Sport and Citizenship: Civic Engagement in a Contested Democracy
Deadline 2026-09-30Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)ABDC B
Journal: Sport in Society
The central question this special issue seeks to address is: “Does sport build better citizens?” Since Alexis de Tocqueville’s seminal insight that voluntary associations cultivate citizens’ democratic capacities, such associations have often been regarded as “schools of democracy” (Baggetta, 2009). Sport organizations, as one of the largest and most visible sectors of civil society, appear especially well positione…
Feeling Competitive: Sport as Affective Practice
Deadline 2026-11-15Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)ABDC B
Journal: Sport in Society
What are the stakes of sporting competition, what does it feel like, and what kinds of subjects does it produce? How are gender, sexuality, class, race, citizenship, and the nation felt, practiced and fought over via sport? If sport is political in part because it is affective, then how do emotions facilitate the work of power? For this special issue, we welcome contributions exploring the mutually constitutive rela…
Towards more professionalized and sustainable esports practices.
Deadline 2026-11-16Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)ABDC B
Journal: Sport in Society
Argumentation At a time when professional esports clubs around the world are increasingly resorting to fundraising as a new way to fund their activities on both the strategic and operational plan (De Moor et al., 2022) , the esports market seems to go through a third period of historical crisis marked by a new diminution of prizes distributed to the players each year during professional competitions since 2022. Acco…
Artificial Intelligence and Sport from Social and Scholarly Perspectives
Deadline 2026-12-01Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)ABDC B
Journal: Sport in Society
Since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, an increasing number of publications have begun to examine how advancing AI technologies are reshaping the methodology and pedagogy of sport studies from humanities and social science perspectives. For example, sociologists Millington (2025) and Westerbeek (2025) explore AI’s implications for the human-machine future of sport and the impact of “algorithmic fandom” on sport…
Feminist approaches to sport in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand
Deadline 2026-12-01Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)ABDC B
Journal: Sport in Society
This special issue brings together feminist sport researchers working in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand to showcase the context, tensions, and opportunities of place-based feminist sports scholarship in the region. Though much of the literature on feminist approaches to sport is situated in North American and European contexts, considering sport and feminism “down under” advances understanding of how feminist ap…
Authenticity vs. simulacra in sport in the light of ‘sport in transition’
Deadline 2028-09-15Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)ABDC B
Journal: Sport in Society
As a prompt observation (in Spring 2025), questions regarding ‘authenticity in sport’ have mainly - and rather randomly and unconnectedly – dealt with e.g. athletes’ experiences during performance, the morality in doubtful enhancement devices, c yberathletes, motives in adventure and lifestyle sport, the blend of cultural and sport event, or the transition of work skills to sport. But rather unexpectedly, studies re…
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