Tag: Meredith Nash

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: Tracking oneself for others: communal and self-motivational value of sharing exercise data online by Veera Ehrlén (open access).

Kim Toffoletti, Holly Thorpe och Jessica Francombe-Webb är redaktörer för antologin New Sporting Femininities: Embodied Politics in Postfeminist Times (Palgrave Macmillan), som enligt vår recensent Karin Lindelöf lyfter många angelägna frågor utifrån ambitionen att studera postfeminism som analytisk kategori i relation till fysiskt aktiva och idrottande femininiteter av skilda slag.

The considerable growth of interest in commerce, media and politics and their relationship to sport in international academia has resulted in academics in various disciplines 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 International Review for the Sociology of Sport 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, from standard length research papers to shorter reports and commentary, as well as book and media reviews.