Tag: Holly Collison

JSFD’s mission is to examine, advance and disseminate evidence, best practices, and lessons learned from Sport for Development programmes and interventions. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Menstrual Health Education in Sport for Development: A Case Study from Zambia by Sarah Zipp & Lombe Mwambwa (open access).

Bringing together leading esports experts from Europe, North America, and Australia, Anne Tjønndal’s edited collection Social Issues in Esports (Routledge) provides new sociological analyses that define and locate esports in social studies. Kalle Jonasson, who wrote about esports on idrottsforum.org already back in 2005, is highly appreciative of Tjønndal’s book, notwithstanding the fact that he would have liked to see a bit more of conceptual and philosophical thinking around the social issues surrounding esports.

In Esports Insights (Routledge), Emily Hayday, Holly Collison-Randall and Sarah Kelly outline the fundamental characteristics, features, and structures of the rapidly growing esports industry. Featuring international case studies in every chapter, the book offers an introduction for readers without any prior knowledge of esports. It is well received by our reviewer Egil Trasti Rogstad, whose PhD project concerns various aspect of electronic sports, and it gave him insight into new areas of esports.

JSFD’s mission is to examine, advance and disseminate evidence, best practices, and lessons learned from Sport for Development programmes and interventions. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Diving into a new era: The role of an international sport event in fostering peace in a post-conflict city by Jada W. Lindblom, Eric Legg & Christine A. Vogt.

JGSM aims to be the global platform for focused, rigorous, and interdisciplinary research that has originality, depth, and clarity of insights into significant issues and developments of interest to sport management. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The Capability Approach as a Conceptual Bridge for Theory-Practice in Sport-for-Development by Michael Dao & Tavis Smith.

Sport, Education and Society encourages contributions from social scientists and educationalists studying the relationships between pedagogy, ‘the body’ and society, The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘Three-sided football: DIY football and social transformationalism by Benjin Pollock (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: Landscapes of tension, tribalism and toxicity: configuring a spatial politics of esport communities by Emily Jane Hayday, Holly Collison & Geoffery Z. Kohe.

Social Inclusion is a peer-reviewed open access journal, which provides academics and policy-makers with a forum to discuss and promote a more socially inclusive society. The journal encourages researchers to publish their results on topics related to social and cultural inclusion The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: (RE)FORMING THE INSIDE/OUTSIDE: ON PLACE AS A GOVERNABLE DOMAIN THROUGH SPORTS-BASED INTERVENTIONS by David Ekholm and Magnus Dahlstedt.

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.

Journal of Sport and Social Issues (JSSI) brings you the latest research, discussion and analysis on contemporary sport issues. In JSSI scholars study the impact of sport on social issues from many perspectives, including Sociology, History, Economics, Media Studies, Gender Studies, Psychology, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Anthropology and Ethnic Studies.