Towards a Social Justice Disposition in Communication and Sport Scholarship

Authors: Jackson, D., Trevisan, F., Pullen, E. and Silk, M.

Journal: Communication and Sport

Volume: 8

Issue: 4-5

Pages: 435-451

eISSN: 2167-4809

ISSN: 2167-4795

DOI: 10.1177/2167479520932929

Abstract:

In this introduction to a special issue on sport communication and social justice, we offer some reflections on the state of the discipline as it relates to social justice. We bring attention to the role of sport communication scholars in the advancement of social justice goals and articulate a set of dispositions for researchers to bring to their practice, predicated on internalizing and centralizing morality, ethics, and the political. Identifying the epistemological (under)currents in the meaningful study of communication and sport, we offer a set of challenges for researchers in the contemporary critique of the communication industries based on “sensibilities” or dispositions of the research to those studied. We then introduce and frame the 13 articles that make up this double special issue of Communication & Sport. Collectively, these articles begin to demonstrate such dispositions in their interrogation of some of the most important and spectacularized acts of social justice campaigns and activism in recent decades alongside investigations of everyday forms of marginalization, resistance, and collective action that underpin social change—both progressive and regressive. We hope this special issue provides a vehicle for continued work in the area of sports communication and social justice.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/34271/

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Towards a Social Justice Disposition in Communication and Sport Scholarship

Authors: Jackson, D., Trevisan, F., Pullen, E. and Silk, M.

Journal: COMMUNICATION & SPORT

Volume: 8

Issue: 4-5

Pages: 435-451

eISSN: 2167-4809

ISSN: 2167-4795

DOI: 10.1177/2167479520932929

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/34271/

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Towards a Social Justice Disposition in Communication and Sport Scholarship

Authors: Jackson, D., Trevisan, F., Pullen, E. and Silk, M.

Journal: Communication and Sport

Volume: 8

Issue: 4-5

Pages: 435-451

Publisher: SAGE

ISSN: 2167-4795

DOI: 10.1177/2167479520932929

Abstract:

In this introduction to a special issue on sport communication and social justice, we offer some reflections on the state of the discipline as it relates to social justice. We bring attention to the role of sport communication scholars in the advancement of social justice goals and articulate a set of dispositions for researchers to bring to their practice, predicated on internalizing and centralizing morality, ethics, and the political. Identifying the epistemological (under)currents in the meaningful study of communication and sport, we offer a set of challenges for researchers in the contemporary critique of the communication industries based on “sensibilities” or dispositions of the research to those studied. We then introduce and frame the 13 articles that make up this double special issue of Communication & Sport. Collectively, these articles begin to demonstrate such dispositions in their interrogation of some of the most important and spectacularized acts of social justice campaigns and activism in recent decades alongside investigations of everyday forms of marginalization, resistance, and collective action that underpin social change—both progressive and regressive. We hope this special issue provides a vehicle for continued work in the area of sports communication and social justice.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/34271/

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Towards a Social Justice Disposition in Communication and Sport Scholarship

Authors: Jackson, D., Trevisan, F., Pullen, E. and Silk, M.

Journal: Communication and Sport

Volume: 8

Issue: 4-5

Pages: 435-451

ISSN: 2167-4795

Abstract:

In this introduction to a special issue on sport communication and social justice, we offer some reflections on the state of the discipline as it relates to social justice. We bring attention to the role of sport communication scholars in the advancement of social justice goals and articulate a set of dispositions for researchers to bring to their practice, predicated on internalizing and centralizing morality, ethics, and the political. Identifying the epistemological (under)currents in the meaningful study of communication and sport, we offer a set of challenges for researchers in the contemporary critique of the communication industries based on “sensibilities” or dispositions of the research to those studied. We then introduce and frame the 13 articles that make up this double special issue of Communication & Sport. Collectively, these articles begin to demonstrate such dispositions in their interrogation of some of the most important and spectacularized acts of social justice campaigns and activism in recent decades alongside investigations of everyday forms of marginalization, resistance, and collective action that underpin social change—both progressive and regressive. We hope this special issue provides a vehicle for continued work in the area of sports communication and social justice.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/34271/

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