Tag: CfP Scholarly journal

This special issue aims to analyze the relationship between sports and tourism from a wide perspective to examine the resulting economic impacts on destinations and/or tourism firms. It seeks to provide new results that shed light on the intricacies of the sport-tourism relationship by inviting submissions on all facets of the economic impact of sports on tourism.

This issue aims to focus on innovative practices and empirical findings. Additionally, it hopes to serve as an outlet for uniquely designed organizations and programming that have received limited attention previously in sport management journals. Thus, the purpose of this special issue is to encourage scholarly attention to the nature of organizational innovation in SDP.

In line with the scope of WSPAJ, an essential element of any submitted manuscript should be to further thought, theory, and research on women in sport. We are particularly interested in articles that further advocacy, thought, theory, and research on women sport coaches. To that end, we welcome qualitative, quantitative and mixed method research submissions that address the pertinent issues.

The advent of the internet and the rapid changes in technology have been shaping leisure in different manners, from individual practices or business opportunities to policymaking. Spaces of leisure are now constructed and experienced in both physical and digital manners, allowing for leisure to become a favoured field of experimentation for innovative approaches.

The challenge of this Mediapolis edition is to precisely demonstrate, once again, how sport can and should be the subject of research in the academic and scientific sphere, given its social plasticity and appeal to interdisciplinary and/or multidisciplinary approaches.

In this Special Issue, we seek to explore the role of sport, physical activities and leisure in understanding oceanic bluespaces as fluid and yet emplaced in local/global politics, and playing a key role in how we understand, experience, access, and develop relationships to the sea and ocean, as well as to self, others and communities – human and more-than-human.

This special issue of the Sociology of Sport Journal seeks contributions that critically examine, debate, and shed light on the intersection of hip-hop culture and sport, in all of its manifestations, and especially as contemporary forms of entertainment and cultural expression that are closely linked with issues of race, gender, sexuality, social class, and age.

Sport organisations increasingly are expected and encouraged to take up a wider social role. Thus, sport organisations and sport clubs in particular, tend to be more involved in dealing with societal issues. Next to this social role for local communities, a number of sport organisations seem to be explicitly taking up their social responsibility, through an active position against organisational problems like exclusionary practices or corruption.

This special issue seeks to critically explore, encourage discussion, and contribute to the empirical study of the rights and welfare of Indigenous people, within and through leisure. The provision of culturally relevant and meaningful leisure opportunities for marginalised population groups such as Indigenous peoples, is a global phenomenon and chief priority for many governments.

A growing line of sport management research has begun to address topics related to the relationship between sport services and well-being outcomes. Thus, the goal of this special issue is not to generate an entirely new stream of research. We aim to provide an overarching framework for this growing research and facilitate more collective efforts across different subfields of sport management