FIFA 2022 World Cup in Qatar: Under the gaze of western media

K Swart, U Hussain - Sports mega-events in Asia, 2023 - Springer
In the extant scholarship, researchers have underscored the importance of sport mega-
events shaping countries' soft power image. Likewise, scholars have claimed that Qatar is …

Critical Friends, Dialogues of Discomfort, and Researcher Reflexivity in the Sociology of Sport

AE Ali, T Smith, M Dao - Sociology of Sport Journal, 2023 - journals.humankinetics.com
In this special issue, which calls for a “more radical sociology of sport and physical culture,”
the purpose of this paper is to address how practices of reflexivity might be mobilized among …

Rare Sites and White Saviours? Gendered Orientalism, Radicalization, and the Construction of Muslim Women Soccer Players in TSN's Radical Play

AE Ali - Communication & Sport, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In 2016, Canada sports broadcaster TSN aired a documentary, Radical Play, which focuses
on the players of football team Diverse City FC, many of whom are Muslim and wear hijabs …

Azeem Rafiq, an Object or a Subject?“Can the Subaltern Speak?”

U Hussain, S Bien-Aimé - Communication & Sport, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In the extant scholarship, there remains a paucity of research underscoring how Western
media frame the identity of Muslim men athletes from diverse backgrounds who challenge …

Economies of mourning, Canadian nationalism, and the Broncos: An affective reading of TSN's 29 Forever

AE Ali - Sociology of Sport Journal, 2022 - journals.humankinetics.com
On April 6, 2018, the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team was traveling to a playoff game
on a rural highway when their bus collided with a semitrailer truck, killing 16 people. The …

Analyzing AI Bias: The Discourse of Terror and Sport Ahead of Paris 2024 Olympics

T Samuel-Azran, I Manor, E Yitzhak… - American Behavioral …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Sporting events have been the target of terrorist groups for decades due to their high profile.
Since 9/11, a bias against Muslims has been evident in both traditional and social media …

Mountain Biking and Trail Building: Capability Expansion, Relationships, and Social Change in the Contact Zone

TT Smith - 2024 - search.proquest.com
The sport-for-development (SfD) field has grown in recent years, coming to be theorized,
researched, and practiced from myriad disciplinary perspectives. Two of these perspectives …

Purdah [Veil], Police and Impunity: Exploring Muslim Women Experiences of Domestic Violence Reporting in India

S Mansuri - The Grimshaw Review of International Affairs, 2024 - grimshawreview.lse.ac.uk
Domestic violence reporting is codified under the Protection of Women Against Domestic
Violence Act, 2005 for all women in India. Yet arrest rates when Muslim Women report …