Andrew Parker
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3591023 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Andrew Parker |
| NOMBRES | Andrew |
| APELLIDO | Parker |
| FIRMA | PARKER A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Gloucestershire |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6842-3067 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 96 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 288 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 88 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 8 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
False categorical memories
Encoding lists of categorised words produces robust false memory for non-presented exemplars but few false memories for category labels. The present research examined the conditions under which categorical false memories can be elicited by variations in list composition in which a subset of category labels was presented for half of the lists. In Experiment 1, participants encoded lists of exemplars with or without the presence of category labels …
Placing community at the heart of community sport development
It is widely accepted that the primary purpose of community sport development (CSD) is to increase participation rates in sport and build capacity to facilitate sporting opportunities. However, in England, Government funding for community sport has often been legitimised on the basis that it can also address a range of broader policy concerns. Despite this, there remains a lack of clarity regarding the precise boundaries of CSD, which has led to …
Regulation and the trickle-down effect of women in leadership roles
We use an event study design to provide evidence demonstrating how the trickle-down effect is influenced by the introduction of regulation on board gender diversity. In 2011, a new regulation was suddenly introduced for firms listed on the United Kingdom’s FTSE 350 index, the regulatory intervention put forward recommendations to increase the representation of women on the boards of FTSE 350 listed firms – the most critical recommendation was a v…
Sport, criminal justice interventions and possible future selves
There is growing evidence surrounding the instrumental role of sport and physical activity as a tool to address issues within criminal justice systems and act as a mechanism to engage, educate and develop individuals both in community and correctional settings. This article outlines how sport-based interventions might serve to support the individual aspirations and imagined ‘future selves’ of their participants. Utilising the seminal work of Mark…
Understanding Workplace Relationships
This book examines the outcomes of workplace relationships, such as individual performance and how social network relationships affect attitudes.
Effects of saccadic eye movements on episodic & semantic memory fluency in older and younger participants
Research has demonstrated that performing a sequence of saccadic horizontal eye movements prior to retrieval facilitates performance on tests of episodic memory. This has been observed in both laboratory tasks of retention and autobiographical memory. To date, the work has centred on performance in younger individuals. This paper extends previous investigations by examining the effects of saccadic eye movements in older persons. Autobiographical …
Understanding Workplace Relationships
Youth, Sport, and Faith
It is widely accepted that the transition from youth to adulthood in western industrialized societies brings with it a series of tensions and dilemmas in terms of identity formation. One of the areas where such formational issues often manifest themselves is through the faith journeys of young people. This paper presents empirical evidence from a small-scale qualitative study of one faith-sport initiative-Run the Race Well-a US-based venture whic…
Christianity, Identity, and Professional Football
Empirical research on the lives of Christian elite athletes has focused primarily on their appropriation of faith-based behaviours and practices, and the ways in which their value and belief systems impact their performance. While these accounts provide useful insight into personal experience and practical application, they are largely devoid of theological underpinnings. Drawing on the findings of a small-scale qualitative study of the faith jou…
Challenging the Integration of Youth, Faith, and Sports
The sport/faith interface has long been a site of contention for religious youth who routinely experience two significant obstacles to living out their faith amidst the complexities of sporting locales. The first is a general problem that pertains to the character of adolescent spirituality and is typified by a subscription to a compromised, diluted religious belief system known as Moralistic Therapeutic Deism (MTD). The second concerns the way i…
Betwixt and Between
It is often assumed that chaplains who serve in elite sports settings inhabit a position which facilitates a significant level of influence. Yet, in reality, sports chaplains routinely experience a sense of marginality within their host organizations, which is commonly perceived (both by themselves and others) as highly restrictive and constraining. Drawing upon the findings of a small-scale, qualitative study of chaplaincy within the US-based Na…
Sport, Physical Activity and Criminal Justice
Presenting Kapodi – The Searchable Database of Emotional Stimuli Sets
Emotional stimuli such as images, words, or video clips are often used in studies researching emotion. New sets are continuously being published, creating an immense number of available sets and complicating the task for researchers who are looking for suitable stimuli. This paper presents the KAPODI-database of emotional stimuli sets that are freely available or available upon request. Over 45 aspects including over 25 key set characteristics ha…
Eye-closure effects and the influence of short-term storage and processing capacity on episodic memory
Two experiments investigated differences in short-term storage and processing capacity on the magnitude of eye-closure effects on episodic memory. Experiment 1 compared individuals with high (vs. low) forward and backward spans in the free-recall of words retrieved under both eyes closed and open conditions. Main effects of both forward and backward span capacity (greater recall for the high span group) and eye-closure (higher recall with eyes cl…
Sport-for-development, critical pedagogy and marginalised youth
The principles of critical pedagogy proposed by Paolo Freire have been widely cited as presenting the necessary intellectual tools to underpin sport-based programmes that are targeted towards marginalised groups. Yet, despite the widespread advocacy for Freire’s educational philosophy, to date there have been few attempts to present theoretical articulations of how these pedagogical principles might be more precisely understood within the context…
Chaplaincy and Scottish women’s football
As an emerging sport, élite Scottish women’s football faces many of the obstacles that have traditionally blighted women’s sport in general. As a result, players contend with a number of lifestyle challenges which manifest themselves in relation to issues of self-worth, self-confidence, and personal value. The present small-scale qualitative study examines the effect of these circumstances on the emotional wellbeing of female players and the way …
Sport, Physical Activity and Criminal Justice
A palaeoenvironmental record of the Southern Hemisphere last glacial maximum from the Mount Cass loess section, North Canterbury, Aotearoa/New Zealand
Calcareous loess in North Canterbury, eastern South Island, New Zealand (NZ), preserves subfossil bird bone, terrestrial gastropods, and eggshell, whose abundances and radiocarbon ages allowed us to reconstruct aspects of palaeoenvironment at high resolution through 25 to 21 cal ka BP. This interval includes millennial-scale climatic variability during the extended last glacial maximum (30–18 ka) of Australasia. Our loess palaeoclimatic record sh…
Effects of survival processing on list method directed forgetting
Two experiments examined the effects of directed (intentional) forgetting on information processed for its survival value. Experiment 1 used the list-method directed forgetting procedure in which items processed for their relevance to survival, moving house or pleasantness were followed by the cue to remember or forget. Following the encoding of a second list, free-recall of both lists showed that survival encoding brought about greater rememberi…
Exploring effective practice with vulnerable young people
Contemporary approaches to evidence-based practice require researchers to draw upon the practice wisdom of experienced practitioners who can potentially identify the core components that give programmes of care their efficacy. One such component is the ‘working alliance’. This paper presents the findings of a qualitative study of how this alliance played out within the context of a charity with significant experience of working with vulnerable yo…
High-resolution hourly surrogate modeling framework for physics-based large-scale building stock modeling
A Confessional Representation of Ethnographic Fieldwork in an Academy Sport Setting
Methodological “confessions” are an established genre of ethnographic writing and have contributed to the development of reflexivity in the practice of qualitative research. Yet despite their prevalence, methodological reflections on the specific challenges of conducting ethnography in institutional sport settings have not been developed. The aim of this article, therefore, is to provide a confessional representation of ethnographic fieldwork in …
Evoking hope in marginalised youth populations through non-formal education
The utilisation of non-formal educational methods has long been advocated as a means of supporting marginalised young people. For many in this cohort, the adverse social circumstances that confront them can limit their sense of hope and leave them susceptible to educational under-achievement and/or engagement in anti-social behaviour. Research indicates that sport can act as an effective back-drop for the promotion of non-formal educational progr…
Community-based intervention and marginalised youth
Community-based interventions have long been seen as mechanisms via which to target marginalised youth in relation to personal development. Research surrounding such interventions has often highlighted the promotion of a range of pro-social behaviours and attributes which, in turn, facilitate an increased sense of social inclusion. This paper seeks to build upon and extend this literature by adopting the concept of social capital to infer how par…
Eye-closure & the retrieval of item-specific information in recognition memory
The Construction of Masculinity within Boys’ Physical Education [1]
This case-study of a multiethnic, inner-city secondary school attempts to uncover the fundamental features of masculine construction within the lives of two groups of adolescent males. Placing these pupils at the centre of the research, an ethnographic analysis is presented whereby boys' physical education is located as a strategic site within the development of masculinity. Outlining the existence of various pupil masculinities within the school…
One David Beckham? Celebrity, Masculinity, and the Soccerati
Sporting celebrities are not regularly discussed within the broader realms of sociological debate. Yet that is not to say that their identities cannot offer insight into wider patterns of cultural change. Indeed, it is our contention within this paper that the reverse is true: that analyses of the autobiographical details of contemporary sports figures represent key sites through which cultural change can be viewed. To this end, we take one sport…
Sport, Sexuality, and the Gender Order
This paper presents findings from an ethnographic study of a UK-based amateur rugby union club for gay and bisexual men. Positioning the club at the centre of the research, heterosexist definitions of sport are analysed with regard to their effect on the lives of players and the continued existence of the club itself. The standpoint of team members in relation to dominant hegemonic forces in sport is explored through an examination of the sexual …
Disciplinary mechanisms and the discourse of identity
Organization studies research exposes the need to examine power relations embedded within the design of organizations, the construction of normative behaviour, and the production of socially constructed meanings that lead to the removal of employee voice. Drawing upon 21 qualitative interviews with Premiership football academy members, this article examines the regulation, control and ‘silencing’ of young English professional footballers. Buildin…
Lifelong learning to labour
This article presents an analysis of gender identity within the context of lifelong learning. Constructed specifically around individual experiences of occupational apprenticeship in English professional football, it draws on a re‐reading of data collected in the early 1990s to depict the way in which a group of young men were socialised into their new‐found occupational culture and how their identities were shaped by the heavily gendered routine…
Soccer, Servitude and Sub-cultural Identity
This case study analysis of Youth Traineeship within English Professional Football attempts to uncover the fundamental features of masculine construction within the lives of a specific cohort of male trainees aged 16-19. Locating the lifestyle behaviours of these individuals as the focal point of discussion, ethnographic evidence is presented via which professional football is identified as a key site for the demonstration and reinforcement of tr…
Sporting intervention and social change
Numerous sport-based interventions exist which target marginalised or ‘at-risk’ young people with the intention of enabling some form of social change for programme participants. Very often, the objective of such interventions is the acquisition and development of qualities associated with ‘good citizenship’. However, critical scholars have noted how sport-based initiatives are frequently used as a form of social control, focusing on the developm…
Sport in a youth prison
The numbers of children under the age of 18 being incarcerated in England and Wales has decreased of late, with official figures indicating that the current population of just over 1500 has halved during the last decade. But levels of reoffending among children released from prison remain the highest, with three out of four young people being reconvicted within one year of release from juvenile custody. Despite the fact that the overwhelming majo…
Generating recognition, acceptance and social inclusion in marginalised youth populations
In recent years sport-based interventions have been implemented as a mechanism via which to target marginalised youth in relation to the development of social inclusion. Much of the political rhetoric surrounding social inclusion programmes highlights engagement with education, employment, or training, as key metrics. This has led some scholars to observe that conceptualising social inclusion in this way can act to further marginalise young peopl…
Teachers, teaching and educational exclusion
This paper presents the findings of a qualitative research project carried out in a UK Pupil Referral Unit during the 2000/01 academic year. It describes and analyses the strategies adopted by a small group of Behaviour Support Service teachers in order to achieve their everyday occupational goals. It is argued that despite their commitment to the reintegration of excluded pupils into mainstream schools, the pedagogic practices adopted by these t…
Goffman, Identity and Organizational Control
Traineeship within English professional football (soccer) has attracted much attention in recent years yet few studies have explored in any real depth the everyday workings of trainee footballing lives. This paper features the findings of two small-scale qualitative studies of football traineeship both of which were carried out at high profile English professional football clubs, one in 1993–94, the other in 2010–11. The paper uncovers the nuance…
Sport-for-development, critical pedagogy and marginalised youth
The principles of critical pedagogy proposed by Paolo Freire have been widely cited as presenting the necessary intellectual tools to underpin sport-based programmes that are targeted towards marginalised groups. Yet, despite the widespread advocacy for Freire’s educational philosophy, to date there have been few attempts to present theoretical articulations of how these pedagogical principles might be more precisely understood within the context…
Sports Chaplaincy, Theology and Social Theory Disrupting Performance-Based Identity in Elite Sporting Contexts
Existing literature on the work of sports chaplains has focused primarily on practitioner accounts of chaplaincy with elite athletes. While these narratives provide useful descriptions of personal experience and practical application, they are largely devoid of theoretical grounding. This paper seeks to address this imbalance by proposing the need for sports chaplains to have a more critical understanding of sport and its relational dynamics. We …
Nationalisms & Sexualities
Originally published in 1992, Nationalisms and Sexualities addresses questions of how notions of identity are shaped by discussions of nationalism and sexuality. The book looks at a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, on a wide range of geographical regions and historical moments. The volume departs from social scientific paradigms that treat nation and sexuality as discrete and autonomous entities. Its contributors respond inst…
Physical education, school sport and looked-after-children
In recent years, there has been unprecedented awareness within policy and research of the disadvantageous trajectories that looked-after children and young people (LACYP) often face; particularly in relation to their education, health and wellbeing. Despite the perceived capacity of sport, physical activity and physical education to contribute to young people’s positive development, relatively few studies have considered the place of such activit…
Participation in sport as a mechanism to transform the lives of young people within the criminal justice system
Sport is often framed as a panacea for social disharmony, especially within the context of marginalised youth populations, and is widely promoted as a mechanism through which a multiplicity of social policy objectives can be achieved. Yet while political rhetoric has long pointed towards sport’s transformative abilities, the basis for such claims remains unproven. Theory-based approaches to evaluation have been posited as a useful device to explo…
Sport, spirituality and Protestantism
How, we might ask, are sport and religion connected? The truth is that, in Britain at least, these two cultural practices share a good deal of common ground primarily as a consequence of the role of Protestantism in the development of sport in Victorian times. Recent years have witnessed an increasing amount of academic discussion and debate around the sport-religion relationship. What this article aims to do is to map out the key historical feat…
Sport, Celebrity and Popular Culture
The theme of sporting celebrity has attracted a significant amount of attention in the sociology of sport in recent times. Evident here has been a sense that the autobiographical details of contemporary sports figures represent key sites through which cultural change can be observed, interpreted and analysed. In this article we take one particular sporting celebrity, Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, and assess his image in terms of its contribu…
Imagination, hope and the positive face of feminism
This article presents an analysis of the way in which a group of students at one UK university mobilised \ntheir interest in and commitment to pro/feminist values and ideals through the establishment of a student society geared towards combating anti-sexism. Placing the students at the centre of the discussion, the article describes the various strategies adopted by the group to proselytise their views and how, through the utilisation of a range …
Marginalised youth, criminal justice and performing arts
In recent years a plethora of arts-based projects and interventions targeting marginalised children and young people have emerged a number of which have focussed specifically on music-making. Resulting research has often highlighted the social, psychological and emotional benefits involved although few studies have explored the connections between music-making and mentoring with young people in educational contexts. This paper comprises a small-s…
Celebrating imperfection
In recent years, discourses of celebrity surrounding sports stars have provided fruitful ground for critiquing the role of sport in late-capitalist culture. Seldom, however, has this critical gaze been directed at the Paralympic movement. Drawing on a critical anthropology of Paralympic sport, this paper argues that celebrity status is situated at the heart of an individualised and ideologically grounded late-capitalist culture in which visual me…
Re-Marx
Evoking hope in marginalised youth populations through non-formal education
The utilisation of non-formal educational methods has long been advocated as a means of supporting marginalised young people. For many in this cohort, the adverse social circumstances that confront them can limit their sense of hope and leave them susceptible to educational under-achievement and/or engagement in anti-social behaviour. Research indicates that sport can act as an effective back-drop for the promotion of non-formal educational progr…
Predicting the factors that impact access to, completion of, and progression through community sport leaders qualifications in the UK
Sports Leaders UK (SLUK) commissioned this study to explore the socio-economic and demographic factors that influence candidates’ access, completion and progression through formal sport leader qualifications. A sample (n = 76,179) of registered sport leaders, who are defined as those qualified to lead safe, purposeful and enjoyable sport/physical activity at an entry level in local communities, was selected from SLUK’s database covering a five ye…
Sport, Celebrity and Religion
Sporting celebrities are rarely discussed within the broader realms of theological debate. Yet that is not to say that their identities cannot offer insight into wider patterns of cultural influence. Indeed, it is our contention within this paper that the reverse is true; that analyses of the autobiographical details of contemporary sporting figures represent key sites through which cultural influence can be examined. To this end, we take one spo…
"Taking Sides" (On History)
Ezra Pound and the "Economy" of Anti-Semitism
or general statement [like money] is GOOD if it be ultimately found to with the facts.' If found, however, not to correspond with the facts, money no longer may serve as standard measure of value but becomes instead its ultimate source; transformed into commodity in its own right, money comes to enjoy powers that neither to justice nor to the nature of the goods it is issued against or used to purchase (SP, p. 349). In the absence of any natural …
Marxism and Deconstruction
Philosophy has become secularized, and the striking proof thereof is that the philosophical consciousness itself has been pulled into the torrent of struggle ....If the construction and preparation of the future is not our business, then it is the more certain what we do have to consummate-I mean the ruthless criticism of all that exists . . . .I am therefore, not in favor of planting a dogmatic flag; quite the contrary.We should try to help the …
Futures for Marxism
Mom
Books in Review
Unthinking Sex
I was also happy in the auditorium itself since I found out that contrary to the representation which my childish imaginings had for so long provided me - there was only one stage for everyone. I had thought that one must be prevented from seeing clearly by the other spectators, as one is in the middle of crowd; but now I realized that, on the contrary, thanks to an arrangement which is like the symbol of all perception, each one feels himself to…
Women and a Redefinition of Argentinian Nationhood
Politics In Theory
Research Article| January 01 1993 Politics In Theory Andrew Parker Andrew Parker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1993) 6 (1): 133–142. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-6-1-133 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Andrew Parker; Politics In Theory. Public Culture 1 January 1993; 6 (1): 133–142. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-6-1-133 Downl…
The Construction of Masculinity within Boys’ Physical Education [1]
This case-study of a multiethnic, inner-city secondary school attempts to uncover the fundamental features of masculine construction within the lives of two groups of adolescent males. Placing these pupils at the centre of the research, an ethnographic analysis is presented whereby boys' physical education is located as a strategic site within the development of masculinity. Outlining the existence of various pupil masculinities within the school…
Re-Marx
Praxis and performativity
Bogeyman
Writing a mere decade ago about Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, Timothy Brennan noted that "with the exception of some recent sociological works which use literary theories, it is rare in English to see 'nation-ness' talked about as an imaginative vision--as a topic worthy of full fictional realization. . . . Even in the underrepresented branch of Third World English studies, one is likely to find discussions of race and colonialism, bu…
Knowing what we know
Beyond answers
Soccer, Servitude and Sub-cultural Identity
This case study analysis of Youth Traineeship within English Professional Football attempts to uncover the fundamental features of masculine construction within the lives of a specific cohort of male trainees aged 16-19. Locating the lifestyle behaviours of these individuals as the focal point of discussion, ethnographic evidence is presented via which professional football is identified as a key site for the demonstration and reinforcement of tr…
Making Invisible Work Visible
With efforts to de-layer organizations and reduce functional boundaries, coordination increasingly occurs through networks of informal relations rather than channels tightly prescribed by formal reporting structures or detailed work processes. However, while organizations are moving to network forms through joint ventures, alliances, and other collaborative relationships, executives generally pay little attention to assessing and supporting infor…
Networks in the knowledge economy
"Networks in the Knowledge Economy is a collection of readings on the application of social network analysis to managerial concerns. Social network analysis (SNA), a set of analytic tools that can be used to map networks of relationships, allows one to conduct very powerful assessments of information sharing within a network with relatively little effort. This approach makes the invisible web of relationships between people visible, helping manag…
Sport, Sexuality, and the Gender Order
This paper presents findings from an ethnographic study of a UK-based amateur rugby union club for gay and bisexual men. Positioning the club at the centre of the research, heterosexist definitions of sport are analysed with regard to their effect on the lives of players and the continued existence of the club itself. The standpoint of team members in relation to dominant hegemonic forces in sport is explored through an examination of the sexual …
One David Beckham? Celebrity, Masculinity, and the Soccerati
Sporting celebrities are not regularly discussed within the broader realms of sociological debate. Yet that is not to say that their identities cannot offer insight into wider patterns of cultural change. Indeed, it is our contention within this paper that the reverse is true: that analyses of the autobiographical details of contemporary sports figures represent key sites through which cultural change can be viewed. To this end, we take one sport…
Risks and Rewards of an Interdisciplinary Research Path
The Philosopher and His Poor
Plato's lie The order of the city The order of discourse Marx's labor The shoemaker and the knight The production of the proletarian The revolution conjured away The risk of art The philosopher and the sociologist The Marxist horizon The philosopher's wall The sociologist king
Teachers, teaching and educational exclusion
This paper presents the findings of a qualitative research project carried out in a UK Pupil Referral Unit during the 2000/01 academic year. It describes and analyses the strategies adopted by a small group of Behaviour Support Service teachers in order to achieve their everyday occupational goals. It is argued that despite their commitment to the reintegration of excluded pupils into mainstream schools, the pedagogic practices adopted by these t…
Paradoxically”
In proposing a new agenda for materialist criticism, Montag's recent book suggests that Althusser was far more preoccupied with the arts (and with theater in particular) than other accounts of his legacy have supposed. This essay asks a series of questions that bear on this reorientation. How, given Althusser's resistance to summary, can one “introduce” his work at all? How, given their inherent instability, can texts be understood “in their lite…
The other of class
Class and Its Others is a landmark collection of adventurous and often surprising essays that move well beyond what have become the shibboleths of antiessentialism to imagining new objects and discourses of class analysis. But how much aleatoriness can materialism absorb and still remain ... materialist? Is the economic any less “itself” when conceived as an “entry point” rather than a ground? Can a specifically Marxist understanding of class sur…
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