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Abstract
The creation of a specific journal on the history of sport demonstrates an attempt to consolidate and give academic visibility to this field. Therefore, this study sought to present how academic knowledge has been structured in Recorde: Revista de História do Esporte [Recorde: Journal of Sport History], the only exclusive journal on the history of sport in Brazil. For this purpose, the content of articles published in the journal was analyzed from its creation in 2008, until the last volume published in 2020. A total of 215 studies were found with thematic approaches, time frames, sources and varied theoretical references. This information sheds light on the fact that, since its creation, Recorde has been gradually developing and presenting a vast content that is not far from the epistemological lines of history and social and human sciences, nor from specialized journals in English whose scope is similar. Lastly, Recorde has been regarded as an organized and zealous journal with a historical content of sport, thus constituting itself as a reliable, regular and accessible channel for a wide audience, mainly due to their acceptance of manuscripts in four languages.
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1 Victor Andrade de Melo, ‘History of Sport in Brazil and in South America: Visibility for New Looks’, The International Journal of the History of Sport 34, no. 5 (2017): 1–6.
2 Victor Andrade de Melo and Rafael Fortes, ‘Sports History in Brazil: An Overview and Perspectives’, Sport History Review 42, no. 2 (2011): 102–16.
3 Melo, ‘History of Sport in Brasil and in South America’, 2.
4 Ibid., 2.
5 Ibid., 2–3.
6 Cesar Torres, ‘South America’, in Routledge Companion to Sport History (London: Routledge, 2009), 553–70.
7 Wray Vamplew, ‘The History of Sport in the International Scenery: An Overview’, Revista Tempo 17, no. 34 (2013): 5–17; Melo, ‘History of Sport in Brasil and in South America’, 3–4.
8 Vamplew, ‘The History of Sport in the International Scenery’; Torres, ‘South America’, 563.
9 Dominic Malcolm, Sport and Sociology (London: Routledge, 2012).
10 Mark Dyreson, ‘Looking Backward and Forward from the 24-Million-Word Mark: A Managing Editor’s Perspective on The International Journal of the History of Sport in Transition’, The International Journal of the History of Sport 36, no. 17–18 (2019): 1487–500.
11 Matthew David and Carole D. Sutton, Social Research: An Introduction (Sage, 2011).
12 The journal also accepts reviews and interviews. However, because our goal is to provide details on references, sources and time frame, we have chosen to analyze exclusively the articles published in Recorde.
13 Jon Dart, ‘Sports Review: A Content Analysis of the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, the Journal of Sport and Social Issues and the Sociology of Sport Journal across 25 Years’, International Review for the Sociology of Sport 49, no. 6 (2014); and Ørnulf Seippel, ‘Topics and Trends: 30 Years of Sociology of Sport’, European Journal for Sport and Society 15, no. 3 (2018).
14 Dart, ‘Sports Review’, 658.
15 Wray Vamplew, ‘Old and Grumpy but Still Game’, The International Journal of the History of Sport 34, no. 5-6 (2017): 456–60.
16 Despite not being indexed on the largest databases yet, Recorde has h5-index and h5-median on Google Scholar, being able to have a balanced competition in this metric with the Journal of Sport History and Sport History Review. Further information and comparisons were conducted by Phillips, ‘Sizing up Sport History Journals’.
17 David Colquhoun, ‘Publish-or-Perish: Peer Review and the Corruption of Science’, The Guardian 5, no. 9 (2011).
18 Jon Dart, ‘Sports Sociology, Journals and Their Editors’, World Leisure Journal 55, no. 1 (2013): 6.
19 Murray G. Phillips, ‘Sizing up Sport History Journals: Metrics, Sport Humanities, and History’, International Journal of the History of Sport 37, no. 8 (2020): 699.
20 Victor Andrade de Melo, ‘Por que uma revista brasileira de história do esporte? Breves palavras sobre esse periódico’, Recorde: Revista de História do Esporte 1, no. 1 (2008).
21 Pablo Alabarces, ‘Vinte anos de ciências sociais e esporte, dez anos depois’, Journal of the Latin American Socio-cultural Studies of Sport 1, no. 1 (2011).
22 The articles are published without categorization by language, that is, there are no specific divisions, sessions or volumes for each language.
23 To date, no study related to agents and universities located in Africa, Oceania or Asia has been published in Recorde.
24 For example, one of the translated materials was the work by Douglas Booth, ‘História, cultura e surfe: explorando relações historiográficas’, Revista Recorde 8, no. 1 (2015): 1–24, with authorization from both the author and the Journal of Sport History.
25 Allen Guttman, From Ritual to Record: The Nature of Modern Sports (New York: Columbia University, 1987), 15.
26 Marieta de Moraes Ferreira, afterword to Por uma história política, by René Rémond (Rio de Janeiro: FGV Editora, 2003), 5–8.
27 Melo, ‘Por que uma revista brasileira de história do esporte’, 3.
28 Silvana Vilodre Goellner, ‘Gênero e esporte na historiografia brasileira: balanços e potencialidades’, Tempo 19, no. 34 (2013): 45–52.
29 This topic, unlike the others, does not have the exposure of the results through figures due to the large amount of periods found, preventing the word cloud display.
30 Gary Osmond and Murray Phillips, ‘Sources’, in Routledge Companion to Sports History (London: Routledge, 2009), 34–50.
31 José D’Assunção Barros, ‘Os usos da temporalidade na escrita da história’, Saeculum, no. 13 (2005): 147.
32 Osmond and Phillips, ‘Sources’.
33 Murray Phillips, Mark E. O’Neill, and Gary Osmond, ‘Broadening Horizons in Sport History: Films, Photographs, and Monuments’, Journal of Sport History 34, no. 2 (2007): 271–93.
34 Osmond and Phillips, ‘Sources’, 35.
35 Phillips, O’Neill and Osmond, ‘Broadening Horizons in Sport History’, 280.
36 John Tosh, The Pursuit of History: Aims, Method and New Directions in the Study of Modern History (London: Longman, 1991).
37 Melo and Fortes, ‘Sports History in Brazil’.
38 Ibid.
39 Douglas Booth, ‘Sport History in Brazil: Cementing Local Foundations, Strengthening a Subdiscipline’, Journal of Sport History 40, no. 3 (2013): 371–6.
40 Dart, ‘Sports Sociology, Journals and Their Editors’.
41 Peter Burke, O que é história cultural?, trans. Sergio Goes de Paula (Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar, 2005), 72–8.
42 Pierre Bourdieu, ‘Program for a Sociology of Sport’, Sociology of Sport Journal, no. 5 (1988): 153–61; ‘Sport and Social Class’, in Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies, ed. Chandra Mukerji and Michael Schudson (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), 357–73; Distinction (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1988); Masculine Domination (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001); Homo Academicus (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988).
43 Burke, O que é história cultural?, 72–8.
44 Wanderley Marchi Júnior, ‘A educação física e o campo científico: repensando as possibilidades de pesquisa sobre o esporte e o lazer’, in Esporte e lazer: subsídios para o desenvolvimento e a gestão de políticas públicas (São Paulo: Fontura, 2006), 29–42.
45 Douglas Booth, ‘História do esporte: abordagens em mutação’, Recorde: Revista de História do Esporte 4, no. 1 (2011).
46 Melo and Fortes, ‘Sports History in Brazil’; Douglas Booth, The Field: Truth and Fiction in Sport History (London: Routledge, 2005).
47 Burke, O que é história cultural?, 74–6.
48 Ibid.
49 Booth, The Field.
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Letícia Cristina Lima Moraes
Letícia Cristina Lima Moraes is a Master's student at the Graduate Program in Physical Education at the Federal University of Paraná. She develops studies in the socio-cultural area of sport and physical education.
Leonardo do Couto Gomes
Leonardo do Couto Gomes is a PhD student in Education at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in the line History, subjects and educational processes. His studies are focused on the history of sport, physical education, body practices and history of education.
Wanderley Marchi Júnior
Wanderley Marchi Júnior is a Professor at the Federal University of Paraná. He has experience in physical education, with emphasis on sociology of sport and history of sport. He was president of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios Socioculturales del Deporte/ALESDE.