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The objective of this Special Issue is to stimulate and promote more research investigations in an effort to advance the understanding about the Winter Olympic Games’ bidding, staging, operating, and marketing practices. We encourage the use of diverse theories and methodologies in empirical investigations. Additionally, in an effort to better understand the unique perspectives of the Winter Olympic Games, this Special Issue particularly welcomes studies that reveal differences between the Winter and Summer Olympic Games.

In the contemporary sports industry and context, social issues, CSR and philanthropy have become integral parts of the sports landscape. The goal is to bring together multiple stakeholders, such as sports organizations, athletes, community sports nonprofits, sports business professionals, and the business community, and drive positive change towards shared visions. This Special Issue elucidates the multifaceted ways in which sports organizations, events, athletes and stakeholders, can embrace their role as catalysts for positive social change.

The Athens Journal of Sports (AJSPO) is an Open Access quarterly double blind peer reviewed journal and it considers papers from all areas of sports and related sciences. Many of the papers published in this journal have been presented at the various conferences sponsored by the Sport, Exercise, & Kinesiology Unit of the Athens Institute & the Panhellenic Association of Sports Economists and Managers (PASEM). All papers are subject to the Athens Institute’s Publication Ethical Policy and Statement.

What is the point of sport studies? Does sport matter? And how and why do sport scholars teach in these ‘revolting times’? The world is more connected than ever before in its history. Our cultural, economic, political, ecological, and social experiences, in a variety of domains, are intertwined more than ever. Shifts, both positive, negative, and unqualifiable are reverberating widely, making the local global and the global local. This is a call to reflect upon why sport matters amid local, regional, and global movements, crises, and developments.

There is a growing awareness of the need for collaborative governance in sport for social change. Collaborative governance of sport for social change concerns the way in which actors collaborate to tackle societal problems through sports. Although collaborative governance seems a logical and fitting instrument for working on sports for social change, this special issue further unpacks and problematizes the relation between collaborative governance and sport for social change.

We encourage a broad interpretation of how sport and play are defined, inviting scholars whose work includes topics of embodied learning, institutional or structural components of sport and play, imagination, action and acting, adventure, competition, leisure and recreation, and other forms of physical activity. We especially encourage contributions that develop ideas regarding diversity within sport and play, including but not limited to gender, race, and ability. We invite original research articles (4,000 words max, excluding references) that address this issue’s theme.

We welcome submissions dealing with any aspects of rowing, swimming, sailing, diving, surfing, fishing, canoeing and any other recreational or competitive maritime, riverine or other aquatic sporting activity, including the practices, participants, organisation, or institutions of aquatic sport. We particularly encourage submissions dealing with issues, practices, and cultures outside Europe and North America.

In recent discourse, both popular and academic, the relationship between leisure and social cohesion has gained prominence. Policies and studies increasingly recognize social cohesion as a precursor to leisure participation, while leisure-based programs are viewed as potential tools to enhance social cohesion within communities. This intertwined relationship raises several questions: How is social cohesion conceptualized within local leisure programming? How do leisure-related policies define or operationalize social cohesion?

This Special Issue would allow interdisciplinary, international, and Global South scholars working in Sociology of Leisure to present research which explores the diverse and different aspects of the diasporic phenomenon. We further invite scholarly work that critically explore the concept of ‘diaspora’ within Sociology of Leisure research. ‘Diaspora’ is an enigma, with its attendant questions of cultural, racial, and social identification and affiliation, of lineage and identity, of story and memory, and indeed, of participation, representation, and socialisation in multicultural societies.

The theme of this special issue is “Building a Community of Champions” highlighting and promoting a civic engagement perspective which engages, advocates, and supports communities of Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) in addressing the national, regional, and local evolving health-related issue of drowning. Aquatic Settings have been a pivotal focal point of social justice, water safety, and public health not only in the past but our present