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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).

Event Management, an International Journal, has been meeting the research, educational, and analytic needs of the rapidly growing profession focused on global events for more than 20 years. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: What Predicts the Sport Event Volunteer Experience? Examining Motivation, Satisfaction, Commitment, And Sense of Community by Erik L. Lachance, Jordan T. Bakhsh, Ashley Thompson & Milena M. Parent.

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: ‘‘Masters of your fate and the captains of your soul’: media representations of the 2018 Invictus Games by Peter English, Bridie Kean, Simone Pearce, Timothy Peters, Katy Kirby & Angela Calder.

JoHLSTE aims to promote, enhance and disseminate research, good practice and innovation in all aspects of higher education. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: SOCIAL MEDIA IN SPORT MANAGEMENT EDUCATION: INTRODUCING LINKEDIN by Samuel López-Carril, Christos Anagnostopoulos, Petros Parganas.

The International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics aims to publish articles that address all aspects of sport policy irrespective of academic discipline. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: THE FAROE ISLANDS AND THE WORLD SOCIETY: THE DEVELOPMENT OF ELITE CLUB FOOTBALL FRAMED BY COMMERCIAL AND LOCAL INTERESTS AND INTERNATIONAL REGULATIONS by Nicholas Satchwell & Ulrik Wagner.

Soccer a.k.a (association) football, the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, has become a major social phenomenon since the late nineteenth century. Through the social prism of soccer, scholars across the world have tended to understand various aspects of life. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world.

The Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education (JoHLSTE) is the leading international, peer-reviewed educational journal for this subject grouping. Its aims are to promote, enhance and disseminate research, good practice and innovation in all aspects of higher education, and to encourage greater understanding, links and collaboration across its constituent fields.

Leisure Studies is the journal of the Leisure Studies Association. The emphasis of the journal is on theoretically informed critical analyses within the social sciences and humanities of the wide range of topics that constitute leisure as a subject field – including the arts, tourism, cultural, informal and virtual activities, urban and rural recreation, sport, media and physical activities.

A 2018 issue of Sport in Society ending up as a 2019 anthology from Routledge is not exactly startling, and in this case, as in many others, it seems like a good way to keep Important issues alive in the academic debate. Ethical Concerns in Sport Governance, edited by Souvik Naha & David Hassan gets a rather favorable review from Pam Sailors, who, nonetheless, is quite pessimistic regarding the potential for improvement.

The International Review for the Sociology of Sport 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, from standard length research papers to shorter reports and commentary, as well as book and media reviews.