Tag: CfP Scholarly journal

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.

Sports Innovation Journal is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the Sports Innovation Institute at IU Indianapolis. Our mission is to advance scholarship and practical knowledge that fosters innovation across all facets of sport—professional, collegiate, youth, and recreational. We are especially committed to encouraging collaboration between academic researchers and sport industry professionals, as well as promoting the application of evidence-based practices to real-world sport problems.

At first glance, Sport and Psychoanalysis may appear worlds apart: sport is associated with physicality, competition, and entertainment, while psychoanalysis explores the unconscious, desire, and the contradictions that structure subjectivity. Yet, it is precisely this apparent disparity that makes their relationship so compelling. By engaging with the psychic, cultural, and social dimensions of sport, the journal offers a critical space for examining how sport both reflects and unsettles the psychic and social structures that shape our lives.

This special issue aims to address this gap by highlighting the contributions of feminist thinkers whose influential writings continue to shape the philosophy of sport or hold future promise through their direct engagement with it. Although these scholars are no longer active, their insights remain vital to ongoing discussions about gender, embodiment, ethics, competition, and power in sport. We invite submissions that critically engage with the contributions of feminist thinkers, highlighting their impact on the philosophy of sport and/or exploring how their ideas can shape current and future discussions in the field.

The Global Sport Business Journal (GSBJ), the official publication of the Global Sport Business Association (GSBA), is relaunching this year and invites submissions for its 2025 edition (Volume 10). As a peer-reviewed academic journal, GSBJ is dedicated to advancing scholarship in the business of sport through interdisciplinary research that bridges theoretical development and practical application. GSBJ publishes peer-reviewed research, case studies, and book reviews on an ongoing basis.

The scope of the issue will include immigrants, emigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and displaced people, and will focus on movement across international borders rather than domestic migration. Migration remains a cultural and competitive grey area when athletes— particularly those in underdeveloped nations—emigrate from their home country to compete for another, often with no cultural, historical, or linguistic link to their new nation. These athletes typically immigrate to developed countries at the expense of struggling sports systems in their home nations.

This special issue aims to address current gaps by inviting contributions that challenge hegemonic frameworks, decolonize sports theory, and foreground the multiplicity of sporting experiences in regions such as South Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. The overall purpose of this special issue is to center the Global South voices as a primary lens by avoiding the essentialist, colonized, unfair, and Westernized perspectives.