Tag: leisure studies

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: Brexit, Birmingham and the 2022 Commonwealth Games: an opportunity for regeneration and rejuvenation? by Alex de Ruyter, D. Hearne, J. Beer & Y. Zaman.

Loisir et Société / Society & Leisure is a bilingual, multidisciplinary and thematic journal that publishes on leisure and free time with their relation to cultural, economic and social dimensions of individuals and communities. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Déterminants d’une expérience inclusive de loisir dans des ateliers créatifs au sein de bibliothèques publiques by Valérie Poulin, Hélène Carbonneau, Leila Mostefa-Kara, Aude Porcedda, Delphine Guibourgé, Pierre-Yves Therriault & Frédéric Reichhart.

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: Tracking oneself for others: communal and self-motivational value of sharing exercise data online by Veera Ehrlén (open access).

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: Motorcycle tourism and nature: an analysis of motorcyclists’ motivations to travel by Carlos Eduardo Almeida Ramoa, Paulo Santos Pires & Edar Silva Añaña.

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: An examination of an outdoor pool’s contributions to well-Being: predicting different dimensions of well-Being from the use of an outdoor community pool by William D. Ramos, Austin R. Anderson, Susan E. Middlestadt & Trishnee Bhurosy.

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: Advancing positive youth development-focused coach education: contextual factors of youth sport and youth sport leader perceptions by Tarkington J. Newman, Leeann M. Lower-Hoppe, Mark Burch & Lauren M. Paluta.

Leisure Sciences presents scientific inquiries into the study of leisure, recreation, parks, travel, and tourism from a social science perspective. Articles cover the social and psychological aspects of leisure, and more. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: “Are You Trying to Make Them Gay?”: Culture Wars, Anxieties about Genderplay, and the Subsequent Impacts on Youth by KJ Dykstra & Fenton Litwiller (open access).

Leisure / Loisir strives to publish a diverse collection of scholarly papers in all areas of leisure, recreation, arts, parks, sport, and travel and tourism. Reflecting the multi- and interdisciplinary nature of these areas of study. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: La standardisation de la motricité dans les sports de nature et ses questions sous-jacentes: un répertoire en commun? by Jean-Baptiste Duez & Antoine Marsac.

The purpose of WLJ is to stimulate and communicate research, theory, and critical thought in all areas that address leisure, including play, recreation, the arts and culture, sport, health and fitness, and travel and tourism. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Predicting the factors that impact access to, completion of, and progression through community sport leaders qualifications in the UK by Hannah Mawson, Diane Crone, David James, Andrew Parker & Brendan Cropley.

The special issues explores the medium to long-term impacts of lockdowns, drawing inspiration from Ken Roberts’ ‘Lock down leisure in Britain’ (Leisure Studies 39(5): 617-628), but other questions emerge. These include: How have socially distanced, isolated and bubbled sociality affected leisure?  How might leisure lives have been ‘sanitised’ through the lockdown? How have these issues affected different demographics in different ways?  How have new leisure providers developed and what does this mean for older providers? How do these trends pan out internationally?