Tag: Jim Cherrington

IRSS is a peer reviewed academic journal. Its main purpose is to disseminate research and scholarship on sport throughout the international academic community. The journal publishes research articles of varying lengths, as well as book and media reviews. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Rethinking places for sport in the Anthropocene by Peter Carlman and Gabriella Torell-Palmquist (open access).

Jim Cherrington’s edited volume Mountain Biking, Culture and Society (Routledge) represents the first critical examination of the diverse, complex, and at times contradictory culture of MTB, an outsider action sport that achieved recognition with the inclusion into the Olympic family in Atlanta 1996. Our reviewer Christoph Wagner appreciates this academic study of a sport that deals with issues such as habitat destruction, climate change and land enclosure as well as social inequalities and the commodification, technologisation and datafication of outdoor spaces and sports.

Leisure Sciences presents scientific inquiries into the study of leisure, recreation, parks, travel, and tourism from a social science perspective. Articles cover the social and psychological aspects of leisure, and more. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Placemaking as Unmaking: Settler Colonialism, Gentrification, and the Myth of “Revitalized” Urban Spaces by Robyn Burns & Lisbeth A. Berbary.

IJSL publishes high-quality papers on the sociology of leisure that have a global interest, and promote the development of this mature field. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: THE INFLUENCE OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF TIME ON THE MAJOR NORTH AMERICAN SPORTS: WILL SOCCER INFILTRATE THE AMERICAN SPORTS SPACE? by Benjamin Sadis, Andrei S. Markovits.

IRSS is a peer reviewed academic journal. Its main purpose is to disseminate research and scholarship on sport throughout the international academic community. The journal publishes research articles of varying lengths, as well as book and media reviews. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: RUNNING BETWEEN THE RAINDROPS: RUNNING MARATHONS AND THE POTENTIAL TO PUT MARRIAGE IN JEOPARDY by Assaf Lev and Sima Zach.

ALR is aimed at an international readership and seeks theoretical or applied articles which cover any topic within the broad area of leisure studies. Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘I DON’T WANT TO DIE. THAT’S NOT WHY I DO IT AT ALL’: MULTIFACETED MOTIVATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH, AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT IN BASE JUMPING by John H. Kerr & Susan Houge Mackenzie.