Sport in Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Sport in Society is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Running, Identity and Meaning: The Pursuit of Distinction through Sport32
Cricket and Contemporary Society in Britain: Crisis and Continuity28
On the 8 th Day: A Catholic Theology of SportOn the 8 th Day: A Catholic Theology of Sport, by M. Hoven, J. J. Carney, & M. T. Engel. Cascade Books, 2022, Pbk: U20
Waves of opportunity and sorrow: surfing in Atlantic Africa18
Athlete activism, advocacy, and awareness: mental health in the Olympic Games18
Negotiating spaces of urban sports and belonging: migrant football leagues in São Paulo and Rio De Janeiro17
How Covid changed sport – a case study of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games17
Off the ice: an oral history of the Swift Current Broncos’ relationship with hockey17
Impacts of urban regeneration on small business in preparation to host the Beijing 2022 winter Olympic games17
Editorial: Sport, nationalism, and the importance of theory15
Acceptance and commitment approaches for athletes’ well-being and performance15
Is there education in physical education? A narrative systematic review of research in physical education and learning15
A ‘token gesture’ in World Athletics governance? The IAAF Women’s Committee under Ilse Bechthold, 1990–200514
Esports under sports mega-event conventions: associational values, inclusivity, and national representation at the Commonwealth Games12
Inclusion and equality in Finnish ice hockey and football: a comparative study of organizational cultures12
The Postmodern Picture of Sports Communication: Sports, Media and Culture12
The role of sport in juvenile justice: benefits according to key informants11
The Rider by Chloé Zhao (2017): a poethnic invitation to the world of rodeo11
‘Is she married, single or available?’ Standing out and blending in as a woman working in sports media11
Trans* inclusion and gender equality in sport and exercise – an (im)possible equation?11
Perceived barriers to sports participation among adolescent girls from low socioeconomic status neighbourhoods10
Don’t believe in miracles: the British sports film in the era of sporting rationalization10
Experiences of volt hockey from family members’ perspectives: an interview study10
Physical activity of Sport Sciences students during COVID-19 home confinement10
What do we really know about fraud in sports? An exploratory study in Belgium10
‘There’s nothing you can do’: multi-level factors affecting the careers of female football coaches in Poland9
Conflicting rationalities of participation: constructing and resisting ‘Midnight football’ as an instrument of social policy9
The concept of ‘policy windows’ in elite sport development: positive events and spatial domains of policy windows9
Affect and emotions in sports work: a research agenda9
A scoping review of the experiences of elite female athletes concerning pregnancy and motherhood9
The emergence of a paradox of assimilation: an analysis of Olympic and Paralympic athletes’ Instagram posts9
The Rinaldi frame: the NCAA, College Gameday, and the commodification of Black hardship9
Parental perceptions of the impact of COVID-19 and returning to play based on level of sport9
The sport mega-events of the 2020s: governance, impacts and controversies9
Walking the city – a case study on the emancipatory aspects of walking9
Origins of non-racial school sport in South Africa9
The (in)significance of footballing pleasures in the lives of forced migrant men8
Rugby union, class and ‘Middle Ireland’ in Irish media8
Same, same but different? – A comparative discourse-theoretical content analysis of the constructions of football talent in German and Swedish newspapers8
A morphogenetic approach to sport and social inclusion: a case study of good will’s reproductive power8
Developing a multi-level framework for analyzing public sports-based programmes to integrate migrants and refugees into organized sports8
The politics of ‘no politics’ in Pula, Croatia: an ethnography of the Demons football fan group8
Parents’ views on coaching in youth community sport settings8
Football and ice hockey in the Polish sports landscape: a story of (relative) success and a story of a (complete) failure8
Sport and governance: peacebuilding in communities affected by the armed conflict in Colombia7
Experiences of belonging and exclusion in sport and physical activity for individuals of diverse sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in rural Australia7
Can women escape the male influence when surfing? An ethnographic study of female surfers in Southern Spain7
The pre-stage of inclusion–conditions for the mainstreaming process of parasports within the Swedish Floorball Federation7
Virtual identities and women’s empowerment: the implication of the rise of female esports fans in China7
Sports Consumption: Development Trend and Policy Orientation Sports Consumption: Development Trend and Policy Orientation , by Jiang Xiaojuan et al., Beijing, CITIC Pres7
Athlete participation in decision-making in elite sport: a scoping review7
Interpreting and enacting ‘empowerment’ in sport for development: the perspectives of UK stakeholders on a partnership-based programme in Malawi7
Inclusivity, diversity, and the absent presence of class: a logics approach to England and Wales cricket Board (ECB) policy discourse7
Global sport in the post-COVID era7
Qatar’s soft power v. sportswashing allegations: perspectives of Chinese football fans during the 2022 men’s football World Cup6
National identity, state and social media discourse in Romania: the case of tennis6
The state, the athlete, the symbolic exclusion: the ban of Russian and Belarusian athletes from the Olympic Movement6
The nonexcludable function of sports stadiums in climate-changed cities6
Called up: calling to social justice action (SJA) and mental health of athletes6
A decline in ping-pong in France: rumour or reality? (1934–1939)6
A Scandinavian perspective on high-performance coaching: an ethically based balancing act between four interrelated knowledge dimensions6
Communities in movement: football and basketball in transcultural spaces6
Physical Education in Irish Schools, 1900–2000: A History6
Spatial transitions, levels of activity, and motivations to exercise during COVID-19: a literature review6
‘What should I do as a coach?’: an interview study with Swedish national team coaches about their professional practice and experiences in addressing potential health risks in elite sport6
Neo-rituals under construction. How and what do the finals of the CONMEBOL Copa Libertadores tell us?5
The redefinition of a Chinese sports hero’s public image: evidence from the reactions on Chinese social media to Sun Yang’s international trial5
Lundy’s model and beyond: exploring a girl’s perspective on participation in voluntary sports organizations5
Exposed bodies: hypersexualisation and prostitution in the scene of Brazilian female bodybuilding5
Discrimination on football Twitter: the role of humour in the Othering of minorities5
What are we hiding? - The loud silence on the racialized experiences of Indigenous, Brown, and Black female athletes in Aotearoa New Zealand5
Influences of sociocultural and historical constraints on athletes’ developmental experiences: a case study of baseball in Japan5
‘It’s not our problem’: Czech online discourse on kneeling in football and Black Lives Matter5
Sports Management in an Uncertain Environment5
Home versus away: legitimizing and challenging home claims and social exclusion through football in Turkey5
Structure vs culture: Judo’s values through the lens of criminology4
Sport and parenthood4
Out of the shadows into the limelight: the impact of commercialization on the Swedish men’s elite football coach from the 1960s until today4
A resource-based view of post-Games legacy strategy: the case of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic games4
‘Born and bred Holden’: investigating the impact of holden on Australian sporting culture4
Virtual athlete or ultimate nerd? A framing analysis of eSports in Flemish printed media4
Taking the star-spangled knee: the media framing of Colin Kaepernick4
’There’s a new sheriff in town’: the Rodchenkov Act, anti-dopism, and the hegemony of WADA in international sport4
The impact of a soccer team from a Romanian city on local community: a content analysis4
Fiction or reality? What the movie une belle équipe shows about women’s football in the Hauts-de-France region4
Anders Zorn and naturalistic ski competitions versus the progress of the hegemonic Swedish sport policy at the beginning of the 20th century4
Beauties and beasts in the world of fans—the story of HC and ŠK Slovan Bratislava4
A rebel and a giant: change and continuity in the discursive construction of Chinese sport heroes4
Women and Sport in Asia4
Exploring the professionalisation of sports coaching from the athlete’s point of view: a study of professional players from Sweden4
Professionalization of action sports: field- and organizational-level professionalization of new Olympic sports4
The crowd management failure at 2022 champions league final: inter-organisational analysis of a collective powerlessness4
Disrupting the global refugee crisis or celebrity humanitarianism? Media frames of the refugee olympic team at 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo summer games4
Sport-based social justice movements and activism: a narrative review4
Assessment of the delivery and implementation of the Football Association’s Heads Up mental health promotion campaign4
’Should I really be here?’: Problems of trust and ethics in PAR with young people from refugee backgrounds in sport and leisure4
African Football Migration: Aspirations, Experiences, Trajectories4
One bird, one stone: professionalization of sport structures as a strategy for harnessing elite sport success in Uganda4
Nature and challenges of sports job training during the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics: listening to the lived experiences of sports managers4
Local protests against the 2024 Olympic Games in European cities: the cases of the Rome, Hamburg, Budapest and Paris 2024 bids4
Corporate social responsibility within a global pandemic: a qualitative analysis of the population’s perception of sport organizations4
Hooligans, ultras, activists: Polish football fandom in sociological perspective4
Development of esports curriculum inside British universities: implications towards a national policy for Vietnamese ones3
Predicting climate impacts to the Olympic Games and FIFA Men’s World Cups from 2022 to 20323
Understanding the expansion of running from a social practice theory perspective. A case study focused on the city of Valencia3
Beyond the Noise : the cultural (or subcultural) politics of Irish surf films3
‘It’s always on’. Rituals and social structure within an international touch rugby team3
The national hero, the supercrip, and the self-reliant figure: Paralympic champions on China Central Television’s sports channel3
Politics, policy and legacies of the Olympics in Asia Pacific: a panoramic view3
‘Cheating’ your way to the top: a focus on language in the Australian media’s representation of performance enhancing drugs3
‘Life is team play’: social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the context of Special Olympics3
World Wrestling Entertainment, Becky Lynch and the Irish media3
Sport brand coexistence, competition and synergy: case study of the Sparta Prague ice hockey and football clubs3
Methodological challenges and opportunities in working within a participatory paradigm in the context of sport, forced migration and settlement: an insider perspective3
The Summit of the Gods (2021): finding new heights for sport animation and transmedia storytelling3
Accusations of racist language in Norwegian football: stakeholder management of whistleblowing3
Reflexive meanings of global and local sports culture: Chinese female sports fandom in the context of glocalization3
Cooperation policies among public institutions for the development and dissemination of sports: a qualitative study3
Negotiating participation: African refugee and migrant women’s experiences of football3
‘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 governance3
The concept of territorial capital: considerations for measuring sports events3
‘This experience has changed me and my view:’ the learning experiences of urban youth in outdoor-focused sport-for-development programming3
And Now, No Word from Our Sponsors’: Yorkshire cricket, the Azeem Rafiq controversy and the silence of the University3
Confessions of a retired footballer: a Foucauldian reading of British working footballers’ longer-term retirement experiences3
Embodied regulation: the case of women collegiate athletes3
Behind the support of esports in Hong Kong: a study on public perception3
Correction Notice3
Running free: recreational runners’ reasons for non-use of digital sports technology3
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 programme3
The powers that changed dutch kickboxing3
The impact of competitive youth athlete injury on parents: a narrative review3
The new politics of sport3
Technology, innovation, and the future of the sport industry in Asia Pacific3
We exist, play sports, and will persist: everyday lives of Palestinian sportswomen through the lens of the ‘politics of invisibility’3
A debate on the use of artificial intelligence, as an electronic line judge, for line calls in tennis3
A socio-ecological approach to understanding the experiences of women and girls playing male-dominated sports3
Emerging technology as an essential factor in changing lifestyles and reshaping exercise behaviour in Taiwan3
Understanding the authenticity of surf tourism: evidence from Chinese tourists2
Conceptualising the notion of the ‘sport worker’ and ‘sport/s work’: a commentary2
What is being uploaded on YouTube?: Analysis of fitness-related YouTube video titles pre- and post-Covid-19 in Korea2
Coaching by doing: communities of practice at Swedish sport schools in XC skiing since the 1970s2
From a dark place to a blue space: open water swimming transformed our lives2
Female empowerment through sport: an exploratory narrative review2
The professionalization of the role of the coach: transforming the last bastion of the Scandinavian welfare-sport model2
Skateboarding and contested public space in Portrush, Northern Ireland: exploring tensions between resortification and DIY space-claiming through co-creative methodology2
Telling adults about it: children’s experience of disclosing interpersonal violence in community sport2
Volunteers’ collective memory of Youth Olympic Games: macro-level contextual understandings2
Empowerment & anxiety: social identity of Chinese women in combat sports2
Reading Michelle Kwan: cultural meanings of her youthfulness and hyper-sexual/exotic transformation in the 1994–1996 seasons2
Sport and Quality of Life – Practices, Habits and Lifestyles2
Aikido’s self-regulation and co-regulation: a promising embodied pedagogy for intercultural communication training2
“They play together, they laugh together’: Sport, play and fun in refugee sport projects2
Consuming esports and trash talking: how do social norms and moderating attributes influence behaviour?2
Correction2
‘You can’t be what you can’t see’: Indigenous Australian sportswomen as powerful role models2
Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America2
Towards more equal power relations in physical education: power, resistance and social transformation2
Possibilities for tax optimization in Swedish sport? The case of football and ice hockey2
Sustainability at stake: evaluating the Beijing Winter Olympics through a conceptual model2
LIV and Let Die: The Inside Story of the War between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf2
From English to Polish Disease. Conceptualising hooligans’ setup fights and their diffusion across Europe2
Cultural Translation: Horse Racing, Greyhound Racing, and Jai Alai in Modern Shanghai Cultural Translation: Horse Racing, Greyhound Racing, and Jai Alai in Modern Shanghai 2
Re-viewing the woman as fan: an examination of the narrative framing of the women in cinematic adaptations of Nick Hornby’s fever pitch2
Populism in Sport, Leisure, and Popular Culture2
Quid interpersonal violence in the sport integrity literature? A scoping review2
Sustaining the unsustainable: meaningful longevity and the doing of coaching2
Purposeful and unintentional: Chinese adolescent golfers in the intergenerational transmission and feedback of cultural capital2
More than just religion ’: a case study of the psychological preparation of an African American division I female golfer at a HBCU2
College athletes’ perceptions and understanding of abortion rights: a Post-Dobbs Study2
Escaping the position as ‘other’: a postcolonial perspective on refugees’ trajectories into volunteering in Danish sports clubs2
Making compromises without a hurting stalemate, the change of the emblem of the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games2
Naturalised athletes as national icons: official and netizen narratives of Eileen Gu in the 2022 Winter Olympics2
Professionalisation of sport coaching from a Scandinavian horizon: an introduction2
Getting a head start: the 2032 Olympic Movement through the preferred candidature bid involving Brisbane, Australia2
The hegemonic impact of the NHL and the ‘Americanization’ of Swedish ice hockey and resistance: Rögle BK as ‘hockey culture’2
The ‘integrative potential’ and socio-political constraints of football in Southeast Europe: a critical exploration of lived experiences of people seeking asylum2
‘Women were just there to ruin his day’: the lived experiences of women golfers and leadership roles in regional Australia2
Centre of the house: youthful dominance and the creation of curling’s age order2
Bondi Days: An Obituary Bondi Days: An Obituary , by Monty Webber. Angourie, New South Wales: Monty Webber, 2022, Pbk: US$11.25, ISBN: 979-883-63-1456-92
‘Basketball can be sold just like Coca-Cola’: an examination of the principle of amateurism in Israeli sport over time2
Sustainability, the Athens Marathon and Greece’s sport event sector: lessons of resilience, social innovation and the urban commons2
Policing football-related violence in the Czech Republic: the football clubs’ quest for profit and security2
Reflections on modern physical activity: how can Graeber’s ideas help us to reconceptualise it and increase the value of play?2
‘Genuinely in love with the game’ football fan experiences and perceptions of women’s football in England2
On the Ball: fan perspectives of a campaign to improve Scottish female football fans’ experiences of menstruation at football matches1
Pixies in a windstorm: Tracing Australian gymnasts’ stories of athlete maltreatment through media data1
Why are there no female coaches in elite women’s soccer? A qualitative study of Spanish female coaches1
Similarities and differences in male and female First Nations hockey players’ experiences of moving away from their home communities to play elite hockey in the Canadian mainstream context1
Global challenges and innovations in sport: effects of Covid-19 on sport1
Football vs. ice hockey in the European sport landscape: an introduction1
Exploring the somatic dimension for sport-based interventions: a refugee’s autoethnography1
‘Nobody needs a label’: responses on Facebook to a Team GB equity, diversity and inclusion initiative1
Big fines and fake signs: lessons for natural recreation resource governance from surfing in the time of COVID-191
Introduction to the special issue—sport, the media and Ireland: intersections of gender, class and geography1
Researching women in sport development: an intersectional approach1
Cricket and climate change: an integrative review1
A double-edged sword: resource dependence of non-profit sports organisations in China within the government service procurement framework1
‘Comfortable in my own skin’: the intersecting identities of Black women student-athletes at an HWIHE1
Reconciliation within the National Rugby League: where art and sport intersect1
Brothers, bruises, and the will to win: a social-ecological hegemony perspective on Swedish ice hockey’s past1
Ice hockey and football in Norway: parallel lines, different levels1
Anti-bribery and corruption in sport mega-events: stakeholder perspectives1
The signification of the body: a sociological field study of body-building and fitness practitioners1
(Re)imagining capoeira: a study of Carybé’s illustrated book Jogo da Capoeira (1951)1
Negotiating Newlands: contesting a Rugby heritage site in Cape Town, South Africa1
Forced migration and sport: an introduction1
The successes and spirit of gravel cycling: providing freedom, challenge, and connection1
An organizational change perspective on the incorporation of parkour in a gymnastics federation1
A collaborative self-study of ethical issues in participatory action research with refugee-background young people in grassroots football1
The video assistant referee (VAR) as neo-coloniality of power? Fan negative reactions to VAR in the 2018 FIFA Men’s World Cup1
A gown called malice: undergraduate PE students’ belonging in university, social-class and race1
Self-organized sports and place: a narrative review accompanied by Gilles Deleuze1
Sport didn’t change the scoreboard. It changed the script1
Mud, sweat and cameras – Irish trail and mountain running vlogging1
I Run, Therefore I Am: Marathon, Body Discipline and Middle-Class Self-Identity1
Listening to football and ice hockey: music practices and supporter agency manifested in Finnish football and ice hockey songs1
Sport for social cohesion: from scoping review to new research directions1
Parent-spectators’ misbehaviour in grassroots football: an explorative qualitative study1
Stadia of Sanctuary? Forced migration, flawed football consumers and refugee supporters clubs1
Fit and proper? Analyzing the potential for illicit activity through English Premier League club ownership structures1
They are not ‘Team New Zealand’ or the ‘New Zealand’ Warriors! An exploration of pseudo-nationalism in New Zealand sporting franchises1
She is a Beijing girl: an examination of how Eileen Gu’s Chinese identity was constructed in Chinese media during the Beijing 2022 Olympics1
The forgotten body: history of sport and physical education for people with physical disabilities in Taiwan, 1945–19711
Media interpretation of sports-related concussion in Irish rugby union: reinforcing or reshaping the sport ethic?1
An exceptional country and city? Football–ice hockey rivalry in modernizing Finland and Helsinki1
The shy girl who became national team captain: a bioecological narrative of an Olympian’s life skills development1
What’s at play? Power, transnational coaches and the global hegemony of performance within Danish elite swimming1
’We too will have to wait a year’: The impacts of COVID-19 and the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games from Brazilian athletes and coaches’ perspectives1
From local passion to global business: the influence of corporate ownership on two Mexican football clubs1
On coaching and the ethics of care: a psychodynamic approach1
Racial diversity in skateboarding: destabilising whiteness, decentring heartlands1
Contextual factors in sport talent identification research1
Critically examining a community-based participatory action research project with forced migrant youth1
Why sports? Sketching a typology of young people’s reasons for taking part in sports1
Stakeholders in venues of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games: a critical analysis1
An analysis of responses on Twitter to the English Premier League’s support for the anti-homophobia rainbow laces campaign1
Research on the memory field and national identity construction in sports museums: taking the ITTF and CTT museum as an example1
New spatial practices in organised sport following COVID-19: the Swedish case1
Football, football and more football? What French children read in the ‘youth’ press1
Global sport mega-events and local community impacts: the case of housing and redevelopment in Porto Alegre at the 2014 Men’s World Cup finals in Brazil1
Media coverage and public opinion of hosting a women’s football mega-event: the English bid for UEFA Women’s Euro 20221
Identity, nationalism and orientalism: media representation of football player Wu Lei in China and Spain1
Understanding change in a sport’s development network: Korean ice hockey and the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Games1
Conceptualising the Global Touristic Football Club1
Money laundering and compliance in professional football: the case of Belgium in light of the new EU AML single rulebook1
(T)racing the Great North Run as a ritual process using GPS mapping1
Envisioning a green modernity? The future of cricket in an age of climate crisis1
On uncertain terrain: how teachers reflect on sexuality in PE and what patterns of action they establish in dealing with students’ sexuality1
Sport and sustainable social development in Ghana: analysing the policy-implementation gap1
A ‘ruthless’ victory? Reactions to the United States women’s national team victory over Thailand in the 2019 world cup1
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