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Sport, both as a cultural phenomenon and as a symbolic field, has played an important but relatively little-studied role in Polish literature and culture. This special issue will explore how sport has been represented, narrated, and interpreted in Polish literary and cultural texts across different historical periods. We are particularly interested in critical approaches that consider sport not only as a subject but also as a cultural phenomenon characterized by national identity, ideology, memory, and artistic expression.

We are particularly interested in how social change affects the structures, practices, and cultures of sport—and conversely, how sport contributes to or resists social transformation. This includes change within sport (e.g., policy shifts, organisational reforms, or evolving norms), change through sport (e.g., activist interventions, grassroots movements), and change outside sport (e.g., broader societal shifts) that impacts the sporting realm. Discrimination, marginalisation, and exclusion remain persistent challenges, but they are also being confronted in new and creative ways that merit rigorous scholarly attention.

We welcome proposals for papers that put PQI (or related approaches) into practice in theoretically and/or empirically innovative ways; engage with creative more-than-human methods and/or modes of representation; and/or engage critically with the potential of such approaches for sport and movement studies. We are particularly interested in papers that expand current ways of doing more-than-human research in sport and movement studies, and/or that advance such theory-method approaches in grounded, contextualized ways.

This special issue seeks to explore the diverse set of contemporary challenges grassroots and community football faces amid technological, social, economic, governance, political, and cultural developments and shifts. We therefore encourage and advocate for inter-disciplinary research that is informed through scholarly (and practitioner) collaborations, and welcome submissions from across the globe and those at all stages of their career including early career researchers. All methodological approaches (including conceptual papers) will be considered.

These questions are pressing in the face of increasingly fragmented forms of support. In the past, fans mainly supported a local club, often the one in their town or region. Today, the global media coverage of football – first via television, then digital platforms – has profoundly redefined practices. Fans can now follow, cheer on and even identify with clubs located thousands of kilometres away, without ever setting foot in a stadium. In a world where following football has become extremely accessible, how is club loyalty evolving? Is it being diluted or redefined?

This special issue will build on this research by centralizing novel, innovative, and rigorous qualitative research methods/methodologies to expand understanding of less explored topics, in the motherhood and high performance sport research nexus. For this collection, high performance sport will encompass national or international level competitors, medal winners, Olympians, and professional or semi-professional contexts, where athletes strive for peak performance and achievement.

This Special Issue will take a broad-minded and holistic approach to Euro 2028. It welcomes contributions from researchers situated in different academic fields, including, for example, sociology, international relations, history, media and communication, sport management, urban geography and more. As situated in a pre-event setting, the types of papers that are encouraged include not only original research articles, but also shorter commentaries or discussion pieces, case studies or review articles.

This special issue will highlight emerging opportunities and critical challenges posed by AI in sport, offering implications that extend beyond the sport sector. Through empirical studies, theoretical explorations, and case-based insights, the special issue will offer a comprehensive and timely contribution to both scholarship and industry. Contributions will be solicited through a targeted call for papers, outreach to leading researchers, invitations to authors of recent relevant publications, promotion via academic listservs, and, where appropriate, by encouraging collaboration with industry practitioners.

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 of Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal invites contributions covering a wide range of topic areas intended to fill some other the gaps that still dominates tsholarly research on esports.

Three decades after the end of Apartheid, South African society remains characterised by high levels of inequality and economic disparities. These inequalities are primarily but not  exclusively experienced through race, class and gender. These differences are also experienced in the realms of sport, recreation and leisure in South Africa. This special issue is interested in but not limited to papers that address some of the structural and societal inequalities in post-Apartheid South African sports, recreation and leisure landscapes.