Thomas Fletcher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692856 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Fletcher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Fletcher |
| SIGNATURE | FLETCHER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0090-6262 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Forces of epistemic injustice
This study examines the structural, political, and epistemic conditions shaping the production and publication of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) research within events management journals. Drawing on interviews with authors and events journal editors, the findings reveal that EDI scholarship is often constrained, not by a lack of interest, but by misalignment between researchers’ commitments, and the neoliberal academic systems in which …
Racialised terminologies and the Bame problematic
This article problematises the usage of the term 'BAME' (Black Asian and Minority Ethnic) and considers its limitations as a diversity intervention. It draws on sociolinguistics, critical race theories and poststructuralism and is based on interviews with 21 British South Asian people working at senior and executive levels of the professional football industry in England and Scotland. Our analysis delineates formal and informal modes of racialisa…
Let the tournament for the woke begin
Exploring online criticisms of the “take the knee” protest during “Euro 2020”, \nthis article examines how alt- and far-right conspiracies were both \nconstructed and communicated via the social media platform, Twitter. By \nproviding a novel exploration of alt-right conspiracies during an international \nfootball tournament, a qualitative thematic analysis of 1,388 original tweets \nrelating to Euro 2020 was undertaken. The findings reveal how, …
Did Covid-19 hit harder in peripheral areas? The case of Italian municipalities
An unnerving otherness
The transformative potential of using participatory community sport initiatives to promote social cohesion in divided community contexts
Sports are popularly believed to have positive integrative functions and are thought, therefore, to be able to galvanise different, and sometimes divided communities through a shared sporting interest. UK government and policy rhetoric over the last two decades has consistently emphasised the positive role sport can play in building more cohesive, empowered and active communities. These positive impacts are particularly important for communities …
(Just) a walk with the dog? Animal geographies and negotiating walking spaces
In this paper we present findings from interviews conducted with people who walk with dogs. Drawing on new walking studies and animal geographies as our theoretical framework, we adopt the view that walking is more than just walking; it is often a highly sensual and complex activity. We argue that walking with dogs represents a potentially important cultural space for making sense of human-animal relations. We show how the personalities of both d…
Sport, Leisure and Social Justice
Reclaiming the ‘L’ word
Leisure is a major sphere of both private and public life. It is thus of concern that the identity and profile of Leisure Studies in the Higher Education curricula of the United Kingdom have declined in prominence over the past decade. This trend is not peculiar to Leisure Studies; the social sciences as a whole are threatened by a neoliberal economic discourse which increasingly informs Higher Education strategic management. The aim of this arti…
Strangers of the north
As a county, Yorkshire is a ‘cultural region’: an imagined space, where culture is constructed, refined and articulated by a set of discursive relationships between local populations and a whole range of cultural forms. In this context however, culture is conceived as something which belongs to, and is only accessible by, certain groups of people. Our focus in this article is on the culture of Yorkshire cricket. Historically, Yorkshire cricket ha…
Cricket, migration and diasporic communities
Ever since different communities began processes of global migration, sport has been an integral feature in how we conceptualise and experience the notion of being part of a diaspora. Sport provides diasporic communities with a powerful means of creating transnational ties, but also shapes ideas of their ethnic and racial identities. In spite of this, theories of diaspora have been applied sparingly to sporting discourses. Due mainly to its centr…
Negotiating their right to play
The cultural significance of ‘ethnic-specific’ cricket teams and leagues has received limited scholarly attention, despite increasing evidence of their various social functions. This paper aims to contribute to this under-researched area by drawing upon two individual case studies of Pakistani Muslim cricket teams; the first is based in the UK and the second in Norway. In this paper we argue that leisure and sport are key spaces for the delineati…
Sports Events, Society and Culture
"This innovative volume moves beyond existing operational approaches to events studies by exploring sports events as social, cultural, political, and mediatised phenomena. The core themes of consumption, media technologies, representation, identities and culture are discussed to offer new insight into how sports events contribute to generation of individual and shared meaning over personal, community and national identities as well as the issues …
‘Does he look like a Paki?’ an exploration of ‘whiteness’, positionality and reflexivity in inter-racial sports research
This article reflects on fieldwork with white and British Asian cricketers which explored the construction, maintenance and contestation of racialised identities in the sport of cricket. It addresses my experiences of gaining access to and working alongside both communities, particularly as I negotiated insecurities over the suitability of my own identity(ies), the normalisation of ‘whiteness’ and the constant awareness of my insider and outsider…
Cricket, drinking and exclusion of British Pakistani Muslims
Throughout history sports cultures and alcohol have been intimately linked. Being able to drink huge amounts of alcohol is a celebrated male athletic virtue. Ridicule and often exclusion is reserved for those who are unable to conform to this. Ritualized drinking is not, and cannot, be enjoyed by all. British Muslims (the majority of whom are of South Asian descent) for instance, are restricted from drinking alcohol due to the demands of Islam. T…
Bring on the Dancing Horses
Due to historical relationships with the military, royalty, landed gentry and upper-class society, equestrian sport faces regular accusations of being elitist and exclusionary. Through qualitative textual analysis of British press reporting of dressage events at the London 2012 Olympic Games we argue that despite British dominance of the sport, these historical associations with the upper classes, privilege and elitism were foregrounded in many m…
Who do ''they' cheer for?' Cricket, diaspora, hybridity and divided loyalties amongst British Asians
This article explores the relationship between British Asians' sense of nationhood, citizenship, ethnicity and some of their manifestations in relation to sports fandom: specifically in terms of how cricket is used as a means of articulating diasporic British Asian identities. Norman Tebbit's 'cricket test' is at the forefront of this article to tease out the complexities of being British Asian in terms of supporting the English national cricket …
From Love Canal to Environmental Justice
Tracing the history of environmental policy and politics from the seminal moments of 1978 at Love Canal to current disputes, this in-depth study offers a cross-border analysis of the modern environmental movement.
From Love Canal to Environmental Justice
Neighborhood change at Love Canal
The Global Commons
(Just) a walk with the dog? Animal geographies and negotiating walking spaces
In this paper we present findings from interviews conducted with people who walk with dogs. Drawing on new walking studies and animal geographies as our theoretical framework, we adopt the view that walking is more than just walking; it is often a highly sensual and complex activity. We argue that walking with dogs represents a potentially important cultural space for making sense of human-animal relations. We show how the personalities of both d…
Who do ''they' cheer for?' Cricket, diaspora, hybridity and divided loyalties amongst British Asians
This article explores the relationship between British Asians' sense of nationhood, citizenship, ethnicity and some of their manifestations in relation to sports fandom: specifically in terms of how cricket is used as a means of articulating diasporic British Asian identities. Norman Tebbit's 'cricket test' is at the forefront of this article to tease out the complexities of being British Asian in terms of supporting the English national cricket …
Cricket, drinking and exclusion of British Pakistani Muslims
Throughout history sports cultures and alcohol have been intimately linked. Being able to drink huge amounts of alcohol is a celebrated male athletic virtue. Ridicule and often exclusion is reserved for those who are unable to conform to this. Ritualized drinking is not, and cannot, be enjoyed by all. British Muslims (the majority of whom are of South Asian descent) for instance, are restricted from drinking alcohol due to the demands of Islam. T…
The transformative potential of using participatory community sport initiatives to promote social cohesion in divided community contexts
Sports are popularly believed to have positive integrative functions and are thought, therefore, to be able to galvanise different, and sometimes divided communities through a shared sporting interest. UK government and policy rhetoric over the last two decades has consistently emphasised the positive role sport can play in building more cohesive, empowered and active communities. These positive impacts are particularly important for communities …
Bring on the Dancing Horses
Due to historical relationships with the military, royalty, landed gentry and upper-class society, equestrian sport faces regular accusations of being elitist and exclusionary. Through qualitative textual analysis of British press reporting of dressage events at the London 2012 Olympic Games we argue that despite British dominance of the sport, these historical associations with the upper classes, privilege and elitism were foregrounded in many m…
Let the tournament for the woke begin
Exploring online criticisms of the “take the knee” protest during “Euro 2020”, \nthis article examines how alt- and far-right conspiracies were both \nconstructed and communicated via the social media platform, Twitter. By \nproviding a novel exploration of alt-right conspiracies during an international \nfootball tournament, a qualitative thematic analysis of 1,388 original tweets \nrelating to Euro 2020 was undertaken. The findings reveal how, …
Reclaiming the ‘L’ word
Leisure is a major sphere of both private and public life. It is thus of concern that the identity and profile of Leisure Studies in the Higher Education curricula of the United Kingdom have declined in prominence over the past decade. This trend is not peculiar to Leisure Studies; the social sciences as a whole are threatened by a neoliberal economic discourse which increasingly informs Higher Education strategic management. The aim of this arti…
Racialised terminologies and the Bame problematic
This article problematises the usage of the term 'BAME' (Black Asian and Minority Ethnic) and considers its limitations as a diversity intervention. It draws on sociolinguistics, critical race theories and poststructuralism and is based on interviews with 21 British South Asian people working at senior and executive levels of the professional football industry in England and Scotland. Our analysis delineates formal and informal modes of racialisa…
Neighborhood change at Love Canal
An unnerving otherness
The Global Commons
Neighborhood change at Love Canal
From Love Canal to Environmental Justice
Tracing the history of environmental policy and politics from the seminal moments of 1978 at Love Canal to current disputes, this in-depth study offers a cross-border analysis of the modern environmental movement.
From Love Canal to Environmental Justice
Who do ''they' cheer for?' Cricket, diaspora, hybridity and divided loyalties amongst British Asians
This article explores the relationship between British Asians' sense of nationhood, citizenship, ethnicity and some of their manifestations in relation to sports fandom: specifically in terms of how cricket is used as a means of articulating diasporic British Asian identities. Norman Tebbit's 'cricket test' is at the forefront of this article to tease out the complexities of being British Asian in terms of supporting the English national cricket …
Bring on the Dancing Horses
Due to historical relationships with the military, royalty, landed gentry and upper-class society, equestrian sport faces regular accusations of being elitist and exclusionary. Through qualitative textual analysis of British press reporting of dressage events at the London 2012 Olympic Games we argue that despite British dominance of the sport, these historical associations with the upper classes, privilege and elitism were foregrounded in many m…
Sports Events, Society and Culture
"This innovative volume moves beyond existing operational approaches to events studies by exploring sports events as social, cultural, political, and mediatised phenomena. The core themes of consumption, media technologies, representation, identities and culture are discussed to offer new insight into how sports events contribute to generation of individual and shared meaning over personal, community and national identities as well as the issues …
‘Does he look like a Paki?’ an exploration of ‘whiteness’, positionality and reflexivity in inter-racial sports research
This article reflects on fieldwork with white and British Asian cricketers which explored the construction, maintenance and contestation of racialised identities in the sport of cricket. It addresses my experiences of gaining access to and working alongside both communities, particularly as I negotiated insecurities over the suitability of my own identity(ies), the normalisation of ‘whiteness’ and the constant awareness of my insider and outsider…
Cricket, drinking and exclusion of British Pakistani Muslims
Throughout history sports cultures and alcohol have been intimately linked. Being able to drink huge amounts of alcohol is a celebrated male athletic virtue. Ridicule and often exclusion is reserved for those who are unable to conform to this. Ritualized drinking is not, and cannot, be enjoyed by all. British Muslims (the majority of whom are of South Asian descent) for instance, are restricted from drinking alcohol due to the demands of Islam. T…
Cricket, migration and diasporic communities
Ever since different communities began processes of global migration, sport has been an integral feature in how we conceptualise and experience the notion of being part of a diaspora. Sport provides diasporic communities with a powerful means of creating transnational ties, but also shapes ideas of their ethnic and racial identities. In spite of this, theories of diaspora have been applied sparingly to sporting discourses. Due mainly to its centr…
Negotiating their right to play
The cultural significance of ‘ethnic-specific’ cricket teams and leagues has received limited scholarly attention, despite increasing evidence of their various social functions. This paper aims to contribute to this under-researched area by drawing upon two individual case studies of Pakistani Muslim cricket teams; the first is based in the UK and the second in Norway. In this paper we argue that leisure and sport are key spaces for the delineati…
Strangers of the north
As a county, Yorkshire is a ‘cultural region’: an imagined space, where culture is constructed, refined and articulated by a set of discursive relationships between local populations and a whole range of cultural forms. In this context however, culture is conceived as something which belongs to, and is only accessible by, certain groups of people. Our focus in this article is on the culture of Yorkshire cricket. Historically, Yorkshire cricket ha…
Sport, Leisure and Social Justice
Reclaiming the ‘L’ word
Leisure is a major sphere of both private and public life. It is thus of concern that the identity and profile of Leisure Studies in the Higher Education curricula of the United Kingdom have declined in prominence over the past decade. This trend is not peculiar to Leisure Studies; the social sciences as a whole are threatened by a neoliberal economic discourse which increasingly informs Higher Education strategic management. The aim of this arti…
(Just) a walk with the dog? Animal geographies and negotiating walking spaces
In this paper we present findings from interviews conducted with people who walk with dogs. Drawing on new walking studies and animal geographies as our theoretical framework, we adopt the view that walking is more than just walking; it is often a highly sensual and complex activity. We argue that walking with dogs represents a potentially important cultural space for making sense of human-animal relations. We show how the personalities of both d…
The transformative potential of using participatory community sport initiatives to promote social cohesion in divided community contexts
Sports are popularly believed to have positive integrative functions and are thought, therefore, to be able to galvanise different, and sometimes divided communities through a shared sporting interest. UK government and policy rhetoric over the last two decades has consistently emphasised the positive role sport can play in building more cohesive, empowered and active communities. These positive impacts are particularly important for communities …
Did Covid-19 hit harder in peripheral areas? The case of Italian municipalities
An unnerving otherness
Let the tournament for the woke begin
Exploring online criticisms of the “take the knee” protest during “Euro 2020”, \nthis article examines how alt- and far-right conspiracies were both \nconstructed and communicated via the social media platform, Twitter. By \nproviding a novel exploration of alt-right conspiracies during an international \nfootball tournament, a qualitative thematic analysis of 1,388 original tweets \nrelating to Euro 2020 was undertaken. The findings reveal how, …
Racialised terminologies and the Bame problematic
This article problematises the usage of the term 'BAME' (Black Asian and Minority Ethnic) and considers its limitations as a diversity intervention. It draws on sociolinguistics, critical race theories and poststructuralism and is based on interviews with 21 British South Asian people working at senior and executive levels of the professional football industry in England and Scotland. Our analysis delineates formal and informal modes of racialisa…
Forces of epistemic injustice
This study examines the structural, political, and epistemic conditions shaping the production and publication of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) research within events management journals. Drawing on interviews with authors and events journal editors, the findings reveal that EDI scholarship is often constrained, not by a lack of interest, but by misalignment between researchers’ commitments, and the neoliberal academic systems in which …
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (12 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Cricket (5 works)