Macintosh Ro
Biographic Data
| ID | 3749087 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Macintosh Ro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Macintosh |
| FAMILY NAME | Ro |
| SIGNATURE | RO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2811-917X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“Criminals” and “Killjoys”
Over the past 4 decades, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has increasingly foregrounded environmental issues in the staging of Olympic Games and selection of host cities. At the same time, critiques of the IOC’s environmental turn point to the unsustainable legacy of the Games and demonstrate the failure of host cities to meet their environmental goals. Research has also revealed the rapid expansion of a surveillance and security infrast…
On Historians, Intellectuals, and Advocacy
Our city our crew
In this study, we examined the Twitter (now X, but hereafter still referred to as Twitter) hashtag #Savethecrew, a hashtag and movement created and maintained by Columbus Crew SC supporters in their attempt to prevent the relocation of their soccer team, from Columbus, Ohio, to Austin, Texas. We used two constructs – Sense of place and cultural entrepreneurship – as the basis for a critical exploration and thematic analysis. We analysed over 4000…
Hosting and Human Rights
During the twenty-first century, Summer Olympic Games have been used to distract from, justify and push through acts of increased securitization, surveillance, and displacement of the host city populace. Situating sport within the field of International Relations, we outline these civil and human rights intrusions across successive Games. From Sydney 2000 to Rio de Janeiro 2016, we explicate the consequences, contestedness, and evolution of repre…
A Good Fight
This article examines the experiences of select Indigenous female boxers from Canada and the United States to explore and appreciate the diverse meanings they attach to amateur and professional boxing and to write these athletes into history by constructing short case studies of fighters active from the 1970s through the 2010s. We augment each fighter's story with context from scholarly and secondary source materials, such as newspapers, to round…
Cultural Reproduction and Resistance at the Rinks
In the contemporary sporting world, California is an incubator of lifestyle (or alternative) sports. In large part responsible for the popularization of beach volleyball, skateboarding, snowboarding, and BMX, California has been on the frontlines of the modern sporting revolution since the early twentieth century. Before this process of Californization could fully take hold, however, the state experienced an era of Americanization, with various p…
More than a Miracle
This article documents the transformation of the American national hockey team from a poorly organized initiative into a powerful, partially state-sponsored operation, in the context of the broader geo-political tensions of the Cold War. Although the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and Czechoslovakia are typically portrayed as dubious ‘shamateurs’, paid by their respective militaries to do little but play hockey year round, we argue th…
The Boxing Boys in Blue
In 1860, American heavyweight champion John C. Heenan traveled to England to face Tom Sayers in a bare-knuckle prizefight for the championship of the world, sparking unprecedented interest in boxing throughout the United States. In the wake of the Heenan–Sayers contest, gloved sparring and bare-knuckle prizefighting attracted a bevy of new practitioners, eager to emulate their fistic heroes. On April 12, 1861, however, Confederate forces in Charl…
In Pursuit of a National Olympic Team
Following the First World War, Canadian Olympic Committee President James G. Merrick organized an extensive recruitment scheme to assemble the Canadian track and field team for the 1920 Antwerp Games in hopes of reigniting sporting nationalism from coast to coast. Although not a total failure, I argue that Merrick mismanaged arrangements for the track and field team in two important ways. First, he failed to consider the regional implications of …
My Country Is Hockey
Book Review| July 01 2014 My Country Is Hockey: How Hockey Explains Canadian Culture, History, Politics, Heroes, French-English Rivalry and Who We Are As Canadians Kennedy, Brian. My Country Is Hockey: How Hockey Explains Canadian Culture, History, Politics, Heroes, French-English Rivalry and Who We Are As Canadians. Edmonton, Alb.: Argenta Press, 2011. Pp. vi+326. Forward, preface, and bibliography. $18.95 pb. Macintosh Ross Macintosh Ross Unive…
Distinction Earned
Book Review| April 01 2012 Distinction Earned: Cape Breton’s Boxing Legends 1946-1970 Macdougall, Paul. Distinction Earned: Cape Breton’s Boxing Legends 1946-1970. Sydney, N.S.: Cape Breton University Press, 2010. Pp. 176. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 pb. Macintosh Ross Macintosh Ross University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2012) 39 (1): 187–189. h…
Hosting and Human Rights
During the twenty-first century, Summer Olympic Games have been used to distract from, justify and push through acts of increased securitization, surveillance, and displacement of the host city populace. Situating sport within the field of International Relations, we outline these civil and human rights intrusions across successive Games. From Sydney 2000 to Rio de Janeiro 2016, we explicate the consequences, contestedness, and evolution of repre…
Cultural Reproduction and Resistance at the Rinks
In the contemporary sporting world, California is an incubator of lifestyle (or alternative) sports. In large part responsible for the popularization of beach volleyball, skateboarding, snowboarding, and BMX, California has been on the frontlines of the modern sporting revolution since the early twentieth century. Before this process of Californization could fully take hold, however, the state experienced an era of Americanization, with various p…
More than a Miracle
This article documents the transformation of the American national hockey team from a poorly organized initiative into a powerful, partially state-sponsored operation, in the context of the broader geo-political tensions of the Cold War. Although the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and Czechoslovakia are typically portrayed as dubious ‘shamateurs’, paid by their respective militaries to do little but play hockey year round, we argue th…
Distinction Earned
Book Review| April 01 2012 Distinction Earned: Cape Breton’s Boxing Legends 1946-1970 Macdougall, Paul. Distinction Earned: Cape Breton’s Boxing Legends 1946-1970. Sydney, N.S.: Cape Breton University Press, 2010. Pp. 176. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 pb. Macintosh Ross Macintosh Ross University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2012) 39 (1): 187–189. h…
My Country Is Hockey
Book Review| July 01 2014 My Country Is Hockey: How Hockey Explains Canadian Culture, History, Politics, Heroes, French-English Rivalry and Who We Are As Canadians Kennedy, Brian. My Country Is Hockey: How Hockey Explains Canadian Culture, History, Politics, Heroes, French-English Rivalry and Who We Are As Canadians. Edmonton, Alb.: Argenta Press, 2011. Pp. vi+326. Forward, preface, and bibliography. $18.95 pb. Macintosh Ross Macintosh Ross Unive…
In Pursuit of a National Olympic Team
Following the First World War, Canadian Olympic Committee President James G. Merrick organized an extensive recruitment scheme to assemble the Canadian track and field team for the 1920 Antwerp Games in hopes of reigniting sporting nationalism from coast to coast. Although not a total failure, I argue that Merrick mismanaged arrangements for the track and field team in two important ways. First, he failed to consider the regional implications of …
The Boxing Boys in Blue
In 1860, American heavyweight champion John C. Heenan traveled to England to face Tom Sayers in a bare-knuckle prizefight for the championship of the world, sparking unprecedented interest in boxing throughout the United States. In the wake of the Heenan–Sayers contest, gloved sparring and bare-knuckle prizefighting attracted a bevy of new practitioners, eager to emulate their fistic heroes. On April 12, 1861, however, Confederate forces in Charl…
More than a Miracle
This article documents the transformation of the American national hockey team from a poorly organized initiative into a powerful, partially state-sponsored operation, in the context of the broader geo-political tensions of the Cold War. Although the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and Czechoslovakia are typically portrayed as dubious ‘shamateurs’, paid by their respective militaries to do little but play hockey year round, we argue th…
Cultural Reproduction and Resistance at the Rinks
In the contemporary sporting world, California is an incubator of lifestyle (or alternative) sports. In large part responsible for the popularization of beach volleyball, skateboarding, snowboarding, and BMX, California has been on the frontlines of the modern sporting revolution since the early twentieth century. Before this process of Californization could fully take hold, however, the state experienced an era of Americanization, with various p…
A Good Fight
This article examines the experiences of select Indigenous female boxers from Canada and the United States to explore and appreciate the diverse meanings they attach to amateur and professional boxing and to write these athletes into history by constructing short case studies of fighters active from the 1970s through the 2010s. We augment each fighter's story with context from scholarly and secondary source materials, such as newspapers, to round…
Hosting and Human Rights
During the twenty-first century, Summer Olympic Games have been used to distract from, justify and push through acts of increased securitization, surveillance, and displacement of the host city populace. Situating sport within the field of International Relations, we outline these civil and human rights intrusions across successive Games. From Sydney 2000 to Rio de Janeiro 2016, we explicate the consequences, contestedness, and evolution of repre…
Our city our crew
In this study, we examined the Twitter (now X, but hereafter still referred to as Twitter) hashtag #Savethecrew, a hashtag and movement created and maintained by Columbus Crew SC supporters in their attempt to prevent the relocation of their soccer team, from Columbus, Ohio, to Austin, Texas. We used two constructs – Sense of place and cultural entrepreneurship – as the basis for a critical exploration and thematic analysis. We analysed over 4000…
“Criminals” and “Killjoys”
Over the past 4 decades, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has increasingly foregrounded environmental issues in the staging of Olympic Games and selection of host cities. At the same time, critiques of the IOC’s environmental turn point to the unsustainable legacy of the Games and demonstrate the failure of host cities to meet their environmental goals. Research has also revealed the rapid expansion of a surveillance and security infrast…
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