CFP: Special issue: Cultural Foundations of Sport & Tourism

Call for Papers

Journal of Sport & Tourism

Special issue: Cultural Foundations of Sport & Tourism

Deadline for submission: 1 April 2009

Purpose of the special issue:

The activities and interactions of tourists and sportspeople implicate matters of culture. Anthropologists have consequently paid considerable attention to tourism , while others have considered the cultural foundations of sport. Their work has been complemented by anthropological work on events, and by efforts to bring the culture concept to bear on sport subcultures. Yet, sport tourism researchers have barely capitalized on the potentials enabled by these significant intellectual foundations.

This special issue seeks high quality papers that address any issue raised by the intersection of culture with sport and tourism. Papers can be conceptual or empirical, but should contribute to advancing theoretical and/or practical considerations having to do with the cultural foundations of sport tourism.

Requests for further information and expressions of interest should be directed to the Guest Editor for this special issue, Professor Laurence Chalip (LChalip@mail.utexas.edu)

Manuscripts should be sent electronically as an eMail attachment directly to LChalip@mail.utexas.edu. All submissions will be subject to JS&T’s standard double-blind peer review process. Authors should prepare manuscripts according to JS&T’s instructions for authors available on the journal webpages: www.tandf/journals/titles/14775085.asp

Special Issue Contact Details:

Laurence Chalip
Sport Management Program
University of Texas
LChalip@mail.utexas.edu

Notes:
For example: Erve Chambers, Anthropology of Tourism: An Applied Perspective, State University of New York Press, 1997; Valene Smith (Ed.), Hosts and Guests (2nd ed.), University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989.
For example: Kendall Blanchard, The Anthropology of Sport: An Introduction (rev. ed.), Bergin & Garvey, 1995; Robert Sands, Anthropology, Sport, and Culture, Bergin & Garvey, 1999.
For example: Don Handelman, Models and Mirrors: Towards an Anthropology of Public Events, Cambridge University Press, 1990; Victor Turner, The Anthropology of Performance, JAI Press, 1986.
For example: B.C. Green, “Leveraging Subculture and Identity to Promote Sport Events, Sport Management Review, 2001, pp. 1-19; Belinda Wheaton, “After Sport Culture: Rethinking Sport and Post-Subcultural Theory”, Journal of Sport & Social Issues, 2007, pp. 283-307.