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Journal of Sport & Social Issues is an international leader in the publication of critically oriented, interdisciplinary research on sport, its structure and its role(s) in the contemporary, global world.

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"The Rise of Private Club and Travel Teams in the U.S.: Generational Changes in Youth Sports Participation and Associations with Socioeconomic Statuses and Family and Community Sport Cultures" by Chris Knoester and Chris Bjork
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The Rise of Private Club and Travel Teams in the U.S.: Generational Changes in Youth Sports Participation and Associations with Socioeconomic Statuses and Family and Community Sport Cultures - Chris K...
Using descriptive and binary logistic regression analyses of data from the National Sports and Society Survey (N = 3,993), this study assessed trends in private...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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"Deliberative Spaces of Elite Athlete Representation in Transnational Sport Governance" by Lisa A Kihl, Daryl Adair, Annette Greenhow, and Lisa Gowthorp
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Deliberative Spaces of Elite Athlete Representation in Transnational Sport Governance - Lisa A Kihl, Daryl Adair, Annette Greenhow, Lisa Gowthorp, 2025
In elite international sport governance, various actors engage in deliberative practices to address athletes’ concerns and interests in different democratic spa...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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"The Grass Ceiling: An Investigation into What Drives Gender Exclusion in Golf" by Deborah M. Gray, Sean P. Goffnett, and Richard Divine
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The Grass Ceiling: An Investigation into What Drives Gender Exclusion in Golf - Deborah M. Gray, Sean P. Goffnett, Richard Divine, 2025
No sport is as closely tied to the business world as golf, which has long served as a powerful networking tool. Historically the game has been dominated by male...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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"What Can the Running Body Do? The Running Machine's Affective Possibilities and the Limits of Language" by Jean Ketterling and Bridgette Desjardins
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November 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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The December 2025 volume is out now!
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October 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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"Many Ways to Lead: A Discourse Analysis of Sport as an Influencer for Climate Action" by Emma M. McMain, Alex C. Gang, and Eunah Jo
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October 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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"Athletic Fat and Disidentification: Reading Gender, Sport/Exercise, and Fatness on YouTube" by Yeomi Choi
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Athletic Fat and Disidentification: Reading Gender, Sport/Exercise, and Fatness on YouTube - Yeomi Choi, 2025
Considering the gendered, fatphobic cultural assumptions shaping media representations of fat female bodies, alongside the increasing influence of online media ...
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October 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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"Challenges to Olympic Inclusion: A Critical Analysis of the International Wushu Federation’s Strategies in Aligning With International Olympic Committee Program Reforms" by Qing-song Han, Inge Derom, Marc Theeboom, Xi Jiang, and Dong Zhu.
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October 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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"Maradonna and Public Diplomacy" by Gabriel Cătălin Gherasim
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Maradona and Public Diplomacy - Gabriel Cătălin Gherasim, 2025
Neither a diplomat properly, nor a career-type of political activist, the late Argentinian footballer Diego Armando Maradona steadily played the role of a publi...
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September 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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"The Queen's Gambit: Race, Gender, and Feminist Reclamation of Athletic Histories" by Janelle Joseph, Ornella Nzindukiyimana, Shireen Ahmed, and Sarah Barnes
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September 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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The October 2025 volume is out now!
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September 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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In the final piece reflecting on Cole's editorial legacy, Grant Farred refers to them as a "curator," writing that, "The editorial world will be poorer without their understated but intellectually voracious disposition."
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August 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Dafna Kaufman writes about Cole's contributions to scholarship on women's sport: "Following Cole, we ought to regard women's sports and the branding of women's sports culture not as a site of imminent liberation, but as a critical space...
August 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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About past JSSI editor Cole, Holly Thorpe writes, "the highly original and critical questions Cole has been asking for more than three decades now, and the approaches used to articulate the complex workings of power in sport, have significantly shaped our field"
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August 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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In "Visions of Field," Pirkko Markula writes that past JSSI editor CL Cole "...opened up the landscape of sport sociology to critically and theoretically consider what counts as the study of sport"
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Visions of Field - Pirkko Markula, 2025
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August 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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The August 2025 volume features tribute to longtime previous JSSI editor CL Cole. In their essay, Hartmann and Andrews write, "Among the characteristics that marked Cole's editorship was the unerring ability to identify work, empirical or theoretical, which articulated the complexities...
August 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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"Football is Politics: Analyzing Public Emotions in Neymar Jr.'s Case and PEC das Praias Through the Instagram Accounts of Folha de S.Paulo and O Globo Newspapers" by Caroline Patatt and Jéssica Sandes
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July 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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“Football Still Puts Food on My Table”: Exploring the Positive Narratives of Former Amateur and Semi-Professional Footballers in Nigeria by Ikechukwu Ejekwumadu
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July 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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"Sustainability of Policies Addressing Harassment and Abuse in Children's Sports: A Descriptive and Cross-National Account of Five European Countries" by Monica Shiakou et al.
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July 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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"Fan Attitude Toward Athlete Activism for Black Lives Matter," by Tamara Seufert, Yanxiang Yang, Iris Perey, and Joerg Koenigstorfer
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July 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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The August 2025 volume is out now!
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Journal of Sport and Social Issues - Volume 49, Number 4
Table of contents for Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 49, 4
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July 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Special Issue: Call for Proposals

We are excited to announce a new Special Issue in the Journal of Sport and Social Issues on post-qualitative inquiry!
July 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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JSSI goals include:
"pioneering creative forms of content and alternative modes of intellectual exchange and construction of knowledge and scholarship related to sport and its significance in global social life"
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June 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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JSSI goals include:
"facilitating engagement with nonsport scholars and intellectuals who are increasingly aware of and interested in sport as a social force"
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“Issue Introduction and Welcome” JSSI Spring 2025 Double-Issue - Douglas Hartmann, 2025
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June 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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JSSI goals include:
"cultivating an ever-more diverse and international intellectual community for sport scholarship, in terms of contributors, content, and readership"
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“Issue Introduction and Welcome” JSSI Spring 2025 Double-Issue - Douglas Hartmann, 2025
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June 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM