BRIAN WILSON AND RESEARCH GROUP
Liv and Shawn attended World Congress of Sociology of Sport meetings hosted at the University of Otago, April 24-27 2019. Here are their presentation titles:
Liv Yoon & Brian Wilson, “Attempting ‘Environmental Sport
Journalism’: The behind-the-scenes story of the
documentary Mount Gariwang: An Olympic
casualty”
Shawn Forde, “Sporting utopias – development, hope, and
alternative futures“
On April 11, 2019, Liv successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation, entitled ‘Mount Gariwang: An Olympic Casualty’. Liv’s dissertation can be found here.
Held in Washington, DC, April 3-7, 2019 — Devra’s talk was titled:
“Architecture, aesthetic governance, and acceptable forms of citizenship in the ‘Millennial City’: an examination of gated community development in Gurgaon, India”. Well done Devra!
Madison’s thesis, entitled “Bicycles for development in Uganda : A study of perceptions, organizations and globalization,” can be found here
Entitled “Journalism, Environmental Issues, and Sport Mega-Events: A Study of South Korean Media Coverage of the Mount Gariwang Development for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games”
Find it here
From Oct. 31 to Nov. 3, scholars from around the globe converged in Vancouver for the 39th annual meeting of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport — and Devra, Jesse, Liv, Madison, and Shawn presented! Liv and Brian also had the premiere showing of the documentary ‘Mount Gariwang: An Olympic Casualty’. Click here for details!
The article appears in Sport Management Review. Congratulations Shawn!
Congratulations Liv!
Congratulations Jesse! Thank you for your service to the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS).
