North American Society for the Sociology of Sport :: Société nord-americaine de sociologie du sport :: La Sociedad Norteamericana para la Sociología del Deporte
2009 Conference Call for Papers DEADLINE: 15 August 2009
Distinguished Service Award Nominations Deadline: 3 August 2009
Student Paper Award Nominations Deadline: 1 August 2009
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Tēnā koutou! (Greetings to all!)
Welcome to the homepage for the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS; also the Société nord-americaine de sociologie du sport and La Sociedad Norteamericana para la Sociologia del Deporte). NASSS was formed over 30 years ago, with 21 founding members, from Canada and the United States. In the ensuing years, it has grown to 341 members, representing over 20 nations—from Brazil to Iran, from Trinidad to Australia to the Netherlands to South Korea, from Japan to Northern Ireland—and, in 2008, at the annual conference in Denver, Colorado, we welcomed colleagues from Russia, Taiwan, and Iceland, to name a few! We are clearly a much different—and more global—group than we were in 1978!
While many members no longer declare themselves strictly as “sport sociologists” and come from a variety of disciplines and stances as well as “sport sociology”—including feminisms, critical race(s) theories, cultural studies, queer theories, as well as a diverse range of quantitative and qualitative approaches and standpoints—they do have in common the study of sport, play, games and other kinds of human movements in their many forms, and remain inquisitive about how best to understand, explain, and improve sport and sporting practices within the wider world.
To quote C. Richard King, “NASSS scholars do a range of work that focuses on topics as diverse as sport and aging, the body, disability, education, extreme sports, fandom, heterosexism, human rights, media, medicine and health, politics, racism(s), sexism(s), risk, state intervention, the urban condition, visual and material culture, and youth sport”—as well, scholars are interested in environmental and sustainable ways of seeing sport, body issues such as obesity, and social justice movements—the list is seemingly endless! And NASSS scholars are vitally interested in learning new and varied ways to better understand their areas.
To this end, we encourage you to become involved with NASSS—by joining the organization, sharing your findings in NASSS’ scholarly publication, the Sociology of Sport Journal, and/or by attending our annual meeting(s), which, in 2009, will be held in Ottawa, Ontario, at the Courtyard Marriott Downtown (see links to the conference on this site).
This is an exciting time for NASSS—as a voluntary organization, we, of course, encourage members to become more involved. To that end, Election Committee Chair Dayna Daniels is calling for nominations for upcoming elections. In order to remain vigorous as an organization, it is critical that we get involved and work together. The annual NASSS meeting in November in Ottawa, Ontario, is being organized by President-elect and Program Committee Chair Darcy Plymire. She and the members of the Program Committee are hard at work identifying the conference theme, keynote speakers, and special sessions for the Conference. Look to this site for further information about the Conference as it develops.
I look forward to meeting you in Ottawa, to seeing what promises to be an exciting program come to fruition, and to generating even more critical mass for this organization. If I can be of any assistance to you, please do not hesitate to contact me at Rinehart@waikato.ac.nz
Kia ora from New Zealand!
Bob Rinehart
University of Waikato
rinehart [at] waikato.ac.nz
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