M C Dawson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 38066 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | M C Dawson |
| NOMBRES | M C |
| APELLIDO | Dawson |
| FIRMA | DAWSON M C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4534-4002 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Reconceptualising sportswashing beyond image politics
This analysis explores the concept of sportswashing, including its complexity and limitations. Addressing some recent critiques, we advocate for a reconceptualisation of sportswashing, on the basis of which we articulate two basic tenets. First, we argue that it is essential to understand the nature and necessity of complicity – herein referred to as the ‘elective affinity’ – between the actors involved. Second, we suggest that sportswashing may …
The Contested Terrain of Sport and Well-Being
Wellbeing has firmly established itself within contemporary practice, politics and policy. Indeed, the cultural, commercial, and terrestrial landscape of the concept is staggering and manifests within popular discourse and across global organisations and institutions, national governments, workplaces, and consumer lifestyle products and services. Notably, the field of sport, exercise, and physical activity has been identified by the World Health …
Taking Stand-Up Seriously
Stand-up comedy is a rich arena of sociological inquiry that enables social actors to utter bold truths in a way that educates rather than offends. As such, stand-up comedy can inform conversations around potentially 'thorny' issues like racial inequality. This article draws on primary qualitative content analysis of the work of Kura Forrester, a female, Indigenous comedian in Aotearoa New Zealand, to illustrate the potential of comedians and the…
Sports Reforms and Coaches’ Spoiled Identities
This article explores how sports coaches’ identity and social relations are shaped within the context of new policy initiatives in sport. It focuses particularly on South Korea’s ongoing sports reforms wherein sports coaches feel stigmatized and disgraced. Informed by classic and contemporary sociological understandings of stigma and relying both on documents and narratives from 29 individuals, our qualitative analysis reveals that Korean coaches…
The wellbeing pandemic
Wellbeing has emerged as a central, if not defining, feature of contemporary social life. Yet, despite its global significance spanning the political, social and economic spectrum, there is a remarkable lack of agreement regarding the conceptualization, definition or operationalisation of wellbeing nor any clear evidence of its success as an instrument of policy. This essay explores the contested terrain of wellbeing by examining the concept in r…
Sports reforms, interaction (dis)order and stigma
Social identity has long been used by social scientists as a theoretical construct to understand both self and society. This article investigates how coaches’ identities are constructed, partly through the ways in which ‘athletes-turned-coaches’ perceive themselves and partly through how they are perceived by others in the context of South Korea where sports reforms are underway. Goffman's micro-sociological concepts of ‘stigma’ and ‘moral career…
The Global Business of Sport in a Brave New World
In July 1991, Sports Illustrated published a special issue featuring two articles that prognosticated about what sport would look like 10 years later. As the world entered the 21st century, Sports Illustrated writers, Oscar Johnson and Ron Fimrite, offered their visions of sport in the year 2001. Their analysis highlighted how a range of economic, social and technological changes in society would impact on how sport is structured, produced and co…
Rehumanising the university for an alternative future
Reflecting on the shifting landscape of higher education, this discussion highlights how inequality is entrenched within the university, largely as a result of Western-inspired, commodified knowledge production processes. The article grapples with scholarship on cognitive justice and builds a case for transformative resistance that is simultaneously anti-colonial and anti-neoliberal, within, against and beyond the Westernised university. The disc…
Crafting a one-dimensional identity
Despite burgeoning literature on the agency of sports coaches and the nature of coaching fields, scant attention has been paid to the process through which coaches’ identities are socially constructed. Informed by Goffman's concept, total institution, and Scott's reinventive institution, this article explores how coaches’ athletic experiences within totalising sports environments influence the formation of their identity as coaches. Drawing on So…
CrossFit
Branded as 'the sport of fitness', CrossFit is a burgeoning exercise regime that has surpassed the growth of well-known fitness franchises. In addition to its comprehensive fitness regime, it claims to offer a supportive community, which aims to ensure that people do not exercise 'together alone'. The tight-knit - almost insular - nature of this community, as well as some of its more extreme practices, have led followers and detractors alike to c…
Protest, performance and politics
Considering the lack of coverage in the mass media of certain kinds of social movement activity, many movements make use of smaller scale, independent media to publicise their struggles. From the vantage point of social movements in South Africa, this paper addresses what Mojca Pajnik and John Downing call ‘nano-media’. Based on interviews with social movement activists and observation of social movement activities, the paper considers demonstrat…
Ethical and Political Challenges of Participatory Action Research in the Academy
From the vantage point of South Africa, this article highlights a number of ethical challenges that could potentially arise in the relationship between social movement researchers and activists in the pursuit of social justice and transformation. In contrast to conventional approaches to social science more generally, we argue that a neat separation between theory and action is useful neither for producing knowledge within the academy nor for adv…
The New Sars
The cost of belonging
More than a decade since the dawn of democracy, South Africa remains one of the most unequal societies in the world. Civil and political citizenship may have – rhetorically at least – reduced the stark racial inequality in the relationship between citizen and state evident under apartheid. Some authors suggest a positive correlation between social citizenship and social equality. However, in post-apartheid South Africa, deep socio-economic inequa…
Identity formation among learners at a South African high school
In this article the relationship between identity and context is examined at a high school in Johannesburg, South Africa, which has, since 1995, been racially desegregated. Findings suggest that the identities of the learners are influenced not only by the immediate context of the school, but also by the past context of schooling in South Africa and by the broader social context, which refers to relationships between learners and between learners…
CrossFit
Branded as 'the sport of fitness', CrossFit is a burgeoning exercise regime that has surpassed the growth of well-known fitness franchises. In addition to its comprehensive fitness regime, it claims to offer a supportive community, which aims to ensure that people do not exercise 'together alone'. The tight-knit - almost insular - nature of this community, as well as some of its more extreme practices, have led followers and detractors alike to c…
The cost of belonging
More than a decade since the dawn of democracy, South Africa remains one of the most unequal societies in the world. Civil and political citizenship may have – rhetorically at least – reduced the stark racial inequality in the relationship between citizen and state evident under apartheid. Some authors suggest a positive correlation between social citizenship and social equality. However, in post-apartheid South Africa, deep socio-economic inequa…
Ethical and Political Challenges of Participatory Action Research in the Academy
From the vantage point of South Africa, this article highlights a number of ethical challenges that could potentially arise in the relationship between social movement researchers and activists in the pursuit of social justice and transformation. In contrast to conventional approaches to social science more generally, we argue that a neat separation between theory and action is useful neither for producing knowledge within the academy nor for adv…
Taking Stand-Up Seriously
Stand-up comedy is a rich arena of sociological inquiry that enables social actors to utter bold truths in a way that educates rather than offends. As such, stand-up comedy can inform conversations around potentially 'thorny' issues like racial inequality. This article draws on primary qualitative content analysis of the work of Kura Forrester, a female, Indigenous comedian in Aotearoa New Zealand, to illustrate the potential of comedians and the…
Sports reforms, interaction (dis)order and stigma
Social identity has long been used by social scientists as a theoretical construct to understand both self and society. This article investigates how coaches’ identities are constructed, partly through the ways in which ‘athletes-turned-coaches’ perceive themselves and partly through how they are perceived by others in the context of South Korea where sports reforms are underway. Goffman's micro-sociological concepts of ‘stigma’ and ‘moral career…
Crafting a one-dimensional identity
Despite burgeoning literature on the agency of sports coaches and the nature of coaching fields, scant attention has been paid to the process through which coaches’ identities are socially constructed. Informed by Goffman's concept, total institution, and Scott's reinventive institution, this article explores how coaches’ athletic experiences within totalising sports environments influence the formation of their identity as coaches. Drawing on So…
The wellbeing pandemic
Wellbeing has emerged as a central, if not defining, feature of contemporary social life. Yet, despite its global significance spanning the political, social and economic spectrum, there is a remarkable lack of agreement regarding the conceptualization, definition or operationalisation of wellbeing nor any clear evidence of its success as an instrument of policy. This essay explores the contested terrain of wellbeing by examining the concept in r…
The Global Business of Sport in a Brave New World
In July 1991, Sports Illustrated published a special issue featuring two articles that prognosticated about what sport would look like 10 years later. As the world entered the 21st century, Sports Illustrated writers, Oscar Johnson and Ron Fimrite, offered their visions of sport in the year 2001. Their analysis highlighted how a range of economic, social and technological changes in society would impact on how sport is structured, produced and co…
Identity formation among learners at a South African high school
In this article the relationship between identity and context is examined at a high school in Johannesburg, South Africa, which has, since 1995, been racially desegregated. Findings suggest that the identities of the learners are influenced not only by the immediate context of the school, but also by the past context of schooling in South Africa and by the broader social context, which refers to relationships between learners and between learners…
Sports Reforms and Coaches’ Spoiled Identities
This article explores how sports coaches’ identity and social relations are shaped within the context of new policy initiatives in sport. It focuses particularly on South Korea’s ongoing sports reforms wherein sports coaches feel stigmatized and disgraced. Informed by classic and contemporary sociological understandings of stigma and relying both on documents and narratives from 29 individuals, our qualitative analysis reveals that Korean coaches…
Identity formation among learners at a South African high school
In this article the relationship between identity and context is examined at a high school in Johannesburg, South Africa, which has, since 1995, been racially desegregated. Findings suggest that the identities of the learners are influenced not only by the immediate context of the school, but also by the past context of schooling in South Africa and by the broader social context, which refers to relationships between learners and between learners…
The New Sars
The cost of belonging
More than a decade since the dawn of democracy, South Africa remains one of the most unequal societies in the world. Civil and political citizenship may have – rhetorically at least – reduced the stark racial inequality in the relationship between citizen and state evident under apartheid. Some authors suggest a positive correlation between social citizenship and social equality. However, in post-apartheid South Africa, deep socio-economic inequa…
Protest, performance and politics
Considering the lack of coverage in the mass media of certain kinds of social movement activity, many movements make use of smaller scale, independent media to publicise their struggles. From the vantage point of social movements in South Africa, this paper addresses what Mojca Pajnik and John Downing call ‘nano-media’. Based on interviews with social movement activists and observation of social movement activities, the paper considers demonstrat…
Ethical and Political Challenges of Participatory Action Research in the Academy
From the vantage point of South Africa, this article highlights a number of ethical challenges that could potentially arise in the relationship between social movement researchers and activists in the pursuit of social justice and transformation. In contrast to conventional approaches to social science more generally, we argue that a neat separation between theory and action is useful neither for producing knowledge within the academy nor for adv…
CrossFit
Branded as 'the sport of fitness', CrossFit is a burgeoning exercise regime that has surpassed the growth of well-known fitness franchises. In addition to its comprehensive fitness regime, it claims to offer a supportive community, which aims to ensure that people do not exercise 'together alone'. The tight-knit - almost insular - nature of this community, as well as some of its more extreme practices, have led followers and detractors alike to c…
Crafting a one-dimensional identity
Despite burgeoning literature on the agency of sports coaches and the nature of coaching fields, scant attention has been paid to the process through which coaches’ identities are socially constructed. Informed by Goffman's concept, total institution, and Scott's reinventive institution, this article explores how coaches’ athletic experiences within totalising sports environments influence the formation of their identity as coaches. Drawing on So…
Rehumanising the university for an alternative future
Reflecting on the shifting landscape of higher education, this discussion highlights how inequality is entrenched within the university, largely as a result of Western-inspired, commodified knowledge production processes. The article grapples with scholarship on cognitive justice and builds a case for transformative resistance that is simultaneously anti-colonial and anti-neoliberal, within, against and beyond the Westernised university. The disc…
Sports reforms, interaction (dis)order and stigma
Social identity has long been used by social scientists as a theoretical construct to understand both self and society. This article investigates how coaches’ identities are constructed, partly through the ways in which ‘athletes-turned-coaches’ perceive themselves and partly through how they are perceived by others in the context of South Korea where sports reforms are underway. Goffman's micro-sociological concepts of ‘stigma’ and ‘moral career…
The Global Business of Sport in a Brave New World
In July 1991, Sports Illustrated published a special issue featuring two articles that prognosticated about what sport would look like 10 years later. As the world entered the 21st century, Sports Illustrated writers, Oscar Johnson and Ron Fimrite, offered their visions of sport in the year 2001. Their analysis highlighted how a range of economic, social and technological changes in society would impact on how sport is structured, produced and co…
The wellbeing pandemic
Wellbeing has emerged as a central, if not defining, feature of contemporary social life. Yet, despite its global significance spanning the political, social and economic spectrum, there is a remarkable lack of agreement regarding the conceptualization, definition or operationalisation of wellbeing nor any clear evidence of its success as an instrument of policy. This essay explores the contested terrain of wellbeing by examining the concept in r…
Sports Reforms and Coaches’ Spoiled Identities
This article explores how sports coaches’ identity and social relations are shaped within the context of new policy initiatives in sport. It focuses particularly on South Korea’s ongoing sports reforms wherein sports coaches feel stigmatized and disgraced. Informed by classic and contemporary sociological understandings of stigma and relying both on documents and narratives from 29 individuals, our qualitative analysis reveals that Korean coaches…
The Contested Terrain of Sport and Well-Being
Wellbeing has firmly established itself within contemporary practice, politics and policy. Indeed, the cultural, commercial, and terrestrial landscape of the concept is staggering and manifests within popular discourse and across global organisations and institutions, national governments, workplaces, and consumer lifestyle products and services. Notably, the field of sport, exercise, and physical activity has been identified by the World Health …
Taking Stand-Up Seriously
Stand-up comedy is a rich arena of sociological inquiry that enables social actors to utter bold truths in a way that educates rather than offends. As such, stand-up comedy can inform conversations around potentially 'thorny' issues like racial inequality. This article draws on primary qualitative content analysis of the work of Kura Forrester, a female, Indigenous comedian in Aotearoa New Zealand, to illustrate the potential of comedians and the…
Reconceptualising sportswashing beyond image politics
This analysis explores the concept of sportswashing, including its complexity and limitations. Addressing some recent critiques, we advocate for a reconceptualisation of sportswashing, on the basis of which we articulate two basic tenets. First, we argue that it is essential to understand the nature and necessity of complicity – herein referred to as the ‘elective affinity’ – between the actors involved. Second, we suggest that sportswashing may …
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