Tag: Inge Derom

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.

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: A rebel and a giant: change and continuity in the discursive construction of Chinese sport heroes by Xiaoqian Richard Hu, Junjian Liang & Alan Bairner.

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 International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics aims to publish articles that address all aspects of sport policy irrespective of academic discipline. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Sport clubs, policy networks, and local politics by Ørnulf Seippel & Johanna Sveen Belbo (open access).

Sport Management Review is published as a service to sport industries worldwide. It is a multidisciplinary journal concerned with the management, marketing, and governance of sport at all levels and in all its manifestations. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: AN EXPLORATION OF THE DISTRACTIONS INHERENT TO SOCIAL MEDIA USE AMONG ATHLETES by Michelle Hayes, Kevin Filo, Andrea Geurin, Caroline Riot.

Event Management, an International Journal, has been meeting the research, educational, and analytic needs of the rapidly growing profession focused on global events for more than 20 years. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: NEGOTIATING COSTS AND BENEFITS AMONG 2008 OLYMPIC VOLUNTEERS: A SOCIAL EXCHANGE PERSPECTIVE by Yan Wang, Inge Derom, MarcTheeboom.

The Journal of Sport Management 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. JSM publishes research and scholarly review articles; short reports on replications, test development, and data reanalysis; and more.

Venice, Barcelona, Amsterdam – popular places badly hit by the tourism plague. This problem, in the sporting context, is addressed in a new compilation by Brent Moyle, Tom Hinch & James Higham, Sport Tourism and Sustainable Destinations (Routledge), where focus is on destination management and sustainability. Aage Radmann is our reviewer, and he recognizes the book as an important contribution to the field.

Milena Parent and Jean-Loup Chappelet have collected 21 contributions for the Routledge Handbook of Sports Event Management, by altogether 36 scholars in the field. Our reviewer is Christian Tolstrup Jensen, and while he offers som suggestions that he feels would improve the quality of the handbook, he is nevertheless quite happy with the collection as it is.

På självaste Världshälsodagen publicerar vi Suzanne Lundvalls kritiskt granskande recension av antologin Health and Elite Sport: Is High Performance Sport a Healthy Pursuit?, sammanställd av Joseph Baker, Parissa Safai & Jessica Fraser-Thomas (Routledge). Boken ger ett nordamerikanskt perspektiv på idrott och idrottsutövande.