Tag: Mike Weed

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy is an international peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research contributions to scientific knowledge. It publishes high quality articles from a wide variety of philosophical traditions. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Autonomy, relationality, and brain-injured athletes: a critical examination of the Concussion in Sport Group’s Consensus Statements between 2001 and 2023 by Francisco Javier Lopez Frias & Mike McNamee (open access).

Routledge Handbook of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, edited by Dikaia Chatziefstathiou, Borja García & Benoit Séguin (Routledge) presents new research and broad surveys exploring pressing debates, challenges and possible solutions surrounding the modern Olympic and Paralympic Games, across diverse socioeconomic and political contexts. Our reviewer Björn Sandahl contends that the handbook serves as a rich introduction to its field of study and thus should be of great interest to students and the interested general public.

IRSS 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, as well as book and media reviews. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The accidentology of sport in France through the prism of the legitimacy theory: A first multilevel quantitative approach by Guillaume Routier, Jade Isner, and Brice Lefèvre.

The Journal of Sport & Tourism (JS&T) aims to publish research that makes a clear contribution, substantively, theoretically or methodologically, to the body of knowledge relating to all aspects of the relationship between sport and tourism. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: How has science highlighted sports tourism in recent investigation on sports’ environmental sustainability? A systematic review by Margarida Mascarenhas, Elsa Pereira, António Rosado & Rute Martins.

The Journal of Sport & Tourism (JS&T) aims to publish research that makes a clear contribution, substantively, theoretically or methodologically, to the body of knowledge relating to all aspects of the relationship between sport and tourism. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: EXPLORING THE CONTRIBUTION OF ACTIVITY SPORTS TOURISM TO SAME-DAY VISIT EXPENDITURE AND DURATION by Paul Downward , Simona Rasciute & Cristina Muniz.

Jayne Caudwell & Darragh McGee’s edited volume Human Rights and Events, Leisure and Sport (Routledge) originated as a special issue of the Leisure Studies journal. In ten chapters, various mega events and other social phenomena are studied from the point of view of human rights. In his review, Lasse Frandsen takes a closer look at two instances, the Calais Jungle refugee camp and the São Paulo Pride 2017.

Leisure Studies is the journal of the Leisure Studies Association. The emphasis of the journal is on theoretically informed critical analyses within the social sciences and humanities of the wide range of topics that constitute leisure as a subject field – including the arts, tourism, cultural, informal and virtual activities, urban and rural recreation, sport, media and physical activities.

The Journal of Sport & Tourism (JS&T) aims to publish research that makes a clear contribution, substantively, theoretically or methodologically, to the body of knowledge relating to all aspects of the relationship between sport and tourism.

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.

Bo Carlsson Idrottsvetenskap, Malmö högskola Thomas Hinch & James Higham Sport Tourism Development 254 sid, hft. Clevedon, UK: Channel View Publications 2004Brent W. Ritchie & Daryl Adair (ed) Sport Tourism: Interrelationships, Impacts and Issues 302 sid, hft. Clevedon, UK: Channel View Publications 2004 Mike Weed & Chris Bull Sports Tourism: Participants, Policy and Providers 241 sid, inb. Oxford, UK: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann 2003 Tidigare har jag läst och recenserat två böcker om idrottsturism: Sport Tourism och Sport and...