Tag: leisure studies

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.

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).

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: Is Academia a Site of Struggle? A Critical Analysis of Resistance Scholarship in Leisure Studies by Daniel Theriault, Rasul Mowatt (open access).

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).

In recent discourse, both popular and academic, the relationship between leisure and social cohesion has gained prominence. Policies and studies increasingly recognize social cohesion as a precursor to leisure participation, while leisure-based programs are viewed as potential tools to enhance social cohesion within communities. This intertwined relationship raises several questions: How is social cohesion conceptualized within local leisure programming? How do leisure-related policies define or operationalize social cohesion?

Leveraging the London 2012 Paralympic Games to increase sports participation: the role of voluntary sports clubs by Christopher Brown & Athanasios (Sakis) Pappous (open access).

This Special Issue would allow interdisciplinary, international, and Global South scholars working in Sociology of Leisure to present research which explores the diverse and different aspects of the diasporic phenomenon. We further invite scholarly work that critically explore the concept of ‘diaspora’ within Sociology of Leisure research. ‘Diaspora’ is an enigma, with its attendant questions of cultural, racial, and social identification and affiliation, of lineage and identity, of story and memory, and indeed, of participation, representation, and socialisation in multicultural societies.