Tag: aggression

Psychoanalysis, with its attention to unconscious desire, psychic conflict, and the role of fantasy, provides a unique lens through which to interrogate the presence and function of aggression in sporting life. This special issue will advance psychoanalytic investigations of aggression in sport by bringing together interdisciplinary scholarship across clinical theory, cultural analysis, and critical sport studies. In doing so, it seeks to explore the psychic, social, and symbolic dimensions of aggression as they relate to athletes, spectators, institutions, and the media.

The Sports and Violence Conference will be held on March 19, 2016 on the campus of Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio. We are seeking paper and panel proposals that engage the conference theme.

Open access until December 13, 2013Moving toward trust and partnership: an example of sport-related community-based participatory action research with Aboriginal people and mainstream academics Robert J....