Tag: intersectionality

This special issue will build on this research by centralizing novel, innovative, and rigorous qualitative research methods/methodologies to expand understanding of less explored topics, in the motherhood and high performance sport research nexus. For this collection, high performance sport will encompass national or international level competitors, medal winners, Olympians, and professional or semi-professional contexts, where athletes strive for peak performance and achievement.

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.

Kalle Janssons avhandling ger kunskap om hur religion och etnicitet, tillsammans med kön, blir betydelsefulla i skolämnet idrott och hälsa. Detta uppnås genom en empirisk studie vid fyra olika gymnasieskolor som studerar (a) hur spänningar relaterade till religion och etnicitet tar form och hanteras i idrott, (b) de didaktiska konsekvenserna av hanteringen, och (c) hur religion, etnicitet och kön korsar varandra när spänningarna tar form och hanteras. Studien är grundad i intersektionalitet och pragmatism, med hjälp av lektionsobservationer och intervjuer med lärare och elever.

This special issue aims to expose and resolve the ways intercollegiate athletic programs reproduce and resist intersectional systems of gender power. For example, organizing sports according to a rigid gender binary, inequity in resource allocation for women’s vs. men’s sport, disparate pay for women coaches and administrators, and lack of racial, class, and ethnic diversity across sport opportunities. With this special issue, we seek to build critical scholarship on athletics in higher education that considers the diversity of gender expressions.

The current challenges of Nordic sport organizations, including gendered discrimination, racialization, homophobia and ableism, call upon innovative research that engages with the epistemologies and ontologies of sport, sex and gender. To address such complex issues interdisciplinary discussions are especially needed. The session invites papers engaging with contemporary tensions, challenges and potentials in Nordic sport.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and its intersectional impacts, as well as the recent intensification of activism and protest related to racialized and gendered injustices, the moment is ripe to revisit and reflect on the concept of intersectionality, including within the field of sociology of sport. We ask: How has intersectional theorizing and analysis figured within sociology of sport to date? We are encouraging contributors to view this as a unique opportunity to create a collection that is accessible and relevant to practitioners in sport.

This special issue seeks critical examinations of research, policy, and practice that highlight, describe, and challenge racism, racist practices, and racial hierarchies in the SfD field, and in doing so, move closer to improving experiences and outcomes for racial groups facing intersecting oppressions. Race and racism are conceptualized as socially constructed systems of oppression grounded in political and economic domination on the basis of phenotypical and cultural identities and backgrounds.

I den här podden, som startade hösten 2019, publicerar vi regelbundet korta avsnitt för att uppdatera hur projektet ”Super-extra-mega-ultralopp: Deltagande i extrema motionslopp som kulturellt fenomen” framskrider, var i processen vi befinner oss, pröva tolkningar, osv. Tanken är att den både ska fungera som ett sätt att sprida resultat och hålla kontakt med ”fältet”, men också som ett pedagogiskt sätt att visa och berätta hur ett kvalitativt, kulturvetenskapligt forskningsprojekt av det här slaget kan gå till. 

Discrimination cuts across traditional academic subjects and the ethos behind this conference is therefore to bring together experts from different subject areas to exchange ideas and explore what we can learn from one another.  We welcome presentations about all forms of discrimination across any sporting context.  As in previous years of Sport and Discrimination events, submissions may approach the conference from a variety of perspectives.

The books in this series will examine our understanding of race, gender, and the role education is playing in assisting in the global institutionalization of these social constructions. The goal of this series is to inform sport enthusiasts, college students, social justice oriented educators and researchers, policy makers, and other stakeholders about the role sport has in contributing to informing cultural ideology.