Tag: Jon Dart

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: ‘Nobody needs a label’: responses on Facebook to a Team GB equity, diversity and inclusion initiative by Tracey J. Devonport, Kath Leflay, Kay Biscomb, Helen Richardson-Walsh, Kate Richardson-Walsh & Michael Thelwall.

IJSMS is the world’s leading journal for the sports marketing industry, and provides a vital resource to both academic and industry experts. For academics It is an opportunity to publish the highest quality, peer-reviewed research. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Emphasizing effort vs talent in personal trainers' performance: consumption response of personal fitness training customers by Sangchul Park, Hyun-Woo Lee.

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.

EJSS’ function is to enable an international discussion about current issues and to foster collaboration between researchers from all social scientific sub-disciplines. It’s published 4 times per year. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Sport and fitness app uses: a review of humanities and social science perspectives by Bastien Soulé, Gonzalo Marchant & Raphaël Verchère.

Sport in History encourages the study of sport to illuminate broader historical issues and debates. Includes an extensive reviews section, an annual compendium of sports-related accessions to British archives and a 'Sport in Public History' section. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘‘This heart-rending and world-shattering news’: gender, emotion, and transnationalism in the Bill Shankly retirement letters by Alan McDougall.

EJSS’ function is to enable an international discussion about current issues and to foster collaboration between researchers from all social scientific sub-disciplines. It’s published 4 times per year. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The representation of the ‘refugee crisis’ and ‘sport’ in the German Press: an analysis of newspaper discourse by Enrico Michelini.

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: PALESTINIAN FOOTBALL AND NATIONAL IDENTITY UNDER OCCUPATION by Jon Dart.

Soccer and Society is an international peer-reviewed journal and the first international journal devoted to the world’s most popular game. It covers all aspects of soccer globally from anthropological, cultural, economic, historical, political and sociological perspectives. Soccer and Society encourages and favours clearly written research, analysis and comment.

“As manna from heaven”; that is one way of describing the arrival to the book stores of Sport, Protest and Globalisation: Stopping Play edited by Jon Dart and Stephen Wagg (Palgrave Macmillan). Our reviewer is Russell Holden, and besides noting a couple of omissions, he is thoroughly pleased, nay, enthusiastic over this anthology and its critical stance in relation to sports.

The International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics aims to publish articles that address all aspects of sport policy irrespective of academic discipline. Articles that adopt a multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary or comparative approach are particularly welcome.