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POSTER SESSIONS
- Open Poster Session
- Organizer: Stephan Walk, California State University, Fullerton
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PAPER SESSIONS
- Ableism in Sport
- Organizers: Ted Fay, SUNY Cortland and Eli Wolff, Northeastern University
- Action Sports in the New Millennium
- Organizer: Robert Rinehart, Washington State University
- Applied Sport Sociology: An Ideas Exchange on Teaching Graduate and Undergraduate Sport Sociology
- A session which gives anyone in the session five minutes (or less) to present a classroom idea to the session participants. The focus is on what does and does not work in our classes at our respective schools.
- Organizer: Gary Sailes, Indiana University
- Applied Sport Sociology: Bridging the Gap between Sport Sociology and Sport Management
- This session would solicit papers on the role Sport Sociology plays in college sport management programs and in the wider global commercial sport community at both the professional and college levels.
- Organizer: Gary Sailes, Indiana University
- Body Culture
- Organizer: Margaret Duncan, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Challenging the Gender Binary in Sport
- Organizer: Ann Travers, Simon Fraser University
- College Athletics, Commercialization, and Gender Equity
- Organizer: Howard Nixon, Towson University
- Continuing the Conversation on Communication and Sport
- This session continues to build upon the (inter)discplinary discussion, from last year's convention, that (re)considers how sport-related phenomena may be understood if disciplined from a communication paradigm. This session solicits
theoretical essays and empirical studies--from a variety of intellectual approaches and perspectives--that provide serious consideration to those communicative (i.e., message-based) processes that empirically constitute,
inherently drive, and ultimately perpetuate, the symbolic process and practice of sport.
- Organizer: Kelby K. Halone, University of Tennessee
- Discourses of Obesity
- Organizer: Margaret Duncan
- Drugs and Sport
- BALCO, baseball, the US Congress - everyone seems to be interested in drug use in sports at the
moment. This session is designed to bring a critical sociological analysis to any one of the many issues related to drug use in sport or the use of technologically-based performance-enhancing substances and practices.
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- Organizer: Rob Beamish
- Environmentalism, Authenticity, and “Selling Out” in Skater/Surf Culture
- This panel will explore the conflict in surf and skater culture between the
more environmentally oriented philosophies that emphasize respect for nature
and criticism of consumer culture, and the more technologized, global market
approach. Known in environmental studies as the conflict between those with
an ecocentric, non-anthropomorphic philosophy, and those whose cultural
values are characterized by use-value thinking and anthropocentrism, this
panel will explore the manifestation of these approaches in surfer/skate
culture focusing specifically on the debate around “authenticity” and
“selling out.”
- Organizer: Leslie Heywood, SUNY Binghamton
- ESPN: Empire Building in Sport
- Organizer: Robert Rinehart, Washington State University
- Fantasy Sport as an Educational Tool
- Papers in this session will explore the role of fantasy sports as a
pedagogical heuristic in courses on sport. Papers may focus on a variety
of topics including, but not limited to: fantasy sport in cultural context,
fantasy sport as as organizational simulation, fantasy sport in public
relations, and fantasy sport and gambling. The common thread through all
papers is the use of fantasy sports as a way for enhancing student learning.
- Organizer: Andy Billings, Clemson University
- Gender-Desegregating Sport
- Organizer: Eric Anderson, SUNY Stony Brook
- Gender, Physical Activity and Cultural Discourses
- Organizer: Margaret Macneill, University of Toronto
- The Global Expansion of American Corporate Professional Sports: Desired or Undesired?
- This session will examine the growing expansion of corporate American Sport into countries around the world. In addition to recognizing this global expansion, we will welcome papers that reflect the desirability of such expansion, the resentment in host countries, and the extent to which countries welcome American corporate sports. To what extent are sports further commodified by such preemptive global processes? How does such “outsourcing” of powerful capitalistic sport corporate structures influence and affect the potential for expansion of sports and media in host countries? Is this a real issue about which we should be concerned?
- Organizer: Jim Steele, James Madison University
- The Global Game of New Empires: Golf in the Globalized World
- Session will examine golf from the perspectives of environmental impacts, a locus of power and site for social separation of elites from the masses.
- Organizer: John Nauright, Georgia Southern University
- Health Risks and the Teen Athlete
- As children move through the adolescent years into adulthood, they face a complex set of obstacles and dangers for which they are uniquely at risk. The choices they make will influence their health and well-being later in life, as well as their chance of reaching adulthood at all. Conventional wisdom teaches that athletic participation can serve as an antidote to adolescent risk-taking. However, the relationship between participation and health-risk behavior in adolescence is heavily mediated by gender, race-ethnicity, social class and identity issues, and complicated by the wide range of risky behaviors teens pursue. Do teenagers who play organized sports have substantial incentives not to take chances with their health and well-being? Specifically, are adolescent athletes less likely to use illicit drugs, anabolic steroids, alcohol, and tobacco? Are they less likely to have body image problems and engage in dangerous weight loss regimens? Are they less likely to engage in risky sexual behavior? Are they less susceptible to thoughts and actions related to killing themselves? Are they more likely to practice safe behaviors related to motor vehicle use? What does the research tell us?
The session described above touches on a number of sociologically-informed topics including: the socialization process, sport subcultures, sport identities, risk-taking behavior, deviance, and social problems.
- Organizer: Merrill Melnick, SUNY Brockport
- Human Rights in Sport
- This session is inspired by a line of new research in the area of human rights in sport, in connection with the United Nations Year of Sport and Physical Education
- Organizer: Eli Wolff, Northeastern University and Mary Hums, University of Louisville
- Last Bastion of Empire?: Bodies, Race, Representation and Sport
- Session will examine the interface of contemporary and historical notions of embodiment as they play out in the sporting body and representations of the sporting body.
- Organizer: John Nauright, Georgia Southern University
- Masculinities in Sport
- Organizer: Eric Anderson, SUNY Stony Brook
- Media Portrayals of Gender, Race, and Class: Intersections
- Organizer: Margaret Duncan, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- The Mediated Sporting Experience: Interplay Between Producers and Audiences
- Research on mediated sports has focused mostly on content. However, more exploration of the position of producers and the impact on audiences is necessary to put content studies in context. This session will focus on the experiences, attitudes and values of mediated sport producers and audiences. Papers with such a focus that employ qualitative or quantitative methodologies are welcome.
- Organizer: Marie Hardin, Pennsylvania State University
- National Identity and Sport
- There is little doubt that sport is strongly articulated to national identity in
many nations. This session seeks papers that explore this relationship.
Possible topics include papers that explore multiple dimensions of this linkage
such as comparisons between nations, the influence of aspects such as gender,
race, sexuality, religion, etc., on particular 'fictions' of national identity,
media representations, or the understandings of athletes or the public about
sport and nationalism.
- Organizer: Toni Bruce, the University of Waikato
- NCAA and Academic Reform: The Empire Strikes Back
- Organizer: Billy Hawkins, University of Georgia
- Poetic Representations of Physical Culture and Diasporic Subjectivities
- Writing conventions in the academy often constrain just what can be said, as well as what may be received by a particularly trained audience. This session calls for creative analytic practices and poetic representations of physical culture, especially focused on diasporic subjectivities. The focus here is two-fold – a) to disrupt rational writing practices through the use of creative analytic practices; and b) to articulate the mobility of subjectivity (how subjects may intentionally take up varied and shifting positions). Various forms of writing and presentation (poetry, verse, essay, short-story; spoken word; visual representations) are welcome – standard term-paper style will not be accepted for this session.
- Organizer: Katherine M. Jamieson, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- Qualitative Approaches to Sport in the Age of Empires
- Organizer: Robert Rinehart, Washington State University
- Race and Sex Segregation in Sport
- Organizers: Ann Travers, Simon Fraser University and Robert Pitter, Acadia University
- Race and Sport: Old Theories, New Data
- The focus of this session is to assess how well traditional "race & sport" theories/explanations work given recent changes in racial representation in sport. An example would be the reduction in the percentage of African-Americans among Major League Baseball Players, or the recent success of (white) European basketball players and teams. Old theories, if true, should be able to explain these and other recent changes.
- Organizer: John Phillips, University of the Pacific
- Reading the Ring: The Politics and Melodrama of Professional Wrestling and Ultimate Fighting
- Professional wrestling, specifically World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE),
continues to be among the most highly rated cable television shows in the US.
In addition, there has been a resurgence in popularity of the combat sport of
ultimate fighting sparked, in large part, by a reality television show featuring
up and coming mixed martial artists. This session examines the political and
melodramatic aspects of sports entertainment and ultimate fighting, and situates
both within the larger space of popular media culture in the US.
- Organizer: Ted M. Butryn and Matthew A. Masucci, San Jose State University
- Seminar Session: Subcultures in Sport (position papers)
- This session will feature various theoretical and methodoligcal positions on researching subcultures in sport.
- Organizers: Becky Beal, University of the Pacific and Belinda Wheaton, The Chelsea School, University of Brighton
- Space, Place, and Issues of Racial Diversity
- How does the illusion of diversity as a global phenomenon allow for practices of racism to continue? How is it that local environments (rural areas, cities, nation, or particular sports/venues) resist the influences of racial diversity? In exploring globalization in the postmodern moment, the effects are commonly thought of as all-encompassing. This session seeks papers that explore these effects, or lack of effects, in particular spaces/places. Of most interest are papers that explore how racism is perpetuated in localized contexts that show the limitations of these supposed all-encompassing global effects.
- Organizer: Rod S. Murray, University of Alberta
- Sport and Citizenship
- Organizer: Jeff Montez de Oca, University of Southern California
- Sport, Fitness and Global Consumer Culture
- Organizer: Faye Wachs, Cal Poly Pomona
- Sport, Health, and Politics: Indigenous Cultures
- Papers in this session might explore, but are not limited to, discourses and practices around Indigenous/Native rights, mascots/representation/identity, health/fitness initiatives, and specific sports, events or personalities.
- Organizer: Amy S. Hribar, Montana State University
- Sport Management with a Social Justice Perspective: Tales From the Classroom
- Organizer: Brenda Riemer, Eastern Michigan University
- Sport, Physical Activity and Constructions of Health
- Organizer: Christine Dallaire, University of Ottawa
- Sport, Physical Activity and Risk
- Organizers: Christine Dallaire, University of Ottawa and Nancy Sharar, Jason Laurendau, University of Calgary
- Sport and the (re)Making of the Post-9/11 Nation
- Organizers: Mark Falcous, University of Otago and Michael Silk, University of Maryland
- The Sport Sociologist as Media ‘Star:’ Tales from the Field
- In this session we are seeking papers that explore various aspects of experiences interacting with the media, with a focus on lived experiences and the lessons that can be learned by sport sociologists who want to influence the media or who find themselves the focus of media interest.
- Organizers: Toni Bruce, University of Waikato and Andrew Parker, University of Warwick
- Sports Media: Theory and Method
- This session is designed to stimulate discussion about theoretical and/or methodological issues encountered while researching the sports media. Papers in this session may address topics such as limitations of theory, impact of new media technologies, or logistical challenges of conducting research in relation to any aspect of sports media production, transmission and/or reception.
- Organizer: Emma H. Wensing, University of Toronto
- Structuring Gender, Exercising Agency and Negotiating Constraint in Youth Sport
- Critical feminist scholars have examined how gender is structured through youth sport leagues and recreation centers (Wilson, White, & Fisher 2001), particularly through the separation of boys and girls (Messner 2000, Theberge 2003). Scholars have also studied how children and youth ‘do gender’ (West & Zimmerman 1987) within sporting contexts (Malcom 2003, Shakib 2003, Laberge & Albert 1999, Hasbrook & Harris 1999) as well as how youth interpret gendered sporting images (Heywood & Dworkin 2003). This session will feature scholarship that examines the interaction between structure and agency in youth sport; specifically exploring how gender is structured or instituted in sporting contexts and how girls/ women and boys/ men negotiate the gendered structures of sport and express agency within spaces of structural constraint.
- Organizer: Cheryl Cooky, University of Southern California
- Subjectivity and the Body in Recent Popular Sport Films
- The papers in this session are intended as a critical response to the recent flourishing of films about female athletes within the sport films genre which has historically tended to extol the sporting heroics and prowess of male athletes and male sports teams. Yet the latter continue to be produced along side the new spectacle of the female athlete portrayed in films such as Girl Fight (2001) and Million Dollar Baby (2005). They enact the personal stories of, and highlight the struggles of female athletes in male dominated sporting arenas. But are these films necessarily progressive? To what extent and through which political frameworks do they explore issues around race, gender, sexuality and ability at a time when social movements have pushed these categories far into the political agenda? The session can include popular films on both male and female athletes.
- Organizer: Patricia Vertinsky, University of British Columbia
- Teaching the Sociology of Sport
- Focuses on competing theoretical orientations, methodologies, and substantive concerns of our constituencies, as parts of teaching a course in the sociology of sport.
- Organizer: Wib Leonard, Illinois State University
- Technologies of Measurement and the Body in Health and Sport
- We live in an era accustomed to the idea that ‘normal’ is needed in all body classification schemes. How these notions of normalcy have developed (by whom and for what purposes), and how measurement schemes have evolved and been adopted as guidelines or markers for healthy body shapes, patterns of physical activity, and appropriate sporting pursuits are questions worth exploring. This session invites papers from those interested in the ideological underpinnings and social constructions of techniques of measurement of the healthy or sporting body.
- Organizer: Patricia Vertinsky, University of British Columbia
- Theorizing Endurance Sports
- Organizer: Theresa Walton, Kent State Univesity and Laura Chase, Cal Poly Pomona
- Tobacco and Sport
- Organizer: Robert Sparks, University of British Columbia
- Women in Hockey: Examinations of Power
- Organizer: Jodi Cohen, Bridgewater State College
- Writing Against Convention: Sport and Empire in the 21st Century
- When the twin towers crumbled in September 2001, news commentators wondered aloud, “How could this happen here?!” That question, asked from a perspective that presumes its own innocence and security, has yet to be adequately answered in a recognizably mainstream way in the United States. But even without answers, there have been responses--political, military, cultural--which have figured sports in significant ways.
For this panel, we seek sociologically informed writings or multi-media projects that reflect upon or interrogate the relevance of sports to global politics in the post-9/11 era. Of particular interest are pieces that push or exceed the boundaries of formal sociological writing in the interest of opening up affective, political, or deeply personal lines of inquiry.
- Organizer: Glyn Hughes, University of Richmond
- Youth, Physical Activity and Cultural Discourses
- Organizer: Genevičve Rail, University of Ottawa
- Open Paper Session
- If your paper doesn't seem to fit in any of the above sessions, submit your abstract to this session.
- Organizer: Stephan Walk, California State University, Fullerton
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