EASS 2020 Conference Sport, Diversity and Social Change

The theme for the EASS 2020 Conference is Sport, Diversity and Social Change. We welcome abstracts concerned with the main theme, but we also encourage contributions from a wide range of topics within the sociology of sports.

Increasingly, we live in a world where the importance of social justice is recognised. While its practice might not always be applied consistently, and, in some cases, ignored altogether, a celebration of diversity and commitment to equality are pivotal in promoting positive social change.

Sport and physical activity are vehicles that have both struggled with and drawn attention to issues relating to equality and diversity. While significant issues remain, it is within sport and physical activity that some of the general opportunities exist to challenging existing ways of thinking and behaving.

Taking the above into account, the organising committee of EASS 2020 invite scholars from across Europe and around the world to submit abstracts that explore the conference's core themes of Sport, Diversity and Social Change.

Beyond the main theme, the 17th European Association for the Sociology of Sport Conference will feature a broad range of sessions with the opportunity to share and discuss research concerned with sport and society within classical domains and newly emerging fields, including (but not limited to):

The Conference will also feature special sessions:

• SES (Sport Event Studies) network: Sport Events' Evolutions
• SORN (Sport Organisation Research Network): Current Issues in Sport Organisation Research
• POLIS (Policy and Politics in Sport) Network: Sport Policy and/for Persons with a Disability
• POLIS network: Regional and Local Levels of Sport Politics
• MEASURE (Meeting for European Sport Participation and Sport Culture Research) network: Explaining and Understanding Differences in Sport Participation
• EJSS (European Journal for Sport and Society) symposium: Sport in the Anthropocene
• ESA (European Sociological Association) special session: Sport and Bodies
• ESA special session: The sociologist of sports, sports in sociology. A critical and reflective session
• ESA special session: Health promotion, health and education, sports and physical activity
• ESA special session: Social Fitness, new media and gamification
• ESA special session: Physical activity, sports and social health determinants

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Early bird registration*

Members: £350
Non-members: £450
Students: £200

*deadline 27 March 2020

Standard registration

Members: £400
Non-members: £500
Students: £250

Members of the ESA (European Sociological Association) are entitled to EASS member fees.

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