Stephen Wagg
Biographic Data
| ID | 281350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Wagg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Wagg |
| SIGNATURE | WAGG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Wray Vamplew (University of Stirling, UK), John McClelland (University of Toronto, Canada) and Mark Dyreson (Pennsylvania State University, USA) (Anthology Editors)
The Palgrave Handbook of Sport, Politics and Harm
Routledge Handbook of Tennis
The Wimbledon effect
This chapter looks historically at “Wimbledon”, the annual tennis championship staged by the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) in London, and in particular at the subtly mutating notions of the “Englishness” which the tournament has so often been claimed to represent. This “Englishness” has, inevitably, always been rooted in social class myths, skilfully adapted according to changing political circumstance. The chapter revisits much of the con…
Leisure and “The Civilising Process”
This chapter examines the German sociologist Norbert Elias’ theory of “The Civilising Process” in relation to leisure. It sets out the main tenets of this theory and its implications for thinking sociologically about leisure (and sport). It discusses the international debate among scholars over “football hooliganism” that took place in the late 1980s and 1990s in which Eliasan theorists (self-styled “figurationists”) played a leading role. It als…
Never the gentleman
This article analyses the near-impossibility, for the duration of the amateur-professional divide, of cricketers born into working-class families being admitted to amateur status and, thus, to county captaincy, in the English first-class game. Its principal argument is that the hegemony achieved in the latter half of the nineteenth century by the English upper class (the aristocracy, major landowners and leaders of financial capital and their fam…
Sport and amateurism
Amateurism is recognised as an important theme in the history of modern British sport. That it is so often preceded by the word ‘gentlemanly’ is indicative of the way in which most historians have
Sport, Leisure and Culture in the Postmodern City
Contents: Introduction, Peter Bramham and Stephen Wagg Leeds a becoming the postmodern city, Peter Bramham and John Spink Cranes over the city: the centre of Leeds, 1980a 2008, Janet Douglas Mission or pragmatism? Cultural policy in Leeds since 2000, Jonathan Long and Ian Strange The history boy: made in Leeds, Peter Bramham Leeds and the topographies of race: in 6 scenes, Ben Carrington Nowt for being second: Leeds, Leeds United and the ghost of…
Sport, Protest and Globalisation
This volume is built around three assumptions - first, that for huge numbers people around the world, including many sport lovers, there are more important things in life than sport; second, that the
The London Olympics of 2012
Analysing the politics of the 2012 London Olympics, Stephen Wagg examines the framing of London's bid to host the Games, arguments about the Games' likely impact and the establishment of 'Fortress Lon
Thatcher's Grandchildren?
Thatcher's Grandchildren explores sociological and political issues about childhood that have that have become increasingly significant in the twenty first century within a political landscape framed
Introduction
This book is about popular music and place, principally cities. From Charlie Gillett’s (1970) The Sound of the City and Iain Chambers’ (1985) Urban Rhythms to more recent work such as Krims’ (2007) Music and Urban Geography , attention to popular music has allowed various soundings of the often unfathomable aspects of urban life. Cities have been spaces of musical fascination at least since Herman Melville wrote in 1849 of a visit to Liverpool: I…
‘How Many Divisions Does Ozzy Osbourne Have?’ Some Thoughts on Politics, Heavy Metal Music, and the ‘Clash of Civilizations’
The title of this chapter is an adaptation of a famous remark attributed to Josef Stalin. When, in 1935, the French prime minister asked him to adopt a policy favourable to Russian Catholics, so as to win favour with the Pope, Stalin is said to have replied: ‘How many divisions does the Pope have?’ This remains one of the definitive evocations of the concept of realpolitik; I return to the idea of realpolitik towards the end of the chapter. The p…
‘Why I Decided to Pretend I was American, I Will Never Know’
One evening in 1956 local singer Arnold ‘Gerry’ Dorsey met a young woman (whom he would later marry) at the Palais de Danse in Leicester, a prosperous but largely unremarkable city in the English East Midlands. He was anxious to impress her. He reflected later: Why I decided to pretend I was American, I will never know! I’d never been across the pond and knew nothing of the great Wild West apart from what I had seen on the big screen. All I knew …
 How Many Divisions Does Ozzy Osbourne Have?â Some Thoughts on Politics, Heavy Metal Music, and the â Clash of Civilizationsâ
Afterword
As an area of popular and academic interest, the particular nexus of popular music, cities, and globalization continues, and will continue, to generate much discussion, within academia and beyond. This volume originated from conversations among the co-editors about popular music, its histories, and places. As we agreed in our initial conversations, popular music involves highly contested practices in equally highly contested places. Some popular …
Afterword
 Why I Decided to Pretend I was American, I Will Never Knowâ
Thatcher's Grandchildren?
Sounds and the City
This book explores the ways in which Western-derived music connects with globalization, hybridity, consumerism and the flow of cultures. Both as local terrain and as global crossroads, cities remain f
The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies
A comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference collection, bringing together an authoritative and international line-up of scholars to examine key social and political issues related to the Olympics. An
Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies
Nicholas E. Sarantakes Dropping the Torch
Nicholas E. Sarantakes, Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott and the Cold War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Pp. 356. £19.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-5211-9477-8 A few year
The New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure
This book is about the new politics of leisure and pleasure - the values, practices, struggles and contradictions that now characterize the social worlds of rambling, drinking, tourism, sex, watching
Key Concepts in Sports Studies
The Football Imagination
Come on Down?
Contributors: Dominic Strinati, Stephen Wagg, Deborah Philips, Alan Tomlinson, Janice Winship, Philip Dodd, Christine Geraghty, Garry Whannel, Graham Murdock, Alan Clarke, Rosalind Brunt, John Street, Dick Hebdige
Thatcher's Children
Thatcher's children? - the study of politics of childhood in the neo-liberal era testing, testing - politics, childhood and British education 1979- 1995 the politics of the Children's Act happy families - the politics of child abuse young thugs go for it - the politics of the young offender Gillick and after - children and sex the children's rights movement child poverty tabloid constructions of childhood - the case of James Bulger's murder child…
Sounds and the City
This book explores the ways in which Western-derived music connects with globalization, hybridity, consumerism and the flow of cultures. Both as local terrain and as global crossroads, cities remain f
Comedy, politics and permissiveness
Angels of Us All? Football Management, Globalization and the Politics of Celebrity
This essay takes a critical look at the football manager as global celebrity. Using two eminent contemporary managers – José Mourinho and Sven‐Goran Eriksson – as case studies, it argues that football managers in the dominant discourses of the game remain the sole means of explaining the outcome of politically and/or commercially important football matches. The structural factors that affect these outcomes are largely denied. This builds on and r…
Never the gentleman
This article analyses the near-impossibility, for the duration of the amateur-professional divide, of cricketers born into working-class families being admitted to amateur status and, thus, to county captaincy, in the English first-class game. Its principal argument is that the hegemony achieved in the latter half of the nineteenth century by the English upper class (the aristocracy, major landowners and leaders of financial capital and their fam…
Holding their own’
This study looks historically at the Australian presence in English football culture. In essence, it describes a transition from Aussie‐footballer‐as‐rarity to the contemporary situation in which Australians line up as simply one unremarkable nationality among the many represented in British football’s contingent of migrant workers. To illustrate this transition there is a discussion of the case study of Craig Johnston, who, by definition, was an…
Base Mechanic Arms’? British Rowing, Some Ducks and the Shifting Politics of Amateurism
This essay examines an incident in the Olympic Games of 1928 when Australian sculler Henry Pearce stopped his boat in a race in order to avoid hitting a family of ducks. It was, it is argued, a definitively amateur gesture; it is also now a prominent piece of official Olympic history. Pearce's pause, however, was not widely acknowledged at the time it took place. This, I contend, is because British rowing was then dominated by gentleman amateurs …
Muck or Nettles
(2003). Muck or Nettles: Men, Masculinity and Myth in Yorkshire Cricket. Sport in History: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 68-93
The Football World
Thatcher's Children
Thatcher's children? - the study of politics of childhood in the neo-liberal era testing, testing - politics, childhood and British education 1979- 1995 the politics of the Children's Act happy families - the politics of child abuse young thugs go for it - the politics of the young offender Gillick and after - children and sex the children's rights movement child poverty tabloid constructions of childhood - the case of James Bulger's murder child…
The Football Imagination
A carnival of cricket?’
(2000). ‘A carnival of cricket?’: The cricket world cup, ‘race’ and the politics of carnival. Culture, Sport, Society: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 70-88
Time gentlemen please’
(2000). ‘Time gentlemen please’: The decline of amateur captaincy in English county cricket. Contemporary British History: Vol. 14, Amateurs and Professionals in Post-War British Sport, pp. 31-59
British Football and Social Exclusion
This book takes stock of British football at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is written by a range of concerned academics and writers, all of whom have an active relationship with the contemporary football world. The book assesses the changes that have occurred in many areas of football culture and the political and academic debates that have accompanied these changes. English football in particular, it seems, is 'fat city'. The Pre…
Comedy, politics and permissiveness
Muck or Nettles
(2003). Muck or Nettles: Men, Masculinity and Myth in Yorkshire Cricket. Sport in History: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 68-93
Come on Down?
Contributors: Dominic Strinati, Stephen Wagg, Deborah Philips, Alan Tomlinson, Janice Winship, Philip Dodd, Christine Geraghty, Garry Whannel, Graham Murdock, Alan Clarke, Rosalind Brunt, John Street, Dick Hebdige
British Football & Social Exclusion
This book takes stock of British football at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is written by a range of concerned academics and writers, all of whom have an active relationship with the contemporary football world. The book assesses the changes that have occurred in many areas of football culture and the political and academic debates that have accompanied these changes.English football in particular, it seems, is 'fat city'. The Prem…
Cricket and National Identity in the Postcolonial Age
Base Mechanic Arms’? British Rowing, Some Ducks and the Shifting Politics of Amateurism
This essay examines an incident in the Olympic Games of 1928 when Australian sculler Henry Pearce stopped his boat in a race in order to avoid hitting a family of ducks. It was, it is argued, a definitively amateur gesture; it is also now a prominent piece of official Olympic history. Pearce's pause, however, was not widely acknowledged at the time it took place. This, I contend, is because British rowing was then dominated by gentleman amateurs …
Angels of Us All? Football Management, Globalization and the Politics of Celebrity
This essay takes a critical look at the football manager as global celebrity. Using two eminent contemporary managers – José Mourinho and Sven‐Goran Eriksson – as case studies, it argues that football managers in the dominant discourses of the game remain the sole means of explaining the outcome of politically and/or commercially important football matches. The structural factors that affect these outcomes are largely denied. This builds on and r…
Holding their own’
This study looks historically at the Australian presence in English football culture. In essence, it describes a transition from Aussie‐footballer‐as‐rarity to the contemporary situation in which Australians line up as simply one unremarkable nationality among the many represented in British football’s contingent of migrant workers. To illustrate this transition there is a discussion of the case study of Craig Johnston, who, by definition, was an…
Key Concepts in Sports Studies
The Sociological Imagination
The New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure
This book is about the new politics of leisure and pleasure - the values, practices, struggles and contradictions that now characterize the social worlds of rambling, drinking, tourism, sex, watching
The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies
A comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference collection, bringing together an authoritative and international line-up of scholars to examine key social and political issues related to the Olympics. An
Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies
Nicholas E. Sarantakes Dropping the Torch
Nicholas E. Sarantakes, Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott and the Cold War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Pp. 356. £19.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-5211-9477-8 A few year
Thatcher's Grandchildren?
Thatcher's Grandchildren explores sociological and political issues about childhood that have that have become increasingly significant in the twenty first century within a political landscape framed
Introduction
This book is about popular music and place, principally cities. From Charlie Gillett’s (1970) The Sound of the City and Iain Chambers’ (1985) Urban Rhythms to more recent work such as Krims’ (2007) Music and Urban Geography , attention to popular music has allowed various soundings of the often unfathomable aspects of urban life. Cities have been spaces of musical fascination at least since Herman Melville wrote in 1849 of a visit to Liverpool: I…
‘How Many Divisions Does Ozzy Osbourne Have?’ Some Thoughts on Politics, Heavy Metal Music, and the ‘Clash of Civilizations’
The title of this chapter is an adaptation of a famous remark attributed to Josef Stalin. When, in 1935, the French prime minister asked him to adopt a policy favourable to Russian Catholics, so as to win favour with the Pope, Stalin is said to have replied: ‘How many divisions does the Pope have?’ This remains one of the definitive evocations of the concept of realpolitik; I return to the idea of realpolitik towards the end of the chapter. The p…
‘Why I Decided to Pretend I was American, I Will Never Know’
One evening in 1956 local singer Arnold ‘Gerry’ Dorsey met a young woman (whom he would later marry) at the Palais de Danse in Leicester, a prosperous but largely unremarkable city in the English East Midlands. He was anxious to impress her. He reflected later: Why I decided to pretend I was American, I will never know! I’d never been across the pond and knew nothing of the great Wild West apart from what I had seen on the big screen. All I knew …
 How Many Divisions Does Ozzy Osbourne Have?â Some Thoughts on Politics, Heavy Metal Music, and the â Clash of Civilizationsâ
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