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Event Management, an International Journal, has been meeting the research, educational, and analytic needs of the rapidly growing profession focused on global events for more than 20 years. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The Influence of Medium-Scale Host Cities' Image On Mega-Sporting Events: The UEFA Euro 2016 by Christopher Hautbois; Dongfeng Liu; Mathieu Djaballah (open access).

JPRTLS provides a critical focus on a variety of policy debates relating to the tourism, leisure and events sectors. Such policy debates will encompass economic, social, cultural, political and environmental perspectives. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The experience of cultural festivals: evidence from Hong Kong by Greg Richards & Brian King (open access).

Academics in various disciplines are 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. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: When women surf the world’s biggest waves: breaking gender barriers by Anne Schmitt & Anaïs Bohuon.

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: ‘I didn’t realise the variety of people that are climbers’: a sociological exploration of young women’s propensities to engage in indoor rock climbing by Jack Ryan Hewitt & Nollaig McEvilly (open access).

Annals of Leisure Research is aimed at an international readership and seeks theoretical or applied articles which cover any topic within the broad area of leisure studies. Click below for full ToC with links to abstracts. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The juggernaut effect: community resistance and the politics of urban motor-racing events by Patricia Claudette Johnson, Christine Everingham & Phoebe Everingham.

The International Journal of Event and Festival Management advances knowledge in the field of events management and enhances the uptake of such knowledge by academics in the field. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Antecedents and consequences of satisfaction among participants in health-affiliated charity sport events by Meungguk Park, Taeho Yoh, David J. Shonk.

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: SKATEBOARDING, GENTLE ACTIVISM, AND THE ANIMATION OF PUBLIC SPACE: CITE – A CELEBRATION OF SKATEBOARD ARTS AND CULTURE AT THE BENTWAY by Troy D. Glover, Sarah Munro, Immony Men, Wes Loates & Ilana Altman.

C&S is a cutting-edge peer-reviewed quarterly that publishes research to foster international scholarly understanding of the nexus of communication and sport that engages a broad intellectual community. – The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: #VEGASSTRONG: SPORT, PUBLIC MEMORIALIZATION, AND THE GOLDEN KNIGHTS by Benjamin Burroughs, Adam Rugg, David Becker, and Madeline Edgmon.

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.

In a new anthology from Routledge, Digital Football Cultures: Fandom, Identities and Resistance edited by Stefan Lawrence & Garry Crawford, a number of football scholars look at the digitalized future of the beautiful game. Our reviewer is Lise Joern, and she found interesting and critical insights to appreciate. She concludes, however, that technological development notwithstanding, much remains the same and is merely old wine in new bottles.