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International Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA) |
2009 ISSA Conference Sport: Passion, Practice Profit” in Utrecht, the Netherlands, July 15-18th 2009 The International Sociology of Sport Association is delighted to announce that preparations for the 2009 annual conference are already well underway. The host city of Utrecht in the Netherlands has an exciting academic and social program planned and looks forward to welcoming ISSA members to their conference. Important dates: 7th March 2009: Deadline for submission of abstracts 4th April 2009: Notification of acceptance of contribution Further details of the conference may be found at www.issa2009.com. Please direct any enquiries to the ISSA General Secretary, Dr. Elizabeth Pike at e.pike@chi.ac.uk. New Latin American Association for the Socio-cultural Study of Sport ISSA was pleased to support and participate in the inaugural meeting of The Latin American Association for the Socio-cultural Study of Sport (ALESDE), which was held in Curitiba, Brazil, October 30 – November 1, 2008. This was an historic event that included an international conference and the confirmation of the ALESDE Constitution/Statutes. International Review for the sociology of sport (IRSS) ISSA is pleased to announce some important news regarding our journal, IRSS. Some of the highlights include: the number of developed world academic institutions able to access IRSS has increased by 34%; the number of article downloads has increased by 48% as a result of strategic marketing campaigns; the total number of downloads was 73,959 in 2007 compared to 49,855 in 2006; the number of registrants for Table of Contents (TOC) Alerts has increased by 41.5%. ISSA is also pleased to announce that SAGE Publications has recently implemented a new contributor’s publishing agreement form, which enables authors of articles to publish under an exclusive license while retaining copyright of their work. We believe that this is a positive development, responding to ongoing debates regarding the rights of authors to make use of their own work, and enables the implementation of best practice in publishing standards. New Books by ISSA Members Armstrong, G. and Michell, Jon P. (2008). Global and Local Football. Politics and Europeanisation on the Fringes of the EU. Routledge: London. Coakley, J., Hallinan, C., Jackson, S. and Mewett, P. (2008). Sports in Society: Issues and Controversies in Australia and New Zealand. Sydney: McGraw-Hill. Darby, Paul and Hassan, David (Eds.) (2008). Emigrant Players: Sport and the Irish Diaspora. Routledge: London. Eittzen, D. and Sage, G. (2009). Sociology of North American Sport. London: Paradigm Publishers. Hallinan, C. and Jackson, S. (eds). (2008). Social and Cultural Diversity in a Sporting World. London: Emerald. Howe, David (2008). The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic Movement through an Anthropological Lens. Routledge: London. Jackson, S.J. and Haigh, S. (eds) (2008). Sport and Foreign Policy in a Globalising World. London: Routledge Janson, Adolfina (2008). The Game that Used to Make you Happy is Over. Our Female Football (from the moment they joined AFA in 1990, up until the World Cup in the USA in 2003). Cuidad Buenos Aires: Aurelia Rivera. Light, R. (2008). Sport in the Lives of Young Australians. Sydney: Sydney University Press. Poulton, Emma and Roderick, Martin (Eds.) (2008). Sport in Films. Routledge: London. Whannel, G. (2008). Culture, Politics and Sport. Blowing the Whistle, Revisited. London: Routledge. Wenner, L. and Jackson, S. J. (2009). Sport, Beer, and Gender: Promotional Culture and Contemporary Social Life. Zurich: Peter Lang Publishers. Contact http://www.icsspe.org/portal/index.php?w=1&z=5 International Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA)