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Lifestyle Sports and East Asia Special Issue of Journal of Sport and Social Issues Guest Editor: Clifton Evers, Newcastle University, UK ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) Guest Editor: Adam Doering, Wakayama University, Japan ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) There is a rapidly growing body of scholarly research about 'lifestyle sports' (sometimes referred to as 'action sports' or 'extreme sports'). Activities that often fall under this umbrella term used in scholarly research in the West include surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, parkour, climbing, BMX, Moto-X, BASE jumping, windsurfing, etc. Research addresses tourism, industry, identity, place/space, bodies, emotional life, risk, technology, consumption, and more. Recently, a critical dialogue has emerged around the cultural tensions of inclusion of surfing, skateboarding, and climbing in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The vast majority of lifestyle sport research has been conducted in Western countries (Wheaton, 2010). Most of the research about lifestyle sports in non-Western countries has been in relation to tourism. There have been a few instances in the field which briefly touch on the cultural politics of lifestyle sports in 'East Asia' (Thorpe, 2014; Laderman, 2014). However, there are only the beginnings of a body of empirical research focusing on this region (See Sedo, 2010; Cheng & Tsaur, 2012; Hung & Lee, 2012; Tien-Ming & Chiang-Chuan, 2015; Manzenreiter, 2013; Evers, in press). The expansion of lifestyle sport into 'East Asia' is resulting in specific histories, encounters, and manifestations of activities, experiences, industry, identity, place, technology, and media. There are examples of colonization but also localization and indigenous realisations. Cultural, political, social, material, and capital encounters, and exchanges are taking place by way of inter-Asian and Asia-Global South connections, rather than simply East-West. The complex refiguring of geopolitics through lifestyle sports enables new and interesting networks, politics, and possibilities that are in need of further critical attention. This special issue of the Journal of Sport and Social Issues asks: how are East Asian networks of lifestyle sport enthusiasts, workers, governing bodies, and associated communities-ecologies forming? What are the politics of the worlds, experiences, values, and imaginaries coming about (or being blocked)? How is such being negotiated by humans and non-humans? The purpose of this special issue is to provide a forum for discussion on the latest developments, trends, and research concerning lifestyle sports in East Asia. To achieve this, we invite contributions from across sport sociology, cultural studies, human geography, tourism studies, postcolonial studies, sport history, anthropology, gender studies, media and communication studies, and more. Contributions could address (although, please feel free to consider other topics): * How the term 'lifestyle sports' functions in the Eastern context e.g. in Japan many 'sports' are already considered a "do", meaning a way of life not simply a sport. * Identities (e.g. gender, race, class, disability, sexuality, nationality, ethnicity, religion) * Colonization and localization * Globalization * Nationalism, regionalism, and transnationalism * Practices of place-making and "sportscapes" * Indoorization of sport * Sportification * Media * History * Industry / Work * Consumption and commercialisation * Embodiment * Emotional-affective life * Non-Human * Ecology/ies * Sustainability SUBMISSION SCHEDULE Deadline for abstract (250 words) submissions: 15th November 2016 Deadline for full submissions (8,000 words including references): 30th May 2017 For more information or to submit abstracts, please contact Clifton Evers at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or Adam Doering at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> * Please note, invitation to contribute a full manuscript does not guarantee publication and all manuscripts will go through the full double-blind peer review process with at least two reviewers. References Cheng, T., & Tsaur, S. (2012). The Relationship Between Serious Leisure Characteristics and Recreation Involvement: A Case Study of Taiwan's Surfing Activities. Leisure Studies, 31(1), pp. 53-68. Evers, C. (in press). Surfing and Contemporary China. In D. Z. Hough-Snee & A. S. Eastman. The Critical Surf Studies Reader. Durham: Duke University Press. Hung, C. H., & Lee, T. H. (2012). Impact of Place Attachment and Recreation Involvement on Satisfaction and Future Behaviour: Evidence from Taiwanese Recreational Surfers. South African Journal for Research in Sport, Physical Education and Recreation, 34(1), pp. 93-105 Laderman, S. (2014). Empire in Waves: A Political History of Surfing. Berkeley, CA.: University of California Press. Manzenreiter, W. (2013). No Pain, No Gain: Embodied Masculinities and Lifestyle Sport in Japan. Contemporary Japan, 25(2), pp. 215-236. Sedo, T. (2010). Dead-stock Boards, Blown-out Spots, and the Olympic Games: Global Twists and Local Turns in the Formation of China's Skateboarding Community. In P. Rethmann, I. Szeman, & W. Coleman (Eds.), Cultural Autonomy: Frictions and Connections (257-282). Vancouver, BC.: University of British Columbia Press. Thorpe, H. (2014). Transnational Mobilities in Action Sport Cultures. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Tien-Ming, C., & Chiang-Chuan, L. (2015). The Causal Relationships among Recreational Involvement, Flow Experience, and Well-being for Surfing Activities. Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, 20(sup1), pp. 1486-1504. Wheaton, B. (2010). Introducing the Consumption and Representation of Lifestyle Sports. Sport in society, 13(7-8), pp. 1057-1081. --Dr Clifton Evers Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Head of Postgraduate Research Media, Culture, Heritage School of Arts and Cultures Room 2.84, 2nd floor Armstrong Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, UK. 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