Deadline:
July 02, 2025
Program Starts: July 02, 2025
Program Ends: July 04, 2025
Location(s)
Australia
Monash University, Melbourne
Overview
Founded in 2010, the Sport & 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.
The Sixteenth International Conference on Sport & Society calls for research addressing the following annual themes and special focus.
Details
The Sixteenth International Conference on Sport & 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 & 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.
Plenary Panel: Exploring Local Sporting Cultures
Exploring Local Sporting Cultures: Reflecting on the Growth of Informal Sport Participation within Australia and Internationally
This panel will explore shifting sport participation trends and the growth of informal sport as an important site of sport participation within local communities. The panel will discuss the significance of informal groups in supporting participation within Multicultural communities and the role of informal sport in facilitating cultural belonging, social connection and supporting resettlement. The panel will also reflect on how informal contexts act as sites of resistance to Global and particularly Eurocentric models of sport. We’ll consider how groups reshape sporting practices locally to reflect their own needs and to generate health and social outcomes that are relevant for the groups and their wider communities.
Plenary Panel: Sport and the Environment
Sport and the Environment: Communication and Politics in the Age of Climate Crisis
Sport has become a key site of popular culture, media and politics in which the future(s) of the climate and planet come into sharp focus for athletes, spectators, audiences and citizens. Sport events and activities contribute to the global climate crisis and are subject to its cascading impacts, including extreme heat, mega-fires, drought, floods, changing waterways, and deteriorating rates of snow and ice cover. Recent years have also seen a surge in climate protestors targeting high-profile sporting events and venues around the world, often in dramatic and highly disruptive ways. This panel examines how this crisis is understood and responded to by sportspeople, citizens and (sub)political actors.
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Eligibility
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Description of Ideal Candidate
Dates
Deadline: July 02, 2025
Program starts:
July 02, 2025
Program ends:
July 04, 2025
Program Starts: July 02, 2025
Program Ends: July 04, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
Un-save Opportunity
Internships, scholarships, student conferences and competitions.
