Qualitative body sport

Emotions, objectification and reflexivity in qualitative body and sport research
Closing date for submissions:	01.02.2013
Date:	28-31 august 2013
Call:	European Sociological Association general conference
Location:	Turin
Description:	Research Network 28 – Sociology and sport In collaboration with RN 11- Sociology of emotions & RN 20 - Qualitative methods We invite researchers working on subjects that engage the body in situations of various interactions (physical, sports, arts, in professional or leisure situation) to question their practices and their emotional commitment in their field.   Three perspectives will be favoured (a) Discuss the opportunities, limitations and bias of different versions of participant observation. One of the main issues is to question the researcher’s choice when faced with the challenging dialectic of subjective and emotional connection to the field and the aim of "axiological neutrality" required by the scientific posture. An object held at a distance or “blindness” in the field? Therefore, we will question the different types and occurrences of ethnocentrism, androcentrism and hegemonic Doxa which very often remain invisible. (b) Take the measurement, in the objectification work, on the importance of autobiographical determinations, in order to clarify the researcher’s situated point of view (age, sexuality, social class, sex, race, etc.). We will examine in particular the heuristic advantages which this involvement can contribute to the construction of a scientific object or on the contrary, it may misrepresent the content. (c) The emotions of the researcher in the field have a crucial impact on the way he or she perceives reality which has been widely neglected by methodological debates. We encourage contributions that reflect on the researcher's affectivity and its impact on the collection and interpretation of data.   Ultimately, we invite the presenters to make a reflexive return on their research subject by shifting the focus on the social, cultural, spatiotemporal or even, in connection with biographical transformations (accidents, maternity, mourning, etc.) or structural events (institutional changes, crisis, disaster, etc.).
How to apply:	Abstracts should not exceed 1750 characters (incl. spaces, appr. 250 words). Each paper session will have the duration of 1.5 hours, that is to say normally sessions will include 4 papers.   Abstracts can only be submitted online no later than 1st of February 2013 to the submission platform at: http://www.esa11thconference.eu. Abstracts sent by email cannot be accepted.   The information requested during abstract submission include: Name(s), affiliation(s) and email of all the author(s); Contact details of presenting author (postal address, telephone and email) Title of proposed presentation Up to 4 keywords (optional). Submitting authors will receive an email of acknowledgement of successful submission receipt. Abstracts will be reviewed and selected for presentation by the relevant Research Network or Research Stream; the letter of notification will be sent by the conference software system in early April 2013. Each author cannot submit more than two abstracts (as first author).
Contact:	Submitted by: Monica Aceti monica.aceti@unifr.ch & Haifa Tlili tlilihaifa1@gmail.com