Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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New Research Alert! "Do Antidoping Interventions Work?" by Girginov et al.
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New Research Alert! "Forbidden Fruits? Institutional Rules, Agency, and Structure in European Football" by Radosław Kossakowski and Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen
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Addressing Gender Inequity in Australian Sports Leadership: A Postfeminist Policy Paradox - Jude Blacklock, Kathryn Henne, Kate Starre, Tate Morgan, 2026 Despite the growth in women's sport, decision-making positions in sports organizations remain dominated by men. This paper examines efforts to improve gend...

New Research Alert! "Addressing Gender Inequity in Australian Sports Leadership: A Postfeminist Policy Paradox" by Jude Blacklock, Kathryn Henne, Kate Starre, and Tate Morgan
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The April 2026 volume is out now!
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NASSS 2026 - Call for Early Abstracts | North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Call for early abstracts to present at the November 2026 conference in Calgary and online. Early abstracts are accepted through February 13, 2026, at 11:59 pm U.S. Central time.***Please note that thi...

A reminder that the call for early abstracts to present at the November 2026 conference in Calgary (and online) closes February 13, 2026, at 11:59 pm U.S. Central time. For more information head over to LinkedIn:
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New Research Alert! "Parental Expectations for Children's Future Athletic Achievement: The Roles of Socio-Economic Status, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Athletic Experiences and Identities" by Christopher M. McLeod and Chris Knoester
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Narrating Multiculturalism: Lydia Ko, Model Minorities, and the Mediated Kiwi Sporting Nation - Mark Falcous, Georgia Scott, 2026 This article explores the New Zealand media narrativization of Korean-born New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko. We excavate how Ko is mediated in a way that informs “na...

New Research Alert! "Narrating Multiculturalism: Lydia Ko, Model Minorities, and the Mediated Kiwi Sporting Nation" by Mark Falcous and Georgia Scott
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Exploring Latina Adolescent Athletes’ Sport Models: Profiles and Analysis of Favorite Athletes - Alisia G.T.T. Tran, Alejandra Hernandez, Maria F. Torres, Vera Lopez, 2026 Latina adolescent girls demonstrate a stark rate of underparticipation in sports activities. The aim of this study is to spotlight potential key factors that su...

New Research Alert! "Exploring Latina Adolescent Athletes’ Sport Models: Profiles and Analysis of Favorite Athletes" by Alisia G.T.T. Tran, Alejandra Hernandez, Maria F. Torres, and Vera Lopez
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New Research Alert! "Articulations of Ableism in Sport and Physical Activity" by Townsend et al.
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Journal of Sport and Social Issues - Volume 50, Number 1 Table of contents for Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 50, 1

The February 2026 volume is out now!
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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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"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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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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"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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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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"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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"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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"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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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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"Athletic Fat and Disidentification: Reading Gender, Sport/Exercise, and Fatness on YouTube" by Yeomi Choi
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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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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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"Maradonna and Public Diplomacy" by Gabriel Cătălin Gherasim
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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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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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The Women's Sports Revolution: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow? - Dafna Kaufman, 2025

...that provides significant insights into the ways that gender and capitalism become mobilized within neoliberalism and broader global capitalist regimes."
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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...

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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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Visions of Field - Pirkko Markula, 2025

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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In Recognition of a Quarter Century of Service and Scholarship - Douglas Hartmann, David L. Andrews, 2025

"...of sport-society relations and oftentimes presaged unfolding social problems within the sporting world and and in terms of sport's impacts in the wider world"
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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...

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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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