Tag: Julie Brice

By placing scholars from various disciplines side-by-side on the common topic of the Olympic Games, JOS (available in both print and electronic format and marketed to a global scholarly audience) aims to promote and encourage a multi-disciplinary understanding of the Olympic Movement. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Bidding for the Olympic Games: An Anatomy of Arguments by Douglas Booth.

Soccer, a.k.a (association) football is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, and aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Adverse effects of repressive policies: safety and security issues in Iranian football by Nasrin Biglari, Henk Erik Meier & Seyed Reza Hosseini Niaa.

The International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics is published by Routledge, and aims to publish articles that address all aspects of sport policy irrespective of academic discipline. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: An Intercultural Sporting Event as Part of Soft Power Strategy: Macao’s 1st Lusophony Games by Celia Gouveia.

SSJ publishes original research, framed by social theory, on exercise, sport, physical culture, and the (physically active) body. The journal publishes peer-reviewed empirical, theoretical, and position papers; book reviews; and critical essays. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: “Just Existing Is Activism”: Transgender Experiences in Martial Arts by Anna Kavoura, Alex Channon, Marja Kokkonen.

Feminist New Materialisms, Sport and Fitness: A Lively Entanglement by Holly Thorpe, Julie Brice & Marianne Clark (Palgrave Macmillan) offers the first critical examination of the contributions of feminist new materialist thought to the study of sport, fitness, and physical culture. We asked Pam R. Sailors, Professor of Philosophy at Missouri State University to read it, and her review bears witness to the complexities dealt with in the book; still, she writes, a good addition to discussions in the area.

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health is a landmark publication – it is the first international journal solely dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of qualitative research in the sport, exercise, and health sciences. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: A tale of three seasons: a cultural sport psychology and gender performativity approach to practitioner identity and development in professional football by Francesca Champ, Noora Ronkainen, David Tod, Artin Eubank & Martin Littlewood.

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: Friendly fields: the promissory joy of playing soccer outdoors by Howard Prosser.

SSJ publishes original research, framed by social theory, on exercise, sport, physical culture, and the (physically active) body. The journal publishes peer-reviewed empirical, theoretical, and position papers; book reviews; and critical essays. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: “I JUST WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE”: NOVEL SOCIOLOGICAL INSIGHTS INTO DRAMATURGICAL DEMANDS ON PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES by Martin Roderick and Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson

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, planning for leisure environments, leisure gerontology, travel and tourism behavior, leisure economics, and urban leisure delivery systems.