Tag: Michael Silk

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, and more. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Leisure Trips to the Natural Environment: Examining the Tradeoff between Economic and Environmental Impact by Pamela Wicker, Paul Downward & Simona Rasciute.

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: Mamba in the Mirror: Black Masculinity, Celebrity, and the Public Mourning of Kobe Bryant by A. Lamont Williams.

C&S is a cutting-edge peer-reviewed quarterly that publishes research to foster international scholarly understanding of the nexus of communication and sport that engages a broad intellectual community. – The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE KNEEL: EXAMINING PERCEPTIONS OF THE NFL ANTHEM PROTEST ON ORGANIZATIONAL REPUTATION by Shaun M. Anderson.

C&S is a cutting-edge peer-reviewed quarterly that publishes research to foster international scholarly understanding of the nexus of communication and sport that engages a broad intellectual community. – The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE KNEEL: EXAMINING PERCEPTIONS OF THE NFL ANTHEM PROTEST ON ORGANIZATIONAL REPUTATION by Shaun M. Anderson.

In their anthology Re-thinking Leisure in a Digital Age (Routledge), editors Michael Silk, Brad Millington, Emma Rich and Anthony Bush set themselves the task of providing critical engagement with digital technologies in a sport and leisure context. Anne Tjønndal has read the book for idrottsforum.org, and she contends that the individual contributions as well as the book as a whole are far-sighted and provide vital clues for a positive understanding of the brave new digital world.

Milena Parent and Jean-Loup Chappelet have collected 21 contributions for the Routledge Handbook of Sports Event Management, by altogether 36 scholars in the field. Our reviewer is Christian Tolstrup Jensen, and while he offers som suggestions that he feels would improve the quality of the handbook, he is nevertheless quite happy with the collection as it is.

In this original review for idrottsforum.org, Jay Coakley takes on two introductory textbooks in the sociology of sport, Sport Sociology by Peter Craig and Sport and Society, edited by Barrie Houlihan & Dominic Malcolm (both Sage Publications). His critical analysis from the point of view of the academic teacher leads him to a well-argued conclusions that will be rewarding reading for teachers as well as for the respective author/editors.

The edited volume Sport and Neoliberalism: Politics, Consumption, and Culture (Temple University Press), compiled by David L. Andrews and Michail L. Silk, takes a critical stance on neoliberalism as a dominant organizing mechanism, in society and in sports. Our reviewer Russell Holden has but few reservations to this vital and useful analysis of modern sports.

Five years old, and good as new! Anne Tjønndal has read Pirkko Markula’s and Michael Silk’s Qualitative Research for Physical Culture (Palgrave Macmillan) and concludes that this is still refreshing reading as qualitative methods books go, with its comprehensive approach to the whole research process. Her review ends with strong recommendations; this is a book for faculty and students alike.

In his knowledgeable review of A Companion to Sport, edited by David L. Andrews and Ben Carrington, Alan Bairner, Professor of Sport and Social Theory at Loughborough University, finds that the volume offers something for everybody, if not everything for all.