'FOR A PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT IN THE AMERICAS: ACCOMPLISHMENTS, CHALLENGES, AND EMERGING AGENDAS'
Call for Papers (also see attached)
As part of the 20th anniversary celebrations for the Movimento Journal and inspired by the first ten years of Burawoy’s landmark call for a public sociology, this special issue seeks to explore how scholars of sport situated all over the world – and especially in the Americas – have navigated some of the challenges presented above, engaged with their respective “publics,” and
taken a stand on behalf of civil society.
Submissions are encouraged on, but not limited to, the following themes:
• The role of sociologists of sport as public intellectuals, their engagement with traditional “publics,” and the possibilities of intervention in the mainstream media;
• The emergence of new media and the opportunities they provide for the establishment of new “publics;”
• The organic engagement of sociologists of sport with representatives of civil society, such as labour unions, non-governmental organizations, sport for development programmes, etc.;
• The challenges and opportunities surrounding open-access knowledge, the proliferation of open-access journals, and the difficulties embedded in the process of knowledge translation;
• The impacts of expenditure cuts on opportunities for sport participation and sport policies within neoliberal settings;
• The increasing privatization, corporatization and commercialization of physical culture, and the emergence of counter-hegemonic alternatives;
• The evaluation and critique of sport policies and programmes in developing countries.
Submissions are accepted in Portuguese, English, and Spanish. Papers must have 4,000 – 6,000 words (inclusive of endnotes and reference list) and should follow the formatting guidelines available at http://www.seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/Movimento/about/submissions.
The deadline for submissions is May 31, 2014.
Original manuscripts should be submitted online at http://www.seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/Movimento/index.
Please direct any inquiries to Guilherme Nothen at [log in to unmask]
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