Geoffery Z Kohe
Biographic Data
| ID | 354319 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffery Z Kohe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffery Z |
| FAMILY NAME | Kohe |
| SIGNATURE | KOHE G Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6683-6669 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Sustainability, the Athens Marathon and Greece’s sport event sector
Increasingly, a confluence of challenging global forces have precipitated sport sector change. While responses vary, a discernible trend has been the growing extents to which sport organisations and events have transcended typical participatory, performance and/or spectator focused logistics and embraced social responsibility acts that embed sport more deeply into communities. These manoeuvres have also become fundamental to organisation and sect…
Conceptualising the notion of the ‘sport worker’ and ‘sport/s work
Sport research has interrogated ways diverse employment landscapes, distinct working conditions, state and organisational recognition of labour and work, contour working lives and workspaces. these explorations notwithstanding, contestation and ambiguities exist over how sport-related labour is termed and framed, and the consequences that follow for sector constituents. these debates form the catalyst for this position paper on the conceptualisat…
Kosovo basketball plays for a sustainable sporting future
In February 2008, Kosovo declared independence from Serbia which was significant in its enduring trajectory towards sovereignty. Yet, ‘independence’ has been a complex process and the nation remains in pursuit of legitimacy from key global governing entities (e.g. United Nations and European Union). Simultaneously, the acquisition of international sport membership has been instrumental to the sustainability of the country’s sport sector and a mec…
I'm not a warrior, I'm a basketball player
Encouraged by work calling for different approaches to examining sport industry issues, a narrative inquiry was adopted to interrogate the relationships between individual experiences and agency, management practices, and a particular sport organisation setting through the most recent turns of the Russia-Ukraine war. Commencing on 24 February 2022, this moment and ensuing consequences for professional Ukrainian basketball players reveal insights …
Possibilities for an internationalised, inclusive pedagogy for transnational sport education
Global education is a priority in the Higher Education (HE) system of all nations. In sport degree programmes in HE, the internationalisation trend is also noticeable. However, working in transnational education settings may bring to light, and generate existential and pedagogical contemplation of some of the foundational principles and assumptions about effective teaching. This paper aims to extend theoretical understanding of the confluence of …
Rethinking Spaces of Leisure
We report on research that found joining activities within community leisure and fitness centres (Centres) enabled people living with dementia to create meaning about everyday life and foster identity. Focusing on three Centres in England, the study was informed by the experiences and accounts of four people living with dementia, their life-partner (if applicable) and the sports professional most closely associated with the person as each partici…
Governance in regional sports organisations
In recent decades there has been an increasing concern among stakeholders surrounding sport organisations regarding the implementation of governance principles and processes. It is believed that these can help them to overcome sustainability problems and to promote organisational success. This research aims to analyse the governance of Catalan sports federations (CSFs), an area that has not been analysed to date. The study, based on previous appr…
Spatialising Sport Management
Sport and geography may be considered allied and complementary disciplines. They share, variously, interests in ideological and physical spaces, political and socio-cultural processes of space- and place-making, historical dis-/continuities, individual and collective identity formation, demography and topographies and representational practices therein. Sports geography modules may, for example, be taught independently within Geography, Sport Man…
Conceptualising L’Space Olympique
Perennial iterations of Olympic Games, and the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) contractual obligations upon host cities, have prompted development of wide-ranging educational initiatives. Such initiatives draw on the moral idealism of Olympism underpinning the IOC and focus on sport and Physical Education (and other subject areas) as sites in which to teach personal responsibility, social values and civil responsibility. Pedagogical virtu…
Remembering Brazil @Mexico1970
In March 2020 – following the rapid increase of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) cases in the country – several Brazilian sports leagues momentarily ceased to slow the virus spread among the population. Despite the record number of deaths caused by the disease, most of these leagues re-started by mid-July. Brazilian TV channels offered football match reruns as an alternative to fill weekly schedule gaps. Therefore, within a somewhat dystopian context of po…
Physical activity, sport and transnational migrant spaces in Shanghai, China
This study examines associations between sport/physical activity space, community formation and social life among Shanghai's highly skilled migrant demographic. There is limited illustration of the roles sport and physical exercise provision and spaces play in this migrant cohort's lives, community formation and participation in their host societies. Yet, such evidence is of value in determining social policy, urban development and community enga…
Hoops #basketballhistory @Hoops_Heritage
Until recently, investment into sport heritage in the United Kingdom has been sporadic, variable and inconsistent. This is particularly the case for sports conventionally not considered significant to popular national interest. In the UK, this classification extends to basketball. The situation is changing, and development of the nation's sport heritage is progressing. However, support for sport heritage cannot be guaranteed and continued efforts…
Conceptualising landscapes of learning in the United Kingdom’s volunteer football sector
From grassroots to mega-event level, the sport sector has long-relied on volunteers to function effectively. While the nature of sport volunteering varies, scholars have identified that volunteerism is built around characteristics (e.g. altruism, civic participation, acquisition of social capital, personal and professional development) that draw individuals together and contribute to a sense of community. In providing sites for life-skills traini…
Landscapes of tension, tribalism and toxicity
Proliferation of esport has created a complex landscape of participants, communities, organisations and investors. With alluring lucrative economic, social and political incentives, the crowded esport commons have become a site of rich resource for varied interests, yet also a locale of idea sharing, community production, and collective action. Notwithstanding advantageous outcomes for some stakeholders, esport has also become a space of turbulen…
The Gold in the Rings
Book Review| April 01 2021 The Gold in the Rings: The People and Events That Transformed the Olympic Games Wenn, Stephen R., and Robert K. Barney. The Gold in the Rings: The People and Events That Transformed the Olympic Games. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. Pp. 360. Index and illustrations. $110.00, hb. $24.99, pb. $14.95, eb. Geoffery Z. Kohe Geoffery Z. Kohe University of Kent Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google …
Sport, Education and Corporatisation
Using an interdisciplinary approach, Sport, Education and Corporatisation offers an important critique of the intersection between sport organisations, commercial agendas and educational development. It reveals a discomforting interplay between sector stakeholders that has been normalised via discourses of civic ‘good’, social responsibility and community welfare. The book employs stakeholder theory, corporate social responsibility ideals, and ho…
Sporting Identity, Memory, and People with Dementia
We report on a unique project which utilized oral history methodology undertaken with four people with dementia to explore their sense of identity within the context of their sports/physical activity histories. An oral history approach was advantageous in understanding the values individuals ascribed to sport/physical activities within their contemporary identities and daily lives. Findings and conclusions were made possible that would have been …
Crafting Critical Echoes in Sport Organizations
Sport organizations’ digital spaces (e.g. organizational websites, fanzines, blogs, electronic repositories and social media) are, potentially, rich empirical terrain in which sport narratives may be (re)presented, mobilised and challenged, and content disseminated to wider audiences. Drawing on New Zealand’s participation in the Olympic movement, and the national Olympic Committee’s efforts to embrace historical thinking, we consider the conflue…
Running the club for love
The current context of State sport governance and funding structures in the United Kingdom continue to challenge national, regional and local bodies and community clubs’ abilities to fulfil ambitions to support participation and competition at all levels. Notwithstanding sport clubs’ laudable intentions to support involvement and encourage participation (often with limited resources, guidance and communication from National Governing Bodies (NGB)…
I Just Go on Wi-Fi
The connection between athletes and technology has developed in recent years, with the focus on how lives are augmented and presented through this relationship. Building on previous reflections concerning the use of information and communication technology (ICT) to support the sometimes fractious experiences of sport migration, we suggest a need to develop our understandings of migrant athletes' use of ICT by interrogating socially-embedded proce…
Marianne Schultz, Performing Indigenous Culture on Stage and Screen
Framing the Paralympic Games
In recent years, there has been an increased emergence of studies focusing on the media coverage of the Paralympic Games. Until recently, studies have predominately used quantitative content analyses that, although providing useful interrogation of observational patterns, limit the understanding of and appreciation for the contexts that may have shaped the production of information. By focusing exclusively on the “what” and on the “how much,” it …
Analytical attractions and the techno-continuum
The proliferation of sports science and technological innovation within performance settings has precipitated the generation of increasing volumes of data to aid athletes. Copious data production has also perpetuated the privileging of scientific information, and a ‘thirst’ for ‘more data’ as an unproblematic ‘truth’. Of significance is not merely the use of technology for the production of data-for-data's sake, or the utility of data for a great…
Running with the ball? Making a play for sport heritage archives in Higher Education contexts
For considerable time, academia (in particular, the Humanities) has been in an intellectual, economic and pragmatic par des deux with the culture and arts sector (in this case, heritage, museums and archives). In many ways, given their respective pursuits of scientific enquiry and learning, valuable contribution to a knowledge economy, commitment to public enlightenment, and exploration of critical and creative endeavour, a relationship between t…
Coaches as sport workers
Increased activity of multiple stakeholders (e.g. agents and owners) have created new challenges for some coaches working in professional sports clubs. The purpose of this project was to draw attention to the normative or accepted practices inherent in sport work, some of the day-to-day realities of some coaches working in this context, and to understand how coaches’ perceptions of other stakeholders come to bear on their individual circumstances…
In Protection of Whose 'Wellbeing?' Considerations of 'Clauses and A/Effects' in Athlete Contracts
Contractual agreements have become an accepted part of participation processes for athletes in a variety of sport contexts. Closer readings of these contracts, however, pose several questions regarding organizational intentions and motivations, the conceptualization of athletes as 'workers,' and representation parity. In this article, we draw on four types of athlete contractual documents from both select international 'amateur' and 'professional…
Framing the Paralympic Games
In recent years, there has been an increased emergence of studies focusing on the media coverage of the Paralympic Games. Until recently, studies have predominately used quantitative content analyses that, although providing useful interrogation of observational patterns, limit the understanding of and appreciation for the contexts that may have shaped the production of information. By focusing exclusively on the “what” and on the “how much,” it …
Landscapes of tension, tribalism and toxicity
Proliferation of esport has created a complex landscape of participants, communities, organisations and investors. With alluring lucrative economic, social and political incentives, the crowded esport commons have become a site of rich resource for varied interests, yet also a locale of idea sharing, community production, and collective action. Notwithstanding advantageous outcomes for some stakeholders, esport has also become a space of turbulen…
Coaches as sport workers
Increased activity of multiple stakeholders (e.g. agents and owners) have created new challenges for some coaches working in professional sports clubs. The purpose of this project was to draw attention to the normative or accepted practices inherent in sport work, some of the day-to-day realities of some coaches working in this context, and to understand how coaches’ perceptions of other stakeholders come to bear on their individual circumstances…
Running the club for love
The current context of State sport governance and funding structures in the United Kingdom continue to challenge national, regional and local bodies and community clubs’ abilities to fulfil ambitions to support participation and competition at all levels. Notwithstanding sport clubs’ laudable intentions to support involvement and encourage participation (often with limited resources, guidance and communication from National Governing Bodies (NGB)…
Analytical attractions and the techno-continuum
The proliferation of sports science and technological innovation within performance settings has precipitated the generation of increasing volumes of data to aid athletes. Copious data production has also perpetuated the privileging of scientific information, and a ‘thirst’ for ‘more data’ as an unproblematic ‘truth’. Of significance is not merely the use of technology for the production of data-for-data's sake, or the utility of data for a great…
Rhetoric and realities of London 2012 Olympic education and participation ‘legacies’
A legacy emphasis was one of the fundamental pillars of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The notion of an Olympic legacy was predicated on assumptions that the event's value would not purely derive from the sporting spectacle, but rather from the ‘success’ of enduring effects met out in London and across the country. For physical education students and practitioners, Olympic legacy agendas translated into persistent pressure to increase inspiration…
Disrupting the rhetoric of the rings
The Beijing olympics prompted educationalists to develop new curriculum resources. These resources focus on the socio-cultural elements of the games, olympism and olympic values, the moral and ethical aspects of sport and select geographical, historical and social dimensions of traditional and contemporary Chinese culture. Typically produced as glossy brochures, such resources helped to disseminate olympic knowledge. However, analyses and evaluat…
Remembering Brazil @Mexico1970
In March 2020 – following the rapid increase of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) cases in the country – several Brazilian sports leagues momentarily ceased to slow the virus spread among the population. Despite the record number of deaths caused by the disease, most of these leagues re-started by mid-July. Brazilian TV channels offered football match reruns as an alternative to fill weekly schedule gaps. Therefore, within a somewhat dystopian context of po…
Conceptualising the notion of the ‘sport worker’ and ‘sport/s work
Sport research has interrogated ways diverse employment landscapes, distinct working conditions, state and organisational recognition of labour and work, contour working lives and workspaces. these explorations notwithstanding, contestation and ambiguities exist over how sport-related labour is termed and framed, and the consequences that follow for sector constituents. these debates form the catalyst for this position paper on the conceptualisat…
Spatialising Sport Management
Sport and geography may be considered allied and complementary disciplines. They share, variously, interests in ideological and physical spaces, political and socio-cultural processes of space- and place-making, historical dis-/continuities, individual and collective identity formation, demography and topographies and representational practices therein. Sports geography modules may, for example, be taught independently within Geography, Sport Man…
Physical activity, sport and transnational migrant spaces in Shanghai, China
This study examines associations between sport/physical activity space, community formation and social life among Shanghai's highly skilled migrant demographic. There is limited illustration of the roles sport and physical exercise provision and spaces play in this migrant cohort's lives, community formation and participation in their host societies. Yet, such evidence is of value in determining social policy, urban development and community enga…
Conceptualising landscapes of learning in the United Kingdom’s volunteer football sector
From grassroots to mega-event level, the sport sector has long-relied on volunteers to function effectively. While the nature of sport volunteering varies, scholars have identified that volunteerism is built around characteristics (e.g. altruism, civic participation, acquisition of social capital, personal and professional development) that draw individuals together and contribute to a sense of community. In providing sites for life-skills traini…
Sporting Identity, Memory, and People with Dementia
We report on a unique project which utilized oral history methodology undertaken with four people with dementia to explore their sense of identity within the context of their sports/physical activity histories. An oral history approach was advantageous in understanding the values individuals ascribed to sport/physical activities within their contemporary identities and daily lives. Findings and conclusions were made possible that would have been …
I Just Go on Wi-Fi
The connection between athletes and technology has developed in recent years, with the focus on how lives are augmented and presented through this relationship. Building on previous reflections concerning the use of information and communication technology (ICT) to support the sometimes fractious experiences of sport migration, we suggest a need to develop our understandings of migrant athletes' use of ICT by interrogating socially-embedded proce…
Running with the ball? Making a play for sport heritage archives in Higher Education contexts
For considerable time, academia (in particular, the Humanities) has been in an intellectual, economic and pragmatic par des deux with the culture and arts sector (in this case, heritage, museums and archives). In many ways, given their respective pursuits of scientific enquiry and learning, valuable contribution to a knowledge economy, commitment to public enlightenment, and exploration of critical and creative endeavour, a relationship between t…
London 2012 (Re)calling
Engendering interest and support among young people was a key strategy for the organisers of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Part of the approach entailed promoting the event as a context and inspirational catalyst to propel young people's proclivities toward, and enduring participation in, sport and physical activity. Although a variety of participatory platforms were entertained, the discipline of physical education remained a favoured space in …
For the Good of the Game? The Legacy of the Football Trust, the Football Pools, and the Dangerous Seduction of Political Promise
During the late twentieth century, the United Kingdom’s football infrastructure and spectatorship underwent transformation as successive stadia disasters heightened political and public scrutiny of the game and prompted industry change. Central to this process was the government’s formation of an independent charitable organization to oversee subsequent policy implementation and grant-aid provision to clubs for safety, crowd, and spectator requir…
Disrupting the rhetoric of the rings
The Beijing olympics prompted educationalists to develop new curriculum resources. These resources focus on the socio-cultural elements of the games, olympism and olympic values, the moral and ethical aspects of sport and select geographical, historical and social dimensions of traditional and contemporary Chinese culture. Typically produced as glossy brochures, such resources helped to disseminate olympic knowledge. However, analyses and evaluat…
Moving from Rigid Repertories to Radical Avant-Garde
The Unexceptional
As if running on air
Reflexivity in the Apologetic Aeon
There has been an emergent trend among governments, and within sports organizations, to engage in public apologies. These politically orchestrated attempts to recall, forgive (and potentially forget) are typically orientated toward smoothing past injustices and advocating reconciliation. Such remembering, reflexivity, and criticality are not typically characteristic of Olympic organizations and/or sport museums. However, New Zealand’s Olympic Com…
The Cambridge Companion to Cricket
Book Review| October 01 2012 The Cambridge Companion to Cricket Bateman, Anthony and Jeffrey Hill, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Cricket. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xv+282. Chrononology, notes, further reading, and index. $29.99 pb, $75.00 hb. Geoffery Z. Kohe Geoffery Z. Kohe Institute of Sport and Exercise Science, University of Worcester Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History…
Celebrating the social in soccer
Sporting spaces draws together distinct social assortments. Football (in various forms), for example, generates specific types of spectators and spectator behaviours.1 1. Bradley, ‘In-groups, Out-groups and Contested Identities in Scottish International Football’; Fletcher, ‘‘‘You Must Support Chiefs; Pirates Already Have Two White Fans!’’: Race and Racial Discourse in South African Football Fandom’; Hughson, ‘A Tale of Two Tribes: Expressive Fan…
The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany
By Kay Schiller and Christopher Young (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010), xii + 348 pp. $24.95/£16.95 paper. In sport history, the 1936 Berlin and 1972 Munich Olympic Games have r
Recent Developments in the Economics of Sport
"Recent Developments in the Economics of Sport: Volumes I and II." The European Legacy, 18(7), pp. 947–948
Rhetoric and realities of London 2012 Olympic education and participation ‘legacies’
A legacy emphasis was one of the fundamental pillars of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The notion of an Olympic legacy was predicated on assumptions that the event's value would not purely derive from the sporting spectacle, but rather from the ‘success’ of enduring effects met out in London and across the country. For physical education students and practitioners, Olympic legacy agendas translated into persistent pressure to increase inspiration…
Still Playing Together(?)
As academic disciplines, Physical Education and Sport History share interests in performance, participation, physique and the politics of corporeal praxis. Engendering unity between the two disciplines, however, has not been without concern. Scholars working within (and across) both fields have highlighted how the potential for shared knowledge production and meaning making has been, to a degree, stymied by epistemological and methodological crit…
For the Good of the Game? The Legacy of the Football Trust, the Football Pools, and the Dangerous Seduction of Political Promise
During the late twentieth century, the United Kingdom’s football infrastructure and spectatorship underwent transformation as successive stadia disasters heightened political and public scrutiny of the game and prompted industry change. Central to this process was the government’s formation of an independent charitable organization to oversee subsequent policy implementation and grant-aid provision to clubs for safety, crowd, and spectator requir…
High Performance Disability Sport Coaching
As the profile of disability sport has risen, so has the emphasis grown beyond participation to include the development of a high performance environment. This book is the first to take an in-depth look at the role of coaches and coaching in facilitating the professionalisation of disability sport, in raising performance standards, and as an important vector for the implementation of significant political, socio-cultural and technological change.…
Diplomatic Games
Book Review| July 01 2016 Diplomatic Games: Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations since 1945 Dichter, Heather L. and Andrew L. Johns, eds. Diplomatic Games: Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations since 1945. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2014. Pp. 488. $40.00 hb. Geoffery Z. Kohe Geoffery Z. Kohe University of Worcester, UK Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2016) 4…
Embodied Nation
Book Review| October 01 2016 Embodied Nation: Sport, Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Laos Creak, Simon. Embodied Nation: Sport, Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Laos. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2015. Pp. 327. Illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, and index. $54.00, hb. Geoffery Z. Kohe Geoffery Z. Kohe University of Worcester Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2016) 43 (3):…
In Protection of Whose 'Wellbeing?' Considerations of 'Clauses and A/Effects' in Athlete Contracts
Contractual agreements have become an accepted part of participation processes for athletes in a variety of sport contexts. Closer readings of these contracts, however, pose several questions regarding organizational intentions and motivations, the conceptualization of athletes as 'workers,' and representation parity. In this article, we draw on four types of athlete contractual documents from both select international 'amateur' and 'professional…
Coaches as sport workers
Increased activity of multiple stakeholders (e.g. agents and owners) have created new challenges for some coaches working in professional sports clubs. The purpose of this project was to draw attention to the normative or accepted practices inherent in sport work, some of the day-to-day realities of some coaches working in this context, and to understand how coaches’ perceptions of other stakeholders come to bear on their individual circumstances…
London 2012 (Re)calling
Engendering interest and support among young people was a key strategy for the organisers of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Part of the approach entailed promoting the event as a context and inspirational catalyst to propel young people's proclivities toward, and enduring participation in, sport and physical activity. Although a variety of participatory platforms were entertained, the discipline of physical education remained a favoured space in …
Marianne Schultz, Performing Indigenous Culture on Stage and Screen
Framing the Paralympic Games
In recent years, there has been an increased emergence of studies focusing on the media coverage of the Paralympic Games. Until recently, studies have predominately used quantitative content analyses that, although providing useful interrogation of observational patterns, limit the understanding of and appreciation for the contexts that may have shaped the production of information. By focusing exclusively on the “what” and on the “how much,” it …
Analytical attractions and the techno-continuum
The proliferation of sports science and technological innovation within performance settings has precipitated the generation of increasing volumes of data to aid athletes. Copious data production has also perpetuated the privileging of scientific information, and a ‘thirst’ for ‘more data’ as an unproblematic ‘truth’. Of significance is not merely the use of technology for the production of data-for-data's sake, or the utility of data for a great…
Running with the ball? Making a play for sport heritage archives in Higher Education contexts
For considerable time, academia (in particular, the Humanities) has been in an intellectual, economic and pragmatic par des deux with the culture and arts sector (in this case, heritage, museums and archives). In many ways, given their respective pursuits of scientific enquiry and learning, valuable contribution to a knowledge economy, commitment to public enlightenment, and exploration of critical and creative endeavour, a relationship between t…
Sport, Education and Corporatisation
Using an interdisciplinary approach, Sport, Education and Corporatisation offers an important critique of the intersection between sport organisations, commercial agendas and educational development. It reveals a discomforting interplay between sector stakeholders that has been normalised via discourses of civic ‘good’, social responsibility and community welfare. The book employs stakeholder theory, corporate social responsibility ideals, and ho…
Sporting Identity, Memory, and People with Dementia
We report on a unique project which utilized oral history methodology undertaken with four people with dementia to explore their sense of identity within the context of their sports/physical activity histories. An oral history approach was advantageous in understanding the values individuals ascribed to sport/physical activities within their contemporary identities and daily lives. Findings and conclusions were made possible that would have been …
Crafting Critical Echoes in Sport Organizations
Sport organizations’ digital spaces (e.g. organizational websites, fanzines, blogs, electronic repositories and social media) are, potentially, rich empirical terrain in which sport narratives may be (re)presented, mobilised and challenged, and content disseminated to wider audiences. Drawing on New Zealand’s participation in the Olympic movement, and the national Olympic Committee’s efforts to embrace historical thinking, we consider the conflue…
Political science (33 works) · Sociology (33 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (31 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (28 works) · Law (19 works) · History (18 works) · Public relations (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Politics (16 works) · History (15 works)