Tag: Gayle McPherson

The International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics is published by Routledge, and aims to publish articles that address all aspects of sport policy irrespective of academic discipline. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘Merely plastering a deep cut? A critical policy analysis of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) human rights commitment by Zohreh Khani & Hans Erik Næss (open access).

C&S is a cutting-edge peer-reviewed quarterly that publishes research to foster international scholarly understanding of the nexus of communication and sport that engages a broad intellectual community. – The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: #VEGASSTRONG: SPORT, PUBLIC MEMORIALIZATION, AND THE GOLDEN KNIGHTS by Benjamin Burroughs, Adam Rugg, David Becker, and Madeline Edgmon.

In their anthology Re-thinking Leisure in a Digital Age (Routledge), editors Michael Silk, Brad Millington, Emma Rich and Anthony Bush set themselves the task of providing critical engagement with digital technologies in a sport and leisure context. Anne Tjønndal has read the book for idrottsforum.org, and she contends that the individual contributions as well as the book as a whole are far-sighted and provide vital clues for a positive understanding of the brave new digital world.

The considerable growth of interest in commerce, media and politics and their relationship to sport in international academia has resulted in academics in various disciplines writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life.