Tag: Bridgette Desjardins

Journal of Sport & Social Issues< 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:: What Can the Running Body Do? The Running Machine's Affective Possibilities and the Limits of Language by Jean Ketterling and Bridgette Desjardins (open access).

Derek Silva & Liam Kennedy’s edited collection Power Played: A Critical Criminology of Sport (UBC Press) convincingly argues that modern sport can be characterized by unequal and problematic power relations that are inextricably linked to issues of violence, harm, deviance, and punishment. We asked Tony B. Mickelsson for a review, and he delivered a thorough and insightful presentation and evaluation of an impressive endeavor worth reading, with many strengths and only (very) minor weaknesses.

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: The emotional presence of nature: Exploring affect in human-wilderness relations by Mark L. Douglas, William T. Borrie & Keith Bosak.