Tag: Nancy L. Malcom

JSFD’s mission is to examine, advance and disseminate evidence, best practices, and lessons learned from Sport for Development programmes and interventions. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Preparing for long-term success: Sport for Development’s strategies during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Carrie LeCrom & Tiesha Martin.

Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal (WSPAJ) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to advancing the understanding of women in sport and physical activity. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Negotiating the Funhouse: CrossFit Women and the Looking Glass Athlete by Nancy L. Malcom, Shaun Edmonds, Christina Gipson, Caitlyn Hauff, Hannah Bennett.

With her new anthology, Social Innovation in Sport (Palgrave Macmillan), Anne Tjönndal aims at providing fresh insights on how social innovations are utilized as strategies to make sport more accessible and inclusive. Our reviewer Alan Bairner is doubtful however, seeing sport’s adaptability to change as more often than not driven by market logics, since sport, he claims, is inherently conservative, reactionary even, in its refusal to change its core values and renew its traditional hierarchies.