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Call for Papers | “Understanding the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games: sport, politics, culture”, International workshop and edited volume | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, May 27–28, 2027. Call ends December...
The proposed book emerging from the workshop aims to be the first scholarly volume to present a collection of critical and interdisciplinary studies of the SEA Games using frameworks, approaches, and methods from the social sciences and humanities. Approaching the SEA Games from multiple perspectives (national, historical, institutional, cultural, and political) the volume will ask how the event has collectively been constituted, contested, and transformed as a Southeast Asian sporting institution and practice.
Call for Participation | Book Workshop: The Ethics of Sportswashing | University of Glasgow and Zoom, May 21, 2026. Registration deadline May 14, 2026, 9:00am BST
Sportswashing has recently grown into a vital concept in scholarly and public discussions of sport. In 2022, the Collins dictionary named ‘sportswashing’ one of their ten Words of the Year, reflecting the extent of public discussion of the term in the run-up to the 2022 Men’s Football World Cup in Qatar. The term is used as a criticism of owners of clubs or hosts of competitions and has established a foothold in both journalistic and academic work. But there has been very little academic discussion of what exactly sportswashing is or why it matters.
