2nd to 4th July 2025
Melbourne, Australia
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CALL FOR PAPERS
https://sportandsociety.com/2025-conference/call-for-papers
Place: Monash University, Melbourne, Australia + Online
Format: In-Person (Location) and Online (Asynchronous Content)
Dates: 2-4 July 2025
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PLENARY SPEAKERS
Thomas Fletcher, Professor, Leeds Beckett University, UK
Ruth Jeanes, Professor, Monash University, Australia
Ramon Spaaij, Professor, Victoria University, Australia
Carmel Guerra, CEO, Center for Multicultural Youth, Australia
Brett Hutchins, Professor, Monash University, Australia
Elizabeth (Libby) Lester, Director of the Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub, Monash University, Australia
Rebecca Olive, Vice Chancellor Senior Research Fellow, RMIT University, Australia
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SPECIAL FOCUS: Global Sports Local Cultures
The Sixteenth International Conference on Sport and Society will delve into the politics of globalisation and how it reshapes sports, as well as its complex relations with local cultures and cities.
Sport is both a cultural practice and a global product. As a cultural practice, sport brings people together and creates a sense of belonging. It also contributes to individuals' wellbeing and the development of physical and social skills. As a global product, sport is shaped by global economic flows and practices that monetise fan engagement and commodify athletes' labour. The confluence of sport as a cultural practice and a global product creates tensions and fractures as to how communities shape sports to become a force for social good locally.
The Special Focus of the Sixteenth International Conference on Sport and Society delves into these tensions and fractures and invites submissions that examines the roles of global sports and how they are re-contextualised within local cultures and communities.
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CONFERENCE THEMES
THEME 1: Sporting Cultures and Identities
THEME 2: Sport And Health
THEME 3: Sports Education
THEME 4: Sports Management And Commercialization
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JOURNAL
The International Journal of Sport and Society provides a forum for wide-ranging and interdisciplinary examination of sport, including: the history, sociology, and psychology of sport; sports medicine and health; physical and health education; and sports administration and management. The discussions in the journal range from broad conceptualizations of the fundamental logic of sport, to highly localized readings of sporting practices in particular times and places.
Serial Founded: 2010
ISSN: 2152-7857 (Print) ISSN: 2152-7865 (Online)
LCCN Permalink: https://lccn.loc.gov/2009208191
DOI: http://doi.org/10.18848/2152-7857/CGP
Publication Frequency: Biannually
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ABOUT US
Founded in 2010, the Sport and Society Research Network is brought together around a common interest in cultural, political, and economic relationships of sport to society. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions
https://sportandsociety.com/about
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Seventeenth International Conference on Sport and Society Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Lillehammer Campus, Norway + Online, 11-12 June 2026
SPECIAL FOCUS: Innovation, Transformation, Contestation: Can Sport Keep Up with Society's Future?
https://sportandsociety.com/2026-conference
Enquiries: support@cgnetworks.org
Web address: https://sportandsociety.com/2025-conference
