Nathan Kalman-Lamb
Biographic Data
| ID | 310602 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathan Kalman-Lamb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Kalman-Lamb |
| SIGNATURE | KALMAN-LAMB N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Brunswick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3269-4073 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
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 coaches always make the health decisions”: Conflict of interest as exploitation in power five college football
Much research exists on conflict of interest in high-performance sport in the global North. Yet, the research conducted particularly into US college football—a fairly unique social site of athletic labor given that the fact that enormous revenue is produced by professionalized work that is not compensated—is largely quantitative in nature. In this study, we conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with twenty-five former power five footba…
Defamiliarizing Concussions: Sports Fandom, Injury, and Potential Attitudinal Shifts
In this article, we examine whether modes of representation that disrupt and defamiliarize the naturalized understandings fans share about the legitimacy and necessity of spectacular violence and sacrifice in sport can have the potential to reframe fan attitudes and investments. We explore the social cognitive and attitudinal shift towards traumatic brain injury (TBI) and injury more broadly in American football of first year students with a stat…
Play'ing College Football: Campus Athletic Worker Experiences of Exploitation
It is well-established in the literature on the economic dimensions of US college sport that it has become a site of professionalized, value-producing work that does not equitably compensate the campus athletic workers responsible for the production of value therein. Yet, while these interventions make highly compelling political economic claims, few focus on how college athletes themselves experience the system and thus the exploitation they mig…
Listening to the literature: A case for centering writing in critical sociology of sport pedagogy
This article argues for a pedagogical approach to the sociology of sport and physical education that centers writing. Drawing on student reflections from my first year seminar in academic writing ‘Social Inequality and Sports,’ I demonstrate that students are more inclined to entertain the imperatives of critical pedagogies in the context of sport – the development of critical consciousness and transformative praxis – when they are empowered to t…
Athletic Labor and Social Reproduction
This article connects the exploitation experienced by athletic laborers to sports fandom by theorizing athletic labor as a form of social reproductive labor. The work of athletes in high-performance spectator sport contributes to the affective reproduction of spectatorial subjects required by capitalism, albeit at a great cost to the laboring athlete. This intervention advances Marxist scholarship on the sociology of sport by extending the litera…
Complicating Gender, Sport, and Social Inclusion: The Case for Intersectionality
The following opinion piece concerns a reading of the work of Angela Davis and its application to the research on sport and social inclusion. It has the following aims: first, we use her work to argue that racism, as constituted via economics, helps to construct gender; second, we suggest that research on sport and social inclusion would do well to consider the work of Davis in forming a more complex reading of what it means to invite the partici…
Multiculturalism, Gender and Bend it Like Beckham
In this article, we explore the efficacy of sport as an instrument for social inclusion through an analysis of the film Bend it Like Beckham . The film argues for the potential of sport to foster a more inclusive society in terms of multiculturalism and gender equity by showing how a hybrid culture can be forged through the microcosm of an English young women’s football club, while simultaneously challenging assumptions about traditional masculin…
The athlete as model minority subject: Jose Bautista and Canadian multiculturalism
The discourse of multiculturalism disguises complicated racial dynamics in nations such as Canada. Although white privilege persists, it tends to be mediated through non-white figures who can engender consent from other minority members. These figures have been called model minorities, a role that is well-tailored to celebrated athletes. Athletes who fill the role of model minority represent the ideal immigrant citizen: English-speaking, middle c…
Athletic Labor and Social Reproduction
This article connects the exploitation experienced by athletic laborers to sports fandom by theorizing athletic labor as a form of social reproductive labor. The work of athletes in high-performance spectator sport contributes to the affective reproduction of spectatorial subjects required by capitalism, albeit at a great cost to the laboring athlete. This intervention advances Marxist scholarship on the sociology of sport by extending the litera…
The athlete as model minority subject: Jose Bautista and Canadian multiculturalism
The discourse of multiculturalism disguises complicated racial dynamics in nations such as Canada. Although white privilege persists, it tends to be mediated through non-white figures who can engender consent from other minority members. These figures have been called model minorities, a role that is well-tailored to celebrated athletes. Athletes who fill the role of model minority represent the ideal immigrant citizen: English-speaking, middle c…
Play'ing College Football: Campus Athletic Worker Experiences of Exploitation
It is well-established in the literature on the economic dimensions of US college sport that it has become a site of professionalized, value-producing work that does not equitably compensate the campus athletic workers responsible for the production of value therein. Yet, while these interventions make highly compelling political economic claims, few focus on how college athletes themselves experience the system and thus the exploitation they mig…
Complicating Gender, Sport, and Social Inclusion: The Case for Intersectionality
The following opinion piece concerns a reading of the work of Angela Davis and its application to the research on sport and social inclusion. It has the following aims: first, we use her work to argue that racism, as constituted via economics, helps to construct gender; second, we suggest that research on sport and social inclusion would do well to consider the work of Davis in forming a more complex reading of what it means to invite the partici…
Multiculturalism, Gender and Bend it Like Beckham
In this article, we explore the efficacy of sport as an instrument for social inclusion through an analysis of the film Bend it Like Beckham . The film argues for the potential of sport to foster a more inclusive society in terms of multiculturalism and gender equity by showing how a hybrid culture can be forged through the microcosm of an English young women’s football club, while simultaneously challenging assumptions about traditional masculin…
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…
Defamiliarizing Concussions: Sports Fandom, Injury, and Potential Attitudinal Shifts
In this article, we examine whether modes of representation that disrupt and defamiliarize the naturalized understandings fans share about the legitimacy and necessity of spectacular violence and sacrifice in sport can have the potential to reframe fan attitudes and investments. We explore the social cognitive and attitudinal shift towards traumatic brain injury (TBI) and injury more broadly in American football of first year students with a stat…
Listening to the literature: A case for centering writing in critical sociology of sport pedagogy
This article argues for a pedagogical approach to the sociology of sport and physical education that centers writing. Drawing on student reflections from my first year seminar in academic writing ‘Social Inequality and Sports,’ I demonstrate that students are more inclined to entertain the imperatives of critical pedagogies in the context of sport – the development of critical consciousness and transformative praxis – when they are empowered to t…
The athlete as model minority subject: Jose Bautista and Canadian multiculturalism
The discourse of multiculturalism disguises complicated racial dynamics in nations such as Canada. Although white privilege persists, it tends to be mediated through non-white figures who can engender consent from other minority members. These figures have been called model minorities, a role that is well-tailored to celebrated athletes. Athletes who fill the role of model minority represent the ideal immigrant citizen: English-speaking, middle c…
Multiculturalism, Gender and Bend it Like Beckham
In this article, we explore the efficacy of sport as an instrument for social inclusion through an analysis of the film Bend it Like Beckham . The film argues for the potential of sport to foster a more inclusive society in terms of multiculturalism and gender equity by showing how a hybrid culture can be forged through the microcosm of an English young women’s football club, while simultaneously challenging assumptions about traditional masculin…
Complicating Gender, Sport, and Social Inclusion: The Case for Intersectionality
The following opinion piece concerns a reading of the work of Angela Davis and its application to the research on sport and social inclusion. It has the following aims: first, we use her work to argue that racism, as constituted via economics, helps to construct gender; second, we suggest that research on sport and social inclusion would do well to consider the work of Davis in forming a more complex reading of what it means to invite the partici…
Listening to the literature: A case for centering writing in critical sociology of sport pedagogy
This article argues for a pedagogical approach to the sociology of sport and physical education that centers writing. Drawing on student reflections from my first year seminar in academic writing ‘Social Inequality and Sports,’ I demonstrate that students are more inclined to entertain the imperatives of critical pedagogies in the context of sport – the development of critical consciousness and transformative praxis – when they are empowered to t…
Athletic Labor and Social Reproduction
This article connects the exploitation experienced by athletic laborers to sports fandom by theorizing athletic labor as a form of social reproductive labor. The work of athletes in high-performance spectator sport contributes to the affective reproduction of spectatorial subjects required by capitalism, albeit at a great cost to the laboring athlete. This intervention advances Marxist scholarship on the sociology of sport by extending the litera…
“The coaches always make the health decisions”: Conflict of interest as exploitation in power five college football
Much research exists on conflict of interest in high-performance sport in the global North. Yet, the research conducted particularly into US college football—a fairly unique social site of athletic labor given that the fact that enormous revenue is produced by professionalized work that is not compensated—is largely quantitative in nature. In this study, we conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with twenty-five former power five footba…
Defamiliarizing Concussions: Sports Fandom, Injury, and Potential Attitudinal Shifts
In this article, we examine whether modes of representation that disrupt and defamiliarize the naturalized understandings fans share about the legitimacy and necessity of spectacular violence and sacrifice in sport can have the potential to reframe fan attitudes and investments. We explore the social cognitive and attitudinal shift towards traumatic brain injury (TBI) and injury more broadly in American football of first year students with a stat…
Play'ing College Football: Campus Athletic Worker Experiences of Exploitation
It is well-established in the literature on the economic dimensions of US college sport that it has become a site of professionalized, value-producing work that does not equitably compensate the campus athletic workers responsible for the production of value therein. Yet, while these interventions make highly compelling political economic claims, few focus on how college athletes themselves experience the system and thus the exploitation they mig…
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…
Sports, Gender, and Society (9 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)