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This special issue aims to reflect on the central preoccupation of McFee’s work, namely, the contextual understanding of sport and the implications of that for our ability to dissolve philosophical puzzlement as it arises in relation to matters in sport, or perhaps even sometimes elsewhere in philosophy. We encourage submissions that reflect on, and elaborateon, McFee’s work in relation to sport, or investigations of matters not considered by McFee that apply his methods in new contexts. We encourage submissions that employ insights and methods from McFee’s work in new contexts.

This special issue of SMEJ 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.

This special issue examines how sporting practices function as complex spatial phenomena that simultaneously reproduce and challenge power structures. By bringing together contributions from different disciplinary and geographical contexts, the issue aims to consolidate a stronger critical geography of sport capable of addressing territorial disputes, embodied inequalities, colonial legacies and contemporary forms of resistance. We welcome empirical and theoretical contributions from scholars working across different regions, particularly those engaging with Global South perspectives, feminist methodologies and anti-colonial approaches.

For this special issue, we welcome contributions exploring the mutually constitutive relationship between sport, competition, and affect. To explore the unresolvable tension between empowerment, docility, unruliness, and social hierarchy brought forth by sporting practice, we invite cultural, ethnographic, and historical case studies to analyse how subjects fashion themselves and are themselves fashioned by affect in sport. Our collective aim is to emphasize the political, cultural and visceral conditions of competition which play a role in racializing, gendering, dis-/enabling, and sexualizing its subjects.

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.