Tag: CfP Anthology

Anchored in the realms of sport and fitness, this collection will delve into the intricate choreographies of movement, performance, and physical breakdowns. Contributors shall examine the body not merely as a biological entity, but as a vessel of cultural, artistic, and communicative expressions. Drawing references from theatre and the arts, as well as sport and popular culture, an essay will illuminate the performative dimensions of athleticism, juxtaposing them with theatrical embodiments.

In Physical Education, Motor Games are a pivotal pedagogical tool, fostering holistic development and nurturing essential student skills. By integrating motor games into educational practices, educators can effectively promote affectivity, enhance motor skills, and cultivate a positive attitude towards exercise]. Recognizing the significance of motor games, the book explores their role in advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within the educational landscape.

This project will adopt a multidisciplinary approach and explore a wide range of cultural, economic, political, and social issues. Themes will include, but are not limited to: the origins of the game in the Middle East and the role America played in this process; basketball and its role in Middle Eastern societies; the importance of the Middle East as a market for the American professional basketball league, the NBA, and for the global growth of basketball; Middle Eastern ownerships and sponsorships in American basketball; and more.

Bloomsbury Academic have commissioned the Handbook of Language and Sport. Through this handbook, readers will get a state-of-the-art account of the research missions, methodological approaches, the settings or domains of language use being studied, social issues in sport in which language is implicated, and the application of linguistic research to the world of sport that have emerged as foundational to this area of research. We also consider the future of research in this space that scholars might pursue.

This book is aimed at providing different perspectives on the interactions between political football and global media and entertainment industries. These perspectives may be historical, religious, socio-cultural and political among others. The book equally seeks to explore representations of football politics in diverse media notably cinema, television, games, magazines, comics, photojournalism, advertising and online platforms among others. 

The political dimension of the football competitions on the continent tends to accentuate the inspiring nature and the news-worthiness of football events in Africa. How political football has interacted with the media and the creative industries in African countries is a very interesting question. This issue and many related ones have not really attracted the attention of scholars. Against this background, the present project focuses on engaging academics in various disciplines to interrogate the interaction between political football and cultural institutions in Africa.

The relationship between HE courses in sport and the sports industry is permeable, each relying on the other to transform and challenge social injustice. This book will be both theoretical and practical providing a useful teaching and learning resource for fellow scholars. Social justice will be at the heart of the text underpinning discussions and recommendations. The textbook aims to be global in terms of authorship, application and content to highlight the diversity of sport and sports-based HE teaching and learning.

We are seeking chapters for an edited book entitled Criminology, Leisure, and Sport: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. The book brings together criminology with socio-cultural analysis of leisure and sport to provide an interdisciplinary collection of work. Crime, deviance, and sport have an established history within the sociology of sport. However, criminology, leisure, and sport are yet to be explored fully in terms of co-creating methodologies, theories, concepts, and new knowledge.

We already have 10 excellent chapters included in the proposal exploring social class using the following: Gramscian theory, Archer’s ‘morphogenic’ approach, Bourdieusian sociology, Eliasian & figurational sociology, grounded theory, Foucauldian approaches, Nel Noddings’ ‘ethics of care’, and Freirian approaches. However, we would like to complement these chapters with 2-4 additional chapters through this open ‘call for papers’.

Our objective is to bring together a diverse community of scholars, both established and emerging, who represent and write about sport and/or physical cultures in the Arab World and Middle East about communities from these regions who are living in diaspora in the West. We are interested in chapter submissions that utilize intersectional, postcolonial, and/or decolonial epistemologies.