Tag: CfP Scholarly journal

The increasing interest for girls and women to follow football, both live and through old and new media, raises important issues regarding politics, engagement, identity, gender, and power relations. This special issue of Soccer & Society, with guest editors Aage Radmann and Susanna Hedenborg, highlights female fandom in a global perspective. We welcome multi-disciplinary approaches to the theme.

Fantasy sports have more recently grown in popularity in the world outside the US, raising a number of novel legal questions. The ISLJ wants to support fruitful global discussions about these questions through a special issue. We welcome contributions from different jurisdictions analyzing fantasy sports from the perspective of various areas of law including, but not limited to, intellectual property law, gambling law, and competition law.

JAAS is preparing a special issue marking the 25th anniversary of Kobe Bean Bryant’s NBA debut. We invite submissions of original, previously unpublished manuscripts that are as ambitious and inspiring as Kobe’s approach to the game and life. Bryant was more than a basketball player. He was a husband, father, humanitarian, and mentor to numerous athletes as well as an Academy Award recipient.

The scholarship of teaching and learning of biomechanics encompasses a very wide variety of topics. Papers focused on innovative biomechanics education and outreach efforts will be considered across all scales, including: global or national initiatives; community partnerships and programs; interdisciplinary university programs; biomechanics curriculum; specific course structure or approach; teaching pedagogies; and learning innovations.

In addition to focusing on hegemony in terms of power and dominance, this special issue will also host questions related to rebellion, disobedience, and non-compliance, as both a supplement and a contradiction to conformity. By putting the subject in a Scandinavian context, the issue will have a unique and exclusive status and position: as a wide-ranging analysis of hegemonic cultures in Scandinavian sports.

We encourage papers illuminate and critically understand the current football industry context. Moreover, we hope to attract new theoretical findings, alongside practitioner-focused strategies undertaken to navigate the challenges for football and specifically the future of football. We would warmly welcome discussions and ideas for creative prospective submissions; however our focus will be thorough, original, rigorous and impactful contributions.

This special issue will cover empirical research (both qualitative and quantitative), and systematic reviews. Examples of evidence-based practice pertaining to tourism are also encouraged. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Studies focusing on the relationship between leisure and tourism, as well as tourism from the global perspective and in non-dominant contexts (such as for example social tourism, volunteer tourism) are particularly sought.

In this Research Topic we aim to gather scientific evidence about the potential of Traditional Sporting Games and Play in promoting cultural diversity, emotional well-being, peace education, social inclusion, equal opportunities and intelligent decision learning. We encourage contributors to present their studies considering any field from different theoretical paradigms, as well as innovative research designs.

To this day, and around the globe, the language and rituals of many sports and their associated cultural practices continue to be influenced by the adversarial structures of warfare whilst being promoted as regulated encounters that promote mutual understanding and tolerance. The Special Issue invites submissions of individual articles of up to 8000 words that explore the complex relationship between war, peace and sport in culture.

There is a strong need for research in this area for sport tourism, recreation and leisure to understand the consumers and provide hands-on practical implications to sport tourism and leisure organizations. The aim of this special issue to present high-quality research and/or theory-driven conceptual frameworks relating to these forms of consumption in sport tourism, recreation and leisure.