Tag: leisure science

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: Redesigning the Games? The 2020 Olympic Games, Playbooks and new sports event risk management tools by Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen & Daniel Parnell (open access).

Visual approaches raise important questions of research philosophies, strategies and methods. They “not only enable researchers to produce knowledge in innovative ways,” but also “can be seen as a liberating and emancipatory force, whereby researchers, participants, and communities gain access to knowledge and expressions that might have not otherwise been accessible due to the inevitable strictures of traditional methods”. Accordingly, we invite submissions that challenge researchers to think critically or differently about visual methods in/as leisure research.

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: Women’s leading role in the political struggle for leisure: an ethnographic study in Porto Alegre, Brazil by Raquel da Silveira, Ariane Corrêa Pacheco, Carolina Caneva da Silva​ & Mauro Myskiw.

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: What is a digital nomad? Definition and taxonomy in the era of mainstream remote work by Dave Cook (open access).

In this special issue we want to build upon work that has focused on exploring the boundaries of leisure and innovation. To adapt to future consumer expectations, significant transformational impacts are likely to occur in the fields of marketing, tourism, leisure, events, hospitality, citizen/government interaction, health, workplace, education, and social networks We are interested in receiving papers that explore and examine the numerous challenges that remain.

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: The impact of Nordic walking compared to non-sporting activities on socialization and well-being by Ivan Raça, Fabrice Dosseville & Olivier Sirost.

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 other ISL: analysing the finances of the Indian Super League (football) and its franchisees by Sarthak Mondal, Daniel Plumley & Rob Wilson (open access).

In multifarious non-structured ways, human leisure entangles with animal life without any pre-design or mediation. These entanglements create outcomes that may be welcomed or not, beneficial or not, dangerous or not, divisive or not, for all participants, both animal and human. We invite papers, therefore, for a special issue of the World Leisure Journal that focuses on the unstructured entanglements of animals and human leisure.

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: Young surfers finding their wave: telling the tale of enskilment in surf places by Alex Prins & Brian Wattchow.

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: Segmenting sport fans by eFANgelism: a cluster analysis of South Korean soccer fans by Sanghyun Park, Seungmo Kim & Weisheng Chiu.