Tag: football
Soccer & Society, Volume 23, 2022, Issue 8 | Football, Racism(s) and Digital Media
Soccer, a.k.a (association) football is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, and aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Should I stay (at home) or should I go (to the stadium)? Why will some football supporters not return to the stadium after the COVID-19 pandemic in German Bundesliga? by Uwe Wilkesmann.
Call for Participants | “FIFA and Human Rights – From Qatar 2022 to USA 2026” | Webinar hosted by the University of Connecticut, December 7, 2022
This UConn Beyond the Field conversation will focus on examining FIFA in the context of human rights, and particularly the time from Qatar 2022 to the United States 2026. The session will explore the challenges and opportunities for advancing a human rights agenda before, during and after a World Cup. We will address the role and responsibility of FIFA and its obligations to established international human rights. Speaker: Andrea Florence, Director, Sport & Rights Alliance.
“Global Maradona: man, athlete, celebrity, idol, hero, myth” | Special issue of Funes and Eracle
It is hard to find, in the champions pantheon of the sport history, a person who has experienced the same public consideration as the one for Diego Armando Maradona. Always on the stage, always drawing everyone’s attention, never an ordinary man. The Forum Editor’s choice from this special issue: A hero’s journey: the monomythical narrative of Diego Maradona’s World Cup appearances by Steph Doehler.
Soccer & Society, Volume 23, 2022, Issue 6
Soccer, a.k.a (association) football is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, and aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Successes and failures of football diplomacy. a match between the USA and Iran as part of the World Cup in 1998 and the Palestinian-Israeli diplomatic mission of the FIFA president. vy Mieszko Rajkiewicz.
Call for Participants | Football presidents: towards a typology of political cultures | Webinar (Teams), September 15–16, 2022
Back in April, idrottsforum.org published a Call for Papers for this webinar which intended to have an international panorama on different political cultures and its leaderships. Bringing scholars from different contexts, it was expected to foster research on football club presidents and their “styles of management”, as well as developing a broader understanding of different empirical cases to build a typology of football political cultures. This is the full program.
Sport Scholar Profile | Sara Karlén, Malmö University
Sara Karlén is a PhD student at the Department of Sports Sciences, Malmö University. Her dissertation project studies football supporters and the Swedish supporter culture with a focus on the visual choreographies, known as tifos, that supporters create. In the past, she has studied sports audiences during the corona pandemic with a focus on football supporters, as well as conflicts between fans and police in the Swedish football landscape. Sara has an educational background in sociology and gender studies.
Call for Participation | “Praying on the Pitch: Football, Religion and Social Identities” | Online course, September 14–15, 2022
This online short-course will explore how religious practice intersects and overlaps with the beautiful game. We will use both a historical framework to highlight the longevity and intricacies of this relationship, and an approach that posits football as an analytical window for examining broader geopolitical and social forces. In particular, we will examine whether football can be viewed as a vehicle for the socio-political integration of marginalised groups into wider society, and the extent to which religious belonging is a facilitator or obstacle for any tensions that arise.
Soccer & Society, Volume 23, 2022, Issue 4–5 | It’s a whole new ball game’: Thirty Years of the English Premier League
Soccer, a.k.a (association) football is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, and aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Looking forward, glancing back; competitive balance and the EPL by Daniel Plumley, Girish Ramchandani, Sarthak Mondal & Rob Wilson.
Extended CfP deadline | “Leisure and Fan Activism”, Special Issue of International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure | Call ends July 20, 2022
It is the aim of this special issue to bring together international perspectives on protests and social movements, with focus on football, to unpack and understand the complexities and temporalities of modern leisure, and its intersubjective and interdependent relationship with fandom, and the construction of fan identities, politics, and social change.
Call for Participation | Book Launch Webinar by the Sport and Politics Research International Network Group (SPRING) | May 23, 2022, at 5PM, UK time (6PM, CET)
During this Zoom book launch the following books will be presented: Cricket and contemporary society in Britain: Crises and Continuity by Russell Holden; Football, Place and National Identity: Transferring Allegiance by David Storey; and La disneyització del futbol by Xavier Ginesta.
