Call for Papers

The South African Review of Sociology devotes a special issue to Sport in South Africa. The guest editors Chris Bolsmann (School of Languages and Social Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom) and Cora Burnett (Department of Sport and Movement Studies, University of Johannesburg, South Africa) invite authors to submit abstracts for papers on the following themes:

1.   Controversies, debates and discourses in the sociology of sport 2.   Sport and gender 3.   Race, identity and sport 4.   Consumption, leisure and sport 5.   Sport for development 6.   The state, political economy and sport 7.   Sport, education and coaching 8.   Sporting cultures and fandom 9.   Sport and social history 10. Sport, philosophy and ethics

The defined deadlines are as follows:

Abstracts:          31 October 2013 Papers:              31 May 2014

Please take the submission guidelines into consideration:

1. Authors are invited to submit a 400-500 word abstract. 2. Submissions should be sent to: sociologyofsportgmail.com 3. Articles should be 5000-8000 words in length. 4. All submissions will be anonymously/blind reviewed by two independent assessors.