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A Post-Colonialist Critique of the International ‘Movements’ for Gender and Sexuality in Sport
No full textPhysical activity and narratives of successful ageing
No full textThis chapter will present a critical analysis of the coming together of physical activity with narratives of successful ageing/ageing well. I will attempt to make sense of the role of physical activity in later life by providing stories of ageing drawing on narratives from texts including policy documents, public health messages and media reports about the benefits of physical activity for older people. Consideration will be given to the ways in which such texts in neoliberal societies often appear to unquestioningly accept the need for older members of the population to take individual responsibility for engaging in ‘active ageing’ in order to ‘age well’, such that this has become a new framework for, and norm of, ageing. I will then explore some fictional representations of ageing which reinforce these messages, before presenting some examples of the ‘lived experiences’ of being physically active in later life, drawing on a combination of participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and stories written and told by older people. The chapter will also question the extent to which narratives of ageing may present opportunities for older people to resist age-based marginalisation and experience ageing as a positive process, in ways that might inform future policy and practice in making more appropriate provisions for older people’s physical activity
Assessing the Sociology of Sport: On the Trajectory, Challenges, and Future of the Field
Full text linkOn the fiftieth anniversary of the International Sociology of Sport Association and the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, the three guest editors for this special fiftieth anniversary issue of the IRSS, current ISSA president, Elizabeth CJ Pike, the immediate past president, Steven J Jackson, and current IRSS editor, Lawrence A Wenner, introduce the issue’s genesis and theme: ‘50@50: Assessing the trajectory and challenges of the sociology of sport’. In considering the trajectory of the sociology of sport, the ISSA and the IRSS, they reflect on the early development of the field and the founding of an international association and journal aimed at understanding sport in the social and cultural dynamic; they note early and ongoing challenges concerning the academic seating of the field, its legitimacy and impact, and its engagement with the public sphere and the ‘sociological imagination’. Speaking to the challenges of fashioning a special issue to represent the breadth of 50 years of the sociology of sport, the editors outline how a ‘50@50’ strategy was implemented to bring perspectives from 50 notable scholars and to ensure that a diversity of voices was heard, not only on a range of themes, theories and methods, but from diverse identities and locales. Addressing two overarching challenges – the global dominance of English as the lingua franca of scholarly discourse and the need to advance interdisciplinarity and engagement with scholars beyond the sociology of sport – will be key to broadening dialogue to help ensure the future sustainability and progress of the sociology of sport
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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