Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 256944 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen |
| NOMBRES | Jan Andre Lee |
| APELLIDO | Ludvigsen |
| FIRMA | LUDVIGSEN J A L |
| AFILIACIONES | Liverpool John Moores University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0085-2321 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 56 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 87 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Intergenerational (In) Securities in English Football Fandom
The article advances scholarship on intergenerational space, insecurity and risk, by examining the ongoing transformation of English football fandom as an apposite case study of the emergent uncertainties, and distrust in the generational timescape of British society. Despite significant changes in the finances, infrastructure and scale of the national sport over the past four decades, football stadia remain a key focal point for fan communities …
‘Underneath the shirt or the scarf is an ordinary person’
The globalization of risk has restructured the roles and interactions between states, corporations, and civil society actors. This paper examines how movements and collective action contest risk-based narratives by linking specific issues to wider ideals of democracy, citizenship, human rights and civil liberties. By stretching Beck’s under-developed concepts of risk dramaturgy and democratization strategies into new settings, this article explor…
Top-down and bottom-up authenticity
The need and desire for authenticity has become a central feature of modern life as people and cultures look to access ‘realness’ across a world in which much has become increasingly commodified, virtual and/or un-real. The field of professional sport is indicative of this trend. Specifically, the marketization of the English Premier League (EPL) and adjunct fan culture edifies both the use and exploitation of authenticity in the pursuit of finan…
Children’s rights and the 2026 Fifa Men’s World Cup
Over the past decade, growing demands for transparency, good governance, and human rights have prompted reforms in global football. Accordingly, FIFA revised its bidding process for the 2026 Men’s World Cup, incorporating references to universal human rights standards. However, awarding the tournament to the United States, Canada, and Mexico, countries with divergent commitments to international human rights law expose legal and normative tension…
Legacies of dialogue, risk and securitization
Sociologists of sport have explored how the transformation of European football is characterized by a movement for stronger, democratic and citizen-centred supporter dialogue and governance. Whilst research has analysed mobilizations on citizenship and democracy, it neglects the longer-term, relational–temporal field in which such mobilizations are embedded. We address this gap by investigating and theorizing the regulatory timescape of European …
For me, the most important issue is the games themselves’
This article explores the ways in which activists contest Olympic-related security and surveillance measures. The Olympics bring about some of the largest security operations globally and, by drawing upon qualitative data, the article questions (1) how ‘anti-Olympic’ activists contest practices, technologies and legacies of security, and (2) how these activists can be situated within a wider social space – a security field – structured around sec…
Digital sovereignty and leisure
This paper puts into conversation the concepts of platformisation, digital sovereignty, and leisure by exploring the shift to Bluesky during the legal suspension of X in Brazil between 30th August and 8th October 2024. To analyse the impact on Brazilian users of the Supreme Court decision to block access to X’s servers during this period, we map the adoption and use of Bluesky by the 20 football clubs playing in the Brazilian first division. We u…
Forbidden Fruits? Institutional Rules, Agency, and Structure in European Football
This paper investigates the contested regulation of alcohol, standing and pyrotechnics in European men's football, utilizing Giddens’ structuration theory. Specifically, we analyze how the regulation of these three practices—representing key expressions of football supporter culture inside the stadia—reveals the making of a spatio-historically significant structure that is constantly “on-the-move” and co-produced by processes of institutional con…
Towards a children’s rights-based approach to EU sports policy
This conceptual article adopts a normative approach and argues the case for a children’s rights-based approach to European Union (EU) sports policy. Such a proposition, it is contended, remains especially important in the contemporary context of academic and policy debates surrounding both (1) human rights breaches in sport, and (2) the evolution of EU sports policy. Despite these debates, however, the role of the EU within the sport and children…
Platformization, cultural practices, and patterns of (dis)continuity
This article examines processes related to platformization in the case of 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. By focusing specifically on how this World Cup edition was produced and consumed on TikTok, we primarily are concerned with how World Cup-related content was engaged with by users who, in this case, are assumed also to be fans, or followers of football. By drawing together insights from digital sociology, the sociology of football, and the cultu…
Football Supporters’ Rights in Europe
Over several decades, scholars have demonstrated that, across contested spaces of leisure, the policing of football supporters raises questions speaking to their human rights and civil liberties, including the right to leisure. As this article argues, the recent, separate but consistent issues at high-profile European football events (2021-24) are emblematic of this. Yet, these events have been followed by institutional discursive emphases upon t…
Contestations over risk expertise, definitions and insecurities
This article advances sociological debates which, since the 1990s, have proliferated over the nature of ‘risk’ and ‘insecurity’ in modern societies. Central here is Ulrich Beck’s work, dealing with questions regarding which expert systems and institutions possess the ability to define what constitutes a risk or not. For Beck, hegemonic relations of definitions are central in the identification and construction of risk. However, risks are conteste…
Challenging (platformisation) invisibilities through humour
The penetration of social media platforms in the cultural production and consumption circuits of sport mega-events means that organisations like the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) are afforded new and alternative channels to engage with their audiences. TikTok, one of the largest platforms, is characterised by a higher degree of playfulness and humorous content and has been used to mobilise audiences for prosocial political aims. Using …
Communities of Risk and Cosmopolitanism? A Comparative Study of Football Supporters' Resistance to Processes of Risk and (in)Security
In the sociology of risk, existing literature commonly highlights the catastrophic nature of ‘risk’. Following Ulrich Beck's theories, however, the (world) risk society also presents opportunities for cosmopolitan risk communities that emerge from shared experiences of risks and threats, whereby social actors mobilize in a response to experiences of risk. Though, a sociological puzzle—which this paper tackles—relates to what these risk communitie…
Football Crowds, Protestors, and Visions of Transnational (Dis)order on the EU Level
The platformisation of consumer culture in and through football
This paper advances an understanding of the platformisation of society through the prism of global football. With an analysis of four continental club competitions’ presence on Instagram and Facebook, this article seeks to question expressions of algorithmic consumer culture. Particularly, the article explores how users’ (dis)engagement with branded content on the relevant platforms speaks to processes of ‘algorithmic resistance’ but simultaneous…
Towards a Beckian Approach to Social Movements
By drawing upon concepts from Ulrich Beck's work on risk, reflexivity, contestation, and subpolitical power, this article produces an understanding of social movement−based critiques of surveillance and argues for the promise of Beckian (conceptual) approaches in analyses of social movements' power. While Beck argued, in his final book, that intensified surveillance constitutes a new epoch of the 'risk society', characterized by global digital fr…
European football fans' resistance and protest in the face of legal restrictions
Scholars have established that European football represents an important domain for protest and resistance. While European football has undergone significant political, economic and social transformations, football supporters have adopted various tools of resistance when faced with these processes. Legal restrictions and security measures imposed on football supporters represent highly contested areas of football. Although existing case studies a…
In the shadow of sport mega-events
This paper explores what has been described as the 'dark side' of sport mega-events - namely, processes of gentrification and mega-event-induced human evictions and displacements. Whilst researchers have established the regularity of such practices before and during sport mega-events, and that children inevitably are among the displaced, this research has, hitherto, seldom been synthesized within the broader children's rights context. In doing so…
The Global Security Field of Sports and How the World Health Organization Shapes Mega-Events in a (Post-)Pandemic World
In a (post-)pandemic age, it is important to explore which actors and institutions that shape global sport. Sport can be viewed as made up by interrelationships between different social actors, including international organizations. By utilizing existing theoretical insights related to the notion of social fields, this article explores how what is approached as a 'global security field of sport' was shaped by the World Health Organization (WHO) d…
Human Rights and Leisure
Beyond ‘good’ and ‘bad’ fans
This article explores mechanisms enabling football fans’ position as a (safety) stakeholder in the context of European football. It is clear that fans, in the eyes of some football and political authorities, are considered to be ‘potential troublemakers’ or ‘risks’ that must be governed or controlled. However, at the same time, fans are also increasingly considered as contributors towards ‘safe’, ‘secure’, and ‘enjoyable’ football events. Borrowi…
Defining and controlling violent fandom in Europe
This article situates ‘football hooliganism’ in Europe within a historical and contemporary security knowledge continuum. It adds to recent academic debates on the issue by addressing how shortcomings regarding the academic and legal definition of ‘hooliganism’ and the phenomenon’s complex web of overlapping identities have enabled law enforcers’ dominant definitional power in counter-hooliganism policies. The latent consequences of this arguably…
A roundtable discussion on the politics of Euro 2024
Every European Football Championship raises a host of important politicalquestions. Euro 2024 in Germany was no exception in this regard, as thiscommentary demonstrates. This roundtable discussion – in form of miniessays – reconsiders this politicized event. Indeed, this collectively writtencommentary involves short, but sharp insights from five scholars aimingto provide a responsive account of politically significant moments ortrends at before, …
Conceptualizing a ‘power game field’ through the case of ‘ Padrão Fifa
A central question within social theorization relates to the rescaling of ‘power’ in a globalized world. This paper advances sociological debates on power by cross-pollinating Beck’s power game theory with Bourdieu’s field. Hence, it conceptualizes what we call a ‘power game field’. This captures the power competition that cuts across local, national and global fields and involves, likewise, local, national and transnational actors whose capital …
From television to YouTube
Technological changes have dramatically transformed the ways in which contemporary sport mega-events are produced and consumed worldwide. As the production and consumption of these global spectacles have moved beyond the traditional television and radio broadcast, this article examines and reflects on the hyper-digitalisation of sport mega-events. More specifically, we explore how one emerging platform presents a window for examining questions of…
Sport mega-event governance and human rights
In recent years, the discourses surrounding human rights and sport mega-events (SMEs) have grown immensely. These are often directed towards sport’s governing bodies responsible for the administration of these mega-events. Tapping into the growing scholarship, this article aims to advance the fields of sport, leisure and human rights. By reconsidering the commercial nature of sports’ governing bodies (focusing on IOC and FIFA), we argue that what…
Foreign ownerships’ in the Premier League
The ‘foreign ownerships’ apparent in the English Premier League have received little academic attention, despite being a controversial issue for football fans and commentators. This study examines local Liverpool Football Clubs fans’ perceptions of the clubs’ American ownership and to what extent criticism aimed at the owners are framed in terms of nationality. Hence, data from the ‘Red and White Kop’s’ online message board (found at www.redandwh…
Lockdown leisure
This editorial sets the scene for this special issue by unpacking the concept of ‘lockdown leisure’ as closely linked with the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic which spread globally in early 2020 and throughout 2021 and 2022. It provides a snapshot of the parameters of lockdown leisure, outlines the separate articles in this special issue, and considers the medium-to-long term implications of the pandemic for leisure studies. By incor…
Transnational fan reactions to transnational trends
Despite claims that local and transnational supporters in the English Premier League (EPL) may be closer to each other in terms of commitment and ‘authenticity’, than often imagined, our knowledge about how transnational fans, as one of EPL’s global components, responds to other global developments in the league is limited, given what is known about traditional fans’ meeting with EPL’s ‘global powers’. This research investigates perspectives and …
Safety and Security Battles
This article advances recent debates on social movement (relational) fields, outcomes, and successes by suggesting that the analysis of such fields as a whole must be temporal. The relational interpersonal and intersubjective choices made by interdependent actors in social life take place in fields of interaction, but these interactions and their networks of social relations have a history. Hence, the social movement field is characterised by mul…
Theorizing surveillance and social spacing through football
This article critically examines the temporal mobilizations of a 25‐year football supporter social movement against the all‐seating (stadia) legislation in England and Wales, to unpack, and advance, (neo‐)Foucauldian panoptic theorizations of surveillance power and counter‐power. Drawing upon prior empirically informed analysis of this movement; ‘Safe Standing’, the article interrogates new policy‐based outcomes, including the early adoption of ‘…
Between security and festivity
This article investigates the multiple operational and socio-cultural roles of 'fan zones' at contemporary sport mega-events (SMEs) from stakeholder perspectives. Fan zones, with their giant screens, are locations for public viewing events for fans without stadium tickets. They are also popular pre- and post-match destinations for football (soccer) fans with stadium tickets. Since the mid-2000s they have become central to the hosting of mega-even…
Examining Stakeholder Outlooks on Football Policing and Security
In the case of the 2020 Union of European Football Associations European Championship in men's football (‘Euro 2020’), this article investigates stakeholder perceptions on the ‘policing’ of fans. On a European-wide scale, the policing of fans is a contested topic. Meanwhile, the policing and security efforts required for sport mega-events like Euro 2020, uniquely planned to be staged in 12 different countries, require years of planning and enormo…
A Security Theater of Dreams
On May 15, 2016, reports emerged of a “suspect package” inside Old Trafford minutes before kick-off in Manchester United’s game versus Bournemouth. The “suspect package,” causing a full-scale evacuation, and match postponement, turned out to be a “fake bomb” accidently left following a security exercise. Minimal social research investigates responses from supporters to “security” and “safety” at large sports events. Although the “suspect package,…
Sport mega-events and security
Following 9/11, the security at sport mega-events (SMEs) has become increasingly central. Yet, this is an area where numerous scholars have called for further academic attention. The FIFA World Cups are commonly seen as the largest SME in the world, and will in 2018, be held in Russia. However, the existing trends of spectator violence and terrorism, in addition to the political situation in Russia, and concerns over a violent, racist, football c…
Challenging (platformisation) invisibilities through humour
The penetration of social media platforms in the cultural production and consumption circuits of sport mega-events means that organisations like the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) are afforded new and alternative channels to engage with their audiences. TikTok, one of the largest platforms, is characterised by a higher degree of playfulness and humorous content and has been used to mobilise audiences for prosocial political aims. Using …
The platformisation of consumer culture in and through football
This paper advances an understanding of the platformisation of society through the prism of global football. With an analysis of four continental club competitions’ presence on Instagram and Facebook, this article seeks to question expressions of algorithmic consumer culture. Particularly, the article explores how users’ (dis)engagement with branded content on the relevant platforms speaks to processes of ‘algorithmic resistance’ but simultaneous…
European football fans' resistance and protest in the face of legal restrictions
Scholars have established that European football represents an important domain for protest and resistance. While European football has undergone significant political, economic and social transformations, football supporters have adopted various tools of resistance when faced with these processes. Legal restrictions and security measures imposed on football supporters represent highly contested areas of football. Although existing case studies a…
Defining and controlling violent fandom in Europe
This article situates ‘football hooliganism’ in Europe within a historical and contemporary security knowledge continuum. It adds to recent academic debates on the issue by addressing how shortcomings regarding the academic and legal definition of ‘hooliganism’ and the phenomenon’s complex web of overlapping identities have enabled law enforcers’ dominant definitional power in counter-hooliganism policies. The latent consequences of this arguably…
A roundtable discussion on the politics of Euro 2024
Every European Football Championship raises a host of important politicalquestions. Euro 2024 in Germany was no exception in this regard, as thiscommentary demonstrates. This roundtable discussion – in form of miniessays – reconsiders this politicized event. Indeed, this collectively writtencommentary involves short, but sharp insights from five scholars aimingto provide a responsive account of politically significant moments ortrends at before, …
Generations, events, and social movement legacies
This article critically employs the case of association football in England, from 1980 to 2023, as a social movement timescape, to examine the political consciousness and long-term mobilisations of a generation of football supporter activists, and their capacity to influence politics, and respond to new, emerging, critical junctures, through networks of trust and shared memories of historical events. This is of crucial importance to sociology bec…
It’s a whole new ball game’
When ‘the show’ cannot go on
This article examines the relationship between sports mega-events and the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic. Focusing primarily on the 2020 Summer Olympics and Union of European Football Associations Euro 2020 in football – representing two mega-events that were postponed due to the pandemic – this article explores the emerging discourses from sport governing bodies, and how these organisations communicated their initial responses to the pandemic…
Platformization, cultural practices, and patterns of (dis)continuity
This article examines processes related to platformization in the case of 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. By focusing specifically on how this World Cup edition was produced and consumed on TikTok, we primarily are concerned with how World Cup-related content was engaged with by users who, in this case, are assumed also to be fans, or followers of football. By drawing together insights from digital sociology, the sociology of football, and the cultu…
Football Supporters’ Rights in Europe
Over several decades, scholars have demonstrated that, across contested spaces of leisure, the policing of football supporters raises questions speaking to their human rights and civil liberties, including the right to leisure. As this article argues, the recent, separate but consistent issues at high-profile European football events (2021-24) are emblematic of this. Yet, these events have been followed by institutional discursive emphases upon t…
Communities of Risk and Cosmopolitanism? A Comparative Study of Football Supporters' Resistance to Processes of Risk and (in)Security
In the sociology of risk, existing literature commonly highlights the catastrophic nature of ‘risk’. Following Ulrich Beck's theories, however, the (world) risk society also presents opportunities for cosmopolitan risk communities that emerge from shared experiences of risks and threats, whereby social actors mobilize in a response to experiences of risk. Though, a sociological puzzle—which this paper tackles—relates to what these risk communitie…
Beyond ‘good’ and ‘bad’ fans
This article explores mechanisms enabling football fans’ position as a (safety) stakeholder in the context of European football. It is clear that fans, in the eyes of some football and political authorities, are considered to be ‘potential troublemakers’ or ‘risks’ that must be governed or controlled. However, at the same time, fans are also increasingly considered as contributors towards ‘safe’, ‘secure’, and ‘enjoyable’ football events. Borrowi…
Between global events and local reverberations
This article advances sociological work on globalization processes. It concerns itself with conceptualizations of how the local and global 'clash', utilizing Ulrich Beck's work on globalization, cosmopolitanism and power. By employing Brazil's 2014 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) men's World Cup as a case, this article seeks to build on Beck's theorizations, into the field of football; using the General Law of the World C…
The framed and contested meanings of sport mega-event 'legacies
This article examines the ways in which envisioned sport mega-event legacies are publicly framed, communicated and contested. By employing Bourdieusian field theory, the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games (CWG) as a case, and drawing upon documentary and media analysis, this article questions how CWG 2022 legacies were framed in a pre-event context. The article makes two key arguments. First, dominant actors within the mega-event field framed a c…
Foreign ownerships’ in the Premier League
The ‘foreign ownerships’ apparent in the English Premier League have received little academic attention, despite being a controversial issue for football fans and commentators. This study examines local Liverpool Football Clubs fans’ perceptions of the clubs’ American ownership and to what extent criticism aimed at the owners are framed in terms of nationality. Hence, data from the ‘Red and White Kop’s’ online message board (found at www.redandwh…
The portrayal of drones in terrorist propaganda
That drone warfare may cause “blowback” is a well-established argument – commonly used to contest drones’ effectiveness. One of the unintended consequences of drones includes the opportunity it provides terrorists who can use drones in their propaganda. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s e-magazine Inspire is demographically targeting Western Muslims, and aims to encourage to “homegrown” terrorism and/or recruitment of “foreign fighters.” This s…
Transnational fan reactions to transnational trends
Despite claims that local and transnational supporters in the English Premier League (EPL) may be closer to each other in terms of commitment and ‘authenticity’, than often imagined, our knowledge about how transnational fans, as one of EPL’s global components, responds to other global developments in the league is limited, given what is known about traditional fans’ meeting with EPL’s ‘global powers’. This research investigates perspectives and …
Sport mega-events and security
Following 9/11, the security at sport mega-events (SMEs) has become increasingly central. Yet, this is an area where numerous scholars have called for further academic attention. The FIFA World Cups are commonly seen as the largest SME in the world, and will in 2018, be held in Russia. However, the existing trends of spectator violence and terrorism, in addition to the political situation in Russia, and concerns over a violent, racist, football c…
Lessons learned and tables turned
This essay follows up on an article published in Soccer & Society prior to the 2018 World Cup in Russia. There it was argued that this edition of the World Cup served as particularly interesting for the academic field focussed on sport-mega events (SMEs) and ‘security’, because of its uniquely securitized climate. Written immediately after the 2018 World Cup, the present essay reflects upon the event’s ‘security’ and mega-event security more broa…
A Security Theater of Dreams
On May 15, 2016, reports emerged of a “suspect package” inside Old Trafford minutes before kick-off in Manchester United’s game versus Bournemouth. The “suspect package,” causing a full-scale evacuation, and match postponement, turned out to be a “fake bomb” accidently left following a security exercise. Minimal social research investigates responses from supporters to “security” and “safety” at large sports events. Although the “suspect package,…
‘The more, the merrier?’ Euro 2020, transnational collaboration, opportunities and challenges
The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Euro 2020 will, for the first time in the history, be staged in 12 different countries across the European continent. However, such a geographically diffuse celebration also gives life to certain challenges. Particularly for the event’s security, which will involve a larger number of host countries and actors, responsible for, and required to cooperate transnationally and form what literature ref…
The ‘troika of security’
Rooted in the UEFA Men’s Euro 2020 as a case study, this article examines the coalescence of futuristic and retrospective assessments in the governance and construction of security in the context of sport mega-events (SMEs). SMEs require large-scale security efforts to ensure safety for event tourists and spectators and scholars have suggested that SME security governance and risk assessments post-9/11, shaped by wider processes, have become incr…
Mega-events, expansion and prospects
Mega-events occupy important roles within global consumer societies, and so, this article aims to advance the sociological understanding of mega-events by using UEFA Euro 2020 as a case. Traditionally, sport mega-events have been staged in one or two countries. However, for the first time ever, 12 European countries shared the hosting rights for Euro 2020, which was postponed for a year following COVID-19. In global sports, this temporary shift w…
Examining Stakeholder Outlooks on Football Policing and Security
In the case of the 2020 Union of European Football Associations European Championship in men's football (‘Euro 2020’), this article investigates stakeholder perceptions on the ‘policing’ of fans. On a European-wide scale, the policing of fans is a contested topic. Meanwhile, the policing and security efforts required for sport mega-events like Euro 2020, uniquely planned to be staged in 12 different countries, require years of planning and enormo…
Between security and festivity
This article investigates the multiple operational and socio-cultural roles of 'fan zones' at contemporary sport mega-events (SMEs) from stakeholder perspectives. Fan zones, with their giant screens, are locations for public viewing events for fans without stadium tickets. They are also popular pre- and post-match destinations for football (soccer) fans with stadium tickets. Since the mid-2000s they have become central to the hosting of mega-even…
Sport and Crime
This is the first book to explore fully the connections between sport studies and criminology, opening up critical new frontiers in the study of sport and crime. Rooted firmly in established critical criminological traditions, the book also employs insights from emerging theoretical frameworks such as cultural criminology, governmentality theory and critical security studies to make better sense of a range of transnational and contemporary cases,…
Olympic Planning, Profit, and Participation
It is well-established that sport mega-events remain highly relevant sites of enquiry for sociologists of leisure. Whereas sport mega-events are associated with a range of diverse and (un-)intended socio-spatial impacts, they can also have transformative impacts on children and young people. Against this backdrop, this article discusses the inter-relationship between sport mega-events and young people. By focusing predominantly on Olympic plannin…
Sport Mega-Events, Security and Covid-19
This book examines contemporary issues of security at sports mega-events (SMEs). It focuses on the 2020 UEFA European Football Championship (Euro 2020) - subsequently postponed to 2021 - the third biggest SME in the global sporting calendar and a unique multi-city, multi-country event that took place in the eye of the COVID-19 storm. Drawing on stakeholder interviews, policy documents, media sources and existing research, the book explores the co…
Theorizing surveillance and social spacing through football
This article critically examines the temporal mobilizations of a 25‐year football supporter social movement against the all‐seating (stadia) legislation in England and Wales, to unpack, and advance, (neo‐)Foucauldian panoptic theorizations of surveillance power and counter‐power. Drawing upon prior empirically informed analysis of this movement; ‘Safe Standing’, the article interrogates new policy‐based outcomes, including the early adoption of ‘…
It’s a whole new ball game’
When ‘the show’ cannot go on
This article examines the relationship between sports mega-events and the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic. Focusing primarily on the 2020 Summer Olympics and Union of European Football Associations Euro 2020 in football – representing two mega-events that were postponed due to the pandemic – this article explores the emerging discourses from sport governing bodies, and how these organisations communicated their initial responses to the pandemic…
The Sport Mega-Events of the 2020s
Digital transformations in a platform society
The prevalence of digital technologies and emerging social media platforms in the 21st century has altered the ways in which individuals and groups produce and consume elite football (soccer). Elite football is no longer consumed merely through ‘traditional’ media as television or radio. By comparing the ‘big five’ football leagues (the first divisions in England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), this article examines how these leagues have ada…
The definers and standard setters of security
By drawing upon and attaching a new layer to the “security field” concept, this article examines and conceptualizes European security practices and challenges through the lens of European football. At a critical juncture for security in both Europe and football, this article questions (i) how the supranational regulation informing European football’s security field has evolved since 1985 and (ii) how exactly the security field’s regulators – the …
Staging Olympic sustainability? A critical analysis of the IOC’s framing of sustainable practices on YouTube
As a significant pillar of the leisure world, the sports industry makes substantial contributions to climate change through carbon emission and its influence on sustainable practices, rendering some sport mega-events environmentally destructive. In line with wider trends, researchers have increasingly examined sport megaevents, their governance and environmental impacts. In this context, this article contributes towards an understanding of how 's…
Further towards the right to ‘safe leisure’
In the context of the right to leisure – enshrined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) – this article addresses how the Council of Europe’s (2016) Convention on an ‘Integrated Safety, Security and Service Approach at Football Matches and Other Sports Events’ (‘Saint-Denis Convention’) provides a legal pathway towards what we conceptualize here as the right to ‘safe leisure’. This right to ‘safe leisure’, we locate within broader r…
Sport mega-event governance and human rights
In recent years, the discourses surrounding human rights and sport mega-events (SMEs) have grown immensely. These are often directed towards sport’s governing bodies responsible for the administration of these mega-events. Tapping into the growing scholarship, this article aims to advance the fields of sport, leisure and human rights. By reconsidering the commercial nature of sports’ governing bodies (focusing on IOC and FIFA), we argue that what…
Lockdown leisure
This editorial sets the scene for this special issue by unpacking the concept of ‘lockdown leisure’ as closely linked with the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic which spread globally in early 2020 and throughout 2021 and 2022. It provides a snapshot of the parameters of lockdown leisure, outlines the separate articles in this special issue, and considers the medium-to-long term implications of the pandemic for leisure studies. By incor…
From television to YouTube
Technological changes have dramatically transformed the ways in which contemporary sport mega-events are produced and consumed worldwide. As the production and consumption of these global spectacles have moved beyond the traditional television and radio broadcast, this article examines and reflects on the hyper-digitalisation of sport mega-events. More specifically, we explore how one emerging platform presents a window for examining questions of…
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