1st Global Conference: Sport
1st Global Conference
Sport
Wednesday 7th November ? Friday 9th November 2012
Salzburg, Austria
Call For Papers:
Sport has a chimeric value in modern life. On the
one hand, millions of people choose to play sports
or become supporters of sports. For these people,
sport is a social good, something which brings
people together for a common purpose, provides a
sense of security and belonging, and enjoyment and
excitement; and for participants a sense of
fulfilment, well-being and physical fitness. On
the other hand, there is an increasingly vocal
backlash against sport: by people in communities
affected by the demolishing of homes to make way
for facilities for mega sports events; by sports
journalists weary of the doping and the
match-fixing and the behaviour of elite athletes;
by fans sickened by the way their sports have
become tainted with the evil of global commerce;
and by scholars and others critical of the
importance given to sport in modern times. This
project aims to bring together scholars from a
wide range of disciplines ? sociology, cultural
studies, philosophy, history, political studies,
urban studies, geography, and psychology and sport
science ? who are interested in exploring the
Janus face of sport, to try to better understand
the status of sport in our everyday lives. The
project is for cheerleaders of sport, critics of
sport, and all those in-between who would like to
make a contribution to this inter-disciplinary
approach to understanding sport.
We would be interested in research or theory
papers on the following themes:
- Sport and social identity
- Ontology of sport
- Ethics and sport
- Anti-sport social movements
- Commercialization and sport
- Sport and place
- Problems in sport science
- History of modern sport
- Measuring the value of sport
- Sport and popular culture
- Sport and celebrities
- The politics of sport
- Sports fandom
The Steering Group particularly welcomes the
submission of pre-formed panel proposals. 300 word
abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th May
2012. If an abstract is accepted for the
conference, a full draft paper should be submitted
by Friday 3rd August 2012.
300 word abstracts should be submitted
simultaneously to both Organising Chairs;
abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF
formats with the following information and in this
order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)
title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to
10 keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: SPORT Abstract Submission.
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
from using footnotes and any special formatting,
characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or
underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts
is planned for the end of the year.
All accepted abstracts will be included in this
publication. We acknowledge receipt and answer to
all paper proposals submitted. If you do not
receive a reply from us in a week you should
assume we did not receive your proposal; it might
be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look
for an alternative electronic route or resend.
Joint Organising Chairs:
Karl Spracklen
Leeds Metropolitan University,
United Kingdom
Email: [email protected]
Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
Email: [email protected]
The conference is part of the Probing the
Boundaries programme of research projects. It aims
to bring together people from different areas and
interests to share ideas and explore various
discussions which are innovative and exciting.
Multiple eBooks and volumes of themed papers have
been published or are in press from the previous
conference meetings of this project. All papers
accepted for and presented at the conference will
be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook.
Selected papers may be developed for publication
in a themed hard copy volume
For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/sport/
For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/sport/call-
for-papers/
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