Tag: Aaron Beacom

The anthology Trends and Advances in Sport and Leisure Management: Expanding the Frontiers, edited by Vassilios Ziakas (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), explores, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the complex dynamics that are reshaping sport and leisure provision. Hans Lundberg has read the collection very carefully, whereby he didn’t miss neither missteps nor expressions of brilliance, and all that’s in between. Except for a few drawbacks the volume is very much to his liking.

Managing Sport and Leisure is a refereed journal that publishes high quality research articles to inform and stimulate discussions relevant to sport and leisure management globally. The journal is committed to publishing research that advances understanding of the practice of sport and leisure management, and to provide a high level forum for communication between academics and practitioners of sport and leisure.

Sport Management Review is a multidisciplinary journal concerned with the management, marketing, and governance of sport at all levels and in all its manifestations – whether as an entertainment, a recreation, or an occupation.

The pursuit of interdisciplinarity in sport studies in the hope of breaking the natural and biosciences hegemony in the field is the objective of editor Joseph Maguire’s collected volume Social Sciences in Sport. Alan Bairner reviews the effort and finds much to appreciate, but apparently, this is not the holy grail that the social sciences of sport urgently need.

Den olympiska diplomatin avhandlas i boken International Diplomacy and the Olympic Movement: The New Mediators, skriven av Aaron Beacom, University College Plymouth. Björn Sandahl recenserar, både kritiskt och berömmande.