Shushu Chen
Biographic Data
| ID | 6302268 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shushu Chen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shushu |
| FAMILY NAME | Chen |
| SIGNATURE | CHEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4010-9177 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Community sport in China
Promoting sport participation has become a central concern of policy agendas worldwide, with increasing attention to how community-level provision supports more active populations. Contextually, community sport represents the key arena where participation is most directly experienced and supported. Existing scholarship is predominantly Western-centric, with limited understanding of alternative community sport models and their potential impacts. D…
Legacies and impacts of major sporting events for communities and individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds
Eurocentrism in a YouTube video on the Jakarta–Bandung railway
In this article, we examine the YouTube channel Railways Explained and its video on the Jakarta–Bandung High-Speed Railway (JBHSR). By stressing tensions among China, Indonesia, and Japan surrounding the JBHSR project, the video, we argue, managed to divert the audience’s attention away from its Eurocentric representation to a socially constructed Asian drama. Drawing upon Foucauldian poststructuralism, we then demonstrate how the Asian drama, na…
Assessing Olympic legacy claims
Olympic impact/legacy analysis as a research area has become a frequently discussed topic in the sociology of sport literature in general and in event management in particular since the 2000s. Although Olympic impact/legacy analysis has increased in volume, many studies still face methodological challenges (e.g. failure to adopt rigorous theoretical frameworks or overlooking additionality). The aim of this article is to unpack the logic of stakeh…
Sport Policy in China
Acknowledging China’s established status as a global sporting superpower, this is the first book to systematically investigate sport policy in that country. \n \nWith a focus on sport development in the most recent three decades, Sport Policy in China explores a wide range of topics in Chinese sport, including elite sport development, professional sports, major sports events, sport for all, the political context within which sport is interiorised…
An Organizational Life Cycle Approach to Exploring the Elite Sport Legacy of Summer Olympic Host Nations
This paper investigates the elite sport legacies of hosting the Summer Olympics for China (Beijing 2008) and Australia (Sydney 2000). The classic organizational life cycle approach provides the conceptual framework for this retroductive study. The data for both cases are sourced from official publications, academic research, and documents from various government departments and organizations. Additional data are drawn from three semi-structured i…
Schools’ engagement with the Get Set London 2012 Olympic education programme
During the Olympiad, an Olympic host country is required to organise and deliver an education programme to schools nationwide. Schools’ experiences of engagement with such programmes are often reported on by the government rather than being rigorously examined by academics. Moreover, there is little scientific understanding of how individual schools facilitate the programmes and why different schools engage with the same programme in different wa…
Evaluating the London 2012 Games’ impact on sport participation in a non-hosting region
In the literature on Olympic legacies and impacts, there is a dearth of materials that specifically address the issue of Olympic impact for non-hosting regions. The literature tends to deal with impacts at a national level, or at a hosting-city region level, neglecting in large part the degree to which benefits can be leveraged by non-hosting regions. A further limitation identified in the literature is a failure to engage in detailed formal eval…
Women in Management and Leadership in the Olympic Movement in Muslim Majority Countries
This article seeks to evaluate whether there are differences between Samuel Huntington's ‘civilisational groups' of countries in terms of women's leadership of Olympic organisations. This article draws on two questionnaire surveys which evaluate the electoral practices and outcomes of Olympic bodies (i.e. National Olympic Committees and International Federations) relating to gender equity and governance, with a specific intention to compare the r…
Assessing Olympic legacy claims
Olympic impact/legacy analysis as a research area has become a frequently discussed topic in the sociology of sport literature in general and in event management in particular since the 2000s. Although Olympic impact/legacy analysis has increased in volume, many studies still face methodological challenges (e.g. failure to adopt rigorous theoretical frameworks or overlooking additionality). The aim of this article is to unpack the logic of stakeh…
Schools’ engagement with the Get Set London 2012 Olympic education programme
During the Olympiad, an Olympic host country is required to organise and deliver an education programme to schools nationwide. Schools’ experiences of engagement with such programmes are often reported on by the government rather than being rigorously examined by academics. Moreover, there is little scientific understanding of how individual schools facilitate the programmes and why different schools engage with the same programme in different wa…
Evaluating the London 2012 Games’ impact on sport participation in a non-hosting region
In the literature on Olympic legacies and impacts, there is a dearth of materials that specifically address the issue of Olympic impact for non-hosting regions. The literature tends to deal with impacts at a national level, or at a hosting-city region level, neglecting in large part the degree to which benefits can be leveraged by non-hosting regions. A further limitation identified in the literature is a failure to engage in detailed formal eval…
Women in Management and Leadership in the Olympic Movement in Muslim Majority Countries
This article seeks to evaluate whether there are differences between Samuel Huntington's ‘civilisational groups' of countries in terms of women's leadership of Olympic organisations. This article draws on two questionnaire surveys which evaluate the electoral practices and outcomes of Olympic bodies (i.e. National Olympic Committees and International Federations) relating to gender equity and governance, with a specific intention to compare the r…
Women in Management and Leadership in the Olympic Movement in Muslim Majority Countries
This article seeks to evaluate whether there are differences between Samuel Huntington's ‘civilisational groups' of countries in terms of women's leadership of Olympic organisations. This article draws on two questionnaire surveys which evaluate the electoral practices and outcomes of Olympic bodies (i.e. National Olympic Committees and International Federations) relating to gender equity and governance, with a specific intention to compare the r…
Evaluating the London 2012 Games’ impact on sport participation in a non-hosting region
In the literature on Olympic legacies and impacts, there is a dearth of materials that specifically address the issue of Olympic impact for non-hosting regions. The literature tends to deal with impacts at a national level, or at a hosting-city region level, neglecting in large part the degree to which benefits can be leveraged by non-hosting regions. A further limitation identified in the literature is a failure to engage in detailed formal eval…
Schools’ engagement with the Get Set London 2012 Olympic education programme
During the Olympiad, an Olympic host country is required to organise and deliver an education programme to schools nationwide. Schools’ experiences of engagement with such programmes are often reported on by the government rather than being rigorously examined by academics. Moreover, there is little scientific understanding of how individual schools facilitate the programmes and why different schools engage with the same programme in different wa…
Sport Policy in China
Acknowledging China’s established status as a global sporting superpower, this is the first book to systematically investigate sport policy in that country. \n \nWith a focus on sport development in the most recent three decades, Sport Policy in China explores a wide range of topics in Chinese sport, including elite sport development, professional sports, major sports events, sport for all, the political context within which sport is interiorised…
An Organizational Life Cycle Approach to Exploring the Elite Sport Legacy of Summer Olympic Host Nations
This paper investigates the elite sport legacies of hosting the Summer Olympics for China (Beijing 2008) and Australia (Sydney 2000). The classic organizational life cycle approach provides the conceptual framework for this retroductive study. The data for both cases are sourced from official publications, academic research, and documents from various government departments and organizations. Additional data are drawn from three semi-structured i…
Assessing Olympic legacy claims
Olympic impact/legacy analysis as a research area has become a frequently discussed topic in the sociology of sport literature in general and in event management in particular since the 2000s. Although Olympic impact/legacy analysis has increased in volume, many studies still face methodological challenges (e.g. failure to adopt rigorous theoretical frameworks or overlooking additionality). The aim of this article is to unpack the logic of stakeh…
Eurocentrism in a YouTube video on the Jakarta–Bandung railway
In this article, we examine the YouTube channel Railways Explained and its video on the Jakarta–Bandung High-Speed Railway (JBHSR). By stressing tensions among China, Indonesia, and Japan surrounding the JBHSR project, the video, we argue, managed to divert the audience’s attention away from its Eurocentric representation to a socially constructed Asian drama. Drawing upon Foucauldian poststructuralism, we then demonstrate how the Asian drama, na…
Legacies and impacts of major sporting events for communities and individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds
Community sport in China
Promoting sport participation has become a central concern of policy agendas worldwide, with increasing attention to how community-level provision supports more active populations. Contextually, community sport represents the key arena where participation is most directly experienced and supported. Existing scholarship is predominantly Western-centric, with limited understanding of alternative community sport models and their potential impacts. D…
Political science (7 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · China (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Economics (2 works)