Tag: geography of sports
Call for Papers | “Landscape, Sport, Environment: The Spaces of Sport from the Early Modern Period to Today”, the 2019 Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium | Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC,...
The symposium seeks to address this lack of knowledge, exploring the design of different sport and recreational landscapes over time and how they have given expression to various understandings of nature and culture. What are the relationships between sport landscapes and their environment? What is the relationship between the site itself and the culture of sports and recreation embedded within it?
Call for Papers | “Teaching the Geographies of Sport” | RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2018. Cardiff, August 28–31, 2018. Call ends February 2, 2018
It is nearly thirty years since John Bale first published his agenda setting book ‘Sports Geography’. This session aims to bring together all those who are, in some way, teaching about geographies of sport, or are interested in doing so. We invite papers that speak to this topic to stimulate broader discussions on and beyond the themes below.
Call for Papers | “Space, Place and Sport” – The Sport Project: Probing the Boundaries | 24–26 September 2015, Mansfield College, Oxford, UK
The aim of this conference is to develop an active network of academics, practitioners and campaigners with an interest in sports geographies, by which we mean the ways in which we might understand sport as something that creates spaces and places, as well as something that is shaped by spaces and places.
Second Call for Papers | Approaching everyday sport: socio-cultural geographic perspectives on sport, exercise and fitness | University of Exeter, 1–4 September 2015
This session seeks to bring together a diverse array of scholars whose work deals in some way with the place of sport in people’s everyday lives — work which could be said to fit into an emerging and mutable field of “everyday sports geography”.
Call for Papers | Approaching everyday sport: socio-cultural geographic perspectives on sport, exercise and fitness | University of Exeter, 1–4 September 2015
This session seeks to bring together a diverse array of scholars whose work deals in some way with the place of sport in people’s everyday lives — work which could be said to fit into an emerging and mutable field of “everyday sports geography”.