Tag: Courtney M. Cox

SSJ publishes original research, framed by social theory, on exercise, sport, physical culture, and the (physically active) body. The journal publishes peer-reviewed empirical, theoretical, and position papers; book reviews; and critical essays. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Necropolitics Narratives and Disposition of Lives in Sport Spectacle: Negotiating the Death of Mexican Boxer Jeanette Zacarías Zapata in Quebec’s Sport/Media Landscape by Bachir Sirois-Moumni & Myriam Lavoie-Moore.

Andrew C. Billings, Lawrence A, Wenner & Marie Hardin’s edited collection American Sport in the Shadow of a Pandemic: Communicative Insights (Peter Lang Publishing) focuses on how communication practices, structures, and principles change when a key locus – sport – has much of its cultural and political-economic power disrupted. Britt-Marie Ringfjord’s review offers an accessible presentation of all the contributions. She found the book to be instructive and interesting as well as entertaining.