{"title":"An Introduction to \"50 Years: The North American Society for Sport History (NASSH)\"","authors":"L. Pieper, Carly Adams","doi":"10.5406/21558450.48.3.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21558450.48.3.02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sport history","volume":"48 1","pages":"249 - 254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42862698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Looking at the Past, Thinking about the Future: The Journal of Sport History","authors":"Andrew D. Linden, A. Wrynn","doi":"10.5406/21558450.48.3.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21558450.48.3.12","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:As the articles in this special issue have shown, the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH), and the discipline of sport history more broadly, has changed in many ways over the past fifty years. Since 1974, NASSH has published the Journal of Sport History (JSH), which includes peer-reviewed, primary-sourced, and historiographical articles; book, film, and museum reviews; research notes; and forums dedicated to the history of sport and physical culture. Throughout its near half-century run, the JSH has established itself as one of the leading platforms for such scholarship. The journal also provides a lens into the changes that have happened in the field of sport history and within NASSH over time. This article provides a brief timeline of the early years of the JSH, along with an overview of its editorship history. Furthermore, the article examines scholarship throughout the run of the journal and discusses current issues and future directions. Finally, we conclude by sharing our concerns and hopes for the future of the JSH and NASSH.","PeriodicalId":38734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sport history","volume":"48 1","pages":"414 - 424"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49347172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Public Health Approaches to Sport History","authors":"K. Bachynski","doi":"10.5406/21558450.48.3.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21558450.48.3.11","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article explores public health approaches to sport history as an important direction for the field. Several histories have examined the professionalization of sports medicine, athletic training, and other related fields, providing insight into the relationship between medical specialties and sports. Yet broader historical examinations of the relationship between population health and sport remain relatively limited. In many ways, sports have been historically celebrated as fostering health, with athletic participation regarded as a source of physical, mental, social, and educational benefits connected with key cultural values. On the other hand, sports have also been decried for their harmful health effects, from acute and chronic injuries to hazing and abuse. The COVID-19 pandemic, and its profound implications for sports at all levels, only heightens the need for more research that places the intersection of sports and public health in historical context.","PeriodicalId":38734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sport history","volume":"48 1","pages":"397 - 413"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48643528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues / En los barrios y las grandes ligas by Margaret N. Salazar-Porzio, Adrian Burgos, and Robin Morey (review)","authors":"A. Nuñez","doi":"10.5406/21558450.48.2.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21558450.48.2.21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sport history","volume":"48 1","pages":"221 - 222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42779275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"(Re)Presenting 1981","authors":"Sebastian Potgieter","doi":"10.5406/21558450.48.2.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21558450.48.2.07","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The extent to which historians impose themselves on the past through their narratives remains contentious. While historians of sport have engaged these debates, most continue to assume a realist correspondence between historical narratives and the past. In this paper, I draw on Hayden White's model of narrative explanation to analyze two competing narratives on the 1981 Springbok rugby tour of New Zealand. The first is provided by Ross Meurant who served as a police officer during the 1981 tour; the second comes from antitour activist Geoff Chapple. White's model focuses on the form of historical narratives and directs attention to their tropes, emplotments, arguments, and ideologies. As well as evaluating the two contrasting narratives about the tour, I also respond to critiques of White's work in order to assess its merits for sport historians.","PeriodicalId":38734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sport history","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47061105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Beginning of Boxing in Britain, 1300—1700 by Arly Allen (review)","authors":"M. Huggins","doi":"10.5406/21558450.48.2.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21558450.48.2.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sport history","volume":"48 1","pages":"207 - 209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70697809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sports in African American Life: Essays on History and Culture by Drew D. Brown (review)","authors":"Brett Bebber","doi":"10.5406/21558450.48.2.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21558450.48.2.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sport history","volume":"48 1","pages":"209 - 210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41377896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feminist Softball as Everyday Utopia","authors":"M. Adams","doi":"10.5406/21558450.48.2.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21558450.48.2.02","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In 1987, Susan Birrell and Diana Richter wrote “Is a Diamond Forever?” a study of feminist softball teams and their players’ efforts to use sport as a vehicle of political transformation, one of several pieces in which Birrell takes up sport as a feminist strategy. In this essay, I discuss the article as a historical artifact, contextualizing it in relation to intersectional critiques of second-wave feminism that readers might bring to it today. I argue that Birrell and Richter's emphasis on feminist attempts to transform sport remain relevant in a context where some progressive scholarship tends to prioritize critique over concrete change. I suggest that the feminist softball discussed by Birrell and Richter serves as an example of prefigurative or utopian politics or, in other words, activism through which people try to put their visions of socially just futures into practice. “Is a Diamond Forever?” reminds us of the feminist history of creative efforts to transform conventional models of sport and to engage the “potentialities” of sport in the project of making a better world.","PeriodicalId":38734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sport history","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44183753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tuesdays with Susan","authors":"Eileen Narcotta-Welp, Dain Tepoel","doi":"10.5406/21558450.48.2.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21558450.48.2.05","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The indelible 1993 film, Rudy, about a working-class man from the deindustrializing U.S. Midwest, serves as a backdrop for our discussion of Susan Birrell's lasting legacy in sport studies and sport history. As two of Dr. Birrell's former teaching assistants at the University of Iowa, who attended lectures and screenings for an undergraduate Sport and Film class every Tuesday evening throughout numerous semesters, we focus our gaze on one of her most underappreciated analytical and methodological interventions: intertextuality. We expand on our memories and discuss how we, as instructors, would have our students engage with intertextuality, using Rudy and the current texts of “Rudy II,” a 2019 Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial, and “Robbie,” a 2020 Saturday Night Live skit. These sources, when analyzed together, reveal the reproduction of white, middle-class values in sport film. Therefore, critical cultural perspectives and intertextual approaches to sport film, what we describe as a “Birrellian” legacy, continue to matter as ways for students and scholars to interrogate and engage in broader social and political discourses.","PeriodicalId":38734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sport history","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46363251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Figure of the Sportswoman, Sport, and Nationalism in Burma, 1956–70","authors":"Joann Losavio","doi":"10.5406/21558450.48.2.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21558450.48.2.04","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The idealized figure of the \"Burmese Sportswoman\" as a narrative device in the development of Burmese nationalism is the subject of this essay. Burmese womanhood was an important vehicle in state reproduction in the mid-twentieth century, used by the state to communicate and define national identity. The Burmese Sportswoman was a subset of the larger archetype of the Burmese Woman, and the ways in which the state mobilized the Sportswoman to advance nationalism differed from its parent. Sport as a medium of delivery altered the ways in which the Burmese Sportswoman and female athletes carried out the state's agenda. Through an intertextual and visual analysis of the Burmese Sportswoman against the Burmese Woman, this article illuminates the significance of the Sportswoman figure and the role of sport in the matrix of power in postcolonial Burma.","PeriodicalId":38734,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sport history","volume":"48 1","pages":"135 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42540038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}