Mark Falcous
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 290940 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mark Falcous |
| NOMBRES | Mark |
| APELLIDO | Falcous |
| FIRMA | FALCOUS M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2317-521X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 173 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Narrating Multiculturalism
This article explores the New Zealand media narrativization of Korean-born New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko. We excavate how Ko is mediated in a way that informs “narratives of nation”—by which journalists can stimulate a nation's self-image. First, we outline debates regarding media constructions of multiculturalist sporting nationalism, and representation of minority Asian athletes. We then contextualize Lydia Ko's emergence and presence as a prolif…
Handbook on Sport and Migration
Cycling tribes
Popular literature (Magnusson Citation2012; Weiss Citation2010; Citation2012; Citation2013) has celebrated varying 'bike tribes' including road cyclists, mountain bikers, BMXers, touring riders, commuters, and urban hipsters on fixed-gear bikes. Such literature identifies how each 'tribe' is differentiated by habits, clothing, aesthetics, and values. With these varying cycling 'tribes' in mind we explore the lived experiences of road cyclists in …
National Mythscapes and Popular New Zealand Rugby Histories
This paper explores Duncan Bell's heuristic of the mythscape as a means to conceptualize the nationalistic narrativization of the sporting past. Bell approaches the forging of national identity through evocations of the past as mythologized: that is, partial, contested, power-laden, and perpetually mutating. First, we introduce Bell's concept as a means to evaluate the selective, contested and shifting construction of the sporting past through th…
Sport and migration in the age of superdiversity
Taking Steven Vertovec's concept of Superdiversity as a starting point, this special issue examines the dynamic interaction of diversity variables in the field of sport and migration issues. The articles published this Speical Issue span from studies on sports labor migration ( sports as migration) to consideration of the role sport plays in the everyday lives of disparate groups of migrants ( sport in migration). Considering the contemporary div…
New Zealand's princess of the pool
Recent research has highlighted the shifting media representation of para-athletes some of whom have been increasingly visible as national sporting figures. Their mediation entangles themes of disability, nationalism, gender and technology. In this light, we explore New Zealand print media narrativisation of the nation's most prolific disability athlete, para swimmer Sophie Pascoe. First, we contextualise Pascoe's emergence as a national sporting…
The Palgrave Handbook of Globalization and Sport
The Poor “Wealth” of Brazilian Football
Worldwide, 1.3 billion people live in Poverty , a socio-economic status that has been identified as a key determinant of a lack of sports participation. Still, numerous athletes around the world have grown up in underprivileged socio-economic conditions. This is the case in Brazil, a country with around 13.5 million impoverished citizens, yet, over decades, many of its best professional footballers have emerged from its favelas. In this article, …
Sport, Nationalism, and the Narration of Cultural Scripts
This paper explores the narrativization of sports icons within the context of nationalist discourse. The authors explore New Zealand media coverage surrounding the death of Colin Meads in August 2017. Meads, a former all Black rugby captain, coach and administrator, media pundit, and corporate spokesman, was a high-profile public icon. His death was met with saturation national media coverage. The authors’ cultural studies informed analysis of Me…
Negotiating the ‘Kiwi Bloke’
The ‘kiwi bloke’ – practical, tough, and unemotional – is a national archetype of masculinity based on a colonial settler history in New Zealand/Aotearoa. Such nationally specific masculinities, however, are always created in relation to international forces. This study reveals the ways men negotiate the ‘kiwi bloke’ identity through their participation in an Afro-Brazilian martial art: capoeira. On one hand, Capoeira in New Zealand/Aotearoa offe…
Hyperpartisan Sports Media in Trump’s America
The rise of Donald Trump has widely been seen as concurrent to the emergence of the “Alt-Right” that coalesces around intersecting themes of conservativism: White ethno-nationalist “race realism,” populism, misogyny, evangelical theocracy, border protectionism, and anti-liberalism. Media has been a key site of struggle in these developments, with attacks on mainstream media bringing into focus wider questions of truth and legitimacy in journalism…
Transformative research and epistemological hierarchies
Amidst recent clarion calls for 'transformative action' within the sociology of sport, in this paper we consider the prospects of the field with respect to challenging social injustices and inequities. We reflect on how the sociology of sport has developed in a manner that now privileges the idiographic over the nomothetic, qualitative over quantitative methods and social constructionism over scientism. Although we acknowledge the strengths of th…
Grappling with judo
Whilst ethnographies have long been used within critical sports studies research for their unrivalled windows into the lived experiences of social contexts, researchers have increasingly acknowledged their own active and performative role within them. Recent literature has emphasised the use of embodied ethnography to gain intimate and critically reflexive insights into how moving bodies are read, understood and engaged within research. In this s…
Why We Ride
Popular media across the Anglosphere has widely feted road cycling as 'the new golf,' implying a shift in the social constituency and cultural significance of the activity. Such suggestions posit cycling as a new 'middle-class' activity and have also spawned the idea of a new market segment: MAMILS (middle-aged men in lycra). Simultaneously, cycling has increasingly been advocated in health promotion and sustainability discourses, and in urban pl…
English National Identity and Football Fan Culture. Who Are Ya
Sporting mythscapes, neoliberal histories, and post-colonial amnesia in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Andrews (1999) has argued that under conditions of market-based liberalization, the sporting past has increasingly been put to use for the purposes of accumulation. This selectively rendered 'sporting historicism,' he argues, results in 'a pseudo-authentic historical sensibility, as opposed to a genuinely historically grounded understanding of the past, or indeed the present by rendering history a vast, yet random, archive of events, styles, and …
History, Sociology and Critical Sport Studies
This chapter discusses emergence, development and influence of the critical streams in sport history and sport sociology. It examines differential development and impact of critical sentiments, themes and theories on sport history and sport sociology. The critical sentiments and perspectives associated with the radical cultural Zeitgeist were yet to surface in either historical or sociological investigations of sport which continued to be framed …
The lived experiences of taibatsu in Japanese high school wrestling
The issue of taibatsu (physical punishment) in Japanese sport has received high-profile media and public attention in recent years. This article addresses the retrospective experiences of taibatsu within Japanese high school wrestling, drawing upon a three-month ethnography that included semi-structured interviews. Our findings revealed wrestling's normative core to be infused by Bushidō (a Japanese feudal warrior ethic) which emphasizes characte…
White is the new black? Football, media and the New Zealand imagination
This paper interrogates the media articulation of football/soccer to New Zealand national consciousness during the 2010 FIFA World Cup. 541 articles from national and regional newspapers and Internet news sites were gathered and analysed using a critically discursive approach. I argue that the press re-framed football within the national sporting imagination in the context of a narcissistic nationalism. Coverage was underpinned by several interlo…
Moorings and Movements
This paper advocates for sport to be a feature of mobilities research. Although hitherto ignored by proponents of the ‘new mobilities paradigm’ (Sheller & Urry, 2006), we contend the sporting realm is a rich site of analysis into the rapidly shifting conditions of movement, communication, identification and governance. Following Clifford (1997), we suggest that scholars consider how sporting movements are differentially constrained, and how those…
Fighting whose corner? Boxing, the sports press and the Australian imagination
This paper interrogates the sports press as a popular cultural site in which the representational politics of the (post)colonial nation are articulated. Drawing upon elements of critical approaches to ‘race’ and ‘whiteness’ we are interested in how the cultural narratives that inform (post)colonial Australian nationhood are articulated and reproduced within the sports press in unique and contingent ways. We take impetus from Turner's identificati…
A social history of English rugby union
A social history of English rugby union Tony Collins, 2009 London, Routledge £19.99 (hbk), 288 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-47660-7 Tony Collins is best known for his detailed and meticulous historical work
Sport and Migration
From Major League Baseball to English soccer’s Premier League, all successful contemporary professional sports leagues include a wide diversity of nationalities and ethnicities within their playing and coaching rosters. The international migration of sporting talent and labor, encouraged and facilitated by the social and economic undercurrents of globalization, mean that world sport is now an important case study for any student or researcher wit…
Olympic Bidding, Multicultural Nationalism, Terror, and the Epistemological Violence of ‘Making Britain Proud’
This paper excavates the entanglement of British nationalist identity politics with sport, terrorism, place re‐imagining, mega‐event bidding, and corporate neoliberalism. We focus on London's 2012 olympic bidding and the coalescence of corporate, state, civic, and sporting interests surrounding the national (re)imaginings that characterised the bid. We open with a critical reading of the bid narratives explicating how selective assertions of Brit…
The Media Sports Cultural Complex
This article explores the interdependence of interest groups operating within the media sports cultural complex in relation to the national sport of rugby union in New Zealand/Aotearoa. Specifically, we scrutinize the corporate 'partnerships' between the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU), Adidas, and News Corporation in relation to issues and debates surrounding the globalization of New Zealand's iconic rugby team, the All Blacks. The article draws …
One Day in September and a Week in February
In an ongoing effort to “police the crisis” (see Denzin, 2004a and b; Denzin & Lincoln, 2003) and critically interrogate the tyrannical (govern)mentality of conservative rhetoric centered on a peculiar or juridical concept of “right” (Baudrillard, 2001; Johnson, 2002; McClaren, 2002) under the agenda of “9/11 America,” this article explores the official moral pedagogies of the sporting media. Through analysis of the media representations of two m…
The Decolonizing National Imaginary
This article explores the representational politics of postcolonial national identity in New Zealand/Aotearoa. Specifically, it interrogates the promotional media surrounding the 2005 British and Irish Lions rugby tour as a site in which narratives of nation were enacted. Symptomatic of the emergence of 'corporate nationalisms' advertising emerged as a space in which a selective 'national imaginary' was constructed. This sought to reconcile the c…
Why We Ride
Popular media across the Anglosphere has widely feted road cycling as 'the new golf,' implying a shift in the social constituency and cultural significance of the activity. Such suggestions posit cycling as a new 'middle-class' activity and have also spawned the idea of a new market segment: MAMILS (middle-aged men in lycra). Simultaneously, cycling has increasingly been advocated in health promotion and sustainability discourses, and in urban pl…
Globetrotters and Local Heroes? Labor Migration, Basketball, and Local Identities
This article addresses the global migration of sports labor. The contested presence of North American players in English basketball, first documented by Maguire (1988), is considered in the context of questions regarding the reception of migrants in local cultures. A 2-year ethnographic project incorporating participant observations, interviews, and focus groups investigated fans' consumption of local basketball. Complex and nuanced interpretatio…
Olympic Bidding, Multicultural Nationalism, Terror, and the Epistemological Violence of ‘Making Britain Proud’
This paper excavates the entanglement of British nationalist identity politics with sport, terrorism, place re‐imagining, mega‐event bidding, and corporate neoliberalism. We focus on London's 2012 olympic bidding and the coalescence of corporate, state, civic, and sporting interests surrounding the national (re)imaginings that characterised the bid. We open with a critical reading of the bid narratives explicating how selective assertions of Brit…
Manufacturing consent
Within the voluminous range of popular and academic commentaries interrogating the cultural politics of ‘post 9/11 America’, observations on the role of the US corporate media in echoing, and indeed amplifying, political doctrines following the non-stateterror attacks of September 11, 2001 are prominent. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, key themes of media discourse included public mobilization through jingoistic icons and ‘war’ rhetoric; the …
The Media Sports Cultural Complex
This article explores the interdependence of interest groups operating within the media sports cultural complex in relation to the national sport of rugby union in New Zealand/Aotearoa. Specifically, we scrutinize the corporate 'partnerships' between the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU), Adidas, and News Corporation in relation to issues and debates surrounding the globalization of New Zealand's iconic rugby team, the All Blacks. The article draws …
Hyperpartisan Sports Media in Trump’s America
The rise of Donald Trump has widely been seen as concurrent to the emergence of the “Alt-Right” that coalesces around intersecting themes of conservativism: White ethno-nationalist “race realism,” populism, misogyny, evangelical theocracy, border protectionism, and anti-liberalism. Media has been a key site of struggle in these developments, with attacks on mainstream media bringing into focus wider questions of truth and legitimacy in journalism…
Global Regimes, Local Agendas
Rearticulating Chen (1992, 1994; see also Silk and Andrews, 2005), this article argues for the need to establish an agenda of 'internationalist localism' to analyse the place of sport within unfolding socio-political agendas of neoliberal globalization. In doing so, it constitutes a response to calls within the academy to register critical, reflective responses to ongoing international crises (Martin and Shohat, 2002; Denzin and Lincoln, 2003). W…
Sport and migration in the age of superdiversity
Taking Steven Vertovec's concept of Superdiversity as a starting point, this special issue examines the dynamic interaction of diversity variables in the field of sport and migration issues. The articles published this Speical Issue span from studies on sports labor migration ( sports as migration) to consideration of the role sport plays in the everyday lives of disparate groups of migrants ( sport in migration). Considering the contemporary div…
Transformative research and epistemological hierarchies
Amidst recent clarion calls for 'transformative action' within the sociology of sport, in this paper we consider the prospects of the field with respect to challenging social injustices and inequities. We reflect on how the sociology of sport has developed in a manner that now privileges the idiographic over the nomothetic, qualitative over quantitative methods and social constructionism over scientism. Although we acknowledge the strengths of th…
Imagining 'America
This article concerns the role of mediated sport in local reconfigurations associated with globalization. The increasing worldwide transmission of sport raises questions regarding the cultural presence of 'global' sports. We combine elements of figurational sociology, cultural studies and critical political economy to examine the production and textual presence of the North American National Basketball Association (NBA) on United Kingdom televisi…
Sporting mythscapes, neoliberal histories, and post-colonial amnesia in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Andrews (1999) has argued that under conditions of market-based liberalization, the sporting past has increasingly been put to use for the purposes of accumulation. This selectively rendered 'sporting historicism,' he argues, results in 'a pseudo-authentic historical sensibility, as opposed to a genuinely historically grounded understanding of the past, or indeed the present by rendering history a vast, yet random, archive of events, styles, and …
Moorings and Movements
This paper advocates for sport to be a feature of mobilities research. Although hitherto ignored by proponents of the ‘new mobilities paradigm’ (Sheller & Urry, 2006), we contend the sporting realm is a rich site of analysis into the rapidly shifting conditions of movement, communication, identification and governance. Following Clifford (1997), we suggest that scholars consider how sporting movements are differentially constrained, and how those…
New Zealand's princess of the pool
Recent research has highlighted the shifting media representation of para-athletes some of whom have been increasingly visible as national sporting figures. Their mediation entangles themes of disability, nationalism, gender and technology. In this light, we explore New Zealand print media narrativisation of the nation's most prolific disability athlete, para swimmer Sophie Pascoe. First, we contextualise Pascoe's emergence as a national sporting…
White is the new black? Football, media and the New Zealand imagination
This paper interrogates the media articulation of football/soccer to New Zealand national consciousness during the 2010 FIFA World Cup. 541 articles from national and regional newspapers and Internet news sites were gathered and analysed using a critically discursive approach. I argue that the press re-framed football within the national sporting imagination in the context of a narcissistic nationalism. Coverage was underpinned by several interlo…
Rugby League in the National Imaginary of New Zealand Aotearoa
The intent of this essay is twofold. First, to reflect on the emergence, development and sociohistorical positioning of rugby league in Aotearoa New Zealand. This is broached by locating the game within the contested presence of particular sporting codes as they relate to constructions of national identity. In doing so it explores the historical development and resonance of the game within the contested sociocultural terrain of New Zealand sport …
Sport, Nationalism and Globalization. European and North American Perspectives
Cycling tribes
Popular literature (Magnusson Citation2012; Weiss Citation2010; Citation2012; Citation2013) has celebrated varying 'bike tribes' including road cyclists, mountain bikers, BMXers, touring riders, commuters, and urban hipsters on fixed-gear bikes. Such literature identifies how each 'tribe' is differentiated by habits, clothing, aesthetics, and values. With these varying cycling 'tribes' in mind we explore the lived experiences of road cyclists in …
Sport, Nationalism, and the Narration of Cultural Scripts
This paper explores the narrativization of sports icons within the context of nationalist discourse. The authors explore New Zealand media coverage surrounding the death of Colin Meads in August 2017. Meads, a former all Black rugby captain, coach and administrator, media pundit, and corporate spokesman, was a high-profile public icon. His death was met with saturation national media coverage. The authors’ cultural studies informed analysis of Me…
Sport, Nationalism and Globalization. European and North American Perspectives
Manufacturing consent
Within the voluminous range of popular and academic commentaries interrogating the cultural politics of ‘post 9/11 America’, observations on the role of the US corporate media in echoing, and indeed amplifying, political doctrines following the non-stateterror attacks of September 11, 2001 are prominent. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, key themes of media discourse included public mobilization through jingoistic icons and ‘war’ rhetoric; the …
One Day in September and a Week in February
In an ongoing effort to “police the crisis” (see Denzin, 2004a and b; Denzin & Lincoln, 2003) and critically interrogate the tyrannical (govern)mentality of conservative rhetoric centered on a peculiar or juridical concept of “right” (Baudrillard, 2001; Johnson, 2002; McClaren, 2002) under the agenda of “9/11 America,” this article explores the official moral pedagogies of the sporting media. Through analysis of the media representations of two m…
Globetrotters and Local Heroes? Labor Migration, Basketball, and Local Identities
This article addresses the global migration of sports labor. The contested presence of North American players in English basketball, first documented by Maguire (1988), is considered in the context of questions regarding the reception of migrants in local cultures. A 2-year ethnographic project incorporating participant observations, interviews, and focus groups investigated fans' consumption of local basketball. Complex and nuanced interpretatio…
Global Regimes, Local Agendas
Rearticulating Chen (1992, 1994; see also Silk and Andrews, 2005), this article argues for the need to establish an agenda of 'internationalist localism' to analyse the place of sport within unfolding socio-political agendas of neoliberal globalization. In doing so, it constitutes a response to calls within the academy to register critical, reflective responses to ongoing international crises (Martin and Shohat, 2002; Denzin and Lincoln, 2003). W…
Imagining 'America
This article concerns the role of mediated sport in local reconfigurations associated with globalization. The increasing worldwide transmission of sport raises questions regarding the cultural presence of 'global' sports. We combine elements of figurational sociology, cultural studies and critical political economy to examine the production and textual presence of the North American National Basketball Association (NBA) on United Kingdom televisi…
Rugby League in the National Imaginary of New Zealand Aotearoa
The intent of this essay is twofold. First, to reflect on the emergence, development and sociohistorical positioning of rugby league in Aotearoa New Zealand. This is broached by locating the game within the contested presence of particular sporting codes as they relate to constructions of national identity. In doing so it explores the historical development and resonance of the game within the contested sociocultural terrain of New Zealand sport …
The Decolonizing National Imaginary
This article explores the representational politics of postcolonial national identity in New Zealand/Aotearoa. Specifically, it interrogates the promotional media surrounding the 2005 British and Irish Lions rugby tour as a site in which narratives of nation were enacted. Symptomatic of the emergence of 'corporate nationalisms' advertising emerged as a space in which a selective 'national imaginary' was constructed. This sought to reconcile the c…
The Media Sports Cultural Complex
This article explores the interdependence of interest groups operating within the media sports cultural complex in relation to the national sport of rugby union in New Zealand/Aotearoa. Specifically, we scrutinize the corporate 'partnerships' between the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU), Adidas, and News Corporation in relation to issues and debates surrounding the globalization of New Zealand's iconic rugby team, the All Blacks. The article draws …
Sport and Migration
From Major League Baseball to English soccer’s Premier League, all successful contemporary professional sports leagues include a wide diversity of nationalities and ethnicities within their playing and coaching rosters. The international migration of sporting talent and labor, encouraged and facilitated by the social and economic undercurrents of globalization, mean that world sport is now an important case study for any student or researcher wit…
Olympic Bidding, Multicultural Nationalism, Terror, and the Epistemological Violence of ‘Making Britain Proud’
This paper excavates the entanglement of British nationalist identity politics with sport, terrorism, place re‐imagining, mega‐event bidding, and corporate neoliberalism. We focus on London's 2012 olympic bidding and the coalescence of corporate, state, civic, and sporting interests surrounding the national (re)imaginings that characterised the bid. We open with a critical reading of the bid narratives explicating how selective assertions of Brit…
Fighting whose corner? Boxing, the sports press and the Australian imagination
This paper interrogates the sports press as a popular cultural site in which the representational politics of the (post)colonial nation are articulated. Drawing upon elements of critical approaches to ‘race’ and ‘whiteness’ we are interested in how the cultural narratives that inform (post)colonial Australian nationhood are articulated and reproduced within the sports press in unique and contingent ways. We take impetus from Turner's identificati…
A social history of English rugby union
A social history of English rugby union Tony Collins, 2009 London, Routledge £19.99 (hbk), 288 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-47660-7 Tony Collins is best known for his detailed and meticulous historical work
Moorings and Movements
This paper advocates for sport to be a feature of mobilities research. Although hitherto ignored by proponents of the ‘new mobilities paradigm’ (Sheller & Urry, 2006), we contend the sporting realm is a rich site of analysis into the rapidly shifting conditions of movement, communication, identification and governance. Following Clifford (1997), we suggest that scholars consider how sporting movements are differentially constrained, and how those…
White is the new black? Football, media and the New Zealand imagination
This paper interrogates the media articulation of football/soccer to New Zealand national consciousness during the 2010 FIFA World Cup. 541 articles from national and regional newspapers and Internet news sites were gathered and analysed using a critically discursive approach. I argue that the press re-framed football within the national sporting imagination in the context of a narcissistic nationalism. Coverage was underpinned by several interlo…
History, Sociology and Critical Sport Studies
This chapter discusses emergence, development and influence of the critical streams in sport history and sport sociology. It examines differential development and impact of critical sentiments, themes and theories on sport history and sport sociology. The critical sentiments and perspectives associated with the radical cultural Zeitgeist were yet to surface in either historical or sociological investigations of sport which continued to be framed …
The lived experiences of taibatsu in Japanese high school wrestling
The issue of taibatsu (physical punishment) in Japanese sport has received high-profile media and public attention in recent years. This article addresses the retrospective experiences of taibatsu within Japanese high school wrestling, drawing upon a three-month ethnography that included semi-structured interviews. Our findings revealed wrestling's normative core to be infused by Bushidō (a Japanese feudal warrior ethic) which emphasizes characte…
English National Identity and Football Fan Culture. Who Are Ya
Sporting mythscapes, neoliberal histories, and post-colonial amnesia in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Andrews (1999) has argued that under conditions of market-based liberalization, the sporting past has increasingly been put to use for the purposes of accumulation. This selectively rendered 'sporting historicism,' he argues, results in 'a pseudo-authentic historical sensibility, as opposed to a genuinely historically grounded understanding of the past, or indeed the present by rendering history a vast, yet random, archive of events, styles, and …
Grappling with judo
Whilst ethnographies have long been used within critical sports studies research for their unrivalled windows into the lived experiences of social contexts, researchers have increasingly acknowledged their own active and performative role within them. Recent literature has emphasised the use of embodied ethnography to gain intimate and critically reflexive insights into how moving bodies are read, understood and engaged within research. In this s…
Why We Ride
Popular media across the Anglosphere has widely feted road cycling as 'the new golf,' implying a shift in the social constituency and cultural significance of the activity. Such suggestions posit cycling as a new 'middle-class' activity and have also spawned the idea of a new market segment: MAMILS (middle-aged men in lycra). Simultaneously, cycling has increasingly been advocated in health promotion and sustainability discourses, and in urban pl…
Hyperpartisan Sports Media in Trump’s America
The rise of Donald Trump has widely been seen as concurrent to the emergence of the “Alt-Right” that coalesces around intersecting themes of conservativism: White ethno-nationalist “race realism,” populism, misogyny, evangelical theocracy, border protectionism, and anti-liberalism. Media has been a key site of struggle in these developments, with attacks on mainstream media bringing into focus wider questions of truth and legitimacy in journalism…
Transformative research and epistemological hierarchies
Amidst recent clarion calls for 'transformative action' within the sociology of sport, in this paper we consider the prospects of the field with respect to challenging social injustices and inequities. We reflect on how the sociology of sport has developed in a manner that now privileges the idiographic over the nomothetic, qualitative over quantitative methods and social constructionism over scientism. Although we acknowledge the strengths of th…
Negotiating the ‘Kiwi Bloke’
The ‘kiwi bloke’ – practical, tough, and unemotional – is a national archetype of masculinity based on a colonial settler history in New Zealand/Aotearoa. Such nationally specific masculinities, however, are always created in relation to international forces. This study reveals the ways men negotiate the ‘kiwi bloke’ identity through their participation in an Afro-Brazilian martial art: capoeira. On one hand, Capoeira in New Zealand/Aotearoa offe…
The Palgrave Handbook of Globalization and Sport
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