Tag: Routledge

The Sport and Human Rights book series aims to encourage and promote high-quality research on one of the most important issues in contemporary sport: sport’s impact on human rights. Featuring the work of established and emerging scholars and practitioners from around the world, from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and employing a spectrum of methodological approaches, the series examines the positive and negative human rights impacts that sport can have, from mega-events to grassroots, but also explores sport’s potential to be a force for good and to have a positive impact on human rights and society.

Soccer, a.k.a (association) football is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, and aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world. Special Issue: British Ambassadors in Soccer Kit or Transnational Actors? Football League Clubs on Close Season Foreign Tours, 1900-1939.

Psychoanalysis, with its attention to unconscious desire, psychic conflict, and the role of fantasy, provides a unique lens through which to interrogate the presence and function of aggression in sporting life. This special issue will advance psychoanalytic investigations of aggression in sport by bringing together interdisciplinary scholarship across clinical theory, cultural analysis, and critical sport studies. In doing so, it seeks to explore the psychic, social, and symbolic dimensions of aggression as they relate to athletes, spectators, institutions, and the media.

The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: From Rikidôzan to the Roku Player: The Evolution of Japanese Television and Puroresu by Jonathan Foye & Lukasz Swiatek (open access).

ESMQ publishes articles that contribute to our understanding of sport organizations. The Journal sets out to enhance our understanding of the role of sport management and sport bodies in social life. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Organizational experience and cost-cutting agreements in the Formula One industry: a dynamic capabilities approach by Luis Carlos Sánchez & Carlos Varela-Quintana.

The International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics is published by Routledge, and aims to publish articles that address all aspects of sport policy irrespective of academic discipline. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘Merely plastering a deep cut? A critical policy analysis of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) human rights commitment by Zohreh Khani & Hans Erik Næss (open access).

The Journal of Applied Sport Psychology is a refereed journal designed to advance thought, theory, and research on applied aspects of sport and exercise psychology. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: “I always just viewed it as part of sport”: Psychological maltreatment and conformity to the sport ethic by Sarah McGee, Gretchen Kerr, Michael Atkinson & Ashley Stirling

EJSS’ function is to enable an international discussion about current issues and to foster collaboration between researchers from all social scientific sub-disciplines. It’s published 4 times per year. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘From the penthouse to the shithouse’: a social constructionism investigation of Rugby League players’ experiences of transitioning to retirement by Deborah Agnew, Shane Pill, Elizabeth Abery & Yvonne Georgina Ellis (open access).

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: Dancing in Movements, Movements in Sports: a Comparative Approach Toward a Metaphysical Realist Ontology by Arturo Leyva.

Managing Sport and Leisure is a refereed journal that publishes high quality research articles to inform and stimulate discussions relevant to sport and leisure management globally. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Promoting and managing youth jogging groups in Tanzania: can we bank on social capital? by David James Manyerere.