Tag: CfP Anthology

This edited collection seeks to bring together critical and interdisciplinary scholarship on how artificial intelligence is reshaping sporting cultures, identities, and experiences. It is concerned with AI as a social and cultural development, examining the relations of power and lived consequences that accompany its use in sport as well as its cultural, social, political, and ethical implications. By examining AI as a technological development embedded within particular social and institutional conditions, the collection will advance understanding of how sport is influencing, and being influenced by, developments in artificial intelligence.

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.

Sport is one of the most significant arenas in which contemporary societies negotiate questions of human dignity, equality, identity, justice, and difference. Beyond competition and physical performance, sport constitutes a privileged space for philosophical, ethical, political, and cultural reflection. DIAPHORA: Sport, Human Rights, and the Ethics of Difference invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to contribute original chapters exploring the complex relationships between sport, human rights, and the ethical challenges of contemporary societies.

Sport provides an arena for societal activity: a forum in which politics, the economy, and the third sector meet. Organised sport can thus be understood as a microcosm of public life, encompassing economic activity, civic participation, and identity politics. Although often organised beyond the formal public sector, sport remains closely connected to public governance through public funding, regulation, and expectations of integrity, equality, transparency, participation, legitimacy, and accountability. This edited volume invites scholars to examine this arena as a setting in which public, private, and civil society actors jointly create, contest, and sometimes destroy public value through hybrid arrangements. 

The volume integrates perspectives from sport science, sociology, innovation studies, gender studies, sport management, sport psychology, sport history and sport philosophy to show how innovations develop, spread, and produce effects at multiple scales in sport at local, national and international levels. The editors want to open the conversation to scholars and practitioners across the international sport research community who feel they have something to contribute to it. The Handbook already draws on contributors from more than twenty institutions in Europe, North America, Africa and Oceania, and this is an invitation to widen that group further.

This edition builds upon the foundations established in Digital Football Cultures by examining this new platformed phase of football’s hyperdigitalisation. Rather than asking whether digital technologies matter, the collection explores how platforms, data and algorithmic systems are transforming football cultures, organisations, governance and everyday experiences, whilst considering what these developments reveal about wider social, cultural, political and economic change. The volume will bring together leading and emerging scholars from across the social sciences and humanities to advance a new generation of digital football studies.

In 1974, Françoise d’Eaubonne introduced the term ecofeminism in Le féminisme ou la mort, articulating the interwoven domination of women and nature and calling for their collective liberation from systems of patriarchal and ecological exploitation. Since its emergence, ecofeminism has evolved into a dynamic and heterogeneous field encompassing philosophical inquiry, activist praxis, and interdisciplinary scholarship. Contemporary ecofeminist thought engages pressing questions of embodiment, care, environmental justice, material interdependence, and multispecies relationality in the context of accelerating ecological crisis.

This research handbook aims to serve as an academic resource that enhances understanding of human resource management (HRM) and organizational behavior (OB) issues relevant to the sport industry. All chapters will be peer-reviewed, and the completed handbook will be submitted to the Book Citation Index and SCOPUS; individual chapters will be indexed by Google Scholar.

There is a mini mountain of textbooks dedicated to research methods. They talk about how preparation is key to successful data collection. In the process they feed into the almost universal narrative that a successful data collection process will result in the gathering of a database that exactly matches what was planned. The impression that develops is that fieldwork must be perfect, that imperfections are failures, The result is seen in theses and methods sections in journal articles where no failures are apparent. Yet the reality is that fieldwork is often messy.

This book aims to provide a way for readers to understand the history and development of communication in esports, differences within transnational fandom, and how these issues may influence the future of esports. This book will investigate the portrayal of esports characters within the games, use of crisis communication among gamers, investors, broadcasts, and fans to list a few categories. Examples of chapter topics could include issues like the rise of Twitch and crisis communication coverage, character selection and self-identification or any issue that includes crisis communication.