NASSS 2018 Conference - Vancouver

The myriad of practices, politics and histories that surround and shape conceptions and experiences of gender/s and sexualities are of major interest in sport and physical cultural studies. This session invites papers that examine gendered and sexual identities in relation to space, place and land. From the sport mega-event to the everyday mundane space of a locker room, sport cityscapes can be simultaneously represented and experienced as sensuous, erotic, sexual, respectable, degenerate, and normative. In these representations and experiences, however, there is always already an omission, a misrecognition and denial of the land on which these identifications are practiced, hailed, valorized or vilified. Papers in this session will pay attention to intersectionality and will interrogate how gendered and sexual sport cityscapes are mobilized in the service of nationhood, perpetuating legacies of (white settler) colonialism and middle-class, moral(ized) respectability.