Rob Millington
Biographic Data
| ID | 271393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rob Millington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rob |
| FAMILY NAME | Millington |
| SIGNATURE | MILLINGTON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brock University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1324-9521 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Galicia (pardon, Eastern Małopolska)
Andrzej Stasiuk's 1995 novel Tales of Galicia appeared when the legacy of Austria's 146-year rule over south-eastern Poland until 1918 was being reassessed following the fall of communism. But whereas many of his contemporaries viewed the historical Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria as a model of openness and multinationalism for the new Europe, in his novel Stasiuk dwells instead on such qualities of the former Habsburg crownland as isolation, de…
The post-colonial challenges of climate change and sport for development and peace in the Anthropocene
In the context of the contemporary sport for development and peace (SDP) sector, the environment and climate change have proven difficult to address in both policy and practice. In this paper, by drawing on interviews with policy-makers in the sector and practitioners who design and implement programming, we attempt to tease apart the tensions shaping sport for development and peace in the Anthropocene. Reading interview data through the lens of …
Policy vs. practice in sport and climate change: The perspectives of key actors in global sport and international development
Despite widespread, scientifically supported recognition of the scope of the climate crisis, and policies in place connecting sport to sustainable development, there remain concerns that the environment and climate change are rarely acknowledged within SDP activity and that even when they are, it is unclear how such policies are implemented, and to what effect. This raises the question of how and why the climate crisis and the attendant relations…
The ‘People’s Sport’: Petty Theft in the German Democratic Republic, 1963–1985
Friedrich Engels claimed that communism would eliminate criminality. With “exploitative” capitalist societal conditions removed, there would no longer be any material or psychological reasons for people to commit crime. The reality in the Eastern Bloc in the late Cold War was, however, very different. Petty theft was a particular problem area. Citizens filched alcohol from supermarkets, bricks from construction sites, and money from colleagues’ l…
In with the Old
At the turn of the millennium, the United Nations (UN) sought a renewed and more broadly defined approach to development. As part of these efforts, the UN began to incorporate sport within official development policies and apparatuses, including the Millennium Development Goals and the United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace. Drawing upon primary research conducted at the United Nations archives, this article seeks to address a g…
Sport for Sustainability? The Extractives Industry, Sport, and Sustainable Development
This article investigates the intersection of three interrelated trends: first, the positioning of sport as a contributor to sustainable development, particularly in regard to the increasing corporatization of sport for development (SFD); second, the trend toward sustainable development in the extractives industry, as taken up within a corporate social responsibility (CSR) approach; and third, the intersection of SFD and CSR when mobilized in pur…
He didn’t really talk about it’: The (re)construction and transmission of a Free French past
This article examines the wartime experience of Hilaire Marteau, a teenage member of Charles de Gaulle’s Free French who settled in Liverpool after the war. Marteau’s tale has all the ingredients of a Hollywood adventure: courageous resistance, a daring escape from Nazi Germany, and a perilous crossing of the Pyrenees to join the fight against Hitler and Vichy France. That, at least, is the story according to Marteau’s rough notebooks and convers…
Screening dissent: The uprising of 17 June 1953 in East German film
On 17 June 1953, hundreds of thousands of East German citizens took part in the first major uprising in the Eastern Bloc. Across the country, demonstrators demanded the removal of the ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED) regime, as well as better living and working conditions. Their protests ended under the tracks of Soviet tanks. No sooner had the dust settled, than the SED began to attempt to shape citizens perceptions of the unrest and limit the…
‘It’s like, we are thankful. But in the other way…they are just killing us too’: Community members’ perspectives of the extractives industry’s funding of recreational and cultural programmes in Fort M…
The growing role of the extractives industry in providing funding for recreational and cultural programmes in exchange for access to Indigenous lands raises some important questions about the impact this has on local community members. Informed by tenets of postcolonial theory and a community-based participatory research methodology, we worked with individuals in a small Indigenous community, Fort McKay, Alberta, Canada, to learn about their pers…
The extractives industry: (Un)likely and (un)welcome partners in regenerating Indigenous cultures in Canada
In this paper, we critically examine the ways in which the extractives industry in Canada is engaging in partnerships with Indigenous-led organizations that promote Indigenous cultural practices through leisure and cultural programmes. We examined two cases in Canada, the Northwest Territories On The Land Collaborative that partners with Dominion Diamond and Diavik Diamond Mines, and the Urban Native Youth Association, an organization that is par…
State Power and ‘Everyday Criminality’ in the German Democratic Republic, 1961–1989
Friedrich Engels claimed that the removal of the perceived causes of crime in a society—capitalist economic and societal conditions—would automatically lead to the eradication of crime. This did not prove to be the case in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), where instances of everyday criminality such as theft, robbery and assault never fell below 100,000 per annum throughout the period of the state’s existence, from 1949 to 1989. This article…
The Anniversary Politics of 17 June 1953 Since 1990
This article analyses the politics of anniversaries through examination of the role that the anniversary of the East German uprising of 17 June 1953 has played in German politics since 1990. Prior to reunification, West Germany commemorated the date as the ‘Tag der deutschen Einheit’. This annual public holiday was a chance for politicians to express their views on the possibility of German unification and to lambast the East German regime. After…
Macro Trakl: Structural Parallels Between ‘Helian’ and Sebastian Im Traum
Scholarship on Georg Trakl (1887–1914) has to date largely concerned itself with the finer details of his famously enigmatic poetic expression, especially his imagery and diction, rather than the artistry underlying larger compositional units such as poems, cycles, and collections. This study starts to redress the balance by taking a wide‐angled view of the shape and structure of his second and final published collection Sebastian im Traum (1915)…
Sport, Development and Environmental Sustainability
This is the first book to consider the intersections of sport, international development and environmental sustainability. It explores the tensions between sport's potential contribution to the environment and its rather poor record to date. Bringing together a diverse group of scholars who approach the topic from various disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, the book provides both critical and optimistic perspectives on the place of sport i…
Georg Trakl's Ghosts: Haunted Poems at the End of History
Georg Trakl has been described by Bernhard Böschenstein as a “poet of post‐history.” In his rich but enigmatic poems, the perspective is imagined near the end‐point of the arc of history, where the speaker observes signs of advancing natural and cultural decay. One characteristic of Trakl's historical end stage is the encroachment of the supernatural sphere upon the natural, as boundaries are loosened between past and present, life and death, rea…
Crime Has No Chance”: The Discourse of Everyday Criminality in the East German Press, 1961–1989
According to Friedrich Engels, communists would “take an axe to the root of crime.” Criminality was, in this and similar views, “alien” to the very essence of prevailing social conditions in communist societies and ought to have disappeared as a phenomenon as soon as socialism was established. Yet, despite the ruling Socialist Unity Party's (SED) claim to have created “really existing socialism” in East Germany, crime existed and persisted. Offic…
Ecological Modernization and the Olympics: The Case of Golf and Rio’s “Green” Games
Ecological modernization refers to the idea that capitalist-driven scientific and technological advancements can not only attend to the world’s pending environmental crises, but even lead to ecological improvement, thus allowing sustainability and consumption to continue in concert. In this paper, we examine ecological modernization at the confluence of environmentalism, international development and global sport. Through an analysis of golf and …
The Datafication of Everything’: Toward a Sociology of Sport and Big Data
This paper explores the articulations of sport and ‘Big Data’—an important though to date understudied topic. That we have arrived at an ‘Age of Big Data’ is an increasingly accepted premise: the proliferation of tracking technologies, combined with the desire to record/monitor human activity, has radically amplified the volume and variety of data in circulation, as well as the velocity at which data move. Herein, we take initial steps toward add…
When is a Drug Not a Drug? Troubling Silences and Unsettling Painkillers in the National Football League
This paper uses a genealogical approach to explore the conjuncture at which the longstanding but partial and uneasy silence surrounding painkiller use in the National Football League seems increasingly under threat. We historicize and problematize apparently self-evident narratives about painkiller use in contemporary football by interrogating the gendered, racialized and labor-related discourses surrounding Brett Favre’s 1996 admission of a depe…
Constructing and contesting the Olympics online: The internet, Rio 2016 and the politics of Brazilian development
The awarding of the 2016 Summer Olympics to the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil continues the trend of international sports mega-events being hosted in the global South and constructed and promoted as part of long-term development plans and policies. Rio 2016 also connects with the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) current commitment to international development and global humanitarianism. In this paper, we examine the proliferation of this …
The Limits of Control: The 'Public Discourse' about the Uprising of 17 June 1953 in Novels and Films in the German Democratic Republic
This article examines the extent to which the ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED) could plan and control society in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) by comparing official policy with what actually happened on the ground. It analyses this in respect of literary and cinematic portrayals of the uprising of 17 June 1953 that were permitted to appear in the GDR. The SED sought to shape its citizens’ perceptions of this uprising against the regime, …
Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
From the Evening‐Land to the Wild East: Symbolic Geography in Three Poems by Georg Trakl
Although the historical crisis of ‘Western civilisation’ in the period preceding and during the First World War is one of the dominant themes of Expressionist poetry, the terms of East‐West discourse itself seldom feature in its diction, a circumstance that can be related to the movement's universalistic assumptions. Two exceptions to this rule are Georg Trakl's poems ‘Abendländisches Lied’ and ‘Abendland’, in which the poet exploits the time‐spa…
Sounds, Soft and Drunk”: Georg Trakl's Poetics of Intoxication
The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 2004, offers students and teachers an introduction to Hawthorne's fiction and the lively debates that shape Hawthorne studies. In commissioned essays, twelve eminent scholars of American literature introduce readers to key issues in Hawthorne scholarship and deepen our understanding of Hawthorne's writing. Each of the major novels is treated in a separate chapter, while other essa…
The Datafication of Everything’: Toward a Sociology of Sport and Big Data
This paper explores the articulations of sport and ‘Big Data’—an important though to date understudied topic. That we have arrived at an ‘Age of Big Data’ is an increasingly accepted premise: the proliferation of tracking technologies, combined with the desire to record/monitor human activity, has radically amplified the volume and variety of data in circulation, as well as the velocity at which data move. Herein, we take initial steps toward add…
Ecological Modernization and the Olympics: The Case of Golf and Rio’s “Green” Games
Ecological modernization refers to the idea that capitalist-driven scientific and technological advancements can not only attend to the world’s pending environmental crises, but even lead to ecological improvement, thus allowing sustainability and consumption to continue in concert. In this paper, we examine ecological modernization at the confluence of environmentalism, international development and global sport. Through an analysis of golf and …
Sport for Sustainability? The Extractives Industry, Sport, and Sustainable Development
This article investigates the intersection of three interrelated trends: first, the positioning of sport as a contributor to sustainable development, particularly in regard to the increasing corporatization of sport for development (SFD); second, the trend toward sustainable development in the extractives industry, as taken up within a corporate social responsibility (CSR) approach; and third, the intersection of SFD and CSR when mobilized in pur…
When is a Drug Not a Drug? Troubling Silences and Unsettling Painkillers in the National Football League
This paper uses a genealogical approach to explore the conjuncture at which the longstanding but partial and uneasy silence surrounding painkiller use in the National Football League seems increasingly under threat. We historicize and problematize apparently self-evident narratives about painkiller use in contemporary football by interrogating the gendered, racialized and labor-related discourses surrounding Brett Favre’s 1996 admission of a depe…
Constructing and contesting the Olympics online: The internet, Rio 2016 and the politics of Brazilian development
The awarding of the 2016 Summer Olympics to the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil continues the trend of international sports mega-events being hosted in the global South and constructed and promoted as part of long-term development plans and policies. Rio 2016 also connects with the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) current commitment to international development and global humanitarianism. In this paper, we examine the proliferation of this …
The extractives industry: (Un)likely and (un)welcome partners in regenerating Indigenous cultures in Canada
In this paper, we critically examine the ways in which the extractives industry in Canada is engaging in partnerships with Indigenous-led organizations that promote Indigenous cultural practices through leisure and cultural programmes. We examined two cases in Canada, the Northwest Territories On The Land Collaborative that partners with Dominion Diamond and Diavik Diamond Mines, and the Urban Native Youth Association, an organization that is par…
Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
In with the Old
At the turn of the millennium, the United Nations (UN) sought a renewed and more broadly defined approach to development. As part of these efforts, the UN began to incorporate sport within official development policies and apparatuses, including the Millennium Development Goals and the United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace. Drawing upon primary research conducted at the United Nations archives, this article seeks to address a g…
The Anniversary Politics of 17 June 1953 Since 1990
This article analyses the politics of anniversaries through examination of the role that the anniversary of the East German uprising of 17 June 1953 has played in German politics since 1990. Prior to reunification, West Germany commemorated the date as the ‘Tag der deutschen Einheit’. This annual public holiday was a chance for politicians to express their views on the possibility of German unification and to lambast the East German regime. After…
Crime Has No Chance”: The Discourse of Everyday Criminality in the East German Press, 1961–1989
According to Friedrich Engels, communists would “take an axe to the root of crime.” Criminality was, in this and similar views, “alien” to the very essence of prevailing social conditions in communist societies and ought to have disappeared as a phenomenon as soon as socialism was established. Yet, despite the ruling Socialist Unity Party's (SED) claim to have created “really existing socialism” in East Germany, crime existed and persisted. Offic…
American Anxiousness: Selfhood and Culture in Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance
ing effort to disguise its own emptiness. Within the novel, personal and communal anxiety is expressed in various forms of uneasiness about the authenticity of the self and in the fantasies of power and acts of domination that assuage that uneasiness: in Coverdale's fear of exposure, in the attraction of veiling and masquerading, in the fascination with occult access to the secrets-and thus to the selvesof others. The book's combination of intere…
Practicing Romance: Narrative Form and Cultural Engagement in Hawthorne's Fiction
Practicing Romance sets out to re-tell the story of Hawthorne's career, arguing that he is best understood as a cultural analyst of extraordinary acuity, ambitious to reshape--in a sense to cure--the community he addresses. Through readings attentive to narrative strategy and alert to the emerging middle-class culture that was his audience, the book defines and describes Hawthornian Romance in a new way: not, in customary fashion, as the definiti…
Practicing Romance: Narrative Form and Cultural Engagement in Hawthorne's Fiction
"Willa Cather and "The Storyteller: Hostility to the Novel in My Antonia
The Making of the Hawthorne Subject
The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 2004, offers students and teachers an introduction to Hawthorne's fiction and the lively debates that shape Hawthorne studies. In commissioned essays, twelve eminent scholars of American literature introduce readers to key issues in Hawthorne scholarship and deepen our understanding of Hawthorne's writing. Each of the major novels is treated in a separate chapter, while other essa…
Pameelen in the Snow: "Towards a Reading of Gottfried Benn's "Episode with Cocaine
Sounds, Soft and Drunk”: Georg Trakl's Poetics of Intoxication
Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
From the Evening‐Land to the Wild East: Symbolic Geography in Three Poems by Georg Trakl
Although the historical crisis of ‘Western civilisation’ in the period preceding and during the First World War is one of the dominant themes of Expressionist poetry, the terms of East‐West discourse itself seldom feature in its diction, a circumstance that can be related to the movement's universalistic assumptions. Two exceptions to this rule are Georg Trakl's poems ‘Abendländisches Lied’ and ‘Abendland’, in which the poet exploits the time‐spa…
The Limits of Control: The 'Public Discourse' about the Uprising of 17 June 1953 in Novels and Films in the German Democratic Republic
This article examines the extent to which the ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED) could plan and control society in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) by comparing official policy with what actually happened on the ground. It analyses this in respect of literary and cinematic portrayals of the uprising of 17 June 1953 that were permitted to appear in the GDR. The SED sought to shape its citizens’ perceptions of this uprising against the regime, …
When is a Drug Not a Drug? Troubling Silences and Unsettling Painkillers in the National Football League
This paper uses a genealogical approach to explore the conjuncture at which the longstanding but partial and uneasy silence surrounding painkiller use in the National Football League seems increasingly under threat. We historicize and problematize apparently self-evident narratives about painkiller use in contemporary football by interrogating the gendered, racialized and labor-related discourses surrounding Brett Favre’s 1996 admission of a depe…
Constructing and contesting the Olympics online: The internet, Rio 2016 and the politics of Brazilian development
The awarding of the 2016 Summer Olympics to the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil continues the trend of international sports mega-events being hosted in the global South and constructed and promoted as part of long-term development plans and policies. Rio 2016 also connects with the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) current commitment to international development and global humanitarianism. In this paper, we examine the proliferation of this …
The Datafication of Everything’: Toward a Sociology of Sport and Big Data
This paper explores the articulations of sport and ‘Big Data’—an important though to date understudied topic. That we have arrived at an ‘Age of Big Data’ is an increasingly accepted premise: the proliferation of tracking technologies, combined with the desire to record/monitor human activity, has radically amplified the volume and variety of data in circulation, as well as the velocity at which data move. Herein, we take initial steps toward add…
Ecological Modernization and the Olympics: The Case of Golf and Rio’s “Green” Games
Ecological modernization refers to the idea that capitalist-driven scientific and technological advancements can not only attend to the world’s pending environmental crises, but even lead to ecological improvement, thus allowing sustainability and consumption to continue in concert. In this paper, we examine ecological modernization at the confluence of environmentalism, international development and global sport. Through an analysis of golf and …
Georg Trakl's Ghosts: Haunted Poems at the End of History
Georg Trakl has been described by Bernhard Böschenstein as a “poet of post‐history.” In his rich but enigmatic poems, the perspective is imagined near the end‐point of the arc of history, where the speaker observes signs of advancing natural and cultural decay. One characteristic of Trakl's historical end stage is the encroachment of the supernatural sphere upon the natural, as boundaries are loosened between past and present, life and death, rea…
Crime Has No Chance”: The Discourse of Everyday Criminality in the East German Press, 1961–1989
According to Friedrich Engels, communists would “take an axe to the root of crime.” Criminality was, in this and similar views, “alien” to the very essence of prevailing social conditions in communist societies and ought to have disappeared as a phenomenon as soon as socialism was established. Yet, despite the ruling Socialist Unity Party's (SED) claim to have created “really existing socialism” in East Germany, crime existed and persisted. Offic…
Sport, Development and Environmental Sustainability
This is the first book to consider the intersections of sport, international development and environmental sustainability. It explores the tensions between sport's potential contribution to the environment and its rather poor record to date. Bringing together a diverse group of scholars who approach the topic from various disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, the book provides both critical and optimistic perspectives on the place of sport i…
‘It’s like, we are thankful. But in the other way…they are just killing us too’: Community members’ perspectives of the extractives industry’s funding of recreational and cultural programmes in Fort M…
The growing role of the extractives industry in providing funding for recreational and cultural programmes in exchange for access to Indigenous lands raises some important questions about the impact this has on local community members. Informed by tenets of postcolonial theory and a community-based participatory research methodology, we worked with individuals in a small Indigenous community, Fort McKay, Alberta, Canada, to learn about their pers…
The extractives industry: (Un)likely and (un)welcome partners in regenerating Indigenous cultures in Canada
In this paper, we critically examine the ways in which the extractives industry in Canada is engaging in partnerships with Indigenous-led organizations that promote Indigenous cultural practices through leisure and cultural programmes. We examined two cases in Canada, the Northwest Territories On The Land Collaborative that partners with Dominion Diamond and Diavik Diamond Mines, and the Urban Native Youth Association, an organization that is par…
State Power and ‘Everyday Criminality’ in the German Democratic Republic, 1961–1989
Friedrich Engels claimed that the removal of the perceived causes of crime in a society—capitalist economic and societal conditions—would automatically lead to the eradication of crime. This did not prove to be the case in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), where instances of everyday criminality such as theft, robbery and assault never fell below 100,000 per annum throughout the period of the state’s existence, from 1949 to 1989. This article…
The Anniversary Politics of 17 June 1953 Since 1990
This article analyses the politics of anniversaries through examination of the role that the anniversary of the East German uprising of 17 June 1953 has played in German politics since 1990. Prior to reunification, West Germany commemorated the date as the ‘Tag der deutschen Einheit’. This annual public holiday was a chance for politicians to express their views on the possibility of German unification and to lambast the East German regime. After…
Macro Trakl: Structural Parallels Between ‘Helian’ and Sebastian Im Traum
Scholarship on Georg Trakl (1887–1914) has to date largely concerned itself with the finer details of his famously enigmatic poetic expression, especially his imagery and diction, rather than the artistry underlying larger compositional units such as poems, cycles, and collections. This study starts to redress the balance by taking a wide‐angled view of the shape and structure of his second and final published collection Sebastian im Traum (1915)…
He didn’t really talk about it’: The (re)construction and transmission of a Free French past
This article examines the wartime experience of Hilaire Marteau, a teenage member of Charles de Gaulle’s Free French who settled in Liverpool after the war. Marteau’s tale has all the ingredients of a Hollywood adventure: courageous resistance, a daring escape from Nazi Germany, and a perilous crossing of the Pyrenees to join the fight against Hitler and Vichy France. That, at least, is the story according to Marteau’s rough notebooks and convers…
Screening dissent: The uprising of 17 June 1953 in East German film
On 17 June 1953, hundreds of thousands of East German citizens took part in the first major uprising in the Eastern Bloc. Across the country, demonstrators demanded the removal of the ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED) regime, as well as better living and working conditions. Their protests ended under the tracks of Soviet tanks. No sooner had the dust settled, than the SED began to attempt to shape citizens perceptions of the unrest and limit the…
Art (16 works) · Political science (16 works) · History (15 works) · Law (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Literature (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (9 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (8 works)