Sport in SocietyPub Date : 2023-10-11DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2023.2262407
Vendula Divišová
{"title":"Policing football-related violence in the Czech Republic: the football clubs’ quest for profit and security","authors":"Vendula Divišová","doi":"10.1080/17430437.2023.2262407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2023.2262407","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractBased on semi-structured interviews with security managers of the Czech football clubs, we addressed their role in countering football-related violence as part of the complex ‘counter-hooligan’ apparatus. We explored how their strategies responded to challenges and dilemmas resulting from the specific configuration of this apparatus, dominated by the idea of the football clubs’ primary responsibility for maintaining security and public order inside stadiums. Primarily, this idea was reflected in the police withdrawal from the stadiums and disciplinary penalties imposed on clubs by the football association. However, without a corresponding shift in the public agencies’ approach to controlling and punishing incidents of football-related violence, the clubs were not able to exclude the problematic minority from their stadiums. Consequently, they employed different informal and sometimes controversial practices, including the deployment of ‘private’ riot squads, and expressed support even for indiscriminate and unpopular measures, such as fan card schemes and biometric identification.Keywords: Football-related violencefootball clubspolicingsecurity measuresdisciplinary penaltystewarding AcknowledgmentsThe author would like to thank the interviewees from the football clubs for their time and honesty in answering the questions and the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and help in improving the manuscript.Disclosure statementThe author reports there are no competing interests to declare.Personal interviewsSecurity manager 1: Bartys, Robert [security manager of FC Fastav Zlín, owner of a private security company B.D.SAFE, s.r.o.] 2018. Personal interview conducted on March 2, 2018, in Uherské Hradiště, Czech Republic.Security manager 2: Černík, Martin [secretary of FC Hradec Králové]. 2019. Personal interview conducted on July 10, 2019, in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.Security manager 3: Jirků, Stanislav [security manager of FC Vysočina Jihlava]. 2018. Personal interview conducted on March 16, 2018, in Jihlava, Czech Republic.Security manager 4: Mück, Miroslav [security manager of FK Dukla Praha]. 2019. Personal interview conducted on July 11, 2019, in Prague, Czech Republic.Security manager 5: Prask, Josef [security manager of AC Sparta Praha]. 2018. Personal interview conducted on February 1, 2018, in Prague, Czech Republic.Security manager 6: Trepeš, Jiří [organisational and operations director of SK Slavia Praha]. 2018. Personal interview conducted on March 21, 2018, in Prague, Czech Republic.Security manager 7: Zapletal, Milan [security and technical manager of SK Sigma Olomouc]. 2018. Personal interview conducted on February 16, 2018, in Olomouc. Czech Republic.Notes1 Throughout the text, we use the adjective ‘counter-hooligan’ as a synonym for ‘countering football-related violence’. As the terms ‘hooliganism’ and ‘hooligan’ are contested (see Frosdick and Marsh Citation2005, 27-29; Pearson Citation2014, 80-82; Tsoukala, Pe","PeriodicalId":47879,"journal":{"name":"Sport in Society","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136212012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sport in SocietyPub Date : 2023-10-09DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2023.2265861
Jiayu Li
{"title":"The Postmodern Picture of Sports Communication: Sports, Media and Culture <b>The Postmodern Picture of Sports Communication: Sports, Media and Culture</b> , by Jianfeng Yang. Shanghai: People’s Publishing House, 2023, p. 183, $7.13 (paperback). ISBN: 978-7-208-17629-4.","authors":"Jiayu Li","doi":"10.1080/17430437.2023.2265861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2023.2265861","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)","PeriodicalId":47879,"journal":{"name":"Sport in Society","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135094247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sport in SocietyPub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2023.2232311
Tarunna Sebastian, Steve Georgakis, John Nauright
{"title":"Traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander games and sports in Australia: new perspectives","authors":"Tarunna Sebastian, Steve Georgakis, John Nauright","doi":"10.1080/17430437.2023.2232311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2023.2232311","url":null,"abstract":"Our paper highlights that the proliferation of Indigenous sport research has not been focused on examining Indigenous games and sports. Additionally, no one has to date produced a framework for understanding them on their own merits even though these games now form part of a national physical education curriculum. The overwhelming majority of research focuses on Indigenous engagement with the British imports of cricket, the rugby codes, soccer, and Australian Rules football. We argue that this focus serves to diminish Indigenous cultures and adaptability to colonial forces, that, while disruptive, never eliminated Indigenous games and sports which go back as far as 60,000 years. We lay out such a framework in the hopes that future research will ensure that Indigenous games and sports are understood historically and in the present day.","PeriodicalId":47879,"journal":{"name":"Sport in Society","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136280243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sport in SocietyPub Date : 2023-09-28DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2023.2262409
Matt Hoven
{"title":"Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America <b>Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America</b> , by Balmer, Randall. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 2022, p. 192, $25 USD (hardcover). ISBN: 978-1-469-67006-5.","authors":"Matt Hoven","doi":"10.1080/17430437.2023.2262409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2023.2262409","url":null,"abstract":"\"Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America.\" Sport in Society, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":47879,"journal":{"name":"Sport in Society","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135388459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sport in SocietyPub Date : 2023-09-20DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2023.2256269
Branden Buehler, Steve Marston
{"title":"Injury videos and the affective potentials of User-Generated sports highlights","authors":"Branden Buehler, Steve Marston","doi":"10.1080/17430437.2023.2256269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2023.2256269","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractIn recent years, one of the historic foundations of sports media, the ‘highlight’, has been refigured as sports fans and other users have created and circulated videos outside of traditional media-institutional spaces. Indicative of this refiguration is the emergence of a new sub-genre of sports highlights: the gruesome injury video. Social networks offer videos that feature catastrophic events (visible bone breaks, etc.) and, in the process, venture into affective realms normally eschewed by mainstream sports media by conjuring the sort of affective excess more commonly associated with fictional ‘body genres’ such as horror and melodrama. With an eye to the context of digital sport media, this article uses close readings to suggest that by deviating from the traditional inoffensive exhilaration of the highlight genre, user-generated sports highlights carry the potential of fostering critical readings of sport typically discouraged by mainstream sports media. Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Game recap: Brady Henderson, ESPN.com, January 9, 2022, “Seattle Seahawks free safety Quandre Diggs carted off after breaking right fibula and dislocating ankle’; https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/33030492/seattle-seahawks-free-safety-quandre-diggs-carted-breaking-right-fibula-dislocating-ankle.2 Sources: gearmast3r. 2014. “Paul George Gruesome Leg Injury in Team USA Basketball Showcase (HD).” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYTA1dRVjnE; NaturallyWild. 2019. “Auburn Gymnastics: Samantha Cerio Breaks Both Legs.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dMYHLhi6QM; TheChickenFingerss. 2013. “Kevin Ware Injury - Louisville vs Duke 2013 Elite Eight.” https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=qoiaUV7fGEI; WatchMojo.com. 2016. “Top 10 Horrific Sports Injuries.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lvzHyOmdUA.3 The term “lowlight” has been used to denote negative sports events, as a kind of alternative to the implied positivity of “highlights.” In this paper we consistently use “highlight,” including in reference to injury videos, as such videos do in fact “highlight” (increase the visibility of) such events.4 Example: watke. Citation2022. “Gregg Berhalter’s behind-the-back passes.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5mfYm9Ijas.5 Example: watke. Citation2021. “Weston McKennie -- Most helpful soccer player in the world.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30AbGAJ5K8I6 As an indication of this event’s long-term resonance, NFL Films released a video, via YouTube, in which Theismann and Lawrence reflect on their collision. Source: NFL Films. 2022. Joe Theismann Relives the Biggest Moments in His Career | A Football Life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcN-miEBYUE7 Example: Don Mega. Citation2019. “Alex Smith Suffers Horrific Leg Injury HD.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qbP1oOypHU8 The comparisons in this article between injury videos and fiction films emerge partially out of necessity, as cognitive-affective approaches to m","PeriodicalId":47879,"journal":{"name":"Sport in Society","volume":"345 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136308210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sport in SocietyPub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2023.2253754
Robyn L. Jones, Charles L. T. Corsby, Andrew Lane
{"title":"Sustaining the unsustainable: meaningful longevity and the doing of coaching","authors":"Robyn L. Jones, Charles L. T. Corsby, Andrew Lane","doi":"10.1080/17430437.2023.2253754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2023.2253754","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47879,"journal":{"name":"Sport in Society","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45965618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sport in SocietyPub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2023.2255552
LaShawn D. Nastvogel
{"title":"‘More than just religion’: a case study of the psychological preparation of an African American division I female golfer at a HBCU","authors":"LaShawn D. Nastvogel","doi":"10.1080/17430437.2023.2255552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2023.2255552","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47879,"journal":{"name":"Sport in Society","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46887112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sport in SocietyPub Date : 2023-08-21DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2023.2248904
J. A. Teixeira da Silva, J. Carboch, C. Deutscher
{"title":"A debate on the use of artificial intelligence, as an electronic line judge, for line calls in tennis","authors":"J. A. Teixeira da Silva, J. Carboch, C. Deutscher","doi":"10.1080/17430437.2023.2248904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2023.2248904","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47879,"journal":{"name":"Sport in Society","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41545291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sport in SocietyPub Date : 2023-08-15DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2023.2246408
Pekka Mertala, Lauri Palsa
{"title":"Running free: recreational runners’ reasons for non-use of digital sports technology","authors":"Pekka Mertala, Lauri Palsa","doi":"10.1080/17430437.2023.2246408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2023.2246408","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47879,"journal":{"name":"Sport in Society","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46560321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sport in SocietyPub Date : 2023-08-12DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2023.2246409
K. Mousset, Jean-Nicolas Renaud
{"title":"A decline in ping-pong in France: rumour or reality? (1934–1939)","authors":"K. Mousset, Jean-Nicolas Renaud","doi":"10.1080/17430437.2023.2246409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2023.2246409","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47879,"journal":{"name":"Sport in Society","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46441786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}