Jonathan Long
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601617 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Long |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Long |
| SIGNATURE | LONG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5220-1152 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 249 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Abide With Me’: Being an Insider in the Habermasian lifeworld
Cultivating reciprocity and supporting Indigenous lifeways through the cultural transformation of natural resource management in North America
Recent decades have seen increasing calls for implementing Indigenous Knowledges (IK) in natural resource management (NRM). However, efforts have been limited by the cultural incommensurabilities between (1) NRM institutions, which are rooted in worldviews that prioritize extraction for dominant cultures and assume dominance over nature and (2) Indigenous worldviews that prioritize kincentric reciprocity with the environment. This manuscript addr…
The Prosumption Networks of Twitter Users Following the Premier League’s Support for #BlackLivesMatter and the #WhiteLivesMatter Response
Though still of concern, racist abuse within the UK’s football (soccer) stadiums has declined. However, with the increasing significance of digital leisure in people’s lives, there is now a large amount of abuse related to football that is expressed through social media. Digital communities provide both the means of consuming leisure (watching football) and ‘talking’ about it with whoever will ‘listen’. Here we examine the social architecture of …
Keeping up with the landscapes: Promoting Resilience in Dynamic Social-Ecological Systems
Forest managers working in dry forest ecosystems must contend with the costs and benefits of fire, and they are seeking forest management strategies that enhance the resilience of forests and landscapes to future disturbances in a changing climate. An interdisciplinary science team worked with resource managers and stakeholders to assess future forest ecosystem dynamics, given potential climatic changes and management strategies, across a 23,000-…
Dear Prime Minister, Mr Musk and Mr Zuckerberg: The challenge of social media and platformed racism in the English premier league and football league
This paper draws on original research from a larger study of racism and Islamophobia online around football, particularly a set of interviews with staff at English football clubs whose responsibility is to manage social media. We use that information alongside our reflections on 'platformed racism' to appraise how expressions of racism on social media differ from those in and around the grounds, and how clubs and others in football contest them. …
Investigating online football forums: A critical examination of participants’ responses to football related racism and Islamophobia
This article used a critical sampling approach to investigate a series of football forums which respond to and discuss racism and Islamophobia. A thematic analysis of 1,064 forum posts identified 19 themes which led to the construction of five overarching themes which are: i) racism has decreased; ii) denying and downplaying racism and Islamophobia; iii) racism has increased; iv) victims and perpetrators; and, v) the action that should be taken. …
Currency exchange: Sporting capital, cricket and South Asian communities
This paper examines the involvement of members of South Asian communities in cricket (in Bradford and Leeds, UK). The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) identified that despite the high level of interest in cricket within these communities, relatively few were participating in opportunities provided through ECB structures; instead, they were engaged in various forms of ‘informal’ cricket. Using data from a small-scale survey and group intervie…
The management costs of alternative forest management strategies in the Lake Tahoe Basin
Wildfires play an important ecological role in fire-adapted landscapes throughout California. However, there is a growing awareness that large wildfires in increasingly populated areas incur costs that may not be acceptable to society. Various forest management strategies have been proposed that seek to reduce the prevalence and severity of wildfires in areas where these costs are high. In this study we estimate the financial costs of various hyp…
Comparing smoke emissions and impacts under alternative forest management regimes
Smoke from wildfires has become a growing public health issue around the world but especially in western North America and California. At the same time, managers and scientists recommend thinning and intentional use of wildland fires to restore forest health and reduce smoke from poorly controlled wildfires. Because of the changing climate and management paradigms, the evaluation of smoke impacts needs to shift evaluations from the scale of indiv…
Evaluating pathways to social and ecological landscape resilience
Rapid environmental changes challenge the resilience of wildlands. The western portion of the Lake Tahoe Basin in California is an important ecological and cultural hotspot that is at risk of degradation from current and future environmental pressures. Historical uses, fire suppression, and a changing climate have created forest landscape conditions at risk of drought stress, destructive fire, and loss of habitat diversity. We prospectively model…
British Jews, sport and antisemitism
This paper examines the nature and extent of antisemitism in community sporting environments in one British city. Drawing on interviews (n = 20) and focus groups (n = 2), we explore with participants their Anglo-Jewish identity in sports-related activities and settings. So as not to inflate the salience of antisemitism, we approach the issue obliquely through questions relating to their engagement in sport and identity. We consider the stereotype…
Intelligent investment’? Welsh sport policy and the (in)visibility of ‘race’
In this paper, we draw on research conducted in Wales to consider reasons for participation and non-participation in sport and physical activity among Black and minoritised ethnic (BME) groups. This study exposes the challenge at the heart of sports policy in relation to ‘race’ and ethnicity in Wales that, if not addressed, may lead to the marginalisation of attempts to increase BME participation in sport and physical activity despite good intent…
Football, ethnicity and community: The life of an African Caribbean football club
As I started reading this book I was also reading a growing number of press articles about the injustices meted out to ‘the Windrush Generation’1 as collateral damage from the UK government’s hosti
Principles of social justice for sport and leisure
This chapter explores some of the key currents in political thought on social justice as a contested concept and, relates those to sport and leisure contexts. It considers the issues that require choices like those arising from alternative conceptions of fairness. Miller's characterisation of 'equal citizenship' is on the same lines as Rawls' liberty principle, though Miller also includes 'social rights'. The principle of equality of opportunity,…
Sport, Leisure and Social Justice
Fully convolutional networks for semantic segmentation
Convolutional networks are powerful visual models that yield hierarchies of features. We show that convolutional networks by themselves, trained end-to-end, pixels-to-pixels, exceed the state-of-the-art in semantic segmentation. Our key insight is to build “fully convolutional” networks that take input of arbitrary size and produce correspondingly-sized output with efficient inference and learning. We define and detail the space of fully convolut…
Leisure opportunities and new migrant communities: Challenging the contribution of sport
This paper offers a critique of the much-vaunted claims of sports ability to integrate new migrants by generating social capital. By examining a growing literature base alongside new empirical evidence, we explore whether the experiences of new migrants actually reflect the hypothetical claims made by some policy-makers and scholars about the role of sport in tackling exclusion, promoting inclusion and constructing interculturalism. We demonstrat…
Whiteness, Blackness and Settlement: Leisure and the Integration of New Migrants
At times of economic uncertainty the position of new migrants is subject to ever closer scrutiny. While the main focus of attention tends to be on the world of employment the research on which this paper is based started from the proposition that leisure and sport spaces can support processes of social inclusion yet may also serve to exclude certain groups. As such, these spaces may be seen as contested and racialised places that shape behaviour.…
Sport and Challenges to Racism
With an international line-up of contributors, this book examines challenges to racism in and through sport. It addresses the different agents of change in the context of wider socio-political shifts
Ethnographies of the imagined, the imaginary and the critically real: Blackness, whiteness, the north of England and rugby league
Rugby league is part of the white, working‐class (male) culture of the north of England, and is a sport that is used by its supporters to (re)produce both an imagined community of nostalgic northernness and an imaginary community of locally situated hegemonically masculine belonging. The invented traditions of its origins link the game to a white, working‐class twentieth‐century culture of mills, pits, terraced houses and pubs; a culture increasi…
Researching Leisure, Sport and Tourism: The Essential Guide
Wanting to Know Ways of Knowing, Ways of Seeing Finding What is Already There - and Putting It to Use Subjects, Respondents, Participants and Collaborators Social Surveys Setting Questions Interviewing - Openness with a Sense of Purpose Observation Techniques - Using Your Eyes and Ears Interpreting Texts Evaluation Techniques Analysing Quantitative Data Analysing Qualitative Data Data Display The Responsibilities of the Researcher Ways of Seeing,…
Researching Leisure, Sport, and Tourism
Joining up policy discourses and fragmented practices: The Precarious Contribution of Cultural Projects to Social Inclusion
English This article outlines New Labour's policy discourse about social exclusion and the confusing challenge it poses to local cultural projects. Government now demands hard evidence to measure the impact of cultural projects on performance indicators such as education, employment, crime and health. However, community-based workers are hard pressed to collect valid and reliable data that evaluate projects against clear criteria for social inclu…
Managing and Monitoring Equality and Diversity in UK Sport: An Evaluation of the Sporting Equals Racial Equality Standard and Its Impact on Organizational Change
Despite greater attention to racial equality in sport in recent years, the progress of national sports organizations toward creating equality of outcomes has been limited in the United Kingdom. The collaboration of the national sports agencies, equity organizations and national sports organizations (including national governing bodies of sport) has focused on Equality Standards. The authors revisit an earlier impact study of the Racial Equality S…
What’s the Big Idea? A Critical Exploration of the Concept of Social Capital and its Incorporation into Leisure Policy Discourse
Starting from the overwhelming welcome that Putnam’s (2000) treatise on social capital has received in government circles, we consider its relative merits for examining and understanding the role for leisure in policy strategies. To perform this critique we identify some of the key points from Putnam’s work and also illustrate how it has been incorporated into a body of leisure studies literature. This is then extended to a discussion of the meth…
What’s the Big Idea? A Critical Exploration of the Concept of Social Capital and its Incorporation into Leisure Policy Discourse
Starting from the overwhelming welcome that Putnam’s (2000) treatise on social capital has received in government circles, we consider its relative merits for examining and understanding the role for leisure in policy strategies. To perform this critique we identify some of the key points from Putnam’s work and also illustrate how it has been incorporated into a body of leisure studies literature. This is then extended to a discussion of the meth…
Shades of white: An examination of whiteness in sport
Apart from millennium concerns about what it means to be English, ‘whiteness ’ has largely escaped examination, particularly in the leisure literature. Where ‘black’ people have been seen as the signicant other in British sport, ‘whiteness ’ could be seen as the ‘silent ’ other. This paper begins to redress this by drawing on the experience of a suite of studies conducted by the Centre for Leisure and Sport Research into racism in sport. During t…
Whiteness, Blackness and Settlement: Leisure and the Integration of New Migrants
At times of economic uncertainty the position of new migrants is subject to ever closer scrutiny. While the main focus of attention tends to be on the world of employment the research on which this paper is based started from the proposition that leisure and sport spaces can support processes of social inclusion yet may also serve to exclude certain groups. As such, these spaces may be seen as contested and racialised places that shape behaviour.…
Leisure opportunities and new migrant communities: Challenging the contribution of sport
This paper offers a critique of the much-vaunted claims of sports ability to integrate new migrants by generating social capital. By examining a growing literature base alongside new empirical evidence, we explore whether the experiences of new migrants actually reflect the hypothetical claims made by some policy-makers and scholars about the role of sport in tackling exclusion, promoting inclusion and constructing interculturalism. We demonstrat…
Managing and Monitoring Equality and Diversity in UK Sport: An Evaluation of the Sporting Equals Racial Equality Standard and Its Impact on Organizational Change
Despite greater attention to racial equality in sport in recent years, the progress of national sports organizations toward creating equality of outcomes has been limited in the United Kingdom. The collaboration of the national sports agencies, equity organizations and national sports organizations (including national governing bodies of sport) has focused on Equality Standards. The authors revisit an earlier impact study of the Racial Equality S…
Asians cannot wear turbans in the scrum: Explorations of racist discourse within professional rugby league
Since sport is accorded such a significant position within national popular culture, it assumes corresponding importance in producing, reproducing and challenging racial myths. This paper explores how dominant notions of black physicality are embedded in sports practice and how such assumptions may be challenged. To do this we shall offer a critique of existing literature and, importantly, draw on empirical evidence from a recent study of the nat…
Promoting Racial Equality within Sports Organizations
In an attempt to promote racial equality policies in national sports organizations in England, the Racial Equality Charter for Sport was introduced in 2000. This article reports on progress in achieving the associated Standard in different sports and different levels of sport. Questionnaires and interviews suggest that there has been some measure of success but that this has been slow and is vulnerable to personnel change and competing demands on…
On the Moral Economy of Racism and Racist Rationalizations in Sport
This article draws on and extends a series of empirical studies into the nature and extent of racism in selected sports and philosophical explorations of certain virtues and vices in sports more generally. In particular, the article explores dispassionately questions of responsibility and culpability for both committed and unacknowledged racism in sports, and critically evaluates sportspersons' attempts to rationalize it. We argue that it is nece…
Continuity as a basis for change: Leisure and male retirement
The images, attitudes and activities associated with retirement are changing, but it still represents an important threshold in people's lives. This paper argues that men commonly deal with the changes precipitated by retirement by emphasizing those aspects of their lives that represent continuity. Far from taking-up a set of new activities, it is most usual for retirement to be characterized by more of the same. Much of this continuity is provid…
Tourism in the highlands and islands of Scotland rewards and conflicts
Ethnographies of the imagined, the imaginary and the critically real: Blackness, whiteness, the north of England and rugby league
Rugby league is part of the white, working‐class (male) culture of the north of England, and is a sport that is used by its supporters to (re)produce both an imagined community of nostalgic northernness and an imaginary community of locally situated hegemonically masculine belonging. The invented traditions of its origins link the game to a white, working‐class twentieth‐century culture of mills, pits, terraced houses and pubs; a culture increasi…
Joining up policy discourses and fragmented practices: The Precarious Contribution of Cultural Projects to Social Inclusion
English This article outlines New Labour's policy discourse about social exclusion and the confusing challenge it poses to local cultural projects. Government now demands hard evidence to measure the impact of cultural projects on performance indicators such as education, employment, crime and health. However, community-based workers are hard pressed to collect valid and reliable data that evaluate projects against clear criteria for social inclu…
Investigating online football forums: A critical examination of participants’ responses to football related racism and Islamophobia
This article used a critical sampling approach to investigate a series of football forums which respond to and discuss racism and Islamophobia. A thematic analysis of 1,064 forum posts identified 19 themes which led to the construction of five overarching themes which are: i) racism has decreased; ii) denying and downplaying racism and Islamophobia; iii) racism has increased; iv) victims and perpetrators; and, v) the action that should be taken. …
A critical examination of the advantages of investigating community and leisure from a social network perspective
In an attempt to appreciate the contribution that social network analysis might offer to the study of leisure, four distinctive, though not mutually exclusive, approaches to social network analysis are considered and an overall critique of the approach offered, paying special attention to the work of Wellman. Within this critique is a discussion of the ontological, epistemological and methodological problems confronting the social network perspec…
British Jews, sport and antisemitism
This paper examines the nature and extent of antisemitism in community sporting environments in one British city. Drawing on interviews (n = 20) and focus groups (n = 2), we explore with participants their Anglo-Jewish identity in sports-related activities and settings. So as not to inflate the salience of antisemitism, we approach the issue obliquely through questions relating to their engagement in sport and identity. We consider the stereotype…
Intelligent investment’? Welsh sport policy and the (in)visibility of ‘race’
In this paper, we draw on research conducted in Wales to consider reasons for participation and non-participation in sport and physical activity among Black and minoritised ethnic (BME) groups. This study exposes the challenge at the heart of sports policy in relation to ‘race’ and ethnicity in Wales that, if not addressed, may lead to the marginalisation of attempts to increase BME participation in sport and physical activity despite good intent…
It Depends Who You Are: On Asking Difficult Questions in Leisure Research
We know that social researchers are not independent of the research process. In this paper, we use research on the potentially very sensitive subjects of identity and racism to reflect on the significance of the interaction of the researcher’s own cultural biography with that of the participant. Awareness of that is an important step in devising procedures of communication and interpretation. The paper addresses the associated challenges involved…
The role of tourism in the economy of Scotland
Tourism in the highlands and islands of Scotland rewards and conflicts
The role of tourism in the economy of Scotland
Continuity as a basis for change: Leisure and male retirement
The images, attitudes and activities associated with retirement are changing, but it still represents an important threshold in people's lives. This paper argues that men commonly deal with the changes precipitated by retirement by emphasizing those aspects of their lives that represent continuity. Far from taking-up a set of new activities, it is most usual for retirement to be characterized by more of the same. Much of this continuity is provid…
Asians cannot wear turbans in the scrum: Explorations of racist discourse within professional rugby league
Since sport is accorded such a significant position within national popular culture, it assumes corresponding importance in producing, reproducing and challenging racial myths. This paper explores how dominant notions of black physicality are embedded in sports practice and how such assumptions may be challenged. To do this we shall offer a critique of existing literature and, importantly, draw on empirical evidence from a recent study of the nat…
A critical examination of the advantages of investigating community and leisure from a social network perspective
In an attempt to appreciate the contribution that social network analysis might offer to the study of leisure, four distinctive, though not mutually exclusive, approaches to social network analysis are considered and an overall critique of the approach offered, paying special attention to the work of Wellman. Within this critique is a discussion of the ontological, epistemological and methodological problems confronting the social network perspec…
Spirituality and the Idea of Transcendence
Spirituality is typically defined as a form of experience or understanding which has to do with the realm of the transcendent. Indeed, at a popular level at least, 'spiritual' and 'transcendent' are virtually synonymous as descriptive of that which is lofty, idealistic, elevated or pious. It is in the focus upon feelings and experiences of transcendence that we touch base with what appears to be a central theme in recent attempts to understand th…
Back to literacy
One of the seminal works in the development of British cultural studies was Richard Hoggart's The Uses of Literacy , in which he presents a vision of working class communities in the 40 years since the First World War. To do this he drew particularly on his experiences of Hunslet in South Leeds. In this paper we revisit South Leeds 40 years on to examine continuities and changes in the community as evidenced through people's leisure and compare t…
Opening-up: Engaging people in evaluation
While advocating the adoption of qualitative approaches to evaluation, it is important to reflect on the practice. This paper draws on the work of a diversionary project to involve young people at risk in leisure and sporting activities using one to one mentors. The approach adopted was one that was designed to address potentially sensitive issues and place the experience of the key players central to the enquiry. Hence, the intention was that th…
Shades of white: An examination of whiteness in sport
Apart from millennium concerns about what it means to be English, ‘whiteness ’ has largely escaped examination, particularly in the leisure literature. Where ‘black’ people have been seen as the signicant other in British sport, ‘whiteness ’ could be seen as the ‘silent ’ other. This paper begins to redress this by drawing on the experience of a suite of studies conducted by the Centre for Leisure and Sport Research into racism in sport. During t…
Cultural Foundations for Ecological Restoration on the White Mountain Apache Reservation
"Myths, metaphors, and social norms that facilitate collective action and understanding of restoration dynamics serve as foundations for ecological restoration. The experience of the White Mountain Apache Tribe demonstrates how such cultural foundations can permeate and motivate ecological restoration efforts. Through interviews with tribal cultural advisors and restoration practitioners, we examined how various traditions inform their understand…
It Depends Who You Are: On Asking Difficult Questions in Leisure Research
We know that social researchers are not independent of the research process. In this paper, we use research on the potentially very sensitive subjects of identity and racism to reflect on the significance of the interaction of the researcher’s own cultural biography with that of the participant. Awareness of that is an important step in devising procedures of communication and interpretation. The paper addresses the associated challenges involved…
On the Moral Economy of Racism and Racist Rationalizations in Sport
This article draws on and extends a series of empirical studies into the nature and extent of racism in selected sports and philosophical explorations of certain virtues and vices in sports more generally. In particular, the article explores dispassionately questions of responsibility and culpability for both committed and unacknowledged racism in sports, and critically evaluates sportspersons' attempts to rationalize it. We argue that it is nece…
What’s the Big Idea? A Critical Exploration of the Concept of Social Capital and its Incorporation into Leisure Policy Discourse
Starting from the overwhelming welcome that Putnam’s (2000) treatise on social capital has received in government circles, we consider its relative merits for examining and understanding the role for leisure in policy strategies. To perform this critique we identify some of the key points from Putnam’s work and also illustrate how it has been incorporated into a body of leisure studies literature. This is then extended to a discussion of the meth…
Promoting Racial Equality within Sports Organizations
In an attempt to promote racial equality policies in national sports organizations in England, the Racial Equality Charter for Sport was introduced in 2000. This article reports on progress in achieving the associated Standard in different sports and different levels of sport. Questionnaires and interviews suggest that there has been some measure of success but that this has been slow and is vulnerable to personnel change and competing demands on…
Joining up policy discourses and fragmented practices: The Precarious Contribution of Cultural Projects to Social Inclusion
English This article outlines New Labour's policy discourse about social exclusion and the confusing challenge it poses to local cultural projects. Government now demands hard evidence to measure the impact of cultural projects on performance indicators such as education, employment, crime and health. However, community-based workers are hard pressed to collect valid and reliable data that evaluate projects against clear criteria for social inclu…
Managing and Monitoring Equality and Diversity in UK Sport: An Evaluation of the Sporting Equals Racial Equality Standard and Its Impact on Organizational Change
Despite greater attention to racial equality in sport in recent years, the progress of national sports organizations toward creating equality of outcomes has been limited in the United Kingdom. The collaboration of the national sports agencies, equity organizations and national sports organizations (including national governing bodies of sport) has focused on Equality Standards. The authors revisit an earlier impact study of the Racial Equality S…
Researching Leisure, Sport and Tourism: The Essential Guide
Wanting to Know Ways of Knowing, Ways of Seeing Finding What is Already There - and Putting It to Use Subjects, Respondents, Participants and Collaborators Social Surveys Setting Questions Interviewing - Openness with a Sense of Purpose Observation Techniques - Using Your Eyes and Ears Interpreting Texts Evaluation Techniques Analysing Quantitative Data Analysing Qualitative Data Data Display The Responsibilities of the Researcher Ways of Seeing,…
Researching Leisure, Sport, and Tourism
Ethnographies of the imagined, the imaginary and the critically real: Blackness, whiteness, the north of England and rugby league
Rugby league is part of the white, working‐class (male) culture of the north of England, and is a sport that is used by its supporters to (re)produce both an imagined community of nostalgic northernness and an imaginary community of locally situated hegemonically masculine belonging. The invented traditions of its origins link the game to a white, working‐class twentieth‐century culture of mills, pits, terraced houses and pubs; a culture increasi…
Sport and Challenges to Racism
With an international line-up of contributors, this book examines challenges to racism in and through sport. It addresses the different agents of change in the context of wider socio-political shifts
Whiteness, Blackness and Settlement: Leisure and the Integration of New Migrants
At times of economic uncertainty the position of new migrants is subject to ever closer scrutiny. While the main focus of attention tends to be on the world of employment the research on which this paper is based started from the proposition that leisure and sport spaces can support processes of social inclusion yet may also serve to exclude certain groups. As such, these spaces may be seen as contested and racialised places that shape behaviour.…
Fully convolutional networks for semantic segmentation
Convolutional networks are powerful visual models that yield hierarchies of features. We show that convolutional networks by themselves, trained end-to-end, pixels-to-pixels, exceed the state-of-the-art in semantic segmentation. Our key insight is to build “fully convolutional” networks that take input of arbitrary size and produce correspondingly-sized output with efficient inference and learning. We define and detail the space of fully convolut…
Leisure opportunities and new migrant communities: Challenging the contribution of sport
This paper offers a critique of the much-vaunted claims of sports ability to integrate new migrants by generating social capital. By examining a growing literature base alongside new empirical evidence, we explore whether the experiences of new migrants actually reflect the hypothetical claims made by some policy-makers and scholars about the role of sport in tackling exclusion, promoting inclusion and constructing interculturalism. We demonstrat…
Principles of social justice for sport and leisure
This chapter explores some of the key currents in political thought on social justice as a contested concept and, relates those to sport and leisure contexts. It considers the issues that require choices like those arising from alternative conceptions of fairness. Miller's characterisation of 'equal citizenship' is on the same lines as Rawls' liberty principle, though Miller also includes 'social rights'. The principle of equality of opportunity,…
Sport, Leisure and Social Justice
Sociology (30 works) · Political science (22 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (16 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Geography (11 works)