Tag: Thomas Fletcher

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: Participation of girls and women in community sport in Ghana: Cultural and structural barriers by Derrick Charway and Åse Strandbu (open access).

The emphasis of Leisure Studies is on theoretically informed critical analyses within the social sciences and humanities of the topics that constitute leisure as a subject field – including the arts, tourism, sport and more. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The emotional presence of nature: Exploring affect in human-wilderness relations by Mark L. Douglas, William T. Borrie & Keith Bosak.

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: Understanding the interplay between event communications and local business decision-making using signalling theory: the case of the 2018 Commonwealth Games by Joan Carlini, Alana Thomson, Andrew O’Neil & Amelia Green.

The emphasis of Leisure Studies is on theoretically informed critical analyses within the social sciences and humanities of the topics that constitute leisure as a subject field – including the arts, tourism, sport and more. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The phenomenology of image and enthusiasm for the experience of foiling sailboats by Maria Altimira Hackerott, A.C. Zimmermann & S.C. Saura.

C&S is a cutting-edge peer-reviewed quarterly that publishes research to foster international scholarly understanding of the nexus of communication and sport that engages a broad intellectual community. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: A Scoping Review of Research on Online Hate and Sport by Colm Kearns, Gary Sinclair, Jack Black, Mark Doidge, Thomas Fletcher, Daniel Kilvington, Katie Liston, Theo Lynn, Pierangelo Rosati (open access).

The emphasis of Leisure Studies is on theoretically informed critical analyses within the social sciences and humanities of the topics that constitute leisure as a subject field – including the arts, tourism, sport and more. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘Pleasurable surfing is possible: ethnographic insights into the constructive sociation choices behind meaningful nothingness by Paul Cook (open access).

The emphasis of Leisure Studies is on theoretically informed critical analyses within the social sciences and humanities of the topics that constitute leisure as a subject field – including the arts, tourism, sport and more. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The importance of support for sport tourism development among local residents: the mediating role of the perceived impacts of sport tourism by Miaw-Xian Chang, Yuen-Onn Choong, Lee-Peng Ng & Ai-Na Seow.

Through a social justice and equity lens, Families, Sport, Leisure and Social Justice: From Protest to Progress edited by Dawn E. Trussell & Ruth Jeanes (Routledge) examines how families, sport, and leisure connect to broader social issues in society. We asked Solveig Straume, Norwegian sociologist for a review. She finds the collection an interesting read and a timely scholarly contribution, however with an unfortunate predominance of Global North perspectives.

The International Journal of Event and Festival Management advances knowledge in the field of events management and enhances the uptake of such knowledge by academics in the field. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Motivations for participation in active sports tourism: a cross-national study by Sita Mishra, Gunjan Malhotra, Maria Johann, Shalini Rahul Tiwari.

C&S is a cutting-edge peer-reviewed quarterly that publishes research to foster international scholarly understanding of the nexus of communication and sport that engages a broad intellectual community. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: “Yay, Another Lady Starting a Log!”: Women’s Fitness Doping and the Gendered Space of an Online Doping Forum by April Henning and Jesper Andreasson (open access).