Civilising Processes and Doping in Professional Cycling
This article contends that professional cyclists have undergone civilising processes in relation to doping within the sport. Drawing on the theoretical approach of Elias, the author argues that over time stronger shame feelings in relation to doping became part of…
Citizen Consumer Citimer in Football Fan Cultures
This article examines how football, sport and other cultural fields are characterized by complex interrelations between ‘citizen’ and ‘consumer’ identities. Our analysis centres specifically on critically examining and developing the concept of ‘citimer’ (citizen-consumer) with respect to activist supporter groups…
Churches as Targets for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention: Comparison of Genes, Nutrition, Exercise, Wellness and Spiritual Growth (GoodNEWS) and Dallas County Populations
Background We compared cardiovascular (CV) risk factors (CVRFs) of community-based participatory research (CBPR) participants with the community population to better understand how CBPR participants relate to the population as a whole. Methods Good News Participants in 20 African-American churches in…
Christianity, Boxing and Mixed Martial Arts: Reflections on Morality, Vocation, and Well-Being
This essay provides a theological analysis of two violent combat sports, boxing and mixed martial arts (MMA, also known as cage fighting). The titles of the biographies of a number of well-known professional Christian boxers, such as God in My…
Choppy Waters: Elite Rowers’ Perceptions of Coaching
The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between elite rowers and their coaches. We were particularly interested in how the rowers constructed and negotiated the interactions and pedagogical actions of the coaches. Drawing upon participant observation and…
Chinese Olympic Sport Policy: Managing the Impact of Globalization
The article examines the extent to which, and the manner in which, the Chinese government managed its relationship with the Olympic movement following its re-engagement with international elite sports competition in the mid 1970s. Locating the analysis in the literature…
Children’s Participation in Organized Sport and Physical Activities and Active Free Play: Exploring the Impact of Time, Gender and Neighbourhood Household Income Using Longitudinal Data
This study examines the associations among socioeconomic status (SES), aging, gender and sport and physical activity participation from late childhood into adolescence. Drawing from previous research, we test three hypotheses regarding the impact of aging on SES and sport participation…
Children’s Experience of Sport in Australia
Australia is known as a ‘sporting nation’ and sport is central to its cultural identity. Children’s participation in leisure activities, including sport, is considered to be of such importance that it is enshrined as an international human right. There is…
Children’s engagement in leisure time physical activity: Exploring family structure as a determinant
This paper draws on Bourdieu’s key concepts in an effort to understand particular social practices and the effect of family as a social environment and determinant for participation in leisure time physical activity. As an exploratory study, the aim was…
Child Participatory Research Methods: Attempts to go ‘Deeper’
Along with the growth of child participatory research an increased focus on its complexity, specifically unaddressed power inequities in the research relationship and unreflexive use of methods, has developed. This article discusses a participatory research project with children in Ireland…
Child Athletes and Athletic Objectification
This article examines the risks associated with conceptualizing the child athlete’s body primarily in aesthetic terms and as an instrument of sporting victory, and develops a concept of “athletic objectification.” It draws on a recent research project involving Australian males…
Cheering on the Collegiate Model: Creating, Disseminating, and Imbedding the NCAA’s Redefinition of Amateurism
In January 2012, during his “State of the Association” address, National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) President Mark Emmert urged members to fix the “collegiate model.” Imbedded in the speech’s framework, this relatively new term in the NCAA national office’s lexicon…
Cheering as an Indicator of Social Identity and Self-Regulation in Swedish Ice Hockey Supporter Groups
The aim of this study was to explore whether cheering could be a sign of the social identity of a supporter group, and further to investigate if cheers could serve a self-policing purpose. The matches included in this study were…
Cheating is the Name of the Game – Conventional Cheating Arguments Fail to Articulate Moral Responses to Doping
One of the most common arguments in the discussion on doping is that it represents a form of cheating. In this paper it is argued that common doping-is-cheating arguments based on notions of rule-violation and unfair advantage are inadequate, since…
Cheating in Contests: Anti-Doping Regulatory Problems in Sport
We examine the impact of regulation on the doping decisions of athletes in a Tullock contest. The regulatory measures we consider are greater monitoring by sports authorities and a lowering of the prize in the contest. When legal efforts and…
Chasing Rx: A Spatial Ethnography of the Crossfit Gym
CrossFit is a group fitness program that incorporates a variety of weightlifting and gymnastic movements performed at high intensities. While scholars have examined CrossFit’s physiological and behavioral outcomes, few studies have examined the program’s psychological and sociological characteristics. Drawing from…
Chasing Objectivity? Critical Reflections on History, Identity, and the Public Performance of Indian Mascots
Chasing Objectivity? Critical Reflections on History, Identity, and the Public Performance of Indian Mascots examines the role of the objectivity within the discipline of history via explorations of research into Native American sports mascots. I argue that Whiteness and other…
Changing Work Routines and Labour Practices of Sports Journalists in the Digital Era: A Case Study of Postmedia
This article contributes to an emerging body of research that examines the transformation of sport, journalism and media practice in the digital era as part of what Raymond Williams has called the ‘long revolution’ of communications, culture and democracy. In…
Champions of Respect: Inclusion of LGBTQ Student-Athletes and Staff in NCAA Programs
This resource was commissioned by the LGBTQ Subcommittee of the NCAA association-wide Committee on Women’s Athletics and the Minority Opportunities and Interests Committee in 2012. The subcommittee’s charge is to provide leadership and advocacy, raising awareness of and providing resources…
Challenging the Gender Binary? Male Basketball Practice Players’ Views of Female Athletes and Women’s Sports
Kane’s ‘sport as a continuum’ theory posits many women can outperform many men in a variety of athletic endeavors. However, because sports are typically sex-segregated, this athletic continuum is rarely seen but provides a potentially powerful mechanism of transformation relative…
Challenging the Gender Binary: The Fictive and Real World of Quidditch
Despite the recent emergence of women and gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, intersexuals and transsexuals (GLBITs) in sport, gender equity has been far from realized. Dominant forms of sport are bimodal in gender classification, a construction that creates an ideology of…
Challenges to Promoting Health for Amateur Athletes Through Anti-Doping Policy
Anti-doping regulations are intended, at least in part, to promote the health of athletes. While most anti-doping efforts target elite and professional competitors, there have been recent moves by sport governing bodies to expand anti-doping testing to include amateur athletes.…
Challenge and Relief: A Foucauldian Disciplinary Analysis of Retirement From Professional Association Football in the United Kingdom
The aim of this study was to consider the retirement experiences of British male professional association footballers by utilising Foucault’s analysis of discipline discussed in Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Specifically, we drew upon Foucault to consider…
Celebrity, Ageing and the Construction of ‘Third Age’ Identities
This article explores celebrity as a point of articulation between consumer culture and the reconfiguration of ageing lifestyles and identities in contemporary culture – described by cultural gerontologists as the ‘Third Age’. We focus on ageing stars whose celebrity is…
Caster Semenya, Gender Verification and the Politics of Fairness in an Online Track & Field Community
The sex testing of South African runner Caster Semenya in 2009 was widely discussed in media, but the most serious and significant sites of debate may have been within the cultures and institutions of track & field itself. In this…
Carnivalesque Culture and Alcohol Promotion and Consumption at an Annual International Sports Event in New Zealand
This study investigated the promotion and consumption of alcohol at the 2012 New Zealand Rugby Sevens Tournament. The paper uses a quantitative survey to gain insight into how attendees experienced the event in relation to alcohol promotions and alcohol consumption.…
Caring for the Young Athlete: Past, Present and Future
What’s so ‘special’ about kids playing sports? A previous longitudinal cohort study of 453 elite young British athletes outlined the positive benefits of sport, while identifying a knowledge gap of when coaches, parents and athletes should initiate intensive training or…
Capital Matters: Social Sustaining Capital and the Development of Black Student-Athletes
How is social capital nurtured and made meaningful in the development of black student-athletes in historically white institutional (HWI) settings? Research explicitly exploring an understanding of nurturing social capital related to the development of black student-athletes is scarce. This collective…
Cannabis in Sport: Anti-Doping Perspective
Since 2004, when the World Anti-Doping Agency assumed the responsibility for establishing and maintaining the list of prohibited substances and methods in sport (i.e. the Prohibited List), cannabinoids have been prohibited in all sports during competition. The basis for this…
Can We Consider Changes in Sports Participation as Institutional Change? A Conceptual Framework
The aim of this paper is to gain conceptual understanding of changes in leisure-time sports participation (LTSP) as an issue of institutional change. The study is elaborated in the LTSP research context of Flanders (Belgium) and Denmark. Data originate from…
Can There be a Moral Duty to Cheat in Sport?
This article examines and defends the claim that whether or not to cheat can be a genuine moral dilemma within the ethics of team sports. That is, although there is always something morally wrong in cheating there may also be…
Can Sport Really Help to Meet the Millennium Development Goals? Evidence from children in Peru
In contrast to the popular policy claim that sport might serve as vehicle to meet the Millennium Development Goals, empirical evidence based on large-scale survey data is largely missing. We use panel data based on a cohort of children and…
Can ‘The Ghetto’ Really Take Over the County? ‘Race’, Generation & Social Change in Local Football in the UK
The involvement of people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds in local sports clubs is little used as a route for examining questions of their wider identity politics and exploring the impact of generational change in local sport. This is…
Camaraderie Reincorporated: Tough Mudder and the Extended Distribution of the Social
Tough Mudder, a market-leading event in the burgeoning practice and industry of mud running, is a 21 km “military-style” obstacle course with a curiously collaborative ethic. Teams of runners traverse the course in the name of fun, fitness, bravado, and…
Calling the Screens: Self-Reported Developmental Outcomes in Competitive Basketball
The purpose of this study was to examine female players’ motives for participation in competitive sports, how they felt involvement has aided in their development, and explore negative experiences that had served as detractors to enjoyment. Focus groups were conducted…
Calling for a Time-Out: The Theology of Disability Sport and the Broader Understanding of Competition
The author seeks to interrogate technological trends in economic competition by means of theological reflection on the practices of disability sport, particularly the Special Olympics. He discusses the increasing influence of an algorithmic rationale that has been established in mainstream…
Call Me Loyal: Globalization, Corporate Nationalism and the America’s Cup
This study examines the relationship between sport, globalization and national identity. Specifically, the article focuses on how Team New Zealand’s 2003 America’s Cup campaign represents and reproduces the concept of corporate nationalism. Located within a critical cultural studies perspective the…
Bullshot: Sporting Shooting, Alcohol and the Two Cultures
This paper discusses the role and function of alcohol in sporting shooting in the UK. It seeks to understand and critically comment upon alcohol consumption relating to this sport, to widen empirical knowledge of sporting shooting and to use the…
Building Worlds: A Connective Ethnography of Play in Minecraft
Digital gameplay is enacted across many social platforms that can be described as affinity spaces, meaning informal learning environments where players share resources and knowledge. This article examines the ways that a young gamer stitches together several different spaces to…
Building Social and Cultural Capital Among Young People in Disadvantaged Communities: Lessons from a Brazilian Sport-Based Intervention Program
This article explores the concepts of social and cultural capital as analytical tools for investigating the capacity of sport-based intervention programs to contribute to the personal, social and professional development of disadvantaged young people. It draws on survey data (n=129)…
Building a System to Safeguard Children in Sport: The Eight CHILDREN Pillars
In October 2014, the International Safeguards for Children in Sport were launched. These Safeguards were developed, implemented, and evaluated based on a pilot process which took place over the preceding 2 years. Throughout this piloting phase, a range of qualitative…
Brown Bodies, Racialisation and Physical Education
This article explores how school physical education (PE) can both reinforce stereotyped notions of the brown body as inherently physical while also allowing young people to gain educational success. Drawing on a critical ethnographic study of Māori and Pasifika (Pacific…
British Football: Where are the Muslim Female Footballers? Exploring the Connections Between Gender, Ethnicity and Islam
This research article explores the ways in which self‐recognition as a footballer, in terms of ethnicity, along with cultural values and religious adherence have impacted on the identities of members of the British Muslim Women’s Football Team and their choice…
Break Points: Narrative Interruption in the Life of Billie Jean King
This article explores intertextual representations of Billie Jean King, focusing on the announcement of her relationship with Marilyn Barnett in 1981 as a disruptive moment that occasioned remedial narrative work on King’s part. Media framing of the incident is examined…
Bread or Games? A Social Cost–Benefit Analysis of the World Cup Bid of the Netherlands and the Winning Russian Bid
Many countries compete fiercely for the right to host mega-events like the World Cup. Proponents of hosting mega-events claim that yields economic gains. Many available studies focus on partial effects of hosting or concern ex post analysis. The authors utilize…
Branded Fitness: Exercise and Promotional Culture
This article develops a theory of branded fitness within the United States through a focus on two of its most visible examples: CrossFit and Bikram yoga. We argue that highly successful forms of branded fitness such as these give insight…
Boys’ Bodies and the Constitution of Adolescent Masculinities
In the social transition between childhood and adolescence, boys draw on discourses of masculinity that address the male body in constituting themselves as adolescents. They make themselves as no longer children and acquire a sense of themselves as adolescents by…
Boxers Briefs or Bras? Bodies Gender and Change in the Boxing Gym
In this ethnography of Full Contact, a San Francisco Bay Area boxing gym, I use Bourdieu’s theory of practice to illustrate how ‘rules of the game’ shape people’s perceptions, interactions and positions (capital). First, I show how the unwritten, unspoken…
Bowling for Dollars: Title Sponsorship of College Football Bowls
Corporate title sponsorship of college football bowl games has proliferated over the past two decades, yet little analysis has been made concerning the returns to these investments. This article examines the impact that title sponsorships have had on the stock…
Boozing Brawling and Community Building: Sport-Facilitated Community Development in a Rural Ontario Community
Sport, and specifically hockey, is discussed extensively in relation to social identity formation and other social outcomes, both positive and negative, within Canadian society. In this article, we utilize a collaborative analysis to examine an autoethnographic account of participation in…
Boosting the Late-Blooming Boy: Use of Growth-Promoting Agents in the Athlete With Constitutional Delay of Growth and Puberty
Context: The indications for use of growth hormone have broadened with the availability of unlimited recombinant human growth hormone. The Food and Drug Administration’s approval for use of growth hormone in growth hormone–sufficient patients with idiopathic short stature includes some…
Book Review: Youth Sport and Spirituality: Catholic Perspectives
How do you stretch the boundaries of self by playing inside the lines? In Youth Sport and Spirituality: Catholic Perspectives, Patrick Kelly provides an engaging edited text that shifts the paradigms by which we evaluate sport and faith through a…
Book Review: Why Minorities Play or Don’t Play Soccer
Book review: Why Minorities Play or Don’t Play Soccer
Book Review: The Insider’s Guide to Match-Fixing in Football
The title to Declan Hill’s 2013 book The Insider’s Guide to Match-fixing in Football is potentially misleading. It is not, however, maliciously intended. Nor can Hill be faulted for his marketing acumen. Hill himself is not inside the match-fixing network,…
Book Review: The Future of Feminism
Book Review: The Future of Feminism
Book Review: The Big Fix: The Hunt for the Match-Fixers Bringing Down Soccer by Brett Forrest
Ternes, Neal. 2015. Book review: The big fix: The hunt for the match-fixers bringing down soccer by Brett Forrest (2014). New York: HarperCollins. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 50(6): 752-755.
Book Review: Testing for Athlete Citizenship: Regulating Doping and Sex in Sport by Kathryn E. Henne (2015)
Book review: Testing for athlete citizenship: Regulating doping and sex in sport by Kathryn E. Henne (2015)
Book Review: Steven J Jackson and Stephen Haigh (eds), Sport and Foreign Policy in a Globalizing World
In 2010 two international mega-sports events took place: the XXI Winter Olympic and X Paralympic Games in Vancouver and FIFA’s World Cup football competition in South Africa. It is appropriate therefore to review a book titled Sport and Foreign Policy…
Book review: Steven J Jackson & Stephen Haigh (eds), Sport and Foreign Policy in a Globalizing World
In 2010 two international mega-sports events took place: the XXI Winter Olympic and X Paralympic Games in Vancouver and FIFA’s World Cup football competition in South Africa. It is appropriate therefore to review a book titled Sport and Foreign Policy…
Book Review: Sports, Religion and Disability
The topic of religion and sports has long been marginalised in sports studies and ‘studies focused purely on the secular dimensions of sport can be unhelpfully narrow’ (Shilling and Mellor, 2014: 352). Thankfully, this secular bias is now being addressed…
Book Review: Sports and Christianity: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Book review: Sports and Christianity: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Book Review: Sport Gender and Power: The Rise of Roller Derby by Adele Pavlidis & Simone Fullagar
Book review: Sport gender and power: The rise of roller derby by Adele Pavlidis & Simone Fullagar
Book Review: Sport for Development and Peace: A Critical Sociology and Sport for Development: What Game Are We Playing?
Book review: Sport for Development and Peace: A Critical Sociology and Sport for Development: What Game Are We Playing?
Book Review: Sport & Peace: A Sociological Perspective
Book review: Sport & Peace: A Sociological Perspective
Book Review: Sociology of Football in Global Context
Book review: Sociology of football in global context
Book Review: Soccer, Culture and Society in Spain: An Ethnography of Basque Fandom
Book review: Soccer, Culture and Society in Spain: An Ethnography of Basque Fandom
Book Review: Sex Testing: Gender Policing in Women’s Sports by Lindsay Parks Pieper
Over the past 25-30 years, a number of journal articles and books have been published on the history of sex testing, offer a critique of the various methods employed to determine sex/gender, or provide a feminist criticism of sex testing/gender…
Book Review: Rickey & Robinson: The True, Untold Story of the Integration of Baseball
BOOK REVIEW:It has been nearly seventy years since Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson integrated Major League Baseball (MLB). Yet, their place in history remains one of debate and contestation. Scholars and commentators, alike, continue to discuss what might be assumed…
Book Review: Researching Embodied Sport: Exploring movement cultures
BOOK REVIEW: Researching Embodied Sport: Exploring movement cultures
Book Review: Qualifying Times: Points of Change in U.S. Women’s Sport by Jamie Schultz and A Locker Room of Her Own: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Female Athletes Edited by David C. Ogden and Joel Nathan Rose
Ponytails, sports bras, and tampons may not readily come to mind when imagining the significant factors that enabled women’s sports participation. In Qualifying Times, Jamie Schultz provides a feminist history of these “ostensibly banal elements” (p. 8) of women’s sports…
Book Review: Migration and New Media: Transnational Families and Polymedia
The thesis of this book crystallizes the findings of Madianou and Miller’s research into the use of diverse online media by the Filipino diasporic community and their families. Driven by a simple yet well-defined motive, their book taps into convergent…
Book Review: Making Meaning out of Mountains: The Political Ecology of Skiing
In Making Meaning Out of Mountains: The Political Ecology of Skiing, Mark Stoddart exposes the contradictions and ‘ecologies ironies’ (p. 5) that lie at the heart of skiing. The modern and popular variant of the sport, we are told, is…
Book Review: Jack Johnson Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line
Book review: Jack Johnson Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line
Book Review: In Motion, At Rest: The Event of the Athletic Body
Grant Farred’s In Motion, At Rest theorizes “the event” through the lens of sport, and makes the argument that understanding the event in this way allows for a new understanding of “the event” as a philosophical problem. Specifically, In Motion,…
Book Review: Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry by Helen J. Lenskyj
After 30 years of engagement with the Olympic spectacle, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj presents disturbing findings in Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry (2013). The book could not have arrived at a better time. The 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games…
Book Review: Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport
Book review: Floodlights and touchlines: A history of spectator sport
Book Review: Fighting for Recognition: Identity, Masculinity, and the Act of Violence in Professional Wrestling by R. Tyson Smith
The phenomenon known as “pro wrestling” is dominated by the World Wrestling Entertainment Corporation (WWE). WWE is one of the most watched “sports” events on television (though pro wrestling is not technically a sport, given that its outcome is fixed).…
Book Review: Fighting for Recognition: Identity, Masculinity, and the Act of Violence in Professional Wrestling
R. Tyson Smith’s Fighting for Recognition is the culmination of more than two years ethnographic research about professional wrestlers training at the Rage Professional Wrestling School (pseudonym) in New York. Through observation and interviews with male wrestlers, Smith explores issues…
Book Review: Fighting for Recognition: Identity Masculinity and the Act of Violence in Professional Wrestling by R. Tyson Smith
Book Review: Fighting for recognition: Identity masculinity and the act of violence in professional wrestling by R. Tyson Smith
Book Review: ESPN: The Making of a Sports Media Empire
ESPN stands alone. The four-letter acronym carries unmatched global clout in sport media. From humble beginnings in Connecticut trailers in 1979 to a multibillion dollar powerhouse, the story of ESPN’s rise to the top of the media mountain is remarkable.…
Book Review: Desi Hoop Dreams: Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity by Stanley I. Thangaraj
Book Review: Desi Hoop Dreams: Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity by Stanley I. Thangaraj
Book Review: Come Out Swinging: The Changing World of Boxing in Gleason’s Gym
Scholars interested in the role and evolution of boxing in a capitalist society should welcome this study of Gleason’s Gym in New York City. Lucia Trimbur provides nuanced insight into the users of one of the world’s most famous boxing…
Book Review: Christos Kassimeris, Football Comes Home: Symbolic Identities in European Football
Book Review: Christos Kassimeris, Football Comes Home: Symbolic Identities in European Football
Book Review: Beyond Sport for Development and Peace: Transnational Perspectives on Theory, Policy and Practice
Book review: Beyond Sport for Development and Peace: Transnational Perspectives on Theory, Policy and Practice
Book Review: Artistic Impressions: Figure Skating Masculinity and the Limits of Sport
Book review: Artistic Impressions: Figure Skating Masculinity and the Limits of Sport
Book Review: Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London
Jules Boykoff’s Activism and the Olympics offers a critical analysis of the Olympic Games in Vancouver and London by examining the intersection of politics and sports. The Olympics always have important political implications for the hosting city. For example, an…
Book Review: A Companion to Sport
In A Companion to Sport, Andrews and Carrington seek ‘to encourage students…to develop a more critical approach that strikes a delicate balance between taking sports seriously as an important cultural and social phenomenon in their own right, whilst trying to…
Book Review of Sport and Social Exclusion in Global Society by Ramón Spaaij, Jonathan Magee and Ruth Jeanes
Sport and Social Exclusion in Global Society adds another layer to the growing body of literature in the sport for social change/development field. Three devoted academics and activists came together and shared their experiences “on and off the field” highlighting…
Bodywork and Bodily Capital Among Youth Using Fitness Gyms
In this article, we explore what had become a predominant focus on the body and on shaping and refining the body through frequent, intensive workout and strict, controlled diets among a group of young people engaged in strength training in…
Body Projects: Making, Remaking, and Inhabiting the Woman’s Futebol Body in Brazil
Drawing on data from an experiential ethnographic project undertaken in Brazil, this paper explores how gender is being experienced and negotiated by women football players within the context of the game’s incorporation into Western capitalism. Acceptance of women into this…
Body Mass Index and Percentage of Body Fat as Indicators for Obesity in an Adolescent Athletic Population
Background: Body mass index (BMI) is widely accepted in determining obesity. Skinfold thickness measurements have been commonly used to determine percentage of body fat. Hypothesis: The authors hypothesize that because BMI does not measure fat directly but relies on body…
Body Image, Prostheses, Phantom Limbs
The body image with respect to physical disability has long been a woefully under-theorized area of scholarship. The literature that does attend to the body image in cases of physical abnormality or functional impairment regularly offer poorly articulated or problematic…
Body Image and Prosthetic Aesthetics: Disability Technology and Paralympic Culture
The success of the London 2012 Paralympic Games not only revealed new public possibilities for the disabled, but also thrust the debates on the relationship between elite Paralympians and advanced prosthetic technology into the spotlight. One of the Paralympic stars,…
Bodies Matter: Professional Bodies and Embodiment in Institutional Sport Contexts
Bodies are always present in organizations, yet they frequently remain unacknowledged or invisible including in sport organizations and sport management research. We therefore argue for an embodied turn in sport management research. The purpose of this article is to present…
Blurring the Boundaries: Prosumption, Circularity and Online Sustainable Consumption Through Freecycle
This article explores the digital exchange and moral ordering of sustainable and ethical consumption in online Freecycle groups. Through interactive exchanges in digital (online posts) and material (consumer items) modes, Freecycling blurs three common binaries in analysis of consumption: (1)…
Blue Skies Over Beijing: Olympics, Environments, and the People’s Republic of China
During the 2008 Olympic Games, after years of environmental regulations, two months of short-term measures, and opportune weather, Beijing measured a record number of “blue sky days,” at the same time reassuring international athletes and journalists the air was safe…
Black Skiing, Everyday Racism, and the Racial Spatiality of Whiteness
This article examines how structural and symbolic forces combine to produce racialized discourses of belonging and geographies of exclusion in and around downhill skiing. Drawing from literatures in Whiteness studies, sports sociology, leisure studies, and environmental history, I advance the…
Black Male Athlete Activism and the Link to Michael Jordan: A Transformational Leadership and Social Cognitive Theory Analysis
Have you ever thought about the potentialities coming about if Michael Jordan chose to emulate previous figures such as Muhammad Ali, John Carlos, and Tommie Smith regarding social activism? Michael Jordan has often been criticized for his failure to speak…
Black Guys and White Guise: The Discursive Construction Of White Masculinity
This article explores how discursive repertories about black masculinity inform the construction of white masculinity in two settings assumed diametrically opposed: white nationalists and white anti racists. Drawing from in-depth semi-structured interviews, year-long ethnographic field notes, and content analysis from…
Binge Drinking and Sports Participation in College: Patterns Among Athletes and Former Athletes
This study draws on a nationally representative sample to examine the relationship between participation in organized sport and alcohol use. We build on prior studies by re-examining the relationship between participation in organized sport and binge drinking and how this…