Tag: Routledge
Call for Papers | “Who are ordinary football supporters? A comparative analysis”, Special Issue of Soccer & Society | Call ends September 15, 2025.
These questions are pressing in the face of increasingly fragmented forms of support. In the past, fans mainly supported a local club, often the one in their town or region. Today, the global media coverage of football – first via television, then digital platforms – has profoundly redefined practices. Fans can now follow, cheer on and even identify with clubs located thousands of kilometres away, without ever setting foot in a stadium. In a world where following football has become extremely accessible, how is club loyalty evolving? Is it being diluted or redefined?
Managing Sport and Leisure, Volume 30, 2025, Issue 3
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: The attraction, retention, and transition of elite sport development pathways in surfing in Australia by Popi Sotiriadou, Andrew Thrush & Brad.Hill.
Call for Papers | “Advancing Qualitative Research on Motherhood and High Performance Sport”, Special Issue of Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health | Call ends January 31, 2026
This special issue will build on this research by centralizing novel, innovative, and rigorous qualitative research methods/methodologies to expand understanding of less explored topics, in the motherhood and high performance sport research nexus. For this collection, high performance sport will encompass national or international level competitors, medal winners, Olympians, and professional or semi-professional contexts, where athletes strive for peak performance and achievement.
Call for Papers | “Euro 2028 in Local, National and Global Contexts”, Special Issue of Soccer & Society | Call ends September 12, 2025
This Special Issue will take a broad-minded and holistic approach to Euro 2028. It welcomes contributions from researchers situated in different academic fields, including, for example, sociology, international relations, history, media and communication, sport management, urban geography and more. As situated in a pre-event setting, the types of papers that are encouraged include not only original research articles, but also shorter commentaries or discussion pieces, case studies or review articles.
The International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 42, 2025, Issue 3
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 California to Brazil: The History of Skateboarding in Curitiba, Paraná (1975–1999) by Joana Caroline Corrêa da Silva, Maria Thereza Oliveira Souza & André Mendes Capraro.
The International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 42, 2025, Issue 2 | Public Sport History and Community Sport
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: Making Public the History of Non-Racial Sport in South Africa by Noor Nieftagodien (open access).
The International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 42, 2025, Issue 1 | Special Section: Africa in the Boxing Ring
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 Back Streets to Olympic Stage: The Development of Breaking and Skateboarding in South Korea by Eunsu Lee & Minhyeok Tak (open access)
The International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 41, 2024, Issue 15 | ISHPES 2023
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: Louis Faure-Dujarric, a French Sports Architect in the Interwar Period by Natalia Camps Y Wilant & Pierre-Olaf Schut.
The International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 41, 2024, Issue 14
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: Daciada and Winter Sports in Romania, 1976–1989 by Simona Petracovschi, Martin Domokos & Eugen Bota (open access).
Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, Volume 19, 2025, Issue 2
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: Anti-Doping Policy, Health, and Harm by Jo Morrison.












