ISSA World Congress of Sociology of Sport
Utrecht, the Netherlands
July 15-18, 2009
Sport: Passion, Practice and Profit
Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 7th 2009
www.issa2009.com
The organization committee of the ISSA 2009 congress reminds you that our website www.issa2009.com is open for abstract submission and registratio.
We are also delighted to inform you about the following key notes speakers at ISSA 2009:
Prof. Paul Gilroy – London School of Economics and Political science - author of After Empire: Multiculture or Postcolonial Melancholia and coauthor of Race, Sport and British Society.
Prof. Annelies Knoppers – Utrecht University - coauthor of Making sense of diversity in organizing sport.
Prof. Maarten Van Bottenburg – Utrecht University - author of Global games and coauthor of The global sporting arms race.
Prof. Jan Wright – University of Wollongong - coauthor of The obesity epidemic and Body knowledge and control.
Session themes:
· Body: pleasure & pain
· Clubs and volunteering
· Coaching
· Commercialization
· Consumer culture
· Globalization
· Health
· Heroes and celebrities
· Identification (gender/sexuality; race/ethnicity/nationality; age; physical ability)
· Media: visibility, discourse and influence
· Mega events
· Participation (gender/sexuality; race/ethnicity/nationality; age; physical ability)
· Performance: pride & shame
· Policy and governance
· Politics
· Social capital: identification/distinction
· Urban development
· Open paper sessions
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