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Message from the General Editor

Welcome to the Routledge Resources Online – Sport Studies.

This is Vassil Girginov, the General Editor.  I am professor of sport management/development at Brunel University London. I also serve as the President of the European Association for Sport Management.

Sport is intrinsically intertwined with the history of human civilization. It is present in the daily lives of people as a form of physical activity, leisure, transportation, career, business and entertainment.

Naturally, sport has been studied from a range of theoretical perspectives and disciplines to inform teaching, learning, policy making and personal and social development.  The core purpose of this resource is to ensure that students of sport learn the complex nature of this cultural phenomenon.  Subject to discussion have been the evolving relationship of sport with society, its contribution to personal and nation building, the teaching, researching and promotion of sport as well as its various impacts on individuals, communities and society.

In this resource, you will find entries on a wide range of topics, generally organized into categories, including:

• • •      Sport History

• • •      Sport Sociology

• • •      Sport Education

• • •      Sport Development

• • •      Sport Business and Marketing

• • •      Sport Philosophy

• • •      Sport Performance

• • •      Sport Events

• • •      Sport for Disabled

• • •      Sport Research

• • •      Sport and Wellbeing

Each section is led by an editor who is an international authority in their field. The section editors have secured, through peer review, strong contributions that convey the complexity of sport and its relationship with society.  I hope you will find these entries useful as you consider the complex and exciting world of sport.

Vassil Girginov, General Editor

Vassil Girginov, Ph.D., is Professor of Sport Management/Development and Director of the Joint Sport Business programme at Brunel University London having previously worked in higher educational institutions in Bulgaria and Canada. He is a visiting professor at KU Leuven (Belgium), Russian International Olympic University, research fellow at Stellenbosch University (South Africa), as well as a General Editor of the Sport Management Digest. He has published numerous articles on sport development, governance, policy making, mega sport events legacy as well as books, such as Routledge Handbook of the London Olympic and Paralympic Games (V1&2), Sport Management Cultures and Rethinking Olympic Legacy.

Email: vassil.girginov@brunel.ac.uk

Website: https://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/vassil-girginov

Yuhei Inoue – Sport, Health and Wellbeing

Yuhei Inoue, Ph.D., is a Reader in Sport Management and Faculty Deputy Head of Research Degrees in the Faculty of Business & Law at Manchester Metropolitan University. As an author of 60+ journal articles and book chapters, he is a leading expert in the management of sport organisations, events, and programmes for positive social impacts, with particular emphasis on health and wellbeing outcomes. Yuhei is an Associate Editor for Sport Management Review and served as a Co-Guest Editor for a special issue of Journal of Sport Management, entitled “Transformative Sport Service Research: Linking Sport Services with Well-being.” He is a Research Fellow for the North American Society for Sport Management.

Risto Marttinen – Sport Education

Risto Marttinen is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at George Mason University in Virginia, USA. He earned an Ed.D. from Columbia University Teachers College in 2015. His research revolves around implementing sustainable and educational after-school physical education programs in elementary and middle schools. These programs specialize in sports and fitness in under-served communities while reinforcing character development and academics. Additionally, he conducts research on the integration of academic subjects and technology into PE. Risto also sits on the board of directors and is the Secretary General for AIESEP, and is on the executive committee for SIG 93 (the special interest group for PE) for AERA and a facilitator for the PETE Collaborative.

Milena Parent – Sport Events

Milena M. Parent, PhD, is a Full Professor at the University of Ottawa in Canada. She is also the Director of the Olympic Solidarity-supported MEMOS (Executive Masters in Sport Organisation Management) English Program. Prof. Parent’s expertise is sport (event) governance. She teaches courses on organization theory and strategic management, as well as sport event management. She sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Sport Management and Sport Management Review and is Deputy Editor of Event Management. Besides her academic positions, she is a member of the Canadian Sport Policy’s Policy Implementation and Monitoring Work Group, the Policy Renewal Work Group, and the Surveillance and Monitoring Work Group. Prof. Parent also consults for various national and international sport and governmental organizations in matters of sport governance and sport event bidding/planning. Finally, she has participated in various local to international sport event organizing committees like the 2001 Jeux de la Francophonie and 2010 Olympic Winter Games, as an athlete, coach, volunteer, or manager.

Francisco Javier López Frías – Sport Philosophy

Francisco Javier López Frías is an associate professor in the Department of Kinesiology and a senior research associate in the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State. He also holds courtesy appointments in Philosophy and the Bioethics Program. Lopez Frias is the current President of the Spanish Association of the Philosophy of Sport (AEFD) and has held executive positions in the European Association for the Philosophy of Sport (EAPS), the Latin Association for the Philosophy of Sport (ALFiD), and the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport (IAPS). He researches sports ethics, the philosophy of games, and human enhancement, but is also interested in political philosophy, normative ethics, and applied ethics. Lopez Frias has authored multiple papers in international journals, as well as book chapters, book reviews, and books in the philosophy of sport.

Guillaume Bodet, Sport Marketing

Guillaume Bodet, Ph.D., is Professor of Sport Management and Marketing and the current Dean of UFR STAPS – the School of Sport Sciences – at the University of Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), France. He is the programme director for the MSc in Sport Management and a member of the Laboratory of Vulnerabilities and Innovation in Sport from UCBL. He is also an adjunct professor at the School of Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa (Canada). His research interests deal with sport marketing, branding, and consumption of sport services, products, events, and brands. He has been involved in numerous journals’ editorial board and is currently the journal editor of Management & Organisations du Sport, the open-access scientific journal of the French speaking sport management community the Société Savante de Management du Sport (S2MS), for which he is also an administrator. He is also the co-editor of the Book Series of the European Association for Sport Management (EASM) published by Routledge – Taylor & Francis.

Caroline Sunderland, Sport Performance

Caroline Sunderland is an Associate Professor in Environmental and Sports Physiology at Nottingham Trent University. She is a BASES accredited Sport and Exercise Scientist for both Sports Science Support and Research and has been awarded the BASES Fellowship. Dr Sunderland’s research interests lie within the area of exercise physiology and encompass exercise in extreme environments, team sports physiology and exercise responses of females.  In particular, she is interested in interventions to improve exercise performance in the heat; appetite regulation in extreme environments; training, nutrition and talent identification for football, hockey and rugby; and the effects of the menstrual cycle and oral contraceptives on metabolism and performance of females during exercise. She has over 100 publications.

David L. Andrews – Sport Sociology

David L. Andrews is Professor of Physical Cultural Studies in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland, College Park.  His research utilizes a combination of a conjunctural cultural studies and assemblage theory, in contextualizing the material, expressive, and affective dimensions of contemporary sport and physical culture.  More specifically his work contextualizes sport and physical culture in relation to the intersecting cultural, political, economic, and technological forces shaping contemporary U.S. society.  He has published in a broad range of academic journals, including and his books include: Making Sport Great Again?: The Uber-Sport Assemblage, Neoliberalism, and the Trump Conjuncture (2019, Palgrave); Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body: Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies (edited with Josh Newman and Holly Thorpe, 2020, Rutgers University Press); Sport and Physical Culture in Global Pandemic Times: COVID Assemblages (edited with Holly Thorpe and Josh Newman, 2023, Palgrave), Sociocultural Issues in Physical Activity (edited with Robert Pitter and Josh Newman, 2023, Human Kinetics), and Lives in the Fast Lane: Essays on the History and Politics of Motor Racing (edited with Damion Sturm and Stephen Wagg, 2023, Palgrave).  In addition to acting as an associate editor for the Journal of Social Issues, Dr. Andrews has served on the editorial boards of the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Sociology of Sport Journal, Communication and Sport, Celebrity Studies, Quest, and Leisure Studies.

Shannon Jette – Sport Sociology

Dr. Shannon Jette is an Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work spans the fields of sport sociology, feminist science & technology studies (STS), and sociology of health and the body. Her research is unified by a feminist-informed social justice agenda that seeks to: question taken-for-granted knowledge about the gendered body; inform the creation of more equitable policy and service provision; and create space for alternative ways of knowing and experiencing the body that promotes wellness in movement. Jette’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, and her scholarship has been published in such journals as Health, Risk & Society, Sociology of Health & Illness, Leisure Sciences, Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, and the Sociology of Sport Journal. She has served as an Associate Editor for the Sociology of Sport Journal and on the editorial boards of Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health and the Sociology of Sport Journal.

Emma Sherry – Sport Development

Emma Sherry is Dean of the School of Management at RMIT University in the College of Business and Law. Emma is a people leader in the higher education sector, leading large teams to achieve research and education outcomes.

Emma’s current research interests include community development through sport activities, undertaking a broad range of research projects with national and regional sport organisations in Australia and globally. Recent research has included access and equity in sport participation, sports’ contribution to the sustainable development agenda, and sport and recreation for at-risk and marginalised communities. Emma is currently supervising a number of PhD students in the areas of: sport for development, wearable tracking devices for high performance athletes and social impact of sport for Australian Indigenous communities.

Emma sits on Advisory Boards for the Australian Sport Innovation Centre of Excellence, Our Watch Sport Media Group and Sport Inclusion Australia. Emma is also on the editorial board of Journal of Sport Management, Sport Management Review, Communications and Sport Journal, and European Sport Management Quarterly.

Outside of her academic career, Emma has worked in roles in the area of sport facility and event management and recreation management within the local government and university sport sectors. Emma has held board positions at Vicsport, Tennis Victoria, and the Melbourne Olympic Park Trust.

Christos Anagnostopoulos, Sport Business

Dr. Christos Anagnostopoulos is an Assistant Professor in Sport Management at the College of Science and Engineering, where he teaches the MSc in Sport and Entertainment Management program, a joint program with the University of South Carolina (USA). Prior to this, he was the Deputy Head of the School of Business and Management at UCLan Cyprus and an Associate Professor in Sport Management at Molde University College, Norway.

He is an editorial board member in nine international scientific journals related to sport management, and he has more than 120 scientific publications (books, articles, international conferences). Since 2017, he has secured more than three million euros from leading and/or participating in seven European research projects dealing with sport governance, social responsibility and entrepreneurship in sport. In 2018, he was commissioned by the highest authority of sport in the Republic of Cyprus to write the first ever Code of Good Governance for the national sport federations, while in 2021 he was appointed as the sole consultant for the development of a multi-criteria evaluation scheme that assesses the performance of the national sport federations. He recently established the UNESCO Chair on Governance and Social Responsibility in Sport at UCLan Cyprus where he serves as the Director and one of the two co-chair holders.

James Skinner, Sport Research

James is the Dean of Newcastle Business School, University of Newcastle, Australia and a Professor of Sport Business. Prior to this appointment he was the Director for the Institute for Sport Business at Loughborough University,London. Previous appointments include: Head of the Department of Tourism Hotel and Sport Management within the Griffith Business School. James is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Russian International Olympic University and a Visiting Professor at Beijing Sport University and Ulster University, as well as continuing as a Visiting Professor in Sport Business at Loughborough University London.

His research interests are in change, culture, innovation and leadership. He has completed extensive funded research in anti-doping, written on the role of sport in building social capital and published seminal work on research design and methods for sport business. James has consulted with multinational companies, marketing agencies and broadly across the sport industry. He was a Board member and Director of Football Queensland and is currently the Director of Research and Innovation with AIScout.

Former Section Editors

Murray Phillips, Sport History

University of Queensland, Australia

Laura Misener – Sport and Disability

University of Western Ontario, Canada

Editorial Advisors

Sport and Disability

Paul Kitchen, Ulster University, UK pjkitchin@ulster.ac.uk

Simon Darcy, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia simon.darcy@uts.edu.au

Sport Business

Geraldine Zeimers, Catholic University, Louvain, Belgium, Geraldine.zeimers@uclouvain.be

Mathew Dowling, Anglia Ruskin University, UK mathew.dowling@aru.ac.uk

Minjung Kim, Texas A&M University, USA, m.kim@tamu.edu

Sport Development

Jon Welty Peachey, Gordon College, Boston, USA

Katherine Raw, Western Sydney University, Australia, k.raw@westernsydney.edu.au

Sport Education

Tom Quarmby, Leeds Beckett University, UK, t.quarmby@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

Michael Hemphill, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA, mahemphi@uncg.edu

Laura Alfrey, Monash University, Australia, laura.alfrey@monash.edu

Sport Events

Holger Preuss, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, preuss@uni-mainz.de

Jean-Loup Chappelet, Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration, Switzerland jean-loup.chappelet@unil.ch

Laurence Chalip, George Mason University, USA, lchalip@gmu.edu

Sheranne Fairley, University of Queensland, Australia, s.fairley1@uq.edu.au

Sport History

David Wiggins, George Mason University, USA, dwiggin1@gmu.edu

Jennifer Guiliano, Indiana University, USA, guiliano@iupui.edu

Sport Performance

Mustafa Sarkar, Nottingham Trent University, UK Mustafa.sarkar@ntu.edu

Stuart McErlain-Naylor, Loughborough University, UK S.A.McErlain-Naylor@lboro.ac.uk

Sport Philosophy

Ana Zimmermann, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil ana.zimmermann@usp.br

Alfred Archer, Tilburg University, Netherlands, a.t.m.archer@tilburguniversity.edu

John William Devine, Swansea University, UK j.w.devine@swansea.ac.uk

Kenneth Aggerholm, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Norway, kennetha@nih.no

Mizuho Takemura, Nihon Fukushi University, Japan, takemura@n-fukushi.ac.jp

Sarah Teetzel, University of Manitoba, Canada, sarah.teetzel@umanitoba.ca

Sport Research

Holly Collison, Loughborough University, UK H.Collison@lboro.ac.uk

Lauren Burch, Loughborough University, UK L.Burch@lboro.ac.uk

Sport Sociology

Holly Thorpe, University of Waikato, New Zealand, holly.thorpe@waikato.ac.nz

Janelle Joseph, University of Toronto, Canada, janelle.joseph@utoronto.ca

Jess Francombe-Webb, University of Bath, UK J.M.Francombe-Webb@bath.ac.uk

Jorge Dorfman Knijnik, Western Sydney University, Australia, J.Knijnik@westernsydney.edu.au

Josh Newman, Florida State University, USA, jinewman@fsu.edu

Tricia McGuire-Adams, University of Alberta, Canada mcguirea@ualberta.ca

Sport, Health and Wellbeing

Brennan Berg, University of Mississippi, USA, bkberg@olemiss.edu

Carolina Lundqvist, Linkoping University, Sweden, carolina.lundqvist@liu.se

Mikihiro Sato, University of Illinois, USA, mikisato@illinois.edu