Iain Macrury
Biographic Data
| ID | 198075 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iain Macrury |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iain |
| FAMILY NAME | Macrury |
| SIGNATURE | MACRURY I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4945-8747 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Empathy an impossible task? Engaging with groups in a troubling Brexit landscape
Olympic Cities
Contents: Preface, Iain MacRury and Gavin Poynter Part 1 The Modern Games and Social Change: Sport, spectacle and society: understanding the Olympics, Michael Rustin The evolution of the Olympic and Paralympic Games 1948-2012, Gavin Poynter Branding the Games: commercialism and the Olympic city, Iain MacRury Olympic-driven urban development, Dean Baim. Part 2 Olympic Cities: The legacy of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, Hyunsun Yoon The economy of …
Framing the mobile phone
This article proposes that the affective processes that shape our relationship to the world of digital consumption and communication can be illuminated further when viewed through a lens of object relations psychoanalysis. We focus on the use of the mobile phone as both an object in the world and of the psyche in order to reflect upon its uses as an evocative object that shapes the psychosocial boundaries of experience in everyday life. We argue …
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Humour as ‘social dreaming
Team GB’ and London 2012
This article explores the problems associated with ‘national identity’ in the UK and examines the tensions arising between the international and local dimensions of the games through examples of domestic (UK) and international (Brazil, Chicago) media coverage of the key debates relating to London's period of preparation. The chapter proposes a conception of London 2012 as exemplar of an event poised to generate insights and experiences connected …
Advertising
Advertising, once seen as 'the official art of capitalist society' is an increasingly commonplace component of a characteristically promotional culture. Iain MacRury's Advertising offers the means to explore and evaluate this transition with an introduction to advertising for the contemporary reader.Advertising provides a clear and easy guide to a
The Regeneration Games
This paper considers contradictions between two concurrent and tacit conceptions of the Olympic ‘legacy’, setting out one conception that understands the games and their legacies as gifts alongside and as counterpoint to the prevailing discourse, which conceives Olympic assets as commodities. The paper critically examines press and governmental discussion of legacy, in order to locate these in the context of a wider perspective contrasting ‘gift’…
The Regeneration Games
This paper considers contradictions between two concurrent and tacit conceptions of the Olympic ‘legacy’, setting out one conception that understands the games and their legacies as gifts alongside and as counterpoint to the prevailing discourse, which conceives Olympic assets as commodities. The paper critically examines press and governmental discussion of legacy, in order to locate these in the context of a wider perspective contrasting ‘gift’…
Team GB’ and London 2012
This article explores the problems associated with ‘national identity’ in the UK and examines the tensions arising between the international and local dimensions of the games through examples of domestic (UK) and international (Brazil, Chicago) media coverage of the key debates relating to London's period of preparation. The chapter proposes a conception of London 2012 as exemplar of an event poised to generate insights and experiences connected …
Framing the mobile phone
This article proposes that the affective processes that shape our relationship to the world of digital consumption and communication can be illuminated further when viewed through a lens of object relations psychoanalysis. We focus on the use of the mobile phone as both an object in the world and of the psyche in order to reflect upon its uses as an evocative object that shapes the psychosocial boundaries of experience in everyday life. We argue …
Humour as ‘social dreaming
Advertising
Advertising, once seen as 'the official art of capitalist society' is an increasingly commonplace component of a characteristically promotional culture. Iain MacRury's Advertising offers the means to explore and evaluate this transition with an introduction to advertising for the contemporary reader.Advertising provides a clear and easy guide to a
The Regeneration Games
This paper considers contradictions between two concurrent and tacit conceptions of the Olympic ‘legacy’, setting out one conception that understands the games and their legacies as gifts alongside and as counterpoint to the prevailing discourse, which conceives Olympic assets as commodities. The paper critically examines press and governmental discussion of legacy, in order to locate these in the context of a wider perspective contrasting ‘gift’…
Team GB’ and London 2012
This article explores the problems associated with ‘national identity’ in the UK and examines the tensions arising between the international and local dimensions of the games through examples of domestic (UK) and international (Brazil, Chicago) media coverage of the key debates relating to London's period of preparation. The chapter proposes a conception of London 2012 as exemplar of an event poised to generate insights and experiences connected …
Humour as ‘social dreaming
Buy This Book
Framing the mobile phone
This article proposes that the affective processes that shape our relationship to the world of digital consumption and communication can be illuminated further when viewed through a lens of object relations psychoanalysis. We focus on the use of the mobile phone as both an object in the world and of the psyche in order to reflect upon its uses as an evocative object that shapes the psychosocial boundaries of experience in everyday life. We argue …
Olympic Cities
Contents: Preface, Iain MacRury and Gavin Poynter Part 1 The Modern Games and Social Change: Sport, spectacle and society: understanding the Olympics, Michael Rustin The evolution of the Olympic and Paralympic Games 1948-2012, Gavin Poynter Branding the Games: commercialism and the Olympic city, Iain MacRury Olympic-driven urban development, Dean Baim. Part 2 Olympic Cities: The legacy of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, Hyunsun Yoon The economy of …
Empathy an impossible task? Engaging with groups in a troubling Brexit landscape
Art (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Feeling (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works)