Tag: leisure studies

The 2026 annual conference of the Leisure Studies Association invites scholars, practitioners, and cultural producers to explore how leisure practices—both traditional and emergent—shape and are shaped by creative and connected communities. The conference aims to foster dialogue across disciplines, challenge conventional boundaries, and illuminate the diverse ways leisure is experienced, imagined and enacted within creative and connected communities. We invite abstract submissions for scholarly work that critically engages with the conceptual frameworks and research strategies shaping the study of created and connected communities of/in/with 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.

Today, leisure is often seen as a universal right – accessible to all, regardless of background. Yet historically, access to leisure and sport was highly regulated and deeply unequal. This talk examines the cultural and social functions of leisure through the lens of equestrian sport. Focusing on the Victorian era, it argues that horseback riding was far more than a recreational pastime; it was a highly coded system of social communication. Practices such as dress, posture, and riding instructions served to reinforce existing social hierarchies and embodied norms.

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).

This journal publishes high-quality papers on the sociology of leisure that have a global interest, promote the development of this mature field within international sociology, and go beyond the traditional geographical areas of leisure studies. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Practicing Subcultural Gaze: Sticker Artists and Graffiti Writers Navigating Between Recognition and Control in Urban Spaces by Malin Fransberg, Nadezhda Vasileva.

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.