Gavin Weedon
Biographic Data
| ID | 268233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gavin Weedon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gavin |
| FAMILY NAME | Weedon |
| SIGNATURE | WEEDON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nottingham Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7673-8587 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Labored Breathing: BP Syndrome” and the Fallout of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
The 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the largest commercial oil spill in marine drilling history, yet human geographers and allied fields have not attended proportionately to its aftermath. As environmental disasters intensify, revisiting this moment is urgent—especially given whistleblower claims that the remediation caused greater harm to people and planet than the spill itself. Drawing on affidavits, anonymous testimonies, and other …
A Novel Form of Capture: Podcasts, Platform Capitalism, and the Intensification of the Sport Media Complex
This article posits the sport podcast as a novel form of audience capture that represents a spatial, temporal, and sensory intensification of the sport media complex. It contributes to emerging understandings of the kinds of discourse, value, and experience being produced through platform media and its convergence with late capitalism, and in lineage with scholarship on how communications technology creates, accumulates through, and affects audie…
The Paleolithic imagination: Nature, science, and race in Anthropocene fitness cultures
The widespread uptake of the Anthropocene concept over the past two decades has seen a concomitant rise in cultural forms that trade on nostalgia for Paleolithic life. Mud running, CrossFit, and the Paleo diet exemplify this trend, with the Paleolithic hunter-gatherer at the center of their popular prescriptions for healthy living. In this article, we identify these practices as embodying the anxieties of the Anthropocene as well as its historica…
The Nature of the Body in Sport and Physical Culture: From Bodies and Environments to Ecological Embodiment
This article raises the ecological substance and relational co-constitution of bodies as a generative question for sociologists of sport and physical culture. It proceeds from our observation that recent research on the materiality of athletic bodies, and on the environmental issues in which sport is implicated, tends to run on parallel tracks. By exploring how biological, environmental, and social natures cohere in the making and unmaking of hea…
Embodiment is Ecological: The Metabolic Lives of Whey Protein Powder
This article explores the metabolic lives of whey powder, the most popular form of protein supplement in what has become a multibillion-dollar industry during the past two decades. Faced with the slippery and elusive properties latent to this multiplicitous substance, our approach is to follow whey powder from its mid-20th century emergence as a noxious byproduct of industrial dairy production, through the human and animal bodies unevenly tasked …
Where's all the 'good' sports journalism? Sports media research, the sociology of sport, and the question of quality sports reporting
Across newsrooms and journalism schools, questions as to what constitutes or 'counts' as excellent reporting are currently inciting much debate. Among the various frameworks being put forward to describe and encourage 'excellent' journalism in its various forms, sport is seldom mentioned - a legacy perhaps of its perennial dismissal as trivial subject matter. This essay grew from our curiosity as to whether the reverse was also true: that is, whe…
Sport, Spectacle, and Nascar Nation: Consumption and the Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism
Camaraderie Reincorporated: Tough Mudder and the Extended Distribution of the Social
Tough Mudder, a market-leading event in the burgeoning practice and industry of mud running, is a 21 km 'military-style' obstacle course with a curiously collaborative ethic. Teams of runners traverse the course in the name of fun, fitness, bravado, and much more besides, galvanized around Tough Mudder's distinctive ethos of togetherness. This essay sets out to reassemble the 'camaraderie' for which Tough Mudder is renowned as an element and outc…
Military Resisters, War Resistance, and the Ethics of Exposure and Disclosure
Traitorous cowards or courageous heroes? Military resisters elicit fervent responses not simply because they polarize perspectives on war, nation, and citizenship, but because they encounter and embody a moral quandary which marks all conflict: The fear of harming another when one's own life, and sense of self, is endangered. With recourse to Judith Butler's meditations on the precarity of life and the finitude of liberal humanist ontologies, thi…
The Writing’s on the Firewall: Assessing the Promise of Open Access Journal Publishing for a Public Sociology of Sport
The process of digitization has transformed the ways in which content is reproduced and circulated online, rupturing long held distinctions between production and consumption in the (virtual) public sphere. In accordance with these developments over the past fifteen years, proponents for open access publishing in higher education have argued that the (not yet absolute) transition from physical to digital modes of journal production opens up unpre…
I Will. Protect this House: ” Under Armour, Corporate Nationalism and Post-9/11 Cultural Politics
This article explores the construction of U.S. nationalism through the branding strategies of Under Armour, a sportswear company which has achieved prominence in the U.S. marketplace and has a growing international profile. By examining their organizational synergies with the NFL, Zephyr technology, and the Wounded Warrior Project, and through a critical reading of the militaristic, philanthropic, nationalistic and masculine dimensions of their F…
Glocal boys: Exploring experiences of acculturation amongst migrant youth footballers in Premier League academies
This article explores the experiences of acculturation recounted by migrant youth footballers following their migrations to Premier League academies. Whereas problems of acculturation have been documented in research exploring the migratory experiences of senior professional athletes, the framing of migrant youth footballers as a problematic collective in academic, public and media discourse has tended to deflect from consideration of the individ…
Foreign players in the English Premier Academy League: Feet-drain' or 'feet-exchange
The aim of this article is to make sense of the effects of foreign player involvement in English football's elite youth academy system. Based upon a series of interviews conducted with academy directors, managers, and coaches at Premier League clubs, and senior figures in the Premier League's Youth Development department, the article argues that the involvement of foreign players should not be viewed negatively where indigenous players are increa…
Glocal boys: Exploring experiences of acculturation amongst migrant youth footballers in Premier League academies
This article explores the experiences of acculturation recounted by migrant youth footballers following their migrations to Premier League academies. Whereas problems of acculturation have been documented in research exploring the migratory experiences of senior professional athletes, the framing of migrant youth footballers as a problematic collective in academic, public and media discourse has tended to deflect from consideration of the individ…
Camaraderie Reincorporated: Tough Mudder and the Extended Distribution of the Social
Tough Mudder, a market-leading event in the burgeoning practice and industry of mud running, is a 21 km 'military-style' obstacle course with a curiously collaborative ethic. Teams of runners traverse the course in the name of fun, fitness, bravado, and much more besides, galvanized around Tough Mudder's distinctive ethos of togetherness. This essay sets out to reassemble the 'camaraderie' for which Tough Mudder is renowned as an element and outc…
Foreign players in the English Premier Academy League: Feet-drain' or 'feet-exchange
The aim of this article is to make sense of the effects of foreign player involvement in English football's elite youth academy system. Based upon a series of interviews conducted with academy directors, managers, and coaches at Premier League clubs, and senior figures in the Premier League's Youth Development department, the article argues that the involvement of foreign players should not be viewed negatively where indigenous players are increa…
Embodiment is Ecological: The Metabolic Lives of Whey Protein Powder
This article explores the metabolic lives of whey powder, the most popular form of protein supplement in what has become a multibillion-dollar industry during the past two decades. Faced with the slippery and elusive properties latent to this multiplicitous substance, our approach is to follow whey powder from its mid-20th century emergence as a noxious byproduct of industrial dairy production, through the human and animal bodies unevenly tasked …
The Paleolithic imagination: Nature, science, and race in Anthropocene fitness cultures
The widespread uptake of the Anthropocene concept over the past two decades has seen a concomitant rise in cultural forms that trade on nostalgia for Paleolithic life. Mud running, CrossFit, and the Paleo diet exemplify this trend, with the Paleolithic hunter-gatherer at the center of their popular prescriptions for healthy living. In this article, we identify these practices as embodying the anxieties of the Anthropocene as well as its historica…
I Will. Protect this House: ” Under Armour, Corporate Nationalism and Post-9/11 Cultural Politics
This article explores the construction of U.S. nationalism through the branding strategies of Under Armour, a sportswear company which has achieved prominence in the U.S. marketplace and has a growing international profile. By examining their organizational synergies with the NFL, Zephyr technology, and the Wounded Warrior Project, and through a critical reading of the militaristic, philanthropic, nationalistic and masculine dimensions of their F…
The Nature of the Body in Sport and Physical Culture: From Bodies and Environments to Ecological Embodiment
This article raises the ecological substance and relational co-constitution of bodies as a generative question for sociologists of sport and physical culture. It proceeds from our observation that recent research on the materiality of athletic bodies, and on the environmental issues in which sport is implicated, tends to run on parallel tracks. By exploring how biological, environmental, and social natures cohere in the making and unmaking of hea…
The Writing’s on the Firewall: Assessing the Promise of Open Access Journal Publishing for a Public Sociology of Sport
The process of digitization has transformed the ways in which content is reproduced and circulated online, rupturing long held distinctions between production and consumption in the (virtual) public sphere. In accordance with these developments over the past fifteen years, proponents for open access publishing in higher education have argued that the (not yet absolute) transition from physical to digital modes of journal production opens up unpre…
Foreign players in the English Premier Academy League: Feet-drain' or 'feet-exchange
The aim of this article is to make sense of the effects of foreign player involvement in English football's elite youth academy system. Based upon a series of interviews conducted with academy directors, managers, and coaches at Premier League clubs, and senior figures in the Premier League's Youth Development department, the article argues that the involvement of foreign players should not be viewed negatively where indigenous players are increa…
I Will. Protect this House: ” Under Armour, Corporate Nationalism and Post-9/11 Cultural Politics
This article explores the construction of U.S. nationalism through the branding strategies of Under Armour, a sportswear company which has achieved prominence in the U.S. marketplace and has a growing international profile. By examining their organizational synergies with the NFL, Zephyr technology, and the Wounded Warrior Project, and through a critical reading of the militaristic, philanthropic, nationalistic and masculine dimensions of their F…
Glocal boys: Exploring experiences of acculturation amongst migrant youth footballers in Premier League academies
This article explores the experiences of acculturation recounted by migrant youth footballers following their migrations to Premier League academies. Whereas problems of acculturation have been documented in research exploring the migratory experiences of senior professional athletes, the framing of migrant youth footballers as a problematic collective in academic, public and media discourse has tended to deflect from consideration of the individ…
The Writing’s on the Firewall: Assessing the Promise of Open Access Journal Publishing for a Public Sociology of Sport
The process of digitization has transformed the ways in which content is reproduced and circulated online, rupturing long held distinctions between production and consumption in the (virtual) public sphere. In accordance with these developments over the past fifteen years, proponents for open access publishing in higher education have argued that the (not yet absolute) transition from physical to digital modes of journal production opens up unpre…
Military Resisters, War Resistance, and the Ethics of Exposure and Disclosure
Traitorous cowards or courageous heroes? Military resisters elicit fervent responses not simply because they polarize perspectives on war, nation, and citizenship, but because they encounter and embody a moral quandary which marks all conflict: The fear of harming another when one's own life, and sense of self, is endangered. With recourse to Judith Butler's meditations on the precarity of life and the finitude of liberal humanist ontologies, thi…
Sport, Spectacle, and Nascar Nation: Consumption and the Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism
Camaraderie Reincorporated: Tough Mudder and the Extended Distribution of the Social
Tough Mudder, a market-leading event in the burgeoning practice and industry of mud running, is a 21 km 'military-style' obstacle course with a curiously collaborative ethic. Teams of runners traverse the course in the name of fun, fitness, bravado, and much more besides, galvanized around Tough Mudder's distinctive ethos of togetherness. This essay sets out to reassemble the 'camaraderie' for which Tough Mudder is renowned as an element and outc…
Where's all the 'good' sports journalism? Sports media research, the sociology of sport, and the question of quality sports reporting
Across newsrooms and journalism schools, questions as to what constitutes or 'counts' as excellent reporting are currently inciting much debate. Among the various frameworks being put forward to describe and encourage 'excellent' journalism in its various forms, sport is seldom mentioned - a legacy perhaps of its perennial dismissal as trivial subject matter. This essay grew from our curiosity as to whether the reverse was also true: that is, whe…
The Nature of the Body in Sport and Physical Culture: From Bodies and Environments to Ecological Embodiment
This article raises the ecological substance and relational co-constitution of bodies as a generative question for sociologists of sport and physical culture. It proceeds from our observation that recent research on the materiality of athletic bodies, and on the environmental issues in which sport is implicated, tends to run on parallel tracks. By exploring how biological, environmental, and social natures cohere in the making and unmaking of hea…
Embodiment is Ecological: The Metabolic Lives of Whey Protein Powder
This article explores the metabolic lives of whey powder, the most popular form of protein supplement in what has become a multibillion-dollar industry during the past two decades. Faced with the slippery and elusive properties latent to this multiplicitous substance, our approach is to follow whey powder from its mid-20th century emergence as a noxious byproduct of industrial dairy production, through the human and animal bodies unevenly tasked …
The Paleolithic imagination: Nature, science, and race in Anthropocene fitness cultures
The widespread uptake of the Anthropocene concept over the past two decades has seen a concomitant rise in cultural forms that trade on nostalgia for Paleolithic life. Mud running, CrossFit, and the Paleo diet exemplify this trend, with the Paleolithic hunter-gatherer at the center of their popular prescriptions for healthy living. In this article, we identify these practices as embodying the anxieties of the Anthropocene as well as its historica…
A Novel Form of Capture: Podcasts, Platform Capitalism, and the Intensification of the Sport Media Complex
This article posits the sport podcast as a novel form of audience capture that represents a spatial, temporal, and sensory intensification of the sport media complex. It contributes to emerging understandings of the kinds of discourse, value, and experience being produced through platform media and its convergence with late capitalism, and in lineage with scholarship on how communications technology creates, accumulates through, and affects audie…
Labored Breathing: BP Syndrome” and the Fallout of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
The 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the largest commercial oil spill in marine drilling history, yet human geographers and allied fields have not attended proportionately to its aftermath. As environmental disasters intensify, revisiting this moment is urgent—especially given whistleblower claims that the remediation caused greater harm to people and planet than the spill itself. Drawing on affidavits, anonymous testimonies, and other …
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (5 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (2 works)