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Embracing Discomfort and Manifesting Hope as an Activist Practice
Carly Adams
Volume 38 (2024): Issue 6 (Nov 2024)
Volume 13 (2024): Issue 4 (Nov 2024): 2024 American Kinesiology Association Leadership Workshop: Addressing Social Justice Imperatives—Exemplars of Inclusive Excellence
No “Failures of Kindness”
David K. Wiggins
Volume 55 (2024): Issue 2 (Nov 2024)
Erratum. Interview With Rui (Blanca) Qi, Content Creator, Internet Celebrity, and Chinese Football Journalist in Europe
International Journal of Sport Communication
A Multilevel Model to Explain the Opportunities for and Experiences of LGBTQ+ People in Elite American Football
George B. Cunningham, Kelsey M. Garrison, and Umer Hussain
American football holds immense cultural significance, from its impressive youth participation rates to the coverage of professional football. However, the reach of American football extends beyond cultural significance, as societal values and norms are frequently mimicked or even amplified in major sport settings. American football is a context that highlights the privileges of heterosexuality and cisgender people, effectively discouraging people from disclosing their lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) status. Because LGBTQ+ inclusion has received less attention in the American football context, and bias against LGBTQ+ people is common in sport, this paper aimed to explore LGBTQ+ inclusion in American football. Drawing on our related scholarship in this area, we present a multilevel framework, highlighting macrolevel (i.e., societal), mesolevel (i.e., organizational), and microlevel (i.e., individual) factors that shape LGBTQ+ inclusion in American football. The discussion includes strategies to implement LGBTQ+ inclusion in American football, as well as a call for further research.
Director Selection: Drivers for the Adoption and Design of Nomination Committees by New Zealand National Sport Organizations
Tracy Molloy, Geoff Dickson, and Lesley Ferkins
Nomination committees (NCs) are a critical, yet under-researched, part of the good governance equation. This study contributes to baseline knowledge of NC adoption and design. Underpinned by critical realism, four national sports organization case studies explain the “why” and “how” of NC adoption through a multitheoretical lens. Change strategies are identified using Hampel et al.’s mechanisms (symbolic, relational, and material) approach to institutional (creation) work outcomes. Archer’s morphogenetic cycle helps to demonstrate the interplay between structure, culture, and agency in achieving the change with the study, providing a timely reminder of the power of morphostasis (inertia). The results are important for future NC design to better inform national sport organization NCs’ structures and processes (including case-appropriate balance between community and corporate logics in national sport organization governance re-configurations) and aid future evaluations of NC effectiveness. A critical realism multitheoretical and multicase approach is modeled for future sport management studies.