Tag: Greg Joachim

With sport sustaining a prominent place in international development policymaking, discourse and delivery, the collected volume Handbook of Sport and International Development (Edward Elgar) investigates the role that different sport initiatives – from community-focused projects to large-scale events – can play across a great variety of development contexts. Our reviewers Derrick Charway and Umair Asif are appreciative of the comprehensive approach and they find the critical stance vital to combat the narratives about the “inherent purity and goodness of sport” (Coakley).

Academics in various disciplines are 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. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Masculinity constructing among street workout youth in post-Soviet Dagestan by Sviatoslav Poliakov.

JSM encourages the submission of manuscripts in a number of areas as they relate to the management, governance, and consumption of sport. Studies using quantitative and/or qualitative approaches are welcomed The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Building and Sustaining Organizational Capacity in Voluntary Sports Clubs: Findings From a Longitudinal Study by Karsten Elmose-Østerlund, Graham Cuskelly, Jens Høyer-Kruse, and Christian Røj Voldby.

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. Editor’s pick from the current issue: ASSESSING THE CONTRIBUTION OF INFORMAL SPORT TO LEISURE-TIME PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON SOCIAL INNOVATION by Gareth J. Jones, Troy Carlton, Moonsup Hyun, Michael Kanters & Jason Bocarro.