Tag: Katherine Raw

With sport sustaining a prominent place in international development policymaking, discourse and delivery, the collected volume Handbook of Sport and International Development (Edward Elgar) investigates the role that different sport initiatives – from community-focused projects to large-scale events – can play across a great variety of development contexts. Our reviewers Derrick Charway and Umair Asif are appreciative of the comprehensive approach and they find the critical stance vital to combat the narratives about the “inherent purity and goodness of sport” (Coakley).

Managing Sport Development: An International Approach, edited by Emma Sherry, Nico Schulenkorf, Pamm Phillips & Katie Rowe (Routledge) is an introduction to sport development, covering key concepts and theory as well as best practice in the management, implementation, and evaluation of sport development programs. Our reviewers, Derrick Charway and Josephine Traberg, give full marks albeit some reservations regarding the semantics involved in separating sport through, from sport for, development.

The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society, edited by Lawrence A, Wenner (Oxford UP), features leading international scholars’ assessments of scholarly inquiry about sport and society. Divided into six sections, chapters consider dominant issues within key areas, approaches featured in inquiry, and debates needing resolution. Our reviewer is Richards Giulianotti, who edited the Sage four volume set The Sociology of Sport in 2012, and he finds that this new collection, some unnecessary omissions notwithstanding, is a welcome addition to the existing list of handbooks in the field.

JSM 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. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Female Sports Officials and Mental Health: The Overlooked Problem by Jacob K. Tingle, Brittany L. Jacobs, Lynn L. Ridinger, Stacy Warner.

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.