Tag: leisure studies
Call for Participation | Leisure, Class, and Social Hierarchies: Equestrian Sport as a Symbol of Power and Exclusion in the Victorian Era | Hybrid seminar, June 2, 2025
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.
Managing Sport and Leisure, Volume 30, 2025, Issue 2
International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, Vol. 8, 2025, Issue 1 | Youth Cultures, Leisure and Space: Practices and Representations Between Public and Private Places
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.
Managing Sport and Leisure, Volume 30, 2025, Issue 1
Call for Papers | “Of borders, borderlands, and crossings: The poetics and politics of leisure at/from the edge(s)”, Special Issue of World Leisure Journal | Call ends April 30,...
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).
International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, Vol. 7, 2024, Issue 4 | Human Rights and Leisure: Welfare, Wellbeing and Social Justice
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).
Managing Sport and Leisure, Volume 29, 2024, Issue 6
Call for Papers | “Leisure and Social Cohesion”, Special Issue of International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure | Call ends January 31, 2025
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?
Managing Sport and Leisure, Volume 29, 2024, Issue 5
Call for Paper | “Leisure in the lives of diasporic communities”, Special Issue of Leisure Studies | Call ends November 1, 2024
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.