeholders in venues of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games: a critical analysis	2
From the boardroom to tee: understanding golf club volunteers during an era of change	2
Cricket, Brexit and the Anglosphere	2
The Covid-19 pandemic and Asian Football Confederation match officials	2
The subject of Special Olympics – interrogating the inclusive potentials of a sport movement from an ableism-critical perspective	2
Impacts of urban regeneration on small business in preparation to host the Beijing 2022 winter Olympic games	2
Sports scholarships in Ireland: a review of the issues	2
The impact of values based leadership on sport coaching	2
Cricket, terrorism and security in contemporary South Asia	2
Analysing British Asian national sporting affiliations post-London 2012	2
Exploring the somatic dimension for sport-based interventions: a refugee’s autoethnography	2
Shifting dominant logics? The organisational field of Finnish sport clubs in the 2010s	2
Affect and emotions in sports work: a research agenda	2
The emergence of a paradox of assimilation: an analysis of Olympic and Paralympic athletes’ Instagram posts	2
A war between football fans and the government from the perspective of Herbert Blumer’s collective behaviour theory	2
Understanding the 2021 Australian Open through an Elias lens: a case of tension, conflict and athlete outsiders	2
Dream team – team sports in a community of adults with intellectual disability	2
A mixed approach to investigating public acceptance of elite sport policy in Taiwan: antecedents and prediction	2
Transnational unities, challenges and opportunities for sport volunteering: lessons from the European PlayGreen project	2
Paralympic assemblages globalizing International Relations: an autoethnographic account of global politics at the Paralympic Games	2
Methodological challenges and opportunities in working within a participatory paradigm in the context of sport, forced migration and settlement: an insider perspective	1
Quotas in South African cricket – what the players say	1
Sport schools in Europe: a scoping study of research articles (1999–2022)	1
Female empowerment through sport: an exploratory narrative review	1
Virtual identities and women’s empowerment: the implication of the rise of female esports fans in China	1
Calling the shots: organizational culture, performance, and the commoditization of ice hockey players	1
‘Gold slaves’: unionism and football in Spain during the democratic transition	1
A resource-based view of post-Games legacy strategy: the case of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic games	1
The new politics of sport	1
Editorial: Sport, nationalism, and the importance of theory	1
Engaging with wheelchair basketball: analyzing viewer attitudes and actions toward ‘the rebound: a wheelchair basketball documentary’	1
New spatial practices in organised sport following COVID-19: the Swedish case	1
Football, faith and family for the Australian Pacific Island diaspora: the role of the vā (‘space between’) in rugby league	1
A ‘token gesture’ in World Athletics governance? The IAAF Women’s Committee under Ilse Bechthold, 1990–2005	1
Entrepreneurs’ perceptions of official sporting events’ capacity to promote their business in the long term	1
Nature and challenges of sports job training during the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics: listening to the lived experiences of sports managers	1
A scoping review of the experiences of elite female athletes concerning pregnancy and motherhood	1
Modifying walking football for people living with dementia: lessons for best practice	1
Football, football and more football? What French children read in the ‘youth’ press	1
What’s at play? Power, transnational coaches and the global hegemony of performance within Danish elite swimming	1
Elegant violence: the promise and peril of a new ‘feminine’ sport ethic	1
How can clubs play an essential role in talent identification and development programmes? A case study of German football	1
Parents’ views on coaching in youth community sport settings	1
Decolonising the South African sport science curriculum	1
Fantasy sports participation and the (de)humanization of professional athletes	1
Beyond the boundary: the Sandpapergate scandal and the limits of transnational masculinity	1
SWOT analysis on the potential growth of Football 5-a-side programme across the United States: an exploratory case study approach for athletes with visual impairment	1
Getting a head start: the 2032 Olympic Movement through the preferred candidature bid involving Brisbane, Australia	1
Sport-for-development: from UNESCO’s universal language to application. Case study of French NGOs	1
Music and sport: exploring the intersections	1
Inside the ‘black box’ of a long-term sport-based youth development boxing academy in New Zealand	1
Maidens and Man-kads: gendering cricket scholarship in the 21st century	1
‘And Now, No Word from Our Sponsors’: Yorkshire cricket, the Azeem Rafiq controversy and the silence of the University	1
The ‘integrative potential’ and socio-political constraints of football in Southeast Europe: a critical exploration of lived experiences of people seeking asylum	1
Soccer, the Saarland, and statehood: win, loss, and cultural reunification in post-war Europe	1
We exist, play sports, and will persist: everyday lives of Palestinian sportswomen through the lens of the ‘politics of invisibility’	1
The white moderate, sport and black lives matter: echoes from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “letter from birmingham jail” at the University of Iowa	1
Far beyond the four lines: the Group B fan pages at the 2018 World Cup	1
‘No-one wants to be a Kardashian anymore’: female participation in recreational combat sport	1
The politics of ‘no politics’ in Pula, Croatia: an ethnography of the Demons football fan group	1
‘Nobody needs a label’: responses on Facebook to a Team GB equity, diversity and inclusion initiative	1
The national hero, the supercrip, and the self-reliant figure: Paralympic champions on China Central Television’s sports channel	1
Towards a safer past: thoughts on the invocation of English cricket’s soul	1
‘Do full-grown men really play netball?’ Stigma and men’s experiences of playing for an elite London netball team	1
Country image and satire in sport management: analyzing America through sports in South Park	1
‘Sport and song go together …’ A personal reflection on the art of the sporting balladeer	1
Virtual athlete or ultimate nerd? A framing analysis of eSports in Flemish printed media	1
A political-institutional history of the Stellenbosch University physical education department, 1936–1939	1
Negotiating spaces of urban sports and belonging: migrant football leagues in São Paulo and Rio De Janeiro	1
The social world of elite youth football in Germany – crisis, reinvention, optimization strategies, and the role of schools	1
Sports experiences of elite athletes with intellectual disabilities and/or autism spectrum disorders	1
Stories in photos: framing styles of women athlete images on Instagram	1
How media influence is perceived by professional soccer players: a qualitative case study in Portugal	1
How women’s tennis club participants construct identity: ‘respect, pride and distinction’	1
Crime and misconduct in sport	1
At the forefront of racial tolerance?: African-Americans and high school football in Iowa in the 1930s	1
Leveraging international partnerships for sport management programs and soccer Brand expansion	1