Lee Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3656587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lee Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9581-4987 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Māori Navigating Gut Symptoms: “I mean, who gets cramp that often in their puku?”
Gut diseases are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in Aotearoa New Zealand, with higher rates of these conditions in Te Waipounamu. Māori experience both worse outcomes and different patterns of incidence in gut diseases than non-Māori. Overall, Māori have lower life expectancies than non-Māori and experience barriers to accessing determinants of health. We aim to illuminate how Māori understand the gut and navigate the health system when …
Experiences and Lessons Learned From the RADx-UP Consortium Community Engagement Projects
In this study, we used emerging community engagement frameworks to describe the structure and outcomes of a large-scale, community-engaged, research-to-practice initiative, RADx-UP. Qualitative methods were used to analyze survey and meeting data from 2022 for RADx-UP projects. Most projects had diverse partners, achieved moderate levels of community engagement, and experienced positive outcomes. Challenges related to engagement readiness and par…
Māori experiences of social housing in Ōtautahi Christchurch
This article presents selected findings of a twelve‐month‐long research project exploring the lived experiences of Māori social housing tenants residing in Ōtautahi Christchurch. Over the last five years, Aotearoa New Zealand has seen unprecedented social housing demand. There is currently an overrepresentation of Māori experiencing housing need and awaiting placement into social housing, yet studies on this topic are limited. This research narra…
They wouldn't get away with it at McDonalds”: Decriminalization, work, and disciplinary power in New Zealand brothels
New Zealand decriminalized sex work in 2004 with the passage of the Prostitution Reform Act (2003), which sets an explicit intention to prevent exploitation of sex workers and improve their welfare. This has demonstrably improved conditions for sex workers and provides a necessary context for addressing exploitation. However, little research has looked at how this works for brothel‐based sex workers in New Zealand. This paper responds to that gap…
Blurred boundaries: E-scooter riders' and pedestrians' experiences of sharing space
Globally, electric scooters (e-scooters) have grown in popularity in recent years. Introducing new transport modes is complex because existing infrastructures and habits do not easily accommodate them, which can lead to conflict between different types of transport users. In this paper, we explore e-scooter riders’ and pedestrians’ experiences of sharing space in Christchurch, New Zealand. In-depth interviews were carried out with e-scooter rider…
How do patients and General Practitioners talk about pain and negotiate empathy in consultations? A direct observational study
The objective of this qualitative study in New Zealand was to investigate how general practitioners and patients discuss chronic pain in consultations. Chronic pain is a complex condition that defies many commonsense understandings. It is challenging to manage and patients can come to conclude that there is an empathy deficit. To our knowledge most, if not all, studies on this topic have recruited participants whose main presenting complaint is c…
Education setting-based health promotion in New Zealand: Evaluating the wellbeing and vitality in education (Wave) programme
Wellbeing and vitality in education (WAVE) is an education setting based health promotion initiative in South Canterbury, New Zealand. A mixed method approach was used for assessing change over time. Over ninety percent of education settings (94%) were participating in WAVE (n = 95). A total of 73 education settings completed the questionnaire at both baseline and follow-up. Evaluation of the WAVE programme shows that a robust partnership between…
Men don't have patience’: Sexuality, pleasure and danger in displacement settings in Northcentral Nigeria
Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights are fundamental human rights. Previous studies on gender and sexuality in displacement settings have often focused on sexual and gender-based violence and the reproductive health problems of women while underplaying their needs for sexual expression, pleasure and procreation. This paper examines the influence of conflict and displacement on gender relations, sexuality and natality of internally displaced wome…
Health care professionals “coming out”: A critical dialogue
S’intéresser à l’optimisation de soi dans le cadre professionnel permet de faire émerger des perspectives critiques en termes de formation, de pratique et de politique. Dans le domaine de la santé, il a ainsi été souligné que l’autogestion, la responsabilité individuelle et l’optimisation de soi étaient devenues des objectifs pour la prévention, le traitement et le care . En revanche, les manières dont les professionnels de santé s’optimisent eux…
The nature of the association between number line and mathematical performance: An international twin study
BackgroundThe number line task assesses the ability to estimate numerical magnitudes. People vary greatly in this ability, and this variability has been previously associated with mathematical skills. However, the sources of individual differences in number line estimation and its association with mathematics are not fully understood.AimsThis large-scale genetically sensitive study uses a twin design to estimate the magnitude of the effects of ge…
"Health care professionals "coming out: A Critical Dialogue
S'intéresser à l'optimisation de soi dans le cadre professionnel permet de faire émerger des perspectives critiques en termes de formation, de pratique et de politique. Dans le domaine de la santé, il a ainsi été souligné que l'autogestion, la responsabilité individuelle et l'optimisation de soi étaient devenues des objectifs pour la prévention, le traitement et le care . En revanche, les manières dont les professionnels de santé s'optimisent eux…
Pan-Asian sports and the emergence of modern Asia
In a nutshell, this study is a history of ideas about the nation and the meaning of ‘Asia’ in the twentieth century based on sports events. Its main question is this: Why and how did the early Asia
The tobacco endgame: The neglected role of place and environment
Marathon Japan: Distance Racing and Civic Culture
Every October, a small-town high school in Nagano Prefecture holds a mandatory marathon for the entire study body. In the late 1960s the 43-kilometer course took them over the 1,335-meter Jizō Pass
Human vulnerabilities, transgression and pleasure
In the face of the ‘obesity epidemic’ public health has largely failed to engage with the human pleasures that surround eating. Pleasures are often linked to vulnerabilities and frailties that are part of being human. We argue in this paper that leaving human vulnerabilities and the pleasures that haunt them under-acknowledged and under-examined within public health contributes to the problems that public health tries to solve. While in some quar…
I don't want to look like an Aids victim”: A New Zealand case study of facial lipoatrophy
The development of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to treat HIV has turned what was once a death sentence into a chronic disorder. However, a focus on absence of disease in the form of an undetectable viral load and the dismissal of the so-called "cosmetic" complications of the disease ignores perceptions of health and well-being of those living with HIV. Facial lipoatrophy is a stigmatising side effect of treatment for HIV as it betrays the presence …
Number sense and mathematics: Which, when and how
Individual differences in number sense correlate with mathematical ability and performance, although the presence and strength of this relationship differs across studies. Inconsistencies in the literature may stem from heterogeneity of number sense and mathematical ability constructs. Sample characteristics may also play a role as changes in the relationship between number sense and mathematics may differ across development and cultural contexts…
The work of negotiating HIV as a chronic condition: A qualitative analysis
Living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the industrialised world has for over a decade been conceptualised as living with a chronic illness. People living with HIV now are amongst the first to live and age with the virus. Drawing on a qualitative longitudinal study in a low-incidence area in a low-incidence country, this paper investigates the nuanced ways that people negotiate this condition. While it has been argued that HIV is a cond…
Space, time, and emotion in the community pharmacy
Assessing the sociology of sport: On Western hegemony and alternative discourses
On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, Lee Thompson, a key foundational scholar in the development of the sociology of sport in Japan, whose work has helped bridge understandings from the West, considers the distinctive character of socio-cultural inquiry about sport in Japan. In assessing the trajectory of the field in Japan, Thompson notes that Japan has not been one of the 'social science powers' and that its theoretical and methodologi…
Leaving the stethoscope behind: Public health doctors and identity work
Public health medicine is distinct in two ways from most other forms of medical specialisation; firstly, it is predominantly non-clinical and secondly, its concern is with populations, rather than the more common individual physician–patient encounter. In spite of recent attempts to 'mainstream' public health approaches into medical training and practice, it remains a relatively low prestige medical specialty. In the face of the centrality of all…
From reactionary to activist: A model that works
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to invite readers to consider a model of compassionate leadership to contribute to the prevention of abuse in collective care settings. Design/methodology/approach – This paper examines a model of leadership based on theories of attachment and parenting and draws on evidence from practice. The framework, which we call Total Attachment, originated in a foster care organisation which was designed around the ap…
Seeing Stars: Sports Celebrity, Identity, and Body Culture in Modern Japan
Seeing Stars: Sports Celebrity, Identity, and Body Culture in Modern Japan, by Dennis J. Frost, Cambridge MA, Harvard University Asia Center, 2010, xii + 337 pp., bibliography, index, $39.95 (hardb
I can't get my husband to go and have a colonoscopy: Gender and screening for colorectal cancer
It is anticipated that a colorectal cancer (CRC) screening programme will be introduced in New Zealand making it the first screening programme in this country to include both males and females. In-depth interviews were carried out with 80 participants (53 females and 27 males) about their knowledge and attitudes to screening programmes in general, as well as their understanding and perceptions of CRC screening in particular. The study highlighted…
General Practitioners, specialists and surveillance guidelines: Interpreting the socio-clinical context of decision-making
In contemporary times, evidence-based medicine is used as the basis for clinical decision-making. For a great number of diseases, surveillance guidelines, which are informed by evidence-based medicine, have been drawn up with much input from specialists in their relevant fields. However, these guidelines are implemented in general practice where different rationalities are brought to bear on clinical decision-making. This qualitative study interv…
Moralising geographies: Stigma, smoking islands and responsible subjects
As the long‐term negative health effects of continued smoking have become more obvious, smoking cessation has become a key focus of government attention across the developed world. Smoking cessation programmes have had mixed outcomes, with rates of smoking in certain socio‐economically disadvantaged and ethnic minority groups remaining high. The increasing stigmatisation of those who continue to smoke, coupled with the spatial segregation of poor…
Seen and not heard? Text messaging and digital sociality
Mobile phones have invited a number of dystopian understandings, particularly as far as young people are concerned. They have been variously argued to contribute to poor spelling and grammar, disturb attention to school work, facilitate text bullying, lead to brain cancers and promote the destruction of face-to-face relationships. Despite these concerns, text messaging is by far the most common form of mobile communication between young people in…
Nomadic identities and socio-spatial competence: Making Sense of Post-Smoking Selves
The reconstruction of smoking as an unhealthy practice has given rise to a discursive field in which some people shy away from smoking identities that are tainted with the attendant notions of dirt and disgust and also from overt external control over individual behaviour. In many cases individuals demonstrate social competence by quitting smoking. Social and secret smokers challenge both binary understandings of smoking identities (smoker/non-sm…
Heterotextuality and Digital Foreplay: Cell phones and the culture of teenage romance
The now ubiquitous cell phone as digital media and communication technology invites a proliferation of uses and meanings. The ways in which young people have taken up cell phones in general and text messaging in particular seems to create cyborgian subjectivities in a refashioned mobile social network. This resulting digital-social network constructs a space in which young people perform identities that, while conventionally gendered in some ways…
Interventions in the political geography of 'libertarian paternalism
The tobacco endgame: The neglected role of place and environment
Māori experiences of social housing in Ōtautahi Christchurch
This article presents selected findings of a twelve‐month‐long research project exploring the lived experiences of Māori social housing tenants residing in Ōtautahi Christchurch. Over the last five years, Aotearoa New Zealand has seen unprecedented social housing demand. There is currently an overrepresentation of Māori experiencing housing need and awaiting placement into social housing, yet studies on this topic are limited. This research narra…
I can't get my husband to go and have a colonoscopy: Gender and screening for colorectal cancer
It is anticipated that a colorectal cancer (CRC) screening programme will be introduced in New Zealand making it the first screening programme in this country to include both males and females. In-depth interviews were carried out with 80 participants (53 females and 27 males) about their knowledge and attitudes to screening programmes in general, as well as their understanding and perceptions of CRC screening in particular. The study highlighted…
They wouldn't get away with it at McDonalds”: Decriminalization, work, and disciplinary power in New Zealand brothels
New Zealand decriminalized sex work in 2004 with the passage of the Prostitution Reform Act (2003), which sets an explicit intention to prevent exploitation of sex workers and improve their welfare. This has demonstrably improved conditions for sex workers and provides a necessary context for addressing exploitation. However, little research has looked at how this works for brothel‐based sex workers in New Zealand. This paper responds to that gap…
Blurred boundaries: E-scooter riders' and pedestrians' experiences of sharing space
Globally, electric scooters (e-scooters) have grown in popularity in recent years. Introducing new transport modes is complex because existing infrastructures and habits do not easily accommodate them, which can lead to conflict between different types of transport users. In this paper, we explore e-scooter riders’ and pedestrians’ experiences of sharing space in Christchurch, New Zealand. In-depth interviews were carried out with e-scooter rider…
Number sense and mathematics: Which, when and how
Individual differences in number sense correlate with mathematical ability and performance, although the presence and strength of this relationship differs across studies. Inconsistencies in the literature may stem from heterogeneity of number sense and mathematical ability constructs. Sample characteristics may also play a role as changes in the relationship between number sense and mathematics may differ across development and cultural contexts…
Space, time, and emotion in the community pharmacy
The role of nursing in governmentality, biopower and population health: Family health nursing
The nature of the association between number line and mathematical performance: An international twin study
BackgroundThe number line task assesses the ability to estimate numerical magnitudes. People vary greatly in this ability, and this variability has been previously associated with mathematical skills. However, the sources of individual differences in number line estimation and its association with mathematics are not fully understood.AimsThis large-scale genetically sensitive study uses a twin design to estimate the magnitude of the effects of ge…
"Health care professionals "coming out: A Critical Dialogue
S'intéresser à l'optimisation de soi dans le cadre professionnel permet de faire émerger des perspectives critiques en termes de formation, de pratique et de politique. Dans le domaine de la santé, il a ainsi été souligné que l'autogestion, la responsabilité individuelle et l'optimisation de soi étaient devenues des objectifs pour la prévention, le traitement et le care . En revanche, les manières dont les professionnels de santé s'optimisent eux…
Pan-Asian sports and the emergence of modern Asia
In a nutshell, this study is a history of ideas about the nation and the meaning of ‘Asia’ in the twentieth century based on sports events. Its main question is this: Why and how did the early Asia
Assessing the sociology of sport: On Western hegemony and alternative discourses
On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, Lee Thompson, a key foundational scholar in the development of the sociology of sport in Japan, whose work has helped bridge understandings from the West, considers the distinctive character of socio-cultural inquiry about sport in Japan. In assessing the trajectory of the field in Japan, Thompson notes that Japan has not been one of the 'social science powers' and that its theoretical and methodologi…
Professional Wrestling in Japan — Media and Message
This paper documents the important role of Western-style professional wrestling in the popular culture of Japan, focusing on the early years in which it was established, 1953-1963. These were also the years in which television achieved its phenomenal growth, and the symbiotic relationship between the "sport" and the medium is explored. The star of professional wrestling in Japan during these years was the former sumo wrestler Rikidôzan. He faced …
Professional Wrestling in Japan — Media and Message
This paper documents the important role of Western-style professional wrestling in the popular culture of Japan, focusing on the early years in which it was established, 1953-1963. These were also the years in which television achieved its phenomenal growth, and the symbiotic relationship between the "sport" and the medium is explored. The star of professional wrestling in Japan during these years was the former sumo wrestler Rikidôzan. He faced …
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Rural Primary Care Nurses: Governing (Im)mobile Selves
This paper investigates the ways that rural/remote nurses construct professional identities in relative isolation. Rural/remote primary care nurses in southern New Zealand engage in complex spatial negotiations within their work. Discourses of autonomy and independence are used in order to make sense of their decisions to relocate to this rural work. Even as they do this, nurses are caught up in complex and contradictory reworkings of mobility an…
The role of nursing in governmentality, biopower and population health: Family health nursing
Moralising geographies: Stigma, smoking islands and responsible subjects
As the long‐term negative health effects of continued smoking have become more obvious, smoking cessation has become a key focus of government attention across the developed world. Smoking cessation programmes have had mixed outcomes, with rates of smoking in certain socio‐economically disadvantaged and ethnic minority groups remaining high. The increasing stigmatisation of those who continue to smoke, coupled with the spatial segregation of poor…
Seen and not heard? Text messaging and digital sociality
Mobile phones have invited a number of dystopian understandings, particularly as far as young people are concerned. They have been variously argued to contribute to poor spelling and grammar, disturb attention to school work, facilitate text bullying, lead to brain cancers and promote the destruction of face-to-face relationships. Despite these concerns, text messaging is by far the most common form of mobile communication between young people in…
Scared straight? Fear-appeal anti-smoking campaigns, risk, self-efficacy and addiction
Smokers are becoming increasingly stigmatised in the contemporary West. Based on a qualitative study in Christchurch, New Zealand, this research aimed to investigate the ways that people respond to anti-smoking campaigns and to raise concerns about the ways that fear-appeal campaigns in particular may serve to reinforce the stigmatisation of ‘hard-core’ smokers. Generally, campaigns have been effective and behaviour change has occurred in groups …
Nomadic identities and socio-spatial competence: Making Sense of Post-Smoking Selves
The reconstruction of smoking as an unhealthy practice has given rise to a discursive field in which some people shy away from smoking identities that are tainted with the attendant notions of dirt and disgust and also from overt external control over individual behaviour. In many cases individuals demonstrate social competence by quitting smoking. Social and secret smokers challenge both binary understandings of smoking identities (smoker/non-sm…
Approach/Positive Anticipation, Frustration/Anger, and Overt Aggression in Childhood: Approach and Overt Aggression in Childhood
We examined mothers' ratings of children's affective and behavioral aspects of approach tendencies and links with overt aggressive behavior problems while considering the genetic etiology of these processes. Approach/positive anticipation (AP), frustration/anger (FA), and overt aggression in 4-9-year-olds were assessed using mothers' reports in a diverse national sample (n=992) and a sample of same-sex twins (n=195 pairs). AP and FA were positive…
Heterotextuality and Digital Foreplay: Cell phones and the culture of teenage romance
The now ubiquitous cell phone as digital media and communication technology invites a proliferation of uses and meanings. The ways in which young people have taken up cell phones in general and text messaging in particular seems to create cyborgian subjectivities in a refashioned mobile social network. This resulting digital-social network constructs a space in which young people perform identities that, while conventionally gendered in some ways…
General Practitioners, specialists and surveillance guidelines: Interpreting the socio-clinical context of decision-making
In contemporary times, evidence-based medicine is used as the basis for clinical decision-making. For a great number of diseases, surveillance guidelines, which are informed by evidence-based medicine, have been drawn up with much input from specialists in their relevant fields. However, these guidelines are implemented in general practice where different rationalities are brought to bear on clinical decision-making. This qualitative study interv…
Responses to health promotion campaigns: Resistance, denial and othering
A wide variety of health promotion strategies are employed which are designed to educate members of the public with the ultimate goal of gradual general cultural change and individual behaviour change. The object is a closer alignment of individual and population health-related behaviours with 'ideal' notions of what a healthy citizen might be. These campaigns are not taken up in any straightforward way, but people negotiate the messages in compl…
Interventions in the political geography of 'libertarian paternalism
Seeing Stars: Sports Celebrity, Identity, and Body Culture in Modern Japan
Seeing Stars: Sports Celebrity, Identity, and Body Culture in Modern Japan, by Dennis J. Frost, Cambridge MA, Harvard University Asia Center, 2010, xii + 337 pp., bibliography, index, $39.95 (hardb
I can't get my husband to go and have a colonoscopy: Gender and screening for colorectal cancer
It is anticipated that a colorectal cancer (CRC) screening programme will be introduced in New Zealand making it the first screening programme in this country to include both males and females. In-depth interviews were carried out with 80 participants (53 females and 27 males) about their knowledge and attitudes to screening programmes in general, as well as their understanding and perceptions of CRC screening in particular. The study highlighted…
Leaving the stethoscope behind: Public health doctors and identity work
Public health medicine is distinct in two ways from most other forms of medical specialisation; firstly, it is predominantly non-clinical and secondly, its concern is with populations, rather than the more common individual physician–patient encounter. In spite of recent attempts to 'mainstream' public health approaches into medical training and practice, it remains a relatively low prestige medical specialty. In the face of the centrality of all…
From reactionary to activist: A model that works
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to invite readers to consider a model of compassionate leadership to contribute to the prevention of abuse in collective care settings. Design/methodology/approach – This paper examines a model of leadership based on theories of attachment and parenting and draws on evidence from practice. The framework, which we call Total Attachment, originated in a foster care organisation which was designed around the ap…
Space, time, and emotion in the community pharmacy
Assessing the sociology of sport: On Western hegemony and alternative discourses
On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, Lee Thompson, a key foundational scholar in the development of the sociology of sport in Japan, whose work has helped bridge understandings from the West, considers the distinctive character of socio-cultural inquiry about sport in Japan. In assessing the trajectory of the field in Japan, Thompson notes that Japan has not been one of the 'social science powers' and that its theoretical and methodologi…
The work of negotiating HIV as a chronic condition: A qualitative analysis
Living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the industrialised world has for over a decade been conceptualised as living with a chronic illness. People living with HIV now are amongst the first to live and age with the virus. Drawing on a qualitative longitudinal study in a low-incidence area in a low-incidence country, this paper investigates the nuanced ways that people negotiate this condition. While it has been argued that HIV is a cond…
Human vulnerabilities, transgression and pleasure
In the face of the ‘obesity epidemic’ public health has largely failed to engage with the human pleasures that surround eating. Pleasures are often linked to vulnerabilities and frailties that are part of being human. We argue in this paper that leaving human vulnerabilities and the pleasures that haunt them under-acknowledged and under-examined within public health contributes to the problems that public health tries to solve. While in some quar…
I don't want to look like an Aids victim”: A New Zealand case study of facial lipoatrophy
The development of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to treat HIV has turned what was once a death sentence into a chronic disorder. However, a focus on absence of disease in the form of an undetectable viral load and the dismissal of the so-called "cosmetic" complications of the disease ignores perceptions of health and well-being of those living with HIV. Facial lipoatrophy is a stigmatising side effect of treatment for HIV as it betrays the presence …
Number sense and mathematics: Which, when and how
Individual differences in number sense correlate with mathematical ability and performance, although the presence and strength of this relationship differs across studies. Inconsistencies in the literature may stem from heterogeneity of number sense and mathematical ability constructs. Sample characteristics may also play a role as changes in the relationship between number sense and mathematics may differ across development and cultural contexts…
Pan-Asian sports and the emergence of modern Asia
In a nutshell, this study is a history of ideas about the nation and the meaning of ‘Asia’ in the twentieth century based on sports events. Its main question is this: Why and how did the early Asia
The tobacco endgame: The neglected role of place and environment
Sociology (25 works) · Psychology (23 works) · Political science (22 works) · Medicine (16 works) · Social science (13 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Qualitative research (9 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (7 works)