Tag: leisure

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 Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Promoting and managing youth jogging groups in Tanzania: can we bank on social capital? by David James Manyerere.

This special issue is part of a larger and ambitious interdisciplinary project that aims to bring together leisure scholars with researchers from other disciplines (e.g., sport studies, political science, internet and media studies, anthropology, sociology, and others) exploring the far right. Writing in dyads or teams working across disciplines, manuscripts will build on the small body of existing leisure research on the topic to take on different elements of how leisure is used in the making, maintaining, exposing, and combating the far right.

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 Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Why do young women stop playing basketball? Results of an Australian Study by Elizabeth Sayers.

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 Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Why do young women stop playing basketball? Results of an Australian Study by Elizabeth Sayers.

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 Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The attraction, retention, and transition of elite sport development pathways in surfing in Australia by Popi Sotiriadou, Andrew Thrush & Brad.Hill.

Three decades after the end of Apartheid, South African society remains characterised by high levels of inequality and economic disparities. These inequalities are primarily but not  exclusively experienced through race, class and gender. These differences are also experienced in the realms of sport, recreation and leisure in South Africa. This special issue is interested in but not limited to papers that address some of the structural and societal inequalities in post-Apartheid South African sports, recreation and leisure landscapes.

The importance of physical proximity for team cohesion – a case study of USA Rugby 7s by Jacqueline Mueller, Robbie Matz, Zack J. Damon, Michael L. Naraine & James Skinner (open access).

Special Olympics involvement and families of individuals with intellectual disabilities: Impacts on sense of community, social isolation, and health by Andrew C. Pickett, Suzanne E. Williams & Zack J. Damon.

By addressing what leisure domains say and do, do and make throughout the borders, borderlands and crossings that traverse unequal global geographies of power, this special issue aims to connect/bring together issues that tend to be addressed as separated in and beyond interdisciplinary leisure studies (leisure and forced migration, Indigenous knowledges and sovereignties, disability, intersecting urban exclusions, settler colonialism, climate change).

Does corruption in sport corrode social capital? An experimental study in the United Kingdom by Argyro Elisavet Manoli, Comille Bandura, Paul Downward & Bram Constandt (open access).