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The special issue seeks to explore the complex and dynamic intersections of gender with organizations of sports, a field that remains a powerful site for the negotiation of identities, power relations, and social norms. This issue invites submissions that critically engage with the ways in which gender shapes experiences, opportunities, and representations in professional sports organizations, as well as the (gendered) organizational and institutional structures that govern sports practices.

The countdown to the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics and Paralympics (LA28) is well underway. Anticipation and excitement surrounding the Games have been fueled by promises of innovation, sustainability, community engagement, and the return of the Olympics to Los Angeles for a third time. Organizers have highlighted the use of existing venues, the addition of new sports such as cricket, flag football, lacrosse, baseball/softball, and squash, and the vision of creating a fiscally responsible and environmentally conscious mega-event. This special issue invites scholars to move beyond celebratory narratives and critically examine the build up to LA28 as a social, cultural, political, economic, and historical phenomenon.

Altitude training is legal, but as soon as you use EPO to achieve the same you are banned. In some countries animals are beefed up with anabolic steroids, if you eat cheap meat and are tested you are banned for being doped. As it is difficult to define what actually constitutes doping, a list of prohibited substances is published annually. Nevertheless, Prof. Thevis, the leading German expert on doping control, claims that about one hundred performance enhancing drugs are around for which no testing exists yet.

“Inclusion” is a term and concept that has proliferated in physical education spaces since the early 1990s. Related scholarship has explored inclusion from multiple perspectives, including teachers, administrators, and more recently from disabled students themselves. The purpose of this special issue is to elevate and highlight emerging critical thought, beyond inclusion, regarding a broad range emergent topics which exist at the intersection of disability and physical activity (e.g., physical education, sport, recreation).

The question ‘What is good in sport?’ admits many possible meanings and, as such, can bring together discussions about a wide range of metaethical issues related to how we determine what qualifies as ‘good’ in the context of sport. It also encourages examination of the different sources and evaluations of normativity in sport, including ethical, aesthetic, social, and political aspects: Does it mean what makes sport a worthwhile activity? Does it mean what qualifies as good within sport? Does it mean what good we gain from participating? Whatever way the question is understood, it opens up rich philosophical ground and invites varied perspectives.

This special issue of the Sport Management Education Journal invites scholarly and applied contributions examining how AI is being integrated into sport management education across undergraduate, graduate, and professional contexts. We seek manuscripts that advance evidence-based pedagogy, document innovative instructional practices, and critically assess the ethical, workforce, and equity implications of AI adoption in sport management education. Consistent with SMEJ’s mission, submissions can be empirical, conceptual, and/or philosophical and should advance teaching and learning in sport management education to prepare future sport professionals.

We are excited by the notable and commendable increase in scholarship about understanding diverse body image experiences. This special issue seeks to expand on current framings of body image by foregrounding resistance, collective action, and embodied practices within sport and movement contexts since body image is a dynamic, relational, and socially (re)produced experience, shaped by structural conditions and lived embodiment. We invite submissions that explore how Black, racialized, Indigenous, two-spirited, LGBTQAI+, disabled, fat, thick/thicc, neurodivergent, (and more) people and communities are reclaiming their bodies and re-imagining body image in sport and movement spaces as an act of protest.

In recent decades, sport has become an increasingly significant arena through which political interests, ideological rivalries, and geopolitical tensions are expressed and contested. Political leaders frequently use sport to enhance national prestige, strengthen political legitimacy, and project influence on the international stage. Likewise, sport mega-events have evolved into symbolic arenas where states compete politically when direct military confrontation is either undesirable or impossible. We invite original contributions that explore the intersections of media, geopolitics, and interstate conflict.

This special issue of the Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies, intended for publication in 2027, will explore Pacific and Pasifika, including Aotearoa/New Zealand, sporting cultures and identities. We are seeking the submission papers for consideration for inclusion from a range of disciplines including history, sociology, literary studies, museum studies, cultural studies, film and media studies, and interdisciplinary fields. We welcome submissions from scholars at any career stage, and especially from graduate students and early career researchers. 

This Call would like to use the diagnosis of ‘sport in transition’ as an impetus to reflect on reality, authenticity and simulacra, and invite original and critical contributions that will deal, notably, with this exciting, albeit challenging, subject. The articles can be related to athletes’ experiences of authenticity, new sport’s phenomenology in relation to values in traditional sports, the sportification of crafts and skills, the marketing of sports due to values, the eventification of sport, supporter culture, nature vs. equipment, the reasons of consuming current sports, the sport(ification) vs. ‘sport culture’.