Tag: Belinda Wheaton

By placing scholars from various disciplines side-by-side on the common topic of the Olympic Games, JOS (available in both print and electronic format and marketed to a global scholarly audience) aims to promote and encourage a multi-disciplinary understanding of the Olympic Movement. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: A Basketball Height Limit? FIBA, the 1936 Olympics, and the Ruling that Saved the Game by Chad R. Carlson.

Based on a decade of research by Belinda Wheaton and Holly Thorpe, Action Sports and the Olympic Games maps the relationship between action sports and the Olympic Movement from the inclusion of the first action sports to those featuring for the first time in the Tokyo Olympic Games and beyond. Anna-Maria Strittmatter, an action sports insider, is thoroughly enthused – this is a must read for action sports researchers and practitioners, as well as everyone interested in the governance of the Olympic movement.

The emphasis of Leisure Studies is on theoretically informed critical analyses within the social sciences and humanities of the topics that constitute leisure as a subject field – including the arts, tourism, sport and more. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Women’s leading role in the political struggle for leisure: an ethnographic study in Porto Alegre, Brazil by Raquel da Silveira, Ariane Corrêa Pacheco, Carolina Caneva da Silva​ & Mauro Myskiw.

Sex, gender and sexuality have played an important role in shaping the culture of surfing and are central themes in lisahunter’s edited volume on surfing’s symbolism, postcolonialism, patriocolonial whiteness and heteronormativity. Surfing, Sex, Genders and Sexualities (Routledge) is highly appreciated by our reviewer Anna Adlwarth for its critical approach that uncovers disturbing aspects of the surfing culture as well as that of other lifestyle sports.

Sport ecology is a growing trend in the study of sport that looks beyond what’s happening on the pitch, in the rink or at the running tracks, and cares rather more about sport’s ecological footprints. A recent contribution to this emerging field is an anthology edited by Brian Wilson, and Brad Millington, Sport and the Environment: Politics and Preferred Futures (Emerald Publishing). Our reviewer is Daniel Svensson, and he finds the book to be a preferred roadmap towards a preferred future.

JSSI brings you the latest research, discussion and analysis on contemporary sport issues. In JSSI scholars study the impact of sport on social issues from many perspectives. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: SWIMMING WITH THE BICHENO “COFFEE CLUB”: THE TEXTURED WORLD OF WILD SWIMMING by Shane Gould, Fiona McLachlan, and Brent McDonald.

ALR is aimed at an international readership and seeks theoretical or applied articles which cover any topic within the broad area of leisure studies. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: BEYOND RISK: THE IMPORTANCE OF ADVENTURE IN THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF YOUNG PEOPLE by Eric Brymer & Francesco Feletti.

Leisure Studies is the journal of the Leisure Studies Association. The emphasis of the journal is on theoretically informed critical analyses within the social sciences and humanities of the wide range of topics that constitute leisure as a subject field – including the arts, tourism, cultural, informal and virtual activities, urban and rural recreation, sport, media and physical activities.

The International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics aims to publish articles that address all aspects of sport policy irrespective of academic discipline. Articles that adopt a multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary or comparative approach are particularly welcome.

The considerable growth of interest in commerce, media and politics and their relationship to sport in international academia has resulted in academics in various disciplines writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life.