In keeping with our effort to highlight academic research on hockey, we are pleased to post details about presentations occurring at the the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) annual conference, taking place this week in Windsor, ON. The full 2017 book of abstracts can be viewed here, and you can see…
This is Part 1 of a three-part series. Parts 2 and 3 will be posted over the summer. Today marks 150 years since the nation-state of Canada was formally created, with the implementation of the British North America Act. Although this is a cause for celebration by many Canadians, others – notably many Indigenous Canadians…
The Weekly Links post highlights important or interesting writing from the hockey blogosphere and media. Enjoy! Victor Hedman, of the Tampa Bay Lightning, has an interesting piece on growing up playing hockey in Sweden and the differences between this experience and that of North American youth. [Player’s Tribune] With superstar Amanda Kessel leaving college after…
Post by Heather Isnor Heather is a PhD student in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at Brock University. She previously spent six years at Wilfrid Laurier University, splitting her time between academics in the Kinesiology and Physical Education Department, coaching in the community and running a dance class and intramural hockey on campus. Her…
Hockey in Society / Hockey dans la société 