One is never quite sure what the response will be to a special issue call for papers. Certainly, that was the case with regard to this Physical Cultural Studies special issue of the Sociology of Sport Journal. As editors, our original aim was to attract contributions that would help flesh out (pun intended), what we perceived to be an identifiable trend among the Sociology of Sport community and beyond. In our estimation, there exists a growing, if at best loosely aggregated, group of critically compelled scholars producing research focused on various dimensions of the relationship between physical culture, power and power relations, and the body: the triad at the core of the Physical Cultural Studies (henceforth PCS) enterprise. It was this fledgling PCS constituency we were hoping to attract.
