International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, Volume 17, 2025, Issue 2

Research article

Live and let LIV? Sportswashing, Donald Trump, and attitudes toward the future of professional golf
Tyler Johnson
Pages: 185-199 | DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2024.2410311

Open Access
‘Martial arts washing’ as a special case of ‘sportswashing’
Martin J. Meyer
Pages: 201-220 | DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2024.2424573

Soft power through soccer: how Al-Jazeera, and other international broadcasters, covered Qatar and the 2022 World Cup
Christopher M. Toula & Ryan Broussard
Pages: 221-236 | DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2024.2424581

Cambodia’s soft power strategy: hosting the 2023 Southeast Asian games
Toshihiro Abe
Pages: 237-252 | DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2024.2424578

Open Access
‘We wouldn’t have missed it for the world’: hosting a polycentric sporting mega event in pandemic times
Jordan Maclean, Claudio Rocha, Joe Piggin, Kate Hunt, Matthew Philpott, Niamh Fitzgerald & Richard I. Purves
Pages: 253-265 | DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2024.2424576

Open Access
Institutional resilience of club sport in an extreme context: collective dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic from an institutional work lens
Katharina Kaltenbrunner & Sandra Stoetzer
Pages: 267-286 | DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2024.2424584

Canadian national sport organisations’ eating disorder-related policies and practice guidelines: a summative content analysis
Olivia Feng & Lindsay R. Duncan
Pages: 287-307 | DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2024.2378139

Open Access
Navigating the ‘wild west’: governance challenges and solutions in (un)healthy esports sponsorship
Matthew Hutchinson, Qi Peng & Leah Gillooly
Pages: 309-325 | DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2024.2442928

Open Access
The locality challenges facing the ‘levelling up’ of sport participation and health inequality in England
Paul Downward, Yuhei Inoue, Harish Kumar & Paul Widdop
Pages: 327-344 | DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2024.2404949

Open Access
What is the problem? A WPR analysis of physical activity policy in Scotland
David Meir
Pages: 345-362 | DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2024.2442914

Comment

Counting the ‘capital’ cost of the UK’s elite sport funding focus
Jonathan Grix, Paul Widdop & Paul Michael Brannagan
Pages: 363-374 | DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2024.2408298