[ecrea] CFP: Special issue of South Asian Popular Culture

*Special issue of South Asian Popular Culture*

*Sport and the South Asian diaspora *

*Special Issue Call for Papers to be published in October 2013 *

*Guest editors: Daniel Burdsey (University of Brighton, UK), Stanley 
Thangaraj (Vanderbilt University, USA) and Rajinder Dudrah (University 
of Manchester, UK)*

Sporting practices have been a central feature of South Asian diasporic 
formations ever since the mass migrations from the subcontinent during 
the middle and latter parts of the twentieth century. Yet, just as these 
communities have themselves evolved in a multitude of ways, the role and 
meanings of sport within them have likewise been subjected to 
contestation, resistance, modification and change. The relationship 
between sport and global South Asian groups remains nuanced and complex; 
on the one hand, it suggests progression and opportunity, and on the 
other, sport remains inexorably a site of subjugation and exclusion.

This special issue aims to explore the changing social and cultural 
landscape of sport within the South Asian diaspora. Through established 
and emerging theoretical perspectives, and original empirical studies, 
the objective of the volume is to provide a critical (re-)examination of 
the roles that sports play /within /and /in relation to /South Asian 
groups in the diaspora. /South Asian Popular Culture /invites paper 
proposals critically addressing issues related to sport -- from elite 
competition to community participation -- across all segments of the 
South Asia diaspora. Though by no means limited to these questions, we 
anticipate that papers might address the following topics:

· How do sporting practices link the various sites and communities of 
diaspora and homeland(s)? How does sport facilitate imaginaries of 
"home" within the diaspora?

· In what ways does sport facilitate the construction and articulation 
of "new ethnicities" / diasporic South Asian identities?

· How is sport used as a form of resistance in the South Asian diaspora? 
What is the relation of sport to power, resistance and domination?

· How are femininities, masculinities, queer identities and other forms 
of intersectionality articulated through sport in the South Asian diaspora?

· What are the implications of the "War on Terror", empire and 
neoliberal politics for sport and citizenship in the South Asian diaspora?

· How are notions of transnationalism and (post-)colonialism constructed 
and experienced in relation to sport in the South Asian diaspora?

· What is the role of the sporting celebrity in the South Asian 
diaspora? How is global South Asian sport represented and mediated?

· How does sport discriminate, marginalise and exclude South Asians in 
the diaspora?

· How does sport link to broader leisure forms, and creative and 
cultural industries in the South Asian diaspora?

*Submission guidelines*

Original articles (up to 7000 words including all notes and references) 
and shorter commentaries for the /Working Notes /section (1000--3000 
words) are invited for submission to the special issue. Please email a 
300 word abstract and a 150 word author biography in a Microsoft Word 
attachment to *(journalsapc /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(journalsapc /at/ gmail.com)> *by 
*16 December 2011*. Initial review decision will be notified by *31 
January 2012*. Selected proposals should be submitted as complete 
manuscripts no later than *31 June 2012*. All manuscripts will undergo 
peer review, based on initial editor screening. Manuscripts should not 
be under consideration by another publication at the time of submission. 
For more information and submission guidelines please visit: 
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14746689.asp