Tag: Leisure Studies: The Journal of the LSA

The emphasis of Leisure Studies is on theoretically informed critical analyses within the social sciences and humanities of the topics that constitute leisure as a subject field – including the arts, tourism, sport and more. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Switching channels: investigating the push, pull, and mooring effects of moving from cable TV to OTT services by P. Sridevi & Nandukrishna T. Ajith.

The emphasis of Leisure Studies is on theoretically informed critical analyses within the social sciences and humanities of the topics that constitute leisure as a subject field – including the arts, tourism, sport and more. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The emotional presence of nature: Exploring affect in human-wilderness relations by Mark L. Douglas, William T. Borrie & Keith Bosak.

The emphasis of Leisure Studies is on theoretically informed critical analyses within the social sciences and humanities of the topics that constitute leisure as a subject field – including the arts, tourism, sport and more. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Skating to Legitimacy: Institutional Work Practices within Collegiate Club Hockey by Alicia B. Romano, Logan Schuetz, Brent D. Oja & Leeann M. Lower-Hoppe.

The emphasis of Leisure Studies is on theoretically informed critical analyses within the social sciences and humanities of the topics that constitute leisure as a subject field – including the arts, tourism, sport and more. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The phenomenology of image and enthusiasm for the experience of foiling sailboats by Maria Altimira Hackerott, A.C. Zimmermann & S.C. Saura.

We particularly invite contributors to consider the chromatic turn in lifestyle sports as a starting point for unpacking the socio-political, affective, multispecies, and symbolic entanglements of pollution and urban leisure. This chromatic turn can be theorised as relating to blue, green, and grey space. We see greyness as multifaceted, material, symbolic, and even temporal in the case of active ageing grey nomads, and silver surfers.

The emphasis of Leisure Studies is on theoretically informed critical analyses within the social sciences and humanities of the topics that constitute leisure as a subject field – including the arts, tourism, sport and more. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: From television to YouTube: digitalised sport mega-events in the platform society by Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen & Renan Petersen-Wagner (open access).

The emphasis of Leisure Studies is on theoretically informed critical analyses within the social sciences and humanities of the topics that constitute leisure as a subject field – including the arts, tourism, sport and more. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Women’s leading role in the political struggle for leisure: an ethnographic study in Porto Alegre, Brazil by Raquel da Silveira, Ariane Corrêa Pacheco, Carolina Caneva da Silva​ & Mauro Myskiw.

The emphasis of Leisure Studies is on theoretically informed critical analyses within the social sciences and humanities of the topics that constitute leisure as a subject field – including the arts, tourism, sport and more. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Young surfers finding their wave: telling the tale of enskilment in surf places by Alex Prins & Brian Wattchow.

The emphasis of Leisure Studies is on theoretically informed critical analyses within the social sciences and humanities of the topics that constitute leisure as a subject field – including the arts, tourism, sport and more. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: CrossFit during lockdown. The promises and pitfalls of digitally mediated training for leisure-time physical activity by Verena Lenneis, Jeppe Klarskov Hansen & Sine Agergaard.

The emphasis of Leisure Studies is on theoretically informed critical analyses within the social sciences and humanities of the topics that constitute leisure as a subject field – including the arts, tourism, sport and more. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘Pleasurable surfing is possible: ethnographic insights into the constructive sociation choices behind meaningful nothingness by Paul Cook (open access).