Call For Abstracts
North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
31st Annual Conference
Producing Knowledge, Producing Bodies:
Cross-Currents in Sociologies of Sport and Physical Culture
November 3-6, 2010
Crowne Plaza Hotel, San Diego – Mission Valley
San Diego, California, U.S.A.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: AUGUST 15TH, 2010
We invite you to submit a paper abstract for the 31st annual conference of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) to be held November 3-6, 2010 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in San Diego, California, U.S.A. Scholars from various disciplines and interdisciplinary fields examining issues relevant to the sociological study of sport and physical culture are encouraged to submit their work. Scholars interested in submitting an abstract are invited to follow the Submission Procedures and Presentation Rules outlined on page 3 of this document.
2010 NASSS Conference Theme
This year’s conference theme is “Producing Knowledge, Producing Bodies: Cross-Currents in Sociologies of Sport and Physical Culture.” This theme encourages scholars to reflect on sport and physical culture as they are increasingly situated within the constellation of biomedicalized, bioeconomic and biocultural discourses. Indeed, in North American societies, biopolitics speaks to the surveillance and regulation of the bios (the “life” of the population, according to Foucault) and increasingly comes to shape the ways in which individuals understand, govern and care for their bodies and themselves: a pervasive public morality is hence internalized and perpetuated at the micro-level. Powerful biomedicalizing, bioeconomic and biocultural discourses work together to inform and inflect sport and physical culture as well as individuals’ relation to their body. No longer involved in sport and other bodily practices simply for the pleasures they offer, individuals are now motivated by mandates to achieve health and the healthy, productive body. In our neoliberal societies, individuals become “entrepreneurs” of themselves: they are imagined to produce the satisfactory health and wellbeing that they will enjoy and “consume.” In contrast, those who are ill or discursively constructed as “unhealthy” or “obese” accrue a kind of social debt that must be redeemed by locating themselves within compensatory discourses and praxes that implicate sport and, more generally, physical culture. Bodies, all types of bodies, are being produced in very personal but also very public ways. For the 2010 Conference, NASSS scholars are invited to discuss the production of such bodies in the context of biomedicalizing, bioeconomic and biocultural discourses. The 2010 NASSS Conference welcomes all papers dealing with the sociological or sociocultural study of sport and/or physical culture, but it is particularly interested in papers addressing these issues.
2010 NASSS Conference Program Committee
This year’s conference program is currently being prepared by the 2010 NASSS Conference Program Committee. This committee is co-chaired by Geneviève Rail, Simone de Beauvoir Institute (Gen.Rail@Concordia.ca) and Mary G. McDonald, Miami University (Ohio) (mcdonamg@muohio.edu). The following individuals are also part of this program committee:
Bob Rinehart, University of Waikato (rinehart@waikato.ac.nz)
Faye L. Wachs, California State University at Pomona (flwachs@csupomona.edu)
Sammi King, Queen’s University (kingsj@queensu.ca)
Kyoung-Yim Kim, University of Toronto (ky.kim@utoronto.ca)
Janet Harris, San Diego State University (Jcharris@mail.sdsu.edu)
Shannon Jette, Simone de Beauvoir Institute (sjette@alcor.concordia.ca)
Steph McKay, University of Ottawa (stephanie.mackay@uottawa.ca)
Mo Smith, Sacramento State University (smithmm@csus.edu)
Becky Beal, California State University, East Bay (becky.beal@csueastbay.edu)
Dayna Daniels, University of Lethbridge (daniels@uleth.ca)
Claire Williams, Ohio State University (williams.2729@osu.edu)
Mary Louise Adams, Queen’s University (mla1@queensu.ca)
Barb Besharat, Queen’s University (6bb29@queensu.ca)
Janelle Joseph, University of Otago (janelle.joseph@otago.ac.nz)
Abstract Submission Procedure
Determine which session theme best matches your paper by reading through the session descriptions listed on NASSS’s web site: www.nasss.org (see “2010 NASSS Call for Abstracts”).
After you have determined the session to which you wish to submit, please send your abstract to the session organizer via email following the submission requirements outlined below. If you have any questions about the session, you may contact the session organizer via email.
Abstract Submission Procedure for Open Session
If you are unsure about the session to which you should submit or if you believe your paper does not fit any of the proposed sessions, please submit your abstract to the Open Session via this email address 2010nasss@gmail.com and follow the requirements outlined below. Please note that extra sessions will be organized by the Program Co-Chairs who will put together papers with topics as similar as possible.
Abstract Format and Submission Requirements
Authors must send their abstract in the body of their email message (please do not send attachments) and include the following information:
(a) Title of the paper (maximum of 10 words);
(b) Abstract (maximum of 200 words and only one paragraph; abstracts will be published in the 2010 Conference Abstracts in plain text so please refrain from using italics, bold, underlining or html);
(c) The name, affiliation (university or institution) and institutional email address of each of the authors.
Presentation Rules
Participants should not present a paper in a session that they preside (a session organizer must seek a presider that is not one of the presenters).
Participants may submit their abstract to only one session.
Participants may present only one paper as first author in a regular session but may have their name as second or third author on other paper(s), as long as they are not the presenter of such paper(s).
Participants who present a paper in one regular session may also participate as a speaker or discussant in one other non-regular session (i.e., a session for which individual participants do not submit an abstract, for example, a workshop or a round table session).
Acceptance Review Criteria
The Program Co-Chairs (and not the Session Organizers) will make the final decision about the acceptance of abstracts. The following criteria will be used:
Relevance and significance of topic to NASSS and/or to conference theme
Clarity of abstract
Clarity of core issue, research question or objective
Reference to conceptual framework
Reference to methodology
Clear presentation of findings (the abstract must relate to completed research and not work in progress unless the paper is submitted to an open session for students)
Only one abstract per participant: the Program Co-Chairs reserve the right to delete from the program additional abstract(s) submitted by the same participant as first author.
The Program Co-Chairs will post on the NASSS website (www.nasss.org) the list of accepted sessions and abstracts no later than September 15th, 2010 (information will also be circulated via the NASSS listserv). Authors and session organizers will thus know whether their session or abstract has been officially accepted.
Troubleshooting
For further information or any problem regarding the submission of your abstract, please contact the Program Committee Co-Chairs at the following email address: 2010nasss@gmail.com
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: AUGUST 15TH, 2010
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