International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Ahead of Print. This paper represents a pioneering attempt to study corruption in sports within the Western Balkans countries. Even though it is not a new phenomenon, as such, it aims to contribute to th…
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Ahead of Print. This article is concerned with an emerging trend in political participation: the role played by football fans in engendering activism and protest. The role of fan activism in the debate o…
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Ahead of Print. The present study aims to identify the societal implications of the first-ever Iranian female medalist in the Olympics to date. We explored the meanings given to Kimia Alizadeh’s success …
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Ahead of Print. Contemporary sport governance contexts are marked by a trend towards efficiency-based board composition and an increasing use of instruments aimed to (re)shape boards. Yet, democratic gov…
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Ahead of Print. This study explores the meanings given to race/ethnicity by Polish commentators covering games of the Polish national football team on TV. There will be an explicit focus on how such patt…
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Ahead of Print. Association football has been viewed as an industry with considerable lucrative career prospects; however, this has not prevented the use of unpaid staff throughout football in the UK. Th…
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Ahead of Print. Racist stacking is a phenomenon in team sports in which Black players are underrepresented in tactical and leading positions, while they are overrepresented in decentralized and physical …
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Ahead of Print. Mountains have long been dominated by men and hypermasculine practices. Women have worked hard to find a legitimate space in them. This paper is drawn from a qualitative study which explo…
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Ahead of Print. This conceptual article advances the value of Bourdieu’s practice theory and physical capital as a tool to understand the various types of painkiller (mis)use in sport. Consuming painkill…
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Ahead of Print. Scholarship on college athlete identity has increased within recent decades; however, there remains a dearth of literature centred on identity and Black male college athletes. While athle…