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This special issue seeks contributions that explore the histories of women in football in all their complexity and at all levels. We welcome papers that expand, challenge, and reimagine dominant historical narratives, that highlight lesser-known experiences from across the world, and speak to the experiences of all who shape the sport. In particular, we encourage authors to situate their work in relation to the political, social, and cultural significance of major tournaments past and present, including the rapidly evolving global profile of the women’s game leading into 2027 and 2028.

This special issue arrives at an opportune moment for sport management. While other established fields—including management, psychology, finance, and information technology—have published null results special issues, this represents the first such effort in sport management. Therefore, we are making a special call for manuscripts with null results. This will allow purposeful review of research with null results that are most likely to provide important context for sport management scholars to calibrate theory and uncertainty over results in the literature.

Sport, History and Society, in Swedish Idrott, historia & samhälle, is a peer-reviewed academic publication of sport history, leisure and recreation seated in Sweden and Scandinavia. Its scope, however, goes beyond the borders of Scandinavia, and we publish articles in English as well as in Scandinavian languages. Sport, History and Society invites prospective contributions from across the globe. 

We welcome articles that consider women’s roles as athletes, coaches, officials, administrators, investors, athletic therapists, journalists, fans and even legislators. Submissions may focus on any chronological period and any geographic region and may centre amateur, community, professional and/or elite level of play. We are particularly interested in submissions offering critical analyses on how sexuality, age, race/racism, nationalism, feminism, or faith might have shaped women’s opportunities and experiences in basketball, including the organizational power of the gender binary itself.

Psychoanalysis, with its attention to unconscious desire, psychic conflict, and the role of fantasy, provides a unique lens through which to interrogate the presence and function of aggression in sporting life. This special issue will advance psychoanalytic investigations of aggression in sport by bringing together interdisciplinary scholarship across clinical theory, cultural analysis, and critical sport studies. In doing so, it seeks to explore the psychic, social, and symbolic dimensions of aggression as they relate to athletes, spectators, institutions, and the media.

In recent years, the growth of esports industry has been driven by the development of computers, the internet, media, and live streaming. Moreover, esports have become a vital and popular aspect of video gaming communities, particularly amongst adolescents and young adults. Due to the tremendous growth of esport industry, many scholars have investigated diverse area related to esport. However, significant theoretical and practical gaps exist that necessitate further scholarly and industry attention in the realm of esport.

This special issue is part of a larger and ambitious interdisciplinary project that aims to bring together leisure scholars with researchers from other disciplines (e.g., sport studies, political science, internet and media studies, anthropology, sociology, and others) exploring the far right. Writing in dyads or teams working across disciplines, manuscripts will build on the small body of existing leisure research on the topic to take on different elements of how leisure is used in the making, maintaining, exposing, and combating the far right.

Since Alexis de Tocqueville’s seminal insight that voluntary associations cultivate citizens’ democratic capacities, such associations have often been regarded as “schools of democracy”. Sport organizations, as one of the largest and most visible sectors of civil society, appear especially well positioned to fulfill this role. They convene individuals across lines of social differences, foster generalized trust, create opportunities for collective action, and provide organizational contexts in which civic skills can be developed, practiced, and diffused. So, does sport build better citizens?

The Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal is pleased to announce a Call for Abstracts for an upcoming special series focused on Physical Activity and Menopause.

Building on the “spatial turn” in social sciences, this issue positions Olympic-related infrastructure as socio-technical systems that structure social relations, redistribute opportunities, and mediate power between stakeholders. The planning of the Olympic Games is increasingly shifting away from a monocentric model, resulting in networked venues, multi-city clusters, and diversified legacies.