Tag: CfP Scholarly journal

This special issue is built upon the belief that there is a fruitful connection between concerns for justice within climate change and the field of leisure studies itself. Indeed, within leisure studies, there is a long tradition of research and activism that sees justice and equity as necessary vectors for understanding leisure experiences. This scholarship illustrates how structural inequalities shape the availability and outcomes of leisure opportunities.

This special issue aims to expose and resolve the ways intercollegiate athletic programs reproduce and resist intersectional systems of gender power. For example, organizing sports according to a rigid gender binary, inequity in resource allocation for women’s vs. men’s sport, disparate pay for women coaches and administrators, and lack of racial, class, and ethnic diversity across sport opportunities. With this special issue, we seek to build critical scholarship on athletics in higher education that considers the diversity of gender expressions.

Representing the first major attempt to flesh out sporting relations within the Anthropocene, this special issue of the International Review for the Sociology of Sport welcomes both empirical and/or theoretical contributions that extend our understanding of the socio-environmental and material relations of sport. Notably, we specifically encourage interdisciplinary contributions that engage with, or ‘trouble’ (Haraway, 2016), existing socio-natural associations and other sociological relations.

Mainstream media have produced and circulated dominant representations of who is European and has a rightful place in Europe. Although the domain of popular culture promises egalitarian and democratic representation, in practice, mainstream coverage of major sporting fixtures and popular music has historically offered simplistic or stereotyping portrayals of the complex and differentiated “othered” groups that contribute to European culture. We, therefore, invite submissions that re-examine media representations of popular culture through a critical lens.

This annual publication publishes texts on Swedish, Nordic and international sports history written in Scandinavian languages or English. It addresses both researchers and a wider readership and strives to publish well-written texts of high scientific quality. The journal welcomes contributions relating to sport in a broad sense in relation to competition, physical culture, health, outdoor life, media, pedagogy, associational life, politics and society within humanities and social science subjects with a historical perspective.

We particularly invite contributors to consider the chromatic turn in lifestyle sports as a starting point for unpacking the socio-political, affective, multispecies, and symbolic entanglements of pollution and urban leisure. This chromatic turn can be theorised as relating to blue, green, and grey space. We see greyness as multifaceted, material, symbolic, and even temporal in the case of active ageing grey nomads, and silver surfers.

This issue aims to speak to both historical and contemporary issues in leisure studies by focusing on how understandings and debates around clothing in sports/leisure have been rethought, as well as the diversity of new issues around dress that have arisen in the 21st century. I welcome cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural, cross-geographical submissions that can speak to issues surrounding clothing, fashion, and leisure, from a range of academic fields.

Acknowledging small states and territories as a particular foci for the historical study of sport has been rare, with some exceptions, including: Evelyne Combeau-Mari (Réunion), Antonio Sotomayor (Puerto Rico), Gareth Stockey (Gibraltar), Peter Gold (Gibraltar), Matthew L McDowell (the Falkland Islands, the Isle of Man), and Simon Vaukins (the Isle of Man). Some of these studies include small states which no longer exist, including Newfoundland (Fred Mason, Osvaldo Croci) and Saarland (Alec Hurley). This special issue seeks to redress that balance.

Digitalisation is a megatrend that brings about extensive changes in many areas of society. In general, one can speak of digitalisation “when an analogue service is replaced in whole or in part by a service in a digital model that can be managed by a computer”. Not only do established phenomena affect the field of football, but completely new phenomena are also developing in this domain. This special issue aims to develop a more comprehensive understanding of digitalisation in football, taking a multi- and interdisciplinary approach.

For this thematic issue, we invite scholars and sport/social workers around the world to submit papers that increase our insight into the impact of community sport programs and sport social work practices as well as research papers that contribute to the practice of conducting an impact evaluation within this context. Sport participation has been associated with positive outcomes beyond physical health, such as increased social capital and mental wellbeing.