Tag: Routledge

This special issue of Soccer & Society is edited by independent historian Conor Curran and takes a pan-European approach in examining the game’s role within schools in seven European nations from the late 1800s until the early twenty-first century, including the homes to the ‘Big Five’ European leagues – England, Spain, Germany, Italy and France. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Introduction: soccer’s growth and development in schools in Europe: a history by Conor Curran (open access).

Academics in various disciplines are writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Skateboarding and contested public space in Portrush, Northern Ireland: exploring tensions between resortification and DIY space-claiming through co-creative methodology by Jim Donaghey & Slaine Browne (open access).

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. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Beyond the game: Panathinaikos’ fandom and the political arena by Angeliki- Sofia Bakali & Torbjörn Andersson.

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: Lessons learned from meaningful work: Implications for understanding meaningfulness in elite/high performance sport by Noora Ronkainen & Michael McDougall (open access).

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. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Football and right-wing populisms: S. Berlusconi and G. Becali by Traian Sandu & Andrea DU Ruzza (open access).

The purpose of PESP is to provide a forum for high quality educational research for a national and international readership. We intend this research to have a high impact on both policy and practice. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: What about physical education and Sustainable Development Goals? A scoping review by Salvador Baena-Morales & Alberto Ferriz-Valero

Three decades after the end of Apartheid, South African society remains characterised by high levels of inequality and economic disparities. These inequalities are primarily but not  exclusively experienced through race, class and gender. These differences are also experienced in the realms of sport, recreation and leisure in South Africa. This special issue is interested in but not limited to papers that address some of the structural and societal inequalities in post-Apartheid South African sports, recreation and leisure landscapes.

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: The Sport Hero Concept in Czechoslovakia: The Phenomenon of Emil Zátopek, 1948–1956 by Václav Pechman (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: A ‘conditioned emergence’ approach to managing systemic change in sport: insights from Golf Australia by Joshua McLeod, Ian O’Boyle, David Shilbury, Lesley Ferkins & Robert MacIntosh (open access).

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: Assessing efficiency and managerial behaviour in the Spanish golf hotel industry by Christian Hernández-Guedes & Jorge V. Pérez-Rodríguez.