Journal of Sport and Social Issues

Founded in 1991 by a new generation of sports scholars, commentators, and activists, the Journal of Sport and 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. Given sport’s ever-expanding scope and its complicated relationships with power and privilege, this work is needed now more than ever.

The core of JSSI is scholarship of the highest quality—empirically grounded, methodologically rigorous, and theoretically sophisticated—on sport and sport in social life. JSSI is especially interested in supporting more international and mixed-methods inquiry from sport specialists as well as in research and scholarship from scholars in more traditional academic disciplines and settings looking to engage sport and sport scholarship seriously and systematically.
In addition to traditional journal articles, JSSI welcomes proposals and submissions for innovative, alternative approaches to research and theory development. Alternative formats can include:

• special issues on emerging topics or social problems, either in sport or in terms of sport’s role in social life;

• extended review essays;

• shorter research notes or focused conceptual treatments;

• in-depth, edited interviews with elite or leading scholars in the field;

• curated, cross-disciplinary roundtable exchanges

Proposals for special topics and/or alternative formats can be submitted to the Editor or any member of the Associate Editor team.

All formal submissions will be processed and reviewed according to established, double-anonymized editorial standards and protocol.