Daniel Sailofsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 305484 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Sailofsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Sailofsky |
| SIGNATURE | SAILOFSKY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0406-6800 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rules for Thee but Not for Me”: Public Sentiment and Expectations of Privilege in the Criminal Legal System in the Diddy Case
The trial of entertainment mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs for racketeering and sex trafficking garnered considerable public attention and, after his acquittal on the most serious charges, attracted much public commentary about the criminal legal system (CLS) in the United States. This article examines 1000 comments spread out over 10 posts on Instagram related to Diddy’s acquittal, to better understand sentiment on these events. The results indicate th…
Israeli Hasbara and the NBA's Palestine Exception: The Impossibility of Capitalist “Social Justice”
Sport is a notable site for the Israeli state in its hasbara (public diplomacy, or “explaining”) effort that seeks to normalize the conditions of ethnic cleansing, illegal settlement, and apartheid practices in historic and occupied Palestine. Against the backdrop of the genocide in Gaza and the lack of international sport sanctions against Israeli teams, this paper maps several hasbara activities/attempts featuring the National Basketball Associ…
Settler Colonialism–Genocide–Athleticide: The Destruction of Sport in Occupied Palestine
In this paper, our scholarly collective traces how athleticide—defined here as the obliteration of sport, sporting cultures, and athletics through the killing, arrest, detention, or disabling of athletes, coaches, staff, officials, and administrators and the destruction of athletic infrastructure and history—has been part of the US–NATO-funded Israeli state’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023. Although much of the literature foc…
The Invisible Labor of Women in the Construction of the National Football League’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and Concussion Crisis
The origin story of the National Football League’s concussion crisis and the link between chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and football have mostly been portrayed through discourses led by scientists, athletes, and sports organizations, with the wives, daughters, and family members of football players largely remaining tertiary characters in this story. In this paper, we show how women are engines of the concussion and CTE crisis in the Nat…
Can There Be “Normal” Sport in an Abnormal World? Sport Boycott and Athlete Activism for Ceasefire in Gaza
This paper is an edited transcript of an online panel recorded on April 9, 2024, with commentaries provided at the start and the end. Speakers underscore the urgency for the sport industry and governing bodies to react to the genocidal violence in Gaza. Athletes for Ceasefire’s co-founder Omar Dreidi introduces the rationale behind this newly formed coalition. Ultimate Palestine’s Daniel Bannoura recounts the tension in promoting ultimate frisbee…
But she's not even trans: A rhetorical analysis of 'liberal feminist' defences of Imane Khelif amid Olympic transvestigations
In the explosion of discourse across the political spectrum amidst Imane Khelif's Paris Olympics performance, little academic attention has been paid to the subtle anti-trans and anti-Arab rhetoric posed by supporters of Khelif in defence of her success. In essence, this article adopts the case study of the discursive landscape surrounding Khelif's Paris Olympics win to demonstrate the theoretical and liberatory limits of exclusionary, so-called …
The privilege to do it all? Exploring the contradictions of name, image and likeness (NIL) rights for women athletes and women's sports
In 2021, the US Supreme Court forced the NCAA to drop its name, image and likeness ban, allowing collegiate athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness rights. Women's basketball's biggest stars have been some of the bigger beneficiaries, profiting off of their attention, media coverage and social media presence to draw in fans, earn significant sums and grow the popularity of their sport. While name, image and likeness rights are undo…
We cannot win this fight if we don’t acknowledge any such fight exists”: Examining media coverage of Black women’s risk for intimate partner violence
Research and policy continue to focus on the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) in the U.S., with estimates indicating that 81 million people have been victimized by a partner in their lifetime. IPV disproportionately impacts women, and Black women in particular face victimization at a much higher rate when compared to other groups. Considering their overrepresentation, advocates have called for increased attention to IPV and its assoc…
Did the NFL start caring about women a lot more after Ray Rice? Probably not’: White-collar deviance and violence against women in racial capitalist sport
From a zemiological perspective, organizations causing social harm in their pursuit of profit is a form of white-collar deviance. In the case of sport and violence committed by athletes outside of the field of play, the structures of professional sport and the decisions made by organizations can impact not only the athletes involved, but victims, potential victims and society at large. Interviewing National Basketball Association (NBA) and Nation…
Building Back Better”: Seeking an Equitable Return to Sport for Development in the Wake of Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic affected sport programming by restricting in-person activities. Concurrently, global outcry for racial justice for Black and racialized communities promoted calls to action to assess equitable practices in sport, including sport for development (SFD). This study critically examined SFD “return to play” programming to include perspectives from racialized persons’ lived experiences. We present findings based on data collected …
More Talent, More Leeway: Do Violence Against Women Arrests Really Hurt NFL Player Careers
This article examines whether arrests for an act of violence against women have a negative impact on National Football League (NFL) player careers and whether this impact has become more negative over time. Framed by criminological deterrence and conflict theories, I conduct a Bayesian multi-level negative binomial regression on a matched pairs sample of all 117 NFL players arrested for an act of violence against women between 2000 and 2019 ( n =…
Masculinity, cancel culture and woke capitalism: Exploring Twitter response to Brendan Leipsic’s leaked conversation
On 6 May 2020, photos were leaked from a conversation in which Brendan Leipsic of the National Hockey League’s Washington Capitals, his brother Jeremy of the University of Manitoba Bisons and several others made vulgar, misogynistic comments about women and about other hockey players’ girlfriends and wives. Following the release of the conversation and the subsequent dismissal of both Leipsic brothers from their respective teams, many took to Twi…
One Step Forward, Two Tweets Back: Exploring Cultural Backlash and Hockey Masculinity on Twitter
Between 2000 and 2018, the number of fights in professional hockey decreased by more than half, reflecting rule changes intended to preserve player health. A 2019 playoff fight ignited debate on social media over the place of fighting in hockey. This research involved a content analysis of an incendiary tweet and the 920 replies it solicited. Content analysis confirmed that cultural backlash exists in sport and provided insight into manifestation…
Did the NFL start caring about women a lot more after Ray Rice? Probably not’: White-collar deviance and violence against women in racial capitalist sport
From a zemiological perspective, organizations causing social harm in their pursuit of profit is a form of white-collar deviance. In the case of sport and violence committed by athletes outside of the field of play, the structures of professional sport and the decisions made by organizations can impact not only the athletes involved, but victims, potential victims and society at large. Interviewing National Basketball Association (NBA) and Nation…
More Talent, More Leeway: Do Violence Against Women Arrests Really Hurt NFL Player Careers
This article examines whether arrests for an act of violence against women have a negative impact on National Football League (NFL) player careers and whether this impact has become more negative over time. Framed by criminological deterrence and conflict theories, I conduct a Bayesian multi-level negative binomial regression on a matched pairs sample of all 117 NFL players arrested for an act of violence against women between 2000 and 2019 ( n =…
One Step Forward, Two Tweets Back: Exploring Cultural Backlash and Hockey Masculinity on Twitter
Between 2000 and 2018, the number of fights in professional hockey decreased by more than half, reflecting rule changes intended to preserve player health. A 2019 playoff fight ignited debate on social media over the place of fighting in hockey. This research involved a content analysis of an incendiary tweet and the 920 replies it solicited. Content analysis confirmed that cultural backlash exists in sport and provided insight into manifestation…
Can There Be “Normal” Sport in an Abnormal World? Sport Boycott and Athlete Activism for Ceasefire in Gaza
This paper is an edited transcript of an online panel recorded on April 9, 2024, with commentaries provided at the start and the end. Speakers underscore the urgency for the sport industry and governing bodies to react to the genocidal violence in Gaza. Athletes for Ceasefire’s co-founder Omar Dreidi introduces the rationale behind this newly formed coalition. Ultimate Palestine’s Daniel Bannoura recounts the tension in promoting ultimate frisbee…
Masculinity, cancel culture and woke capitalism: Exploring Twitter response to Brendan Leipsic’s leaked conversation
On 6 May 2020, photos were leaked from a conversation in which Brendan Leipsic of the National Hockey League’s Washington Capitals, his brother Jeremy of the University of Manitoba Bisons and several others made vulgar, misogynistic comments about women and about other hockey players’ girlfriends and wives. Following the release of the conversation and the subsequent dismissal of both Leipsic brothers from their respective teams, many took to Twi…
Settler Colonialism–Genocide–Athleticide: The Destruction of Sport in Occupied Palestine
In this paper, our scholarly collective traces how athleticide—defined here as the obliteration of sport, sporting cultures, and athletics through the killing, arrest, detention, or disabling of athletes, coaches, staff, officials, and administrators and the destruction of athletic infrastructure and history—has been part of the US–NATO-funded Israeli state’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023. Although much of the literature foc…
But she's not even trans: A rhetorical analysis of 'liberal feminist' defences of Imane Khelif amid Olympic transvestigations
In the explosion of discourse across the political spectrum amidst Imane Khelif's Paris Olympics performance, little academic attention has been paid to the subtle anti-trans and anti-Arab rhetoric posed by supporters of Khelif in defence of her success. In essence, this article adopts the case study of the discursive landscape surrounding Khelif's Paris Olympics win to demonstrate the theoretical and liberatory limits of exclusionary, so-called …
The privilege to do it all? Exploring the contradictions of name, image and likeness (NIL) rights for women athletes and women's sports
In 2021, the US Supreme Court forced the NCAA to drop its name, image and likeness ban, allowing collegiate athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness rights. Women's basketball's biggest stars have been some of the bigger beneficiaries, profiting off of their attention, media coverage and social media presence to draw in fans, earn significant sums and grow the popularity of their sport. While name, image and likeness rights are undo…
One Step Forward, Two Tweets Back: Exploring Cultural Backlash and Hockey Masculinity on Twitter
Between 2000 and 2018, the number of fights in professional hockey decreased by more than half, reflecting rule changes intended to preserve player health. A 2019 playoff fight ignited debate on social media over the place of fighting in hockey. This research involved a content analysis of an incendiary tweet and the 920 replies it solicited. Content analysis confirmed that cultural backlash exists in sport and provided insight into manifestation…
More Talent, More Leeway: Do Violence Against Women Arrests Really Hurt NFL Player Careers
This article examines whether arrests for an act of violence against women have a negative impact on National Football League (NFL) player careers and whether this impact has become more negative over time. Framed by criminological deterrence and conflict theories, I conduct a Bayesian multi-level negative binomial regression on a matched pairs sample of all 117 NFL players arrested for an act of violence against women between 2000 and 2019 ( n =…
Masculinity, cancel culture and woke capitalism: Exploring Twitter response to Brendan Leipsic’s leaked conversation
On 6 May 2020, photos were leaked from a conversation in which Brendan Leipsic of the National Hockey League’s Washington Capitals, his brother Jeremy of the University of Manitoba Bisons and several others made vulgar, misogynistic comments about women and about other hockey players’ girlfriends and wives. Following the release of the conversation and the subsequent dismissal of both Leipsic brothers from their respective teams, many took to Twi…
Did the NFL start caring about women a lot more after Ray Rice? Probably not’: White-collar deviance and violence against women in racial capitalist sport
From a zemiological perspective, organizations causing social harm in their pursuit of profit is a form of white-collar deviance. In the case of sport and violence committed by athletes outside of the field of play, the structures of professional sport and the decisions made by organizations can impact not only the athletes involved, but victims, potential victims and society at large. Interviewing National Basketball Association (NBA) and Nation…
Building Back Better”: Seeking an Equitable Return to Sport for Development in the Wake of Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic affected sport programming by restricting in-person activities. Concurrently, global outcry for racial justice for Black and racialized communities promoted calls to action to assess equitable practices in sport, including sport for development (SFD). This study critically examined SFD “return to play” programming to include perspectives from racialized persons’ lived experiences. We present findings based on data collected …
We cannot win this fight if we don’t acknowledge any such fight exists”: Examining media coverage of Black women’s risk for intimate partner violence
Research and policy continue to focus on the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) in the U.S., with estimates indicating that 81 million people have been victimized by a partner in their lifetime. IPV disproportionately impacts women, and Black women in particular face victimization at a much higher rate when compared to other groups. Considering their overrepresentation, advocates have called for increased attention to IPV and its assoc…
Israeli Hasbara and the NBA's Palestine Exception: The Impossibility of Capitalist “Social Justice”
Sport is a notable site for the Israeli state in its hasbara (public diplomacy, or “explaining”) effort that seeks to normalize the conditions of ethnic cleansing, illegal settlement, and apartheid practices in historic and occupied Palestine. Against the backdrop of the genocide in Gaza and the lack of international sport sanctions against Israeli teams, this paper maps several hasbara activities/attempts featuring the National Basketball Associ…
Settler Colonialism–Genocide–Athleticide: The Destruction of Sport in Occupied Palestine
In this paper, our scholarly collective traces how athleticide—defined here as the obliteration of sport, sporting cultures, and athletics through the killing, arrest, detention, or disabling of athletes, coaches, staff, officials, and administrators and the destruction of athletic infrastructure and history—has been part of the US–NATO-funded Israeli state’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023. Although much of the literature foc…
The Invisible Labor of Women in the Construction of the National Football League’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and Concussion Crisis
The origin story of the National Football League’s concussion crisis and the link between chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and football have mostly been portrayed through discourses led by scientists, athletes, and sports organizations, with the wives, daughters, and family members of football players largely remaining tertiary characters in this story. In this paper, we show how women are engines of the concussion and CTE crisis in the Nat…
Can There Be “Normal” Sport in an Abnormal World? Sport Boycott and Athlete Activism for Ceasefire in Gaza
This paper is an edited transcript of an online panel recorded on April 9, 2024, with commentaries provided at the start and the end. Speakers underscore the urgency for the sport industry and governing bodies to react to the genocidal violence in Gaza. Athletes for Ceasefire’s co-founder Omar Dreidi introduces the rationale behind this newly formed coalition. Ultimate Palestine’s Daniel Bannoura recounts the tension in promoting ultimate frisbee…
But she's not even trans: A rhetorical analysis of 'liberal feminist' defences of Imane Khelif amid Olympic transvestigations
In the explosion of discourse across the political spectrum amidst Imane Khelif's Paris Olympics performance, little academic attention has been paid to the subtle anti-trans and anti-Arab rhetoric posed by supporters of Khelif in defence of her success. In essence, this article adopts the case study of the discursive landscape surrounding Khelif's Paris Olympics win to demonstrate the theoretical and liberatory limits of exclusionary, so-called …
The privilege to do it all? Exploring the contradictions of name, image and likeness (NIL) rights for women athletes and women's sports
In 2021, the US Supreme Court forced the NCAA to drop its name, image and likeness ban, allowing collegiate athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness rights. Women's basketball's biggest stars have been some of the bigger beneficiaries, profiting off of their attention, media coverage and social media presence to draw in fans, earn significant sums and grow the popularity of their sport. While name, image and likeness rights are undo…
Rules for Thee but Not for Me”: Public Sentiment and Expectations of Privilege in the Criminal Legal System in the Diddy Case
The trial of entertainment mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs for racketeering and sex trafficking garnered considerable public attention and, after his acquittal on the most serious charges, attracted much public commentary about the criminal legal system (CLS) in the United States. This article examines 1000 comments spread out over 10 posts on Instagram related to Diddy’s acquittal, to better understand sentiment on these events. The results indicate th…
Sports, Gender, and Society (11 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · League (4 works)