John Sugden
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 271374 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John Sugden |
| NOMBRES | John |
| APELLIDO | Sugden |
| FIRMA | SUGDEN J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Brighton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0882-4042 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 268 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Top-down and bottom-up authenticity
The need and desire for authenticity has become a central feature of modern life as people and cultures look to access ‘realness’ across a world in which much has become increasingly commodified, virtual and/or un-real. The field of professional sport is indicative of this trend. Specifically, the marketization of the English Premier League (EPL) and adjunct fan culture edifies both the use and exploitation of authenticity in the pursuit of finan…
Dilemmas in embodied methods
Our bodily experience is a recognised conduit to understanding our social world and those who dwell within it. Concurrently, embodied research emerged as a legitimate and thought-provoking methodological approach that goes further to access depth in understanding than more distanced approaches. Yet such methods imply a closeness with the participants and context that raises some philosophical and ethical dilemmas. This paper aims to engage with t…
Fight the biopower! Mixed martial arts as resistance
Globally, mixed martial arts has seen a staggering level of growth in participation and fandom over the past 20 years. This paper presents the results from an immersive participant ethnography of an urban mixed martial arts gym in England's North West and the experience of some of its members. Emergent is that the practices of mixed martial arts can be viewed as acts of resistance against neoliberal norms and expectations that permeate the divers…
Jiu-Jitsu and Society
The growth in mixed martial arts (MMA) gyms worldwide, along with adjunct media discourse has been matched by the number of participants, characterized by the dedication and sacrifice imbued. These factors catalyzed this research which sought initially to understand the motivations of MMA gym members and the role that the training plays in their lives. Through an immersive participant ethnography lasting 3 years, the author trained, socialized, f…
Indo-Fijian women and sportive activity
There are no reliable statistics about female participation in Fijian sport, yet it is well known by locals (though not widely understood) that engagement in sportive activities is rare among Indo-Fijian girls and women. This paper is the first attempt to explore how and why that is so. That said, there is an important caveat: we are not insisting that sportive activities are an inherent good. Indeed, for some cultural groups, Western-invented co…
Exploring Sport and Intergroup Relations in Fiji
There is a key tension associated with ethnographic explorations into the lives of people in the Global South - 'outsider' researchers from the Global North who lack experience of the environments they are seeking to understand. A considered response, therefore, is for scholars to seek physical immersion in a field-to live among those they are trying to understand. Such ethnographic inquiries are optimal when researchers have the capacity to enga…
Sport and Peace-Building in Divided Societies
Sport is a cultural institution that stands at the interface between political and civil society. In divided communities, sport has been an agent of separation, sectarian hatred and violence, but also a highly effective tool for conflict resolution, reconciliation and peace-building. In this important study, John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson draw on their extensive international experience of working with divided communities to develop a methodologi…
Football, Corruption and Lies
World football is in crisis. The corruption scandal engulfing FIFA is arguably the biggest story in the history of modern sport and a watershed for sport governance. More than a decade ago, John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson laid the foundations for subsequent investigations with the publication of Badfellas, a groundbreaking work of critical sport sociology that exposed the systematic corruption at the heart of world football. It was a book that FIF…
Sport and Peace-Building in Divided Societies
You Should See Me on the Inside”
Variable, and therefore miserable condition of man! This minute I was well, and am ill, this minute. ... We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats, and drink, and air, and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and a regular work: but in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all: a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curios…
Assessing the sociology of sport
On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, former IRSS Editor John Sugden, one of the foremost scholars to advance a critical sociology of sport and to apply its tenets to Sport for Development (SDP) programmes, reflects on a key question about how the sociology of sport has and can inform social and political activism that engages sport. Noting a 'new orthodoxy that dominates the SDP sector', there is a pressing need for a more critical socio…
Power Games
Critical and radical perspectives have been central to the emergence of the sociology of sport as a discipline in its own right. This ground-breaking new book is the first to offer a comprehensive theory and method for a critical sociology of sport. It argues that class, political economy, hegemony and other concepts central to the radical tradition are essential for framing, understanding and changing social and political relations within sport …
Watching the Olympics
Global sporting events involve the creation, management and mediation of cultural meanings for consumption by massive media audiences. The apotheosis of this cultural form is the Olympic Games. This challenging and provocative new book explores the Olympic spectacle, from the multi-media bidding process and the branding and imaging of the Games to security, surveillance and control of the Olympic product across all of its levels. The book argues …
The USA and Sporting Diplomacy
When Beijing hosted the Olympic Games in 2008 we were reminded that almost four decades earlier the People's Republic of China's road back to international recognition and acceptance had begun with a chance sporting encounter between two members of the US and Chinese table tennis teams in Japan in 1971. It is less well known that not long after this successful 'ping pong' diplomatic episode, attempts were made by various parties to use baseball i…
Watched by the Games
Every four years the Summer Olympic Games fires the imagination of the largest and most diverse sport spectatorship and entices them in their hundreds of thousands to some of the First World's most iconic and crowded cities. In addition, the ideological symbolism associated with the Olympic Games is rooted in Western, liberal democratic values and traditions. For those who do not share these ideals the Olympics represent something to stand agains…
Sport for Development and Peace in Divided Societies
The idea of using sport for social, cultural and community development has been promoted for decades; however, only limited empirical research can be found that analyses the strategic potential of sport projects in contributing to conflict resolution, reconciliation and peace building in deeply divided societies. This study concentrates upon the experiences of a number of Football for Peace (F4P) projects operating in Israel in 2009. It identifie…
Critical left-realism and sport interventions in divided societies
What, if any, is the value of sport to processes of peace and reconciliation? After introducing the largely rhetorical arguments for and against the value of using sport as a vehicle to promote peace building in divided societies, this article makes a more detailed and forensic examination of the evidence based on: the role played by sport in South Africa before and after apartheid; and second, drawing upon the author's own experiences garnered o…
Anyone for Football for Peace? The challenges of using sport in the service of co‐existence in Israel 1
Football for Peace (F4P) is a joint University of Brighton and British Council initiative that aims to use values‐based football coaching to build bridges between neighbouring Jewish and Arab towns and villages in Israel, and in doing so make a modest contribution to the Peace Process in this most troubled of regions. The work of F4P seeks to make pragmatic and incremental grass‐roots interventions into the sport culture of Israel, helping to bui…
Stories From Planet Football and Sportsworld
The profile of sport journalism has increased as the scale and media profile of large-scale international sporting events have escalated. This article considers the ways in which sport journalists have responded to such changes. It concentrates upon the nature of sport journalists’ relationships with their sources; their relationship with gatekeepers; and the issue of collusion, between journalists themselves and journalists and their subjects an…
Running Havana
Sport tourism is a booming global business that has different costs and benefits for distinctive societies depending upon both global and local socio‐cultural, political and economic factors. With more than 130 officially sanctioned events worldwide, marathon running has developed to become a key feature of the international sport tourism calendar. This paper provides an ethnographic account of the 2005 Marabana – the Havana Marathon. After consi…
Inside the Grafters' Game
As the official football (soccer) economy has rapidly and globally grown to become one of sports' richest commercial engines, so too has its unofficial, or black, economy expanded. This article provides an insider account of some of the key features of football's black market, with a particular emphasis on ticket touting (scalping), fakery, forgery, and the murky independent travel business. In doing so, it provides a window into the deviant occu…
Teaching and Playing Sport for Conflict Resolution and Co-Existence in Israel
Football for Peace (F4P) is a sport-based co-existence project, for Jewish and Arab children, organized by the University of Brighton in partnership with the British Council, which has been running in towns and villages of the Galilee region of northern Israel since 2001. This article examines this initiative, first, by placing it in its broader socio-economic and political context; and, second, by tracing its specific history and development. Th…
Blue Jacket
The World at their Feet
The global migration of footballers to and within the top professional leagues in Europe has greatly accelerated in the last decade. Commercial interests in this 'football business' have also grown prodigiously and the English leagues, especially the Premier League, have experienced an associated and pronounced increase in foreign player migration. The Premier League, supported by intensive commercial investment, has placed England on the career …
Football for peace?
This volume looks at how sport - and football in particular - can be used to cross cultural, personal, and religious boundaries to provide an atmosphere of co-existence.
The World at their Feet
The global migration of footballers to and within the top professional leagues in Europe has greatly accelerated in the last decade. Commercial interests in this 'football business' have also grown prodigiously and the English leagues, especially the Premier League, have experienced an associated and pronounced increase in foreign player migration. The Premier League, supported by intensive commercial investment, has placed England on the career …
Critical left-realism and sport interventions in divided societies
What, if any, is the value of sport to processes of peace and reconciliation? After introducing the largely rhetorical arguments for and against the value of using sport as a vehicle to promote peace building in divided societies, this article makes a more detailed and forensic examination of the evidence based on: the role played by sport in South Africa before and after apartheid; and second, drawing upon the author's own experiences garnered o…
Teaching and Playing Sport for Conflict Resolution and Co-Existence in Israel
Football for Peace (F4P) is a sport-based co-existence project, for Jewish and Arab children, organized by the University of Brighton in partnership with the British Council, which has been running in towns and villages of the Galilee region of northern Israel since 2001. This article examines this initiative, first, by placing it in its broader socio-economic and political context; and, second, by tracing its specific history and development. Th…
Sport for Development and Peace in Divided Societies
The idea of using sport for social, cultural and community development has been promoted for decades; however, only limited empirical research can be found that analyses the strategic potential of sport projects in contributing to conflict resolution, reconciliation and peace building in deeply divided societies. This study concentrates upon the experiences of a number of Football for Peace (F4P) projects operating in Israel in 2009. It identifie…
Power and Resistance in the Governance of World Football
FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) has been the governing body of world football since 1904. It has grown from a small European-based organization into a body with a membership of almost 200 nations. In this article, we trace this growth and locate the place of FIFA within a world order of transnational organizations and worldwide cultural politics. Drawing on previously unpublished material, face-to-face observation of the …
Belfast United
Northern Ireland is a society which has a long history of community division. It is often claimed that sport has the capacity to serve as a medium for reconciliation between rival factions. Evidence suggests to the contrary that, in its native cultural setting, sport can reflect and even exaggerate existing divisions and this tends to be the case in Northern Ireland. Belfast United is a sport based community relations programme which carefully an…
Digging the Dirt and Staying Clean
This article draws upon the authors' work on the global politics of world football and related studies of other sports and methodological issues, in order to argue for the retrieval of the investigative mode of sociological inquiry. In the context of a general critical interpretative framework, the gonzo style of Hunter S. Thompson and the investigative epistemology of Jack Douglas are evaluated and synthesized in a framework that challenges the …
Sport and Juvenile Delinquency
This paper offers a critical re-examination of the prevalent notion of sport as a panacea for juvenile delinquency. By examining the structural and phenomenological set ting of delinquency, the authors suggest that since most conventional sports are institu tional replicas of mainstream society, they are of little value as alternative systems to the delinquent subculture. On the other hand less conventional sport forms falling under the broad rub…
Anyone for Football for Peace? The challenges of using sport in the service of co‐existence in Israel 1
Football for Peace (F4P) is a joint University of Brighton and British Council initiative that aims to use values‐based football coaching to build bridges between neighbouring Jewish and Arab towns and villages in Israel, and in doing so make a modest contribution to the Peace Process in this most troubled of regions. The work of F4P seeks to make pragmatic and incremental grass‐roots interventions into the sport culture of Israel, helping to bui…
Northern Ireland
The public provision of leisure services and the impact which this has on the community has become a political issue. Nowhere is this more the case than in Northern Ireland where economic and social problems, together with the Troubles, led to a massive increase in central government's sponsorship of public leisure provision in the 1970s. This was a political gesture made more political in the manner through which district councils and local gove…
Watched by the Games
Every four years the Summer Olympic Games fires the imagination of the largest and most diverse sport spectatorship and entices them in their hundreds of thousands to some of the First World's most iconic and crowded cities. In addition, the ideological symbolism associated with the Olympic Games is rooted in Western, liberal democratic values and traditions. For those who do not share these ideals the Olympics represent something to stand agains…
Winning through ‘Naturally’ Still? An Analysis of the Perceptions Held by Physical Education Teachers towards the Performance of Black Pupils in School Sport and in the Classroom
The fact that many of the world's top athletes are black has led many people to believe that racial biology is a key determinant of sporting ability. This belief is rooted in genetic theories of racial difference which not only purport to explain black physical superiority in comparison with whites, but also to account for their relative lack of intellectual achievement. We show that there is no scientific evidence to prove such theories of racia…
Global power struggles in world football
Fight the biopower! Mixed martial arts as resistance
Globally, mixed martial arts has seen a staggering level of growth in participation and fandom over the past 20 years. This paper presents the results from an immersive participant ethnography of an urban mixed martial arts gym in England's North West and the experience of some of its members. Emergent is that the practices of mixed martial arts can be viewed as acts of resistance against neoliberal norms and expectations that permeate the divers…
Stories From Planet Football and Sportsworld
The profile of sport journalism has increased as the scale and media profile of large-scale international sporting events have escalated. This article considers the ways in which sport journalists have responded to such changes. It concentrates upon the nature of sport journalists’ relationships with their sources; their relationship with gatekeepers; and the issue of collusion, between journalists themselves and journalists and their subjects an…
Running Havana
Sport tourism is a booming global business that has different costs and benefits for distinctive societies depending upon both global and local socio‐cultural, political and economic factors. With more than 130 officially sanctioned events worldwide, marathon running has developed to become a key feature of the international sport tourism calendar. This paper provides an ethnographic account of the 2005 Marabana – the Havana Marathon. After consi…
Ma, There’s a Helicopter on the Pitch!” Sport, Leisure, and the State in Northern Ireland
The political crisis in Northern Ireland has been met with a wide range of responses from the British state. Apart from a manifest increase in its coercive powers, in an attempt to maintain hegemonic supremacy there have been state sponsored initiatives directed toward penetrating and influencing various aspects of the Province’s popular culture. Because of the close relationship between sport, leisure, and the separate cultural traditions that u…
The Exploitation of Disadvantage
Jiu-Jitsu and Society
The growth in mixed martial arts (MMA) gyms worldwide, along with adjunct media discourse has been matched by the number of participants, characterized by the dedication and sacrifice imbued. These factors catalyzed this research which sought initially to understand the motivations of MMA gym members and the role that the training plays in their lives. Through an immersive participant ethnography lasting 3 years, the author trained, socialized, f…
The Indians' New World
Exploring Sport and Intergroup Relations in Fiji
There is a key tension associated with ethnographic explorations into the lives of people in the Global South - 'outsider' researchers from the Global North who lack experience of the environments they are seeking to understand. A considered response, therefore, is for scholars to seek physical immersion in a field-to live among those they are trying to understand. Such ethnographic inquiries are optimal when researchers have the capacity to enga…
Assessing the sociology of sport
On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, former IRSS Editor John Sugden, one of the foremost scholars to advance a critical sociology of sport and to apply its tenets to Sport for Development (SDP) programmes, reflects on a key question about how the sociology of sport has and can inform social and political activism that engages sport. Noting a 'new orthodoxy that dominates the SDP sector', there is a pressing need for a more critical socio…
Inside the Grafters' Game
As the official football (soccer) economy has rapidly and globally grown to become one of sports' richest commercial engines, so too has its unofficial, or black, economy expanded. This article provides an insider account of some of the key features of football's black market, with a particular emphasis on ticket touting (scalping), fakery, forgery, and the murky independent travel business. In doing so, it provides a window into the deviant occu…
What’s Left When the Circus Leaves Town? an Evaluation of World Cup Usa 1994
This article reviews the impact of the 1994 World Cup (Soccer) Finals upon contemporary US sports culture. The authors draw upon historical and sociological scholarship on North American sports culture, participant observation data generated by them during the World Cup itself, and empirical sources on the context and impact of the World Cup’s development and implementation. These sources are used within an analytical framework derived from criti…
From the Land of Shadows
Sport and Juvenile Delinquency
This paper offers a critical re-examination of the prevalent notion of sport as a panacea for juvenile delinquency. By examining the structural and phenomenological set ting of delinquency, the authors suggest that since most conventional sports are institu tional replicas of mainstream society, they are of little value as alternative systems to the delinquent subculture. On the other hand less conventional sport forms falling under the broad rub…
The Exploitation of Disadvantage
President Washington's Indian War
Northern Ireland
The public provision of leisure services and the impact which this has on the community has become a political issue. Nowhere is this more the case than in Northern Ireland where economic and social problems, together with the Troubles, led to a massive increase in central government's sponsorship of public leisure provision in the 1970s. This was a political gesture made more political in the manner through which district councils and local gove…
Tecumseh's Last Stand
Journal Article Tecumsehs Last Stand. By John Sugden. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. xiii + 298 pp. $19.95.) Get access Reginald Horsman Reginald Horsman University of WisconsinMilwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 2, September 1986, Page 458, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908251 Published: 01 September 1986
Tecumseh's Last Stand
Journal Article Tecumseh's Last Stand Get access Tecumseh's Last Stand. By Sugden John. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. xiii + 298 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $19.95.) Dwight L. Smith Dwight L. Smith Miami University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 17, Issue 4, October 1986, Pages 474–475, https://doi.org/10.2307/969038 Published: 0…
Tecumseh's Last Stand
Early Pan-Indianism; Tecumseh's Tour of the Indian Country, 1811-1812
The Indians' New World
From the Land of Shadows
God Gave Us This Country
Belfast United
Northern Ireland is a society which has a long history of community division. It is often claimed that sport has the capacity to serve as a medium for reconciliation between rival factions. Evidence suggests to the contrary that, in its native cultural setting, sport can reflect and even exaggerate existing divisions and this tends to be the case in Northern Ireland. Belfast United is a sport based community relations programme which carefully an…
Ma, There’s a Helicopter on the Pitch!” Sport, Leisure, and the State in Northern Ireland
The political crisis in Northern Ireland has been met with a wide range of responses from the British state. Apart from a manifest increase in its coercive powers, in an attempt to maintain hegemonic supremacy there have been state sponsored initiatives directed toward penetrating and influencing various aspects of the Province’s popular culture. Because of the close relationship between sport, leisure, and the separate cultural traditions that u…
Leisure in the 1990s
Sport, Community Relations and Community Conflict in Northern Ireland
For 25 years Northern Ireland has endured civil disobedience, terrorism, counter-terrorism and sectarian violence. Throughout this period, while politicians have sought in vain to discover ways through which a political settlement might be achieved, others, working at street level, have attempted to develop channels of communication between the province’s divided communities. In recognition of the role which they will play in the future of Northe…
What’s Left When the Circus Leaves Town? an Evaluation of World Cup Usa 1994
This article reviews the impact of the 1994 World Cup (Soccer) Finals upon contemporary US sports culture. The authors draw upon historical and sociological scholarship on North American sports culture, participant observation data generated by them during the World Cup itself, and empirical sources on the context and impact of the World Cup’s development and implementation. These sources are used within an analytical framework derived from criti…
Global power struggles in world football
Tecumseh
Boxing and Society
Power and Resistance in the Governance of World Football
FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) has been the governing body of world football since 1904. It has grown from a small European-based organization into a body with a membership of almost 200 nations. In this article, we trace this growth and locate the place of FIFA within a world order of transnational organizations and worldwide cultural politics. Drawing on previously unpublished material, face-to-face observation of the …
Winning through ‘Naturally’ Still? An Analysis of the Perceptions Held by Physical Education Teachers towards the Performance of Black Pupils in School Sport and in the Classroom
The fact that many of the world's top athletes are black has led many people to believe that racial biology is a key determinant of sporting ability. This belief is rooted in genetic theories of racial difference which not only purport to explain black physical superiority in comparison with whites, but also to account for their relative lack of intellectual achievement. We show that there is no scientific evidence to prove such theories of racia…
Tecumseh
Tecumseh
Journal Article Tecumseh: A Life. By John Sugden. (New York: Holt, 1997. xii, 492 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8050-4138-9.) Get access Susan Sleeper-Smith Susan Sleeper-Smith Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1582–1583, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568305 Published: 01 March 1999
Tecumseh
Tecumseh
Journal Article Tecumseh: A Life Get access Tecumseh: A Life. By Sugden John. (New York: Henry Holt, 1997. xi + 492 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.) Herman J. Viola Herman J. Viola Smithsonian Institution Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue 3, Autumn 1999, Pages 394–395, https://doi.org/10.2307/971404 Published: 01 August 199…
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