Jim Mckay
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596814 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jim Mckay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jim |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckay |
| SIGNATURE | MCKAY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 190 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Transnational Tourism Experiences at Gallipoli
Assessing the sociology of sport: On revisiting the sociological imagination
On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, Jim McKay, a wide ranging and influential international scholar on sport, gender, power and globalization, reflects on the benefits for the field of revisiting C Wright Mill and his work on the 'sociological imagination.' McKay notes this is important at a time when the 'parent' discipline of sociology continues to exhibit myriad longstanding controversies and crises and the hegemony of neoliberal 'co…
A Critique of the Militarisation of Australian History and Culture Thesis: The Case of Anzac Battlefield Tourism
This paper analyses the militarisation of Australian history and culture thesis with specific reference to the increasing popularity of Anzac battlefield tourism. I argue that the militarisation thesis contains ontological and epistemological flaws that render it incapable of understanding the multifaceted ways in which Australians experience Anzac battlefield tours. I then argue that in order to study how Australians both at home and overseas re…
Lay Down Sally’: Media narratives of failure in Australian sport
This article analyses media narratives of failure in sport using a case-study of the collapse of Australian rower Sally Robbins at the 2004 Olympic Games. Media coverage of Robbins' breakdown was driven by conflicting narratives. In the dominant version Robbins was initially denigrated as being ‘UnAustralian’. However, this disparagement precipitated several counter-narratives whereby Robbins was seen as having been failed by her teammates, coach…
Sport, Professional
According to the ideal type suggested by Freidson (2001), sport does not exhibit all of the characteristics of a profession. Unlike archetypal high‐status professions (e.g., medicine) in which the practitioners rather than governments or markets exert significant control over their labor, professional athletes work in cartels and oligopolies where they must respond to the demands of owners, managers, coaches, sponsors, consumers, and the media. T…
The Sociological Imagination in Practice at Brighton
Sport et masculinités
Cet article examine le régime sexuel du sport en se fondant sur des recherches récentes portant sur les hommes et les masculinités. Malgré le caractère tenace des liens entre les hommes, les masculinités et le sport, nous croyons que le sport constitue un contexte idéal pour « étudier par le haut », comme le propose Connell (1990), l'ordre hiérarchique de genre. Cinq secteurs de recherche sont abordés : les organisations sportives, les corps et l…
In Memoriam: Alan G. Ingham, 1947-2005
"Suffragettes in Satin Shorts"? Gender and Competitive Boxing
The Over-Production of us Sports and the New International Division of Cultural Labor
This article focuses on how US professional sports utilize the New International Division of Cultural Labor to supplement an overly costly local labor pool and over-supplied local market. We argue that while the classic problem of over-production is slowly eroding the sealed-off nature of US culture, the forces of its hyper-protectionist capitalism continue to characterize sports, precluding equal exchange
Globalization and Sport: Playing the World
Sport is the most universal feature of popular culture. It crosses language barriers and slices through national boundaries, attracting both spectators and participants, to a common lingua franca of passions, obsessions and desires. This book brings to light the connections between sport and culture. It argues that although sport is obviously a source of pleasure, it is also part of the government of everyday life. The creation of a sporting cale…
Masculinities, Gender Relations, and Sport
Forword - Michael S Kimmel Sudying Sport, Men and Masculinities from Feminist Standpoints - Jim McKay, Michael A Messner and Don Sabo PART ONE: EVERDAY CONSTRUCTIONS OF HEGEMONIC MASCULINITY Wrestling with Gender - Cynthia A Hasbrook and Othello Harris Physicality and Masculinities Among Inner-City First and Second Graders Moms, Sisters, and Ladies - Stephan R Walk Women Student Trainers in Men's Intercollegiate Sport The Morality/Masculinity Par…
Hard and Heavy: Gender and Power in a heavy metal music subculture
This article analyses gendered structures of power in a heavy metal (HM) music club. Although both male and female HM devotees often declare that they are engaged in a rebellious activity, this romantic conviction sits uneasily alongside the HM scene's reinforcement of conventional gender relations and identities. Although many women gravitated toward the HM setting in order to escape stifling adolescent situations, they wound up in another oppre…
Playing the world
Hockey equipment is designed in Sweden, financed from Canada, manufactured in Denmark, Japan, and the U.S., and distributed across North America and northern Europe. Nike has transformed itself from an Oregon distributor of Japanese shoes, and then an offshore manufacturer in Taiwan, the People's Republic of China, and Korea for shoes sold in the U.S., into a company with vast international sales and half a million workers earning under U.S.$1.50…
Courting lesbianism
Managing Gender: Affirmative Action and Organizational Power in Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Sport
Out of the Shadows: The Critical Sociology of Sport in Australia, 1986 to 1996
The sociology of sport in Australia has reached a key point in its development A critical tradition in the subdiscipline has been established over the last decade, but its intellectual and institutional progress has been uneven. This article briefly traces the emergence of critical sports sociology in a country outside the major centers in the UK and U.S., its break with functionalist approaches, and its attempts to overcome the neglect of local …
Field of Soaps: Rupert V. Kerry as Masculine Melodrama
Sport is an increasingly valuable commodity in the global media industry. For instance, in 1980 NBC paid what was then the astonishing sum of $72 million for the rights to televise the summer Olympics. In 1995 the same network expended $715 million on the 2000 Olympics, $793 million on the 2004 Olympics, and $894 million on the 2008 Olympics (all figures in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted). These huge sums were committed just for the U.S. TV …
Exonerating the Hero: Frames & Narratives in Media Coverage of the O J Simpson Story
This paper analyses Australian media coverage of the arrest of former American football superstar O J Simpson for the murders of his ex-wife and one of her friends. We found that the Simpson story was framed in three main ways: as the rise and fall of an American hero; as an event produced by and typical of Hollywood and Los Angeles; and as a media feeding frenzy. We then draw upon both modernist and postmodernist narrative theories to interpret …
Just Do If: Corporate Sports Slogans and the Political Economy of 'Enlightened Racism
(1995). ’Just Do If: corporate sports slogans and the political economy of ‘enlightened racism‘. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 191-201
You Leave Your Troubles at the Gate: A Case Study of the Exploitation of Older Women's Labor and “Leisure” in Sport
Using Connell's theory of gender and power, this article explores the gender regime of lawn bowls, which is played predominantly by older people. The sport is characterized by men's exploitation of women's labor, heterosexual coupledom, and the desexualization of women. A 'woman's place' both on and off the playing field is clearly delineated in terms of otherness, especially as an altruistic wife, mother, and grandmother; consequently, men can b…
Global Sport? Core Concern and Peripheral Vision
Masculine hegemony, the state and the incorporation of gender equity discourse: The case of Australian sport
Although the impact of affirmative action, equal opportunity and gender equity programs on the lives of Australian women have been explored in a number of areas, state interventions related to sport have received scant attention from public policy analysts. This paper examines how the Australian Sports Commission has framed its gender equity policy in the mutually reinforcing hegemonic discourses of masculinity and corporate managerialism. It is …
Anchoring media images of technology and sport
From Old Boys to Men and Women of the Corporation: The Americanization and Commodification of Australian Sport
Although there are obvious American influences on Australian popular culture, the term “Americanization” is of limited help in explaining the elaborate form and content of Australian sport. The recent transformation from amateur to corporate sport in Australia has been determined by a complex array of internal and international social forces, including Australia’s polyethnic population, its semiperipheral status in the capitalist world system, it…
"Suffragettes in Satin Shorts"? Gender and Competitive Boxing
From Old Boys to Men and Women of the Corporation: The Americanization and Commodification of Australian Sport
Although there are obvious American influences on Australian popular culture, the term “Americanization” is of limited help in explaining the elaborate form and content of Australian sport. The recent transformation from amateur to corporate sport in Australia has been determined by a complex array of internal and international social forces, including Australia’s polyethnic population, its semiperipheral status in the capitalist world system, it…
Hard and Heavy: Gender and Power in a heavy metal music subculture
This article analyses gendered structures of power in a heavy metal (HM) music club. Although both male and female HM devotees often declare that they are engaged in a rebellious activity, this romantic conviction sits uneasily alongside the HM scene's reinforcement of conventional gender relations and identities. Although many women gravitated toward the HM setting in order to escape stifling adolescent situations, they wound up in another oppre…
Global Sport? Core Concern and Peripheral Vision
Sport et masculinités
Cet article examine le régime sexuel du sport en se fondant sur des recherches récentes portant sur les hommes et les masculinités. Malgré le caractère tenace des liens entre les hommes, les masculinités et le sport, nous croyons que le sport constitue un contexte idéal pour « étudier par le haut », comme le propose Connell (1990), l'ordre hiérarchique de genre. Cinq secteurs de recherche sont abordés : les organisations sportives, les corps et l…
You Leave Your Troubles at the Gate: A Case Study of the Exploitation of Older Women's Labor and “Leisure” in Sport
Using Connell's theory of gender and power, this article explores the gender regime of lawn bowls, which is played predominantly by older people. The sport is characterized by men's exploitation of women's labor, heterosexual coupledom, and the desexualization of women. A 'woman's place' both on and off the playing field is clearly delineated in terms of otherness, especially as an altruistic wife, mother, and grandmother; consequently, men can b…
Ideology, the Media, and Australian Sport
In this paper the ideological relationships between the media and Australian sport are examined from a critical perspective. After outlining the contributions of political economy, structuralism, and cultural studies to the critical paradigm, we argue that the Australian media have two main ideological effects. First, they legitimate masculine hegemony, capitalist rationality, consensus, and militaristic nationalism. Second, they marginalize, tri…
The Over-Production of us Sports and the New International Division of Cultural Labor
This article focuses on how US professional sports utilize the New International Division of Cultural Labor to supplement an overly costly local labor pool and over-supplied local market. We argue that while the classic problem of over-production is slowly eroding the sealed-off nature of US culture, the forces of its hyper-protectionist capitalism continue to characterize sports, precluding equal exchange
Just Do If: Corporate Sports Slogans and the Political Economy of 'Enlightened Racism
(1995). ’Just Do If: corporate sports slogans and the political economy of ‘enlightened racism‘. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 191-201
Anchoring media images of technology and sport
Out of the Shadows: The Critical Sociology of Sport in Australia, 1986 to 1996
The sociology of sport in Australia has reached a key point in its development A critical tradition in the subdiscipline has been established over the last decade, but its intellectual and institutional progress has been uneven. This article briefly traces the emergence of critical sports sociology in a country outside the major centers in the UK and U.S., its break with functionalist approaches, and its attempts to overcome the neglect of local …
Field of Soaps: Rupert V. Kerry as Masculine Melodrama
Sport is an increasingly valuable commodity in the global media industry. For instance, in 1980 NBC paid what was then the astonishing sum of $72 million for the rights to televise the summer Olympics. In 1995 the same network expended $715 million on the 2000 Olympics, $793 million on the 2004 Olympics, and $894 million on the 2008 Olympics (all figures in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted). These huge sums were committed just for the U.S. TV …
Exonerating the Hero: Frames & Narratives in Media Coverage of the O J Simpson Story
This paper analyses Australian media coverage of the arrest of former American football superstar O J Simpson for the murders of his ex-wife and one of her friends. We found that the Simpson story was framed in three main ways: as the rise and fall of an American hero; as an event produced by and typical of Hollywood and Los Angeles; and as a media feeding frenzy. We then draw upon both modernist and postmodernist narrative theories to interpret …
Masculine hegemony, the state and the incorporation of gender equity discourse: The case of Australian sport
Although the impact of affirmative action, equal opportunity and gender equity programs on the lives of Australian women have been explored in a number of areas, state interventions related to sport have received scant attention from public policy analysts. This paper examines how the Australian Sports Commission has framed its gender equity policy in the mutually reinforcing hegemonic discourses of masculinity and corporate managerialism. It is …
Lay Down Sally’: Media narratives of failure in Australian sport
This article analyses media narratives of failure in sport using a case-study of the collapse of Australian rower Sally Robbins at the 2004 Olympic Games. Media coverage of Robbins' breakdown was driven by conflicting narratives. In the dominant version Robbins was initially denigrated as being ‘UnAustralian’. However, this disparagement precipitated several counter-narratives whereby Robbins was seen as having been failed by her teammates, coach…
Playing the world
Hockey equipment is designed in Sweden, financed from Canada, manufactured in Denmark, Japan, and the U.S., and distributed across North America and northern Europe. Nike has transformed itself from an Oregon distributor of Japanese shoes, and then an offshore manufacturer in Taiwan, the People's Republic of China, and Korea for shoes sold in the U.S., into a company with vast international sales and half a million workers earning under U.S.$1.50…
Courting lesbianism
Assessing the sociology of sport: On revisiting the sociological imagination
On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, Jim McKay, a wide ranging and influential international scholar on sport, gender, power and globalization, reflects on the benefits for the field of revisiting C Wright Mill and his work on the 'sociological imagination.' McKay notes this is important at a time when the 'parent' discipline of sociology continues to exhibit myriad longstanding controversies and crises and the hegemony of neoliberal 'co…
A Critique of the Militarisation of Australian History and Culture Thesis: The Case of Anzac Battlefield Tourism
This paper analyses the militarisation of Australian history and culture thesis with specific reference to the increasing popularity of Anzac battlefield tourism. I argue that the militarisation thesis contains ontological and epistemological flaws that render it incapable of understanding the multifaceted ways in which Australians experience Anzac battlefield tours. I then argue that in order to study how Australians both at home and overseas re…
Marxism as a Way of Seeing: Beyond the Limits of Current “Critical” Approaches to Sport
Like capitalism, Marxism constantly experiences contradictions and crises to which it reacts, adapts, and somehow survives. Currently, Marxism is under attack by post-Marxist critical theorists and certain feminist scholars. In this paper, some of the criticisms made by these writers are applied to neo-Marxist approaches to sport. It is contended that the specific critiques of Marxism need to be situated in a wider framework that is concerned wit…
Leisure and Social Inequality in Australia
Secondary analysis of a national survey was used to investigate the 'democratisation of leisure' in Australia. Contrary to the democratisation thesis, which suggests that leisure has mainly become a matter of'individual taste', the study revealed that leisure patterns were associated with age, gender, education, income and marital status. It was concluded that contemporary welfare state policies which are designed to change people's attitudes tow…
Marxism as a Way of Seeing: Beyond the Limits of Current “Critical” Approaches to Sport
Like capitalism, Marxism constantly experiences contradictions and crises to which it reacts, adapts, and somehow survives. Currently, Marxism is under attack by post-Marxist critical theorists and certain feminist scholars. In this paper, some of the criticisms made by these writers are applied to neo-Marxist approaches to sport. It is contended that the specific critiques of Marxism need to be situated in a wider framework that is concerned wit…
Ideology, the Media, and Australian Sport
In this paper the ideological relationships between the media and Australian sport are examined from a critical perspective. After outlining the contributions of political economy, structuralism, and cultural studies to the critical paradigm, we argue that the Australian media have two main ideological effects. First, they legitimate masculine hegemony, capitalist rationality, consensus, and militaristic nationalism. Second, they marginalize, tri…
Phoenician Farewell: Three Generations of Lebanese Christians in Australia
From Old Boys to Men and Women of the Corporation: The Americanization and Commodification of Australian Sport
Although there are obvious American influences on Australian popular culture, the term “Americanization” is of limited help in explaining the elaborate form and content of Australian sport. The recent transformation from amateur to corporate sport in Australia has been determined by a complex array of internal and international social forces, including Australia’s polyethnic population, its semiperipheral status in the capitalist world system, it…
Phoenician Farewell: Three Generations of Lebanese Christians in Australia
Phoenician Farewell: Three Generations of Lebanese Christians in Australia
Phoenician Farewell: Three Generations of Lebanese Christians in Australia
Anchoring media images of technology and sport
Global Sport? Core Concern and Peripheral Vision
Masculine hegemony, the state and the incorporation of gender equity discourse: The case of Australian sport
Although the impact of affirmative action, equal opportunity and gender equity programs on the lives of Australian women have been explored in a number of areas, state interventions related to sport have received scant attention from public policy analysts. This paper examines how the Australian Sports Commission has framed its gender equity policy in the mutually reinforcing hegemonic discourses of masculinity and corporate managerialism. It is …
Exonerating the Hero: Frames & Narratives in Media Coverage of the O J Simpson Story
This paper analyses Australian media coverage of the arrest of former American football superstar O J Simpson for the murders of his ex-wife and one of her friends. We found that the Simpson story was framed in three main ways: as the rise and fall of an American hero; as an event produced by and typical of Hollywood and Los Angeles; and as a media feeding frenzy. We then draw upon both modernist and postmodernist narrative theories to interpret …
Just Do If: Corporate Sports Slogans and the Political Economy of 'Enlightened Racism
(1995). ’Just Do If: corporate sports slogans and the political economy of ‘enlightened racism‘. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 191-201
You Leave Your Troubles at the Gate: A Case Study of the Exploitation of Older Women's Labor and “Leisure” in Sport
Using Connell's theory of gender and power, this article explores the gender regime of lawn bowls, which is played predominantly by older people. The sport is characterized by men's exploitation of women's labor, heterosexual coupledom, and the desexualization of women. A 'woman's place' both on and off the playing field is clearly delineated in terms of otherness, especially as an altruistic wife, mother, and grandmother; consequently, men can b…
Out of the Shadows: The Critical Sociology of Sport in Australia, 1986 to 1996
The sociology of sport in Australia has reached a key point in its development A critical tradition in the subdiscipline has been established over the last decade, but its intellectual and institutional progress has been uneven. This article briefly traces the emergence of critical sports sociology in a country outside the major centers in the UK and U.S., its break with functionalist approaches, and its attempts to overcome the neglect of local …
Field of Soaps: Rupert V. Kerry as Masculine Melodrama
Sport is an increasingly valuable commodity in the global media industry. For instance, in 1980 NBC paid what was then the astonishing sum of $72 million for the rights to televise the summer Olympics. In 1995 the same network expended $715 million on the 2000 Olympics, $793 million on the 2004 Olympics, and $894 million on the 2008 Olympics (all figures in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted). These huge sums were committed just for the U.S. TV …
Managing Gender: Affirmative Action and Organizational Power in Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Sport
Playing the world
Hockey equipment is designed in Sweden, financed from Canada, manufactured in Denmark, Japan, and the U.S., and distributed across North America and northern Europe. Nike has transformed itself from an Oregon distributor of Japanese shoes, and then an offshore manufacturer in Taiwan, the People's Republic of China, and Korea for shoes sold in the U.S., into a company with vast international sales and half a million workers earning under U.S.$1.50…
Courting lesbianism
Masculinities, Gender Relations, and Sport
Forword - Michael S Kimmel Sudying Sport, Men and Masculinities from Feminist Standpoints - Jim McKay, Michael A Messner and Don Sabo PART ONE: EVERDAY CONSTRUCTIONS OF HEGEMONIC MASCULINITY Wrestling with Gender - Cynthia A Hasbrook and Othello Harris Physicality and Masculinities Among Inner-City First and Second Graders Moms, Sisters, and Ladies - Stephan R Walk Women Student Trainers in Men's Intercollegiate Sport The Morality/Masculinity Par…
Hard and Heavy: Gender and Power in a heavy metal music subculture
This article analyses gendered structures of power in a heavy metal (HM) music club. Although both male and female HM devotees often declare that they are engaged in a rebellious activity, this romantic conviction sits uneasily alongside the HM scene's reinforcement of conventional gender relations and identities. Although many women gravitated toward the HM setting in order to escape stifling adolescent situations, they wound up in another oppre…
Globalization and Sport: Playing the World
Sport is the most universal feature of popular culture. It crosses language barriers and slices through national boundaries, attracting both spectators and participants, to a common lingua franca of passions, obsessions and desires. This book brings to light the connections between sport and culture. It argues that although sport is obviously a source of pleasure, it is also part of the government of everyday life. The creation of a sporting cale…
The Over-Production of us Sports and the New International Division of Cultural Labor
This article focuses on how US professional sports utilize the New International Division of Cultural Labor to supplement an overly costly local labor pool and over-supplied local market. We argue that while the classic problem of over-production is slowly eroding the sealed-off nature of US culture, the forces of its hyper-protectionist capitalism continue to characterize sports, precluding equal exchange
"Suffragettes in Satin Shorts"? Gender and Competitive Boxing
In Memoriam: Alan G. Ingham, 1947-2005
Political science (23 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (21 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (20 works) · Law (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · History (9 works)