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Female empowerment through sport: an exploratory narrative review

Sport in Society, 2023
Empowering females is a critical global priority. Sports participation is a mechanism to increase female empowerment employed throughout the world. However, measuring empowerment remains challenging because definitions often differ between geographical ...
Aspen E. Streetman, Katie M Heinrich
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Teaching geopolitics through sport

Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2023
This paper reflects on teaching sport in political geography undergraduate courses in the United States, through which I simultaneously aim to de-essentialize geopolitics and de-essentialize sport.
Natalie Koch
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What Makes Sport Spectating Family-Friendly? A Phenomenological Study of Mothers’ Sport Fan Game-Day Experiences

Journal of Sport Management, 2022
Sport organizations are developing family-friendly spectator initiatives to boost engagement and sales to parents and children. While the number of women sport fans continues to grow, research has yet to explore how women, as mothers and fans, experience
Katherine Sveinson, K. Toffoletti
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Politics, place and nation: comparing the hosting of sport events in Korea and Taiwan

Sport in Society, 2018
Many emerging market countries have utilized sport events as a vehicle to develop international relations and enhance their national images while promoting sport and health.
Doyeon Won, Weisheng Chiu
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Geography

Encyclopedia of Sport Management, 2021
Our students share interests in global perspectives and environmental issues, enjoy exploring new places, and want to learn more about making and using maps to inform public policy, for example.
Gidon S. Jakar
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A prospect for the geographical research of sport in the age of Big Data

Sport in Society, 2018
Along with the ever-accelerated update of computer science and techniques, the data-driven ‘computational social science’ has been blooming. But some important questions are: Will this trend bring any changes in sports geographical research?
Enqing Tian
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Scaffolding and Support through Information Literacy: Reimagining a Geography of Sport Class Project

The Geography Teacher, 2021
This article presents a technique for interweaving information literacy (IL) into a pre-existing assignment of an introductory general education human geography course.
Susan E. Brazer, Mark de Socio
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It’s cold and there’s something to do: The changing geography of Canadian National Hockey League players’ hometowns

International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2018
Set within the framework of the birthplace effect literature and the seminal work of Curtis and Birch, this paper draws information from the publicly available database www.hockeydb.com and from the Census to examine the hometowns of Canadian National ...
Lisa Kaida, Peter Kitchen
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SPORT‐RELATED GENTRIFICATION: Behind the Spectacle of Settler Colonial Urbanism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
Urban studies scholars and sociologists of sport have critically examined the production and consumption of world‐class sports spectacles that are constitutive elements of urban growth agendas and broader accumulation processes by dispossession.
Jay Scherer, Rylan Kafara, J. Koch
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Geography and orienteering in educational institutions

Constructive geography and rational use of natural resources
Studying geography in school helps students develop a comprehensive understanding of the geography of the planet, including the study of their home country and territory, as well as the study of global laws and processes.
T. Hulias, O. Gryniuk
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