Tag: leisure studies

We particularly invite contributors to consider the chromatic turn in lifestyle sports as a starting point for unpacking the socio-political, affective, multispecies, and symbolic entanglements of pollution and urban leisure. This chromatic turn can be theorised as relating to blue, green, and grey space. We see greyness as multifaceted, material, symbolic, and even temporal in the case of active ageing grey nomads, and silver surfers.

This issue aims to speak to both historical and contemporary issues in leisure studies by focusing on how understandings and debates around clothing in sports/leisure have been rethought, as well as the diversity of new issues around dress that have arisen in the 21st century. I welcome cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural, cross-geographical submissions that can speak to issues surrounding clothing, fashion, and leisure, from a range of academic fields.

International sporting success factors in GB para-track and field by Rebecca Peake & Larissa E. Davies (open access).

Motivation and commitment of volunteers at parkrun events by Gillian Renfree & Julia West (open access).

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: Football as work: the lived realities of professional women footballers in England by Alex Culvin (open access).

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 evolution of competitive balance in men’s international cricket by Sarthak Mondal, Daniel Plumley & Rob Wilson.

JPRTLS provides a critical focus on a variety of policy debates relating to the tourism, leisure and events sectors. Such policy debates will encompass economic, social, cultural, political and environmental perspectives. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: COVID-19 and the travel behavior of xenophobic tourists by Rasoul Shahabi Sorman Abadi, Zahed Ghaderi, C. Michael Hall, Maryam Soltaninasab & Amir Hossein Qezelbash.

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: ‘Living in the moment’: mountain bikers’ search for flow by Steve Taylor & Anna Carr (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: From television to YouTube: digitalised sport mega-events in the platform society by Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen & Renan Petersen-Wagner (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: Who are the rehaleros? A first analysis of socio-demographics, habits and perceptions of the hunting dog-pack owners in Spain by Carlos Sánchez-García & Luis F. Villanueva.