Tag: Eracle Journal of Sport and Social Sciences
Call for Papers | “A game of states? Sport and international politics”, special issue of Eracle. Journal of Sport and Social Sciences. Call ends November 30, 2022
In recent years, the increasing fragmentation of the international system casts further complexity and uncertainty on international sport, calling for renewed scholarly attention and inquiry. Against this backdrop, we invite scholars of sport as a social phenomenon and institution – historians, sociologists, political scientists, International Relations and Media and Communications scholars – to submit proposals addressing the multifaceted nexus between sport and international politics.
Call for Papers | “Media, Society and Cycling Cultures”, Special Issue of Eracle. Journal of Sport and Social Sciences. Call ends March 31, 2022
The interdisciplinary field of study ‘Cycling and Society’ represents a part of mobility studies. Cycling studies start from a critique of ‘automobility’, the dominant paradigm of contemporary mobility. They try to outline post-car mobility scenarios and focus on ’velomobility’. With the aim of contributing to this field of study, this call for papers invites articles focusing on the increasing mediatization and platformization of the experience of cycling.
Call for Papers | “Global Maradona: Man, Athlete, Celebrity, Idol, Hero, Myth”. Special Issue of Eracle Journal of Sport and Social Sciences | Call ends April 10, 2021
It is difficult to find in the pantheon of champions of sports history a person who has received the same public attention as that of Diego Armando Maradona. Always on stage, always attracting everyone's attention, never an ordinary man. He was a great footballer, a great sportsman. His biography was full of extraordinary achievements and falls in sport and in life; he was a celebrity, fully integrated in the field of spectacular and commercialized sport.
