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The World Cup offers a rich site for psychoanalytic inquiry. Whether in relation to nationalism, fandom, desire, identification, embodiment, spectacle, media, race, gender, inequality, anxiety, enjoyment, failure, or collective belonging, the tournament continues to generate profound emotional investment across players, fans, nations, and media institutions. This provides an important opportunity to think critically about why sport matters, and why football, in particular, continues to occupy such a powerful place in our social and subjective lives.

Soccer is more than a game—it is a global force that shapes economies, influences politics, drives technological innovation, and unites (and divides) communities across continents. From neighborhood pitches to the world’s largest sporting stages, soccer offers a powerful lens through which to understand some of the most pressing issues of our time. The Journal of Multidisciplinary Research is excited to announce a special issue dedicated to cutting-edge, interdisciplinary scholarship on soccer.

Safeguarding in sport has emerged as a critical priority for sport psychology practice, research, and policy. However, the development and implementation of safeguarding measures are significantly influenced by cultural contexts. Research highlighting issues of contextual fit when Western-born, rights-based safeguarding frameworks are applied across diverse geo-cultural logics and norms, and across sporting environments and levels. Despite growing policy attention and the expansion of safeguarding initiatives, systematic monitoring and evaluation remain underdeveloped in many settings.

This is a Call for Papers for a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Global Sport Management titled “Sports Communication and AI from Organizational Perspectives: Transforming Culture, Practices, and Ethical Standards.” This special issue invites scholarly work that critically examines how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping communication practices, organizational structures, and ethical standards within the sport industry. We welcome conceptual, empirical, methodological, and case-based studies that address both the opportunities and challenges associated with AI integration in sport communication.

All manuscripts must focus on elite athletes navigating the emerging adulthood developmental period and address the unique setting of athletic careers in which EA athletes are nested. Athletes competing at high levels of sport, including but not limited to premier or major professional leagues, professional developmental and minor leagues, and collegiate/quasi-professional athletics, are the primary focus of this Special Issue. Recreational, intramural, or lower-intensity sport contexts fall outside the scope of this Special Issue and will not be considered.

Sports offer entry to culture, history, and intellectual debate for people who enjoy the world of ideas yet find academia inaccessible. Meeting readers where they are, this issue activates humanities research to unpack the hidden histories and surprising depths of sports around the world – from tennis and football to basketball and cricket – unfurling the intricacies of athletes, fans, and the cultures that surround them, providing readers with new understandings of their favorite past-times and conversation starters for their pregame rituals.

This special issue offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a comprehensive historical perspective that informs future scholarship and practice in the field and lays a foundation for academic research in sport marketing. Submissions are encouraged by researchers at all career stages and from diverse academic fields such as marketing, management, analytics, economics, law, sociology, psychology, communication, and cultural studies. We welcome original research articles, comprehensive reviews articles, historical narratives, and in-depth case studies that may utilize the past and present to illuminate the future of sport marketing.

The «Journal of Global Sport Management» invites submissions for a Special Issue on “Sustainability in Global Sport: Environmental, Social, and Economic Futures and Governance”. This special issue invites submissions that critically examine sustainability across the event lifecycle, moving beyond rhetorical commitments toward meaningful, lasting, and actionable outcomes. We look forward to receiving your submissions and to furthering academic dialogue on sustainability within the global sport landscape across environmental, social, economic, and governance dimensions.

A People’s History of Sport in Canada aims to inject new histories into the narrative arc of Canadian sport history. Motivated by Azoulay’s (2019:289) notion of “potential history”, it “strives to retrieve, reconstruct, and give an account of diverse worlds.” Informed by intersectionality and a focus on the community level, this special issue will highlight sport as a social and cultural practice. The articles will explore the sport, recreation, and play experiences of the peoples of Canada in a way that reflects class, gender, ability, racial, and geographic diversity and intersections.

Narratives intertwining sport culture with popular romance have steadily grown in popularity throughout the last fifty years. Increasingly, popular romance set against the backdrop of elite athleticism and featuring one, if not two or more, professional athletes, have become a substantial facet of the romance literary and media landscape. Despite the significant success of this subgenre of popular romance, scholarly investigations have thus far been limited. This special issue therefore is devoted to igniting wide-ranging, exploratory and original discussion on the topic of sport romance.