Spencer Schaffner
Biographic Data
| ID | 212988 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Spencer Schaffner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Spencer |
| FAMILY NAME | Schaffner |
| SIGNATURE | SCHAFFNER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Football, it’s a man’s game
Women’s participation as athletes in American football precipitates gendered conflict, in that the routine reproduction of masculine discourse and identity is challenged. As such, the purpose of this study was to explore how the creation of discourses of masculinity and femininity undermine most women’s access and acceptance into American football. Utilizing critical discourse analysis, an analysis of The Gender Bowl (Jordan et al., 2005), a real…
Binocular Vision
Bird Identification as a Family of Activities
Whereas Engeström has suggested that Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) approach bird identification as an unusual type of dispersed “wildfire” activity, we argue that bird identification represents a durable family of cultural practices that have been shaped by multiple sociohistoric motives and that share key mediating artifacts (e.g., field guides, specialized optical equipment, scientific classifications). In this article, we sketch a…
Environmental Sporting
This article describes birding as an example of what I call environmental sporting, an ostensibly green category of sport that relies on both environmental protection and degradation. Three competitive forms of birding are explored in relation to three toxic sites: the birding event called the World Series of Birding and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund sites, big-year birding and landfills, and the competitive practice of listing …
Football, it’s a man’s game
Women’s participation as athletes in American football precipitates gendered conflict, in that the routine reproduction of masculine discourse and identity is challenged. As such, the purpose of this study was to explore how the creation of discourses of masculinity and femininity undermine most women’s access and acceptance into American football. Utilizing critical discourse analysis, an analysis of The Gender Bowl (Jordan et al., 2005), a real…
Environmental Sporting
This article describes birding as an example of what I call environmental sporting, an ostensibly green category of sport that relies on both environmental protection and degradation. Three competitive forms of birding are explored in relation to three toxic sites: the birding event called the World Series of Birding and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund sites, big-year birding and landfills, and the competitive practice of listing …
Environmental Sporting
This article describes birding as an example of what I call environmental sporting, an ostensibly green category of sport that relies on both environmental protection and degradation. Three competitive forms of birding are explored in relation to three toxic sites: the birding event called the World Series of Birding and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund sites, big-year birding and landfills, and the competitive practice of listing …
Football, it’s a man’s game
Women’s participation as athletes in American football precipitates gendered conflict, in that the routine reproduction of masculine discourse and identity is challenged. As such, the purpose of this study was to explore how the creation of discourses of masculinity and femininity undermine most women’s access and acceptance into American football. Utilizing critical discourse analysis, an analysis of The Gender Bowl (Jordan et al., 2005), a real…
Binocular Vision
Bird Identification as a Family of Activities
Whereas Engeström has suggested that Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) approach bird identification as an unusual type of dispersed “wildfire” activity, we argue that bird identification represents a durable family of cultural practices that have been shaped by multiple sociohistoric motives and that share key mediating artifacts (e.g., field guides, specialized optical equipment, scientific classifications). In this article, we sketch a…
Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (2 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (2 works)