Colleagues: Just a quick note to remind you that the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2019 ISSA Conference is November 1. This is earlier than in years past so I wanted to bring this to your attention. Please also note that there will be a pre-conference workshop for graduate students. Information about both events are listed below. Apologies for cross listing and please share widely with those you think may be interested.  Best, Mary

Call for Papers

2019 World Congress of Sociology of Sport

April 24-27, Dunedin, New Zealand

Sociology of Sport and Alternative Futures

Keynote speaker:

Professor Deborah Lupton

(Centenary Research Professor, University of Canberra)

 

Keynote Title:

The More-than-Human Worlds of Self-Tracking for Health and Fitness

 

Sociology of Sport, like its parent discipline Sociology and the Social Sciences more broadly, is facing unprecedented challenges not only over funding and resources, but also in terms of its legitimacy and relevance. Within the context of neoliberalism in general, and the corporatisation of university education in particular, there has been a slow but steady marginalisation of sociology of sport as a field of academic study. Curiously this has occurred despite enormous growth in the interest in ‘sport’ (broadly defined) within the global economy and as a focus of scholarly enquiry. Both the state and private interests are increasingly aware of sports’ strategic location at the intersection of key sectors of society including: education, health, business and tourism/nation branding. Moreover, scholars spanning the fields of sociology, anthropology, history, geography, politics, economics, media and communication studies, and gender studies are increasingly recognising the social significance of sport as a cultural form and practice.

As we approach the 20th year of the new millennium, the 2019 World Congress of Sociology of Sport provides an ideal platform to reflect, evaluate and contemplate the past, present and future of the field. While the sociology of sport, across all of its specialisations, has successfully identified social fault lines within sport, discussions about how to use this knowledge for social transformation and social justice through collective action and social policy have been far less robust. In short, it is timely for our field to envision and create an alternative future for both sport and its sociological analysis.

The 2019 Congress offers a unique opportunity to consider how, in the spirit of C. Wright Mills, our research, teaching, public service and political activism, can connect private experience with wider social structures, personal problems with public issues, and scientific analysis with political awareness. We invite scholars to share their research and to consider how it might contribute to a new vision for sport, exercise, physical activity and health.

 

Call For Abstracts: Session topics

Sociology of Sport & Alternative Futures	Sport & Media
Sport & New Technologies	Sport, Politics, & Policy
Sport, the Environment & Sustainability	Sport, Race & Indigenous Culture
Sport, Physical Activity & Ageing	Sport & Sexuality
Sport, Development, & Peace	Sport & Social Class
Sport & Urban Development	Sport & Gender
Sport & National Identity	Sport & Violence
Sport & Globalization	Sport, Disability & Paralympics
Sport, Economics, & Society	Sport Mega-events
Sport, Health & Wellbeing	Sport & Doping
Sport Coaching & Pedagogy	Sport & Ethics
Physical Education & its Future	Sport & Popular Resistance
Youth Sport	New & Alternative Sports

Important dates

• Abstract Submission and Registration is now open: [log in to unmask]
• Abstract Deadline: November 1, 2018
• Notification of Abstract Acceptance: December 15, 2018