K Liston
Biographic Data
| ID | 31891 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Liston |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Liston |
| SIGNATURE | LISTON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ulster |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3898-0166 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
SeAcabó: How a mass-mediated “social drama” made visible and confronted (subjective and objective) violence in women’s football in Spain
The victory of the Spanish national women’s football team at the 2023 FIFA World Cup was marred by the mass-mediated non-consensual kiss on midfielder, Jennifer Hermoso, by Luis Rubiales, then President of the Royal Spanish Football National Federation. The kiss sparked general outrage worldwide and led to the prosecution of Rubiales for sexual assault and coercion. Drawing on the concepts of “moral shock” and “social drama,” this article explore…
Exploring online sexism and misogyny in women’s professional English football
The increased professionalization of women’s football means that women players are now competing in front of sold-out capacity crowds with millions of viewers watching. This enhanced popularity has increased online traffic relating to women’s football. Some of these discussions are abusive, and potentially harmful. Nonetheless, while a growing body of research has investigated online harms in football, most of the attention has centred on men’s f…
Sport as migrant work: Transnational athletic migration and belonging in English professional women’s football
The transnational mobility of women footballers has been subject to scant academic attention. However, the pace and scale of the professionalization of the women’s game and the concomitant internationalization of playing rosters over the last decade warrants further research. This study explores the experiences of migrant footballers in the women’s professional game in England. Through semi-structured interviews (n.6), this article investigates p…
Online Abuse, Emotion Work and Sports Journalism
This article generates new insights into the changing profession of journalism. Empirically, we present the findings of 21 interviews with journalists working in the Irish and UK sports beats on their experiences of online abuse. Conceptually, we address the under-theorising of emotions in journalism by extending the utility and entanglement of emotion work and emotional labour. In doing so, we posit future lines of theoretical enquiry about indi…
Strategies for Overcoming Challenges in Promoting a Socially-More Responsive Code of Building Information Modeling in Egypt
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a potential solution to numerous challenges in asset management, including missing data, incompatible software, and unclear business processes. However, the current use of BIM in construction projects has focused on the application of technology and digital information delivery, neglecting system compatibility and information needs. This oversight can lead to a gap resulting in varying levels of implementati…
[K]neeling only goes to highlight your ignorance. England is NOT! a #racist country’: Aversive racism, colour-blindness, and racist temporalities in discussions of football online
Drawing on theories of aversive racism and colour-blindness, which stress the invisibility of contemporary racism, this article analyses online discussions on taking the knee (TTK) during EURO2020 men’s football tournament. While highly visible racist abuse directed at Black English players after losing the final to Italy (dominative racism) received most public attention and repudiation, based on 6,850 English language tweets published on Twitte…
It's sort of help yourself' - DIY medical care and team-doctoring in amateur women's sport
It has become something of a truism, that within various athletic subcultures pain and injury are regularly normalised as 'part of the game'. One clear consequence which flows from this empirical reality is that athletes often need medical care in various forms. Recent developments in the gendered structuring of sport means that sportswomen are increasingly centred within this process. Yet, there is a broad consensus from sportswomen and academic…
Best run club in the world: Manchester City fans and the legitimation of sportswashing
The term sportswashing has been discussed and analysed within academic circles, as well as the mainstream media. However, the majority of existing research has focused on one-off event-based sportswashing strategies (such as autocratic states hosting major international sports events) rather than longer term investment-based strategies (such as state actors purchasing sports clubs and teams). Furthermore, little has been written about the impact …
The ‘Great Game’ and Sport: Identity, Contestation and Irish–British Relations in the Olympic Movement
This paper draws on original rigorous research conducted in an extensive range of local, national and international state archives, sporting repositories and personal papers. In focus is the 1948 London Olympic Games, the Olympic movement and a ‘new’ phase in Irish–British relations involving international sport. Here, for the first time, we elucidate the role of non-state sportive diplomats who, acting as cultural intermediaries, were involved i…
Whose ‘wee country’: Identity politics and sport in Northern Ireland
This article responds to calls in this journal for increased attention to identity, culture, power and sport. It explores, for the first time, the lived realities of identity politics in a divided society, through interviews with 12 self-declared Irish nationalists and republicans that represented Northern Ireland. Important insights are revealed into national eligibility decisions for either Irish team, motivated mainly by ‘shop window’ visibili…
Our wee country: National identity, golf and ‘Ireland
The careers of professional golfers offer a noteworthy opportunity to examine the ways in which national identity is imagined, constructed and experienced. This paper examines the nexus of national identity and golf in ‘Ireland’, and more particularly, Rory McIlroy’s public statements on the identity politics surrounding his country of choice for the 2016 Olympic Games. In so doing, it reveals aspects of McIlroy’s personal and sporting habitus, t…
The problem of ideology in making sense of physical education and sport: Reflections on the Colwell—Mansfield debate
Two papers in the European Physical Education Review by Colwell (1999) and Mansfield (this issue) have argued respectively against, and in favour of, a potential synthesis between feminism and figurational sociology as a vehicle for making more adequate sense of physical education and sport. This paper offers both selective summaries and reflections upon some of the theoretical implications arising from this exchange, specifically as it relates t…
Women’s Soccer in the Republic of Ireland: Some Preliminary Sociological Comments
This essay endeavours to present a more reality‐congruent understanding of aspects of the emergence and development of women’s soccer in Ireland since the 1970s. It draws on interview and survey data, and on the author’s elite level involvement in women’s soccer since the mid 1990s, to suggest that a present day phenomenon – in this case, females’ increasing involvement in a traditionally male‐associated sport like soccer – is more adequately und…
Established-outsider relations between males and females in male-associated sports in Ireland
This paper introduces readers to the field of male-associated sports in the Republic of Ireland with specific reference to power relations between the sexes. It situates a present-day social phenomenon, i.e. Irish females' increasing involvement in traditional male-associated sports such as Gaelic football, rugby and soccer, within the context of social processes in which more or less independent groups have become more interdependent. Qualitativ…
Best run club in the world: Manchester City fans and the legitimation of sportswashing
The term sportswashing has been discussed and analysed within academic circles, as well as the mainstream media. However, the majority of existing research has focused on one-off event-based sportswashing strategies (such as autocratic states hosting major international sports events) rather than longer term investment-based strategies (such as state actors purchasing sports clubs and teams). Furthermore, little has been written about the impact …
Women’s Soccer in the Republic of Ireland: Some Preliminary Sociological Comments
This essay endeavours to present a more reality‐congruent understanding of aspects of the emergence and development of women’s soccer in Ireland since the 1970s. It draws on interview and survey data, and on the author’s elite level involvement in women’s soccer since the mid 1990s, to suggest that a present day phenomenon – in this case, females’ increasing involvement in a traditionally male‐associated sport like soccer – is more adequately und…
Our wee country: National identity, golf and ‘Ireland
The careers of professional golfers offer a noteworthy opportunity to examine the ways in which national identity is imagined, constructed and experienced. This paper examines the nexus of national identity and golf in ‘Ireland’, and more particularly, Rory McIlroy’s public statements on the identity politics surrounding his country of choice for the 2016 Olympic Games. In so doing, it reveals aspects of McIlroy’s personal and sporting habitus, t…
Established-outsider relations between males and females in male-associated sports in Ireland
This paper introduces readers to the field of male-associated sports in the Republic of Ireland with specific reference to power relations between the sexes. It situates a present-day social phenomenon, i.e. Irish females' increasing involvement in traditional male-associated sports such as Gaelic football, rugby and soccer, within the context of social processes in which more or less independent groups have become more interdependent. Qualitativ…
[K]neeling only goes to highlight your ignorance. England is NOT! a #racist country’: Aversive racism, colour-blindness, and racist temporalities in discussions of football online
Drawing on theories of aversive racism and colour-blindness, which stress the invisibility of contemporary racism, this article analyses online discussions on taking the knee (TTK) during EURO2020 men’s football tournament. While highly visible racist abuse directed at Black English players after losing the final to Italy (dominative racism) received most public attention and repudiation, based on 6,850 English language tweets published on Twitte…
The problem of ideology in making sense of physical education and sport: Reflections on the Colwell—Mansfield debate
Two papers in the European Physical Education Review by Colwell (1999) and Mansfield (this issue) have argued respectively against, and in favour of, a potential synthesis between feminism and figurational sociology as a vehicle for making more adequate sense of physical education and sport. This paper offers both selective summaries and reflections upon some of the theoretical implications arising from this exchange, specifically as it relates t…
SeAcabó: How a mass-mediated “social drama” made visible and confronted (subjective and objective) violence in women’s football in Spain
The victory of the Spanish national women’s football team at the 2023 FIFA World Cup was marred by the mass-mediated non-consensual kiss on midfielder, Jennifer Hermoso, by Luis Rubiales, then President of the Royal Spanish Football National Federation. The kiss sparked general outrage worldwide and led to the prosecution of Rubiales for sexual assault and coercion. Drawing on the concepts of “moral shock” and “social drama,” this article explore…
Online Abuse, Emotion Work and Sports Journalism
This article generates new insights into the changing profession of journalism. Empirically, we present the findings of 21 interviews with journalists working in the Irish and UK sports beats on their experiences of online abuse. Conceptually, we address the under-theorising of emotions in journalism by extending the utility and entanglement of emotion work and emotional labour. In doing so, we posit future lines of theoretical enquiry about indi…
It's sort of help yourself' - DIY medical care and team-doctoring in amateur women's sport
It has become something of a truism, that within various athletic subcultures pain and injury are regularly normalised as 'part of the game'. One clear consequence which flows from this empirical reality is that athletes often need medical care in various forms. Recent developments in the gendered structuring of sport means that sportswomen are increasingly centred within this process. Yet, there is a broad consensus from sportswomen and academic…
The ‘Great Game’ and Sport: Identity, Contestation and Irish–British Relations in the Olympic Movement
This paper draws on original rigorous research conducted in an extensive range of local, national and international state archives, sporting repositories and personal papers. In focus is the 1948 London Olympic Games, the Olympic movement and a ‘new’ phase in Irish–British relations involving international sport. Here, for the first time, we elucidate the role of non-state sportive diplomats who, acting as cultural intermediaries, were involved i…
Established-outsider relations between males and females in male-associated sports in Ireland
This paper introduces readers to the field of male-associated sports in the Republic of Ireland with specific reference to power relations between the sexes. It situates a present-day social phenomenon, i.e. Irish females' increasing involvement in traditional male-associated sports such as Gaelic football, rugby and soccer, within the context of social processes in which more or less independent groups have become more interdependent. Qualitativ…
Women’s Soccer in the Republic of Ireland: Some Preliminary Sociological Comments
This essay endeavours to present a more reality‐congruent understanding of aspects of the emergence and development of women’s soccer in Ireland since the 1970s. It draws on interview and survey data, and on the author’s elite level involvement in women’s soccer since the mid 1990s, to suggest that a present day phenomenon – in this case, females’ increasing involvement in a traditionally male‐associated sport like soccer – is more adequately und…
The problem of ideology in making sense of physical education and sport: Reflections on the Colwell—Mansfield debate
Two papers in the European Physical Education Review by Colwell (1999) and Mansfield (this issue) have argued respectively against, and in favour of, a potential synthesis between feminism and figurational sociology as a vehicle for making more adequate sense of physical education and sport. This paper offers both selective summaries and reflections upon some of the theoretical implications arising from this exchange, specifically as it relates t…
Whose ‘wee country’: Identity politics and sport in Northern Ireland
This article responds to calls in this journal for increased attention to identity, culture, power and sport. It explores, for the first time, the lived realities of identity politics in a divided society, through interviews with 12 self-declared Irish nationalists and republicans that represented Northern Ireland. Important insights are revealed into national eligibility decisions for either Irish team, motivated mainly by ‘shop window’ visibili…
Our wee country: National identity, golf and ‘Ireland
The careers of professional golfers offer a noteworthy opportunity to examine the ways in which national identity is imagined, constructed and experienced. This paper examines the nexus of national identity and golf in ‘Ireland’, and more particularly, Rory McIlroy’s public statements on the identity politics surrounding his country of choice for the 2016 Olympic Games. In so doing, it reveals aspects of McIlroy’s personal and sporting habitus, t…
The ‘Great Game’ and Sport: Identity, Contestation and Irish–British Relations in the Olympic Movement
This paper draws on original rigorous research conducted in an extensive range of local, national and international state archives, sporting repositories and personal papers. In focus is the 1948 London Olympic Games, the Olympic movement and a ‘new’ phase in Irish–British relations involving international sport. Here, for the first time, we elucidate the role of non-state sportive diplomats who, acting as cultural intermediaries, were involved i…
Strategies for Overcoming Challenges in Promoting a Socially-More Responsive Code of Building Information Modeling in Egypt
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a potential solution to numerous challenges in asset management, including missing data, incompatible software, and unclear business processes. However, the current use of BIM in construction projects has focused on the application of technology and digital information delivery, neglecting system compatibility and information needs. This oversight can lead to a gap resulting in varying levels of implementati…
[K]neeling only goes to highlight your ignorance. England is NOT! a #racist country’: Aversive racism, colour-blindness, and racist temporalities in discussions of football online
Drawing on theories of aversive racism and colour-blindness, which stress the invisibility of contemporary racism, this article analyses online discussions on taking the knee (TTK) during EURO2020 men’s football tournament. While highly visible racist abuse directed at Black English players after losing the final to Italy (dominative racism) received most public attention and repudiation, based on 6,850 English language tweets published on Twitte…
It's sort of help yourself' - DIY medical care and team-doctoring in amateur women's sport
It has become something of a truism, that within various athletic subcultures pain and injury are regularly normalised as 'part of the game'. One clear consequence which flows from this empirical reality is that athletes often need medical care in various forms. Recent developments in the gendered structuring of sport means that sportswomen are increasingly centred within this process. Yet, there is a broad consensus from sportswomen and academic…
Best run club in the world: Manchester City fans and the legitimation of sportswashing
The term sportswashing has been discussed and analysed within academic circles, as well as the mainstream media. However, the majority of existing research has focused on one-off event-based sportswashing strategies (such as autocratic states hosting major international sports events) rather than longer term investment-based strategies (such as state actors purchasing sports clubs and teams). Furthermore, little has been written about the impact …
SeAcabó: How a mass-mediated “social drama” made visible and confronted (subjective and objective) violence in women’s football in Spain
The victory of the Spanish national women’s football team at the 2023 FIFA World Cup was marred by the mass-mediated non-consensual kiss on midfielder, Jennifer Hermoso, by Luis Rubiales, then President of the Royal Spanish Football National Federation. The kiss sparked general outrage worldwide and led to the prosecution of Rubiales for sexual assault and coercion. Drawing on the concepts of “moral shock” and “social drama,” this article explore…
Exploring online sexism and misogyny in women’s professional English football
The increased professionalization of women’s football means that women players are now competing in front of sold-out capacity crowds with millions of viewers watching. This enhanced popularity has increased online traffic relating to women’s football. Some of these discussions are abusive, and potentially harmful. Nonetheless, while a growing body of research has investigated online harms in football, most of the attention has centred on men’s f…
Sport as migrant work: Transnational athletic migration and belonging in English professional women’s football
The transnational mobility of women footballers has been subject to scant academic attention. However, the pace and scale of the professionalization of the women’s game and the concomitant internationalization of playing rosters over the last decade warrants further research. This study explores the experiences of migrant footballers in the women’s professional game in England. Through semi-structured interviews (n.6), this article investigates p…
Online Abuse, Emotion Work and Sports Journalism
This article generates new insights into the changing profession of journalism. Empirically, we present the findings of 21 interviews with journalists working in the Irish and UK sports beats on their experiences of online abuse. Conceptually, we address the under-theorising of emotions in journalism by extending the utility and entanglement of emotion work and emotional labour. In doing so, we posit future lines of theoretical enquiry about indi…
Sociology (11 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)