Tag: CfP Scholarly journal

Acknowledging small states and territories as a particular foci for the historical study of sport has been rare, with some exceptions, including: Evelyne Combeau-Mari (Réunion), Antonio Sotomayor (Puerto Rico), Gareth Stockey (Gibraltar), Peter Gold (Gibraltar), Matthew L McDowell (the Falkland Islands, the Isle of Man), and Simon Vaukins (the Isle of Man). Some of these studies include small states which no longer exist, including Newfoundland (Fred Mason, Osvaldo Croci) and Saarland (Alec Hurley). This special issue seeks to redress that balance.

Digitalisation is a megatrend that brings about extensive changes in many areas of society. In general, one can speak of digitalisation “when an analogue service is replaced in whole or in part by a service in a digital model that can be managed by a computer”. Not only do established phenomena affect the field of football, but completely new phenomena are also developing in this domain. This special issue aims to develop a more comprehensive understanding of digitalisation in football, taking a multi- and interdisciplinary approach.

For this thematic issue, we invite scholars and sport/social workers around the world to submit papers that increase our insight into the impact of community sport programs and sport social work practices as well as research papers that contribute to the practice of conducting an impact evaluation within this context. Sport participation has been associated with positive outcomes beyond physical health, such as increased social capital and mental wellbeing.

As Ottoman influence began to wane across the Arab world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the resultant vacuum was filled by European powers intent on increasing their colonial empires. Sport played a significant role in this expansion, asserting European superiority while simultaneously inculcating within the native inhabitants what were deemed properly civilised behaviours. We welcome submissions from historians, sports scholars, and other researchers of individual articles that discuss, examine, or review the historical presence, place, and function of sport in Arab society.

This call for papers also explores the critical dimension of freedom of speech as it intersects with the realms of sport and warfare, particularly within the Global South context. This theme encourages a deep dive into how freedom of expression is navigated, contested, and manifested within sports during war and peace. We invite submissions of individual articles of up to 10,000 words that investigate the complex relationship between sport and war from the Global South perspective.

Mediapolis thus reinstates Olympism as a central theme, while also demonstrating its plural and interdisciplinary character, As this is the journal’s first foray into such a complex topic, the challenge is to open up and create a space for reflection and discussion on Olympism in its relationship with the media, journalism and communication, preferably based on original and innovative empirical research, and extended to multiple visions and themes that question and reflect on Olympism and its intersections with the media, journalism and communication.

The first aim of this special issue is to bring in conceptual discourses generated in Chinese contexts that open up new spaces for theorising and critical thinking about HPE in languages beyond English. The second aim is to build and connect academic discussions on pedagogic, policy and curriculum approaches from Chinese HPE teachers local and abroad to elicit new experiences and fluid subjectivities and dialogues between the global and local and East and West.

Bodies inform our way of being in the world. The human body can be a site of expression, (mis)identification, or inscription, giving rise to a myriad of possibilities that transform and are transformed by our perceptions of the self, connections with others, and the world around us. This issue of Working Papers in the Humanities explores the ways in which human bodies are narrated and understood, how they have been marginalised, empowered or rendered (in)visible, as well as how they uphold and interrogate questions of normativity.

What we know about sport fandom and spectatorship is primarily based on the perceptions and experiences of white, middle-class, educated men. Thus, one aim of the special issue is to diversify and broaden our understanding of sport fan and spectator experiences. A second aim is to highlight sports fans’ and sports organizations’ strategies and actions to improve equity, inclusion, diversity, and justice. We want to shed light on fans’ actions to denounce and challenge exclusionary practices in sport and to create more inclusive spaces.

A special issue with a focus on AI in sport business echoes the IJSMS’s position as the prominent nexus of academia and sport industry. Consistent with the aims and objectives of the IJSMS, this special issue seeks research contributions that could advance the existing knowledge base of leveraging AI for a robust sport industry. A wide spectrum of qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-method research efforts that meet the following general criteria are welcome