James Skinner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3999926 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Skinner |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Skinner |
| SIGNATURE | SKINNER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4687-0274 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sovereign wealth funds, sport, and offshore statecraft: A comparative institutional analysis of Gulf investments in European football
This paper examines the internationalisation of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) through investments in elite sports teams abroad, applying Comparative Institutional Analysis (CIA) to uncover both economic and political motivations. While sports ownership offers stable revenue streams and global commercial opportunities absent in Gulf domestic markets, it also functions as a soft power tool, enabling states to embed themselves in host economies, rep…
The Role and Impact of the Prison Chaplain: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis
While the relationship between crime, prisons and religion has been the subject of extensive research, the contemporary role and impact of prison chaplaincy remains a relatively under-explored area of study. This systematic literature review explored the role and impact of the prison chaplain. The role included pastoral and emotional support as well as religious, practical, and educational input. The impact included rehabilitation, creation of co…
Ethnographic Approaches
Emerging Ethnographical Approaches
Research Methods for Sport Management
Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, Research Methods for Sport Management provides a complete introduction to qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods for sport management students and practitioners. Full of real-world case studies, data, and examples, and including international perspectives throughout this book to help the reader understand the challenges of research in different social and cultural contexts, this book links …
A Bourdieusian Approach to Pain Management and Health in Professional Cricket
Painkiller (mis)use in sport presents a range of potential health risks to athletes (e.g., injury exacerbation). There is a lack of qualitative data examining the sociological genesis of variations in attitudes toward painkiller use. Focusing on the concept of physical capital, this article explores how attitudes toward painkiller use among professional cricket players in England are socialized by their workplace. Attitudes toward painkiller (mis…
Theorising painkiller (mis)use in football using Bourdieu's practice theory and physical capital
This conceptual article advances the value of Bourdieu's practice theory and physical capital as a tool to understand the various types of painkiller (mis)use in sport. Consuming painkillers to manage injury and fatigue is a common practice among male professional footballers and misuse can exacerbate existing injuries and contribute to chronic physical and mental health conditions. In order to highlight the interaction between micro and macro-le…
Wada, the World Anti-Doping Agency: A Multi-Level Legitimacy Analysis
Examining the legitimacy of the World Anti-Doping Agency, this book offers a critical analysis of the anti-doping system and the social and behavioural processes that shape policy, asking why the current system is failing. Featuring in-depth, contemporary case studies from around the world, including the whereabouts system; Lance Armstrong; therapeutic use exemptions; the Essendon Bombers; recreational drugs policy; and the Russian Olympic doping…
Philosophies of Organizational Change: Perspectives, Models and Theories for Managing Change
This revised and extended second edition evaluates the diverse approaches to organizational change that have defined the field. Explaining the assumptions and implications that accompany these diverse philosophies, this book demystifies the complexities of conflicting perspectives and delivers valuable insights into the research and practice of organizational change
Fostering Innovative Cultures in Sport: Leadership, Innovation and Change
Research Handbook of Employment Relations in Sport
Employment relations, much discussed in other industries, has often been neglected in professional sports despite its unique characteristics. The book aims to explore in detail the unique nature of the employment relationship in professional sports and the sport industry
Research Methods for Sport Management
Research. Methods. for. Sport. Management. Research methods courses have become a compulsory component of most degree programmes in sport management. This is the first introductory research methods textbook to focus exclusively
Empire and health website recommendations: Technologies of control
Persuasion and types of enticements offered by pharmaceutical companies to Gold Coast general practitioners in an attempt to encourage a health website recommendation
This study was undertaken to determine if pharmaceutical companies persuade and offer enticements to Gold Coast (Queensland, Australia) general practitioners (GPs), in an attempt to encourage them to recommend health websites to the health consumer. A survey instrument consisting of seven single response questions was mailed to 250 (61%) out of 410 GPs. Questions were designed to measure the percentages (%) and proportions associated with levels …
Coming in from the margins: Ethnicity, community support and the rebranding of Australian soccer
Soccer in Australia exists at the margin of the professional sport landscape, although it enjoys popularity at the development levels. This historic position is the result of many social and political forces. With four football codes operating in Australia, amongst other elite and professional sport teams and leagues, soccer occupied a troubled position. The sustenance and growth of the sport emanates from a strong ethnic, immigrant basis of socc…
Football Culture in an Australian School Setting: The Construction of Masculine Identity
This paper argues that teenage males draw variously on signifying contexts in football to construct their understandings of who they 'are'. As such, football is a widely revered human activity that is strongly implicated in the construction of masculine identity. By examining how football has evolved as a site of controlled masculinity, and how involvement in football is imbued with a dominant set of meanings about what constitutes a 'normal' mal…
The Autobiography of Henry Merrell: Industrial Missionary to the South
The Autobiography of Henry Merrell: Industrial Missionary to the South
Journal Article The Autobiography of Henry Merrell: Industrial Missionary to the South. Ed. by James L. Skinner III. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991. xxxvi + 465 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-8203-1253-3.) Get access Shearer Davis Bowman Shearer Davis Bowman University of Texas, Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 657–658, https://do…
The Autobiography of Henry Merrell: Industrial Missionary to the South
The Autobiography of Henry Merrell: Industrial Missionary to the South
Football Culture in an Australian School Setting: The Construction of Masculine Identity
This paper argues that teenage males draw variously on signifying contexts in football to construct their understandings of who they 'are'. As such, football is a widely revered human activity that is strongly implicated in the construction of masculine identity. By examining how football has evolved as a site of controlled masculinity, and how involvement in football is imbued with a dominant set of meanings about what constitutes a 'normal' mal…
Coming in from the margins: Ethnicity, community support and the rebranding of Australian soccer
Soccer in Australia exists at the margin of the professional sport landscape, although it enjoys popularity at the development levels. This historic position is the result of many social and political forces. With four football codes operating in Australia, amongst other elite and professional sport teams and leagues, soccer occupied a troubled position. The sustenance and growth of the sport emanates from a strong ethnic, immigrant basis of socc…
Persuasion and types of enticements offered by pharmaceutical companies to Gold Coast general practitioners in an attempt to encourage a health website recommendation
This study was undertaken to determine if pharmaceutical companies persuade and offer enticements to Gold Coast (Queensland, Australia) general practitioners (GPs), in an attempt to encourage them to recommend health websites to the health consumer. A survey instrument consisting of seven single response questions was mailed to 250 (61%) out of 410 GPs. Questions were designed to measure the percentages (%) and proportions associated with levels …
Theorising painkiller (mis)use in football using Bourdieu's practice theory and physical capital
This conceptual article advances the value of Bourdieu's practice theory and physical capital as a tool to understand the various types of painkiller (mis)use in sport. Consuming painkillers to manage injury and fatigue is a common practice among male professional footballers and misuse can exacerbate existing injuries and contribute to chronic physical and mental health conditions. In order to highlight the interaction between micro and macro-le…
The Autobiography of Henry Merrell: Industrial Missionary to the South
The Autobiography of Henry Merrell: Industrial Missionary to the South
The Autobiography of Henry Merrell: Industrial Missionary to the South
Journal Article The Autobiography of Henry Merrell: Industrial Missionary to the South. Ed. by James L. Skinner III. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991. xxxvi + 465 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-8203-1253-3.) Get access Shearer Davis Bowman Shearer Davis Bowman University of Texas, Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 657–658, https://do…
The Autobiography of Henry Merrell: Industrial Missionary to the South
Football Culture in an Australian School Setting: The Construction of Masculine Identity
This paper argues that teenage males draw variously on signifying contexts in football to construct their understandings of who they 'are'. As such, football is a widely revered human activity that is strongly implicated in the construction of masculine identity. By examining how football has evolved as a site of controlled masculinity, and how involvement in football is imbued with a dominant set of meanings about what constitutes a 'normal' mal…
Coming in from the margins: Ethnicity, community support and the rebranding of Australian soccer
Soccer in Australia exists at the margin of the professional sport landscape, although it enjoys popularity at the development levels. This historic position is the result of many social and political forces. With four football codes operating in Australia, amongst other elite and professional sport teams and leagues, soccer occupied a troubled position. The sustenance and growth of the sport emanates from a strong ethnic, immigrant basis of socc…
Persuasion and types of enticements offered by pharmaceutical companies to Gold Coast general practitioners in an attempt to encourage a health website recommendation
This study was undertaken to determine if pharmaceutical companies persuade and offer enticements to Gold Coast (Queensland, Australia) general practitioners (GPs), in an attempt to encourage them to recommend health websites to the health consumer. A survey instrument consisting of seven single response questions was mailed to 250 (61%) out of 410 GPs. Questions were designed to measure the percentages (%) and proportions associated with levels …
Empire and health website recommendations: Technologies of control
Research Methods for Sport Management
Research. Methods. for. Sport. Management. Research methods courses have become a compulsory component of most degree programmes in sport management. This is the first introductory research methods textbook to focus exclusively
Research Handbook of Employment Relations in Sport
Employment relations, much discussed in other industries, has often been neglected in professional sports despite its unique characteristics. The book aims to explore in detail the unique nature of the employment relationship in professional sports and the sport industry
Fostering Innovative Cultures in Sport: Leadership, Innovation and Change
Philosophies of Organizational Change: Perspectives, Models and Theories for Managing Change
This revised and extended second edition evaluates the diverse approaches to organizational change that have defined the field. Explaining the assumptions and implications that accompany these diverse philosophies, this book demystifies the complexities of conflicting perspectives and delivers valuable insights into the research and practice of organizational change
Wada, the World Anti-Doping Agency: A Multi-Level Legitimacy Analysis
Examining the legitimacy of the World Anti-Doping Agency, this book offers a critical analysis of the anti-doping system and the social and behavioural processes that shape policy, asking why the current system is failing. Featuring in-depth, contemporary case studies from around the world, including the whereabouts system; Lance Armstrong; therapeutic use exemptions; the Essendon Bombers; recreational drugs policy; and the Russian Olympic doping…
A Bourdieusian Approach to Pain Management and Health in Professional Cricket
Painkiller (mis)use in sport presents a range of potential health risks to athletes (e.g., injury exacerbation). There is a lack of qualitative data examining the sociological genesis of variations in attitudes toward painkiller use. Focusing on the concept of physical capital, this article explores how attitudes toward painkiller use among professional cricket players in England are socialized by their workplace. Attitudes toward painkiller (mis…
Theorising painkiller (mis)use in football using Bourdieu's practice theory and physical capital
This conceptual article advances the value of Bourdieu's practice theory and physical capital as a tool to understand the various types of painkiller (mis)use in sport. Consuming painkillers to manage injury and fatigue is a common practice among male professional footballers and misuse can exacerbate existing injuries and contribute to chronic physical and mental health conditions. In order to highlight the interaction between micro and macro-le…
The Role and Impact of the Prison Chaplain: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis
While the relationship between crime, prisons and religion has been the subject of extensive research, the contemporary role and impact of prison chaplaincy remains a relatively under-explored area of study. This systematic literature review explored the role and impact of the prison chaplain. The role included pastoral and emotional support as well as religious, practical, and educational input. The impact included rehabilitation, creation of co…
Ethnographic Approaches
Emerging Ethnographical Approaches
Research Methods for Sport Management
Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, Research Methods for Sport Management provides a complete introduction to qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods for sport management students and practitioners. Full of real-world case studies, data, and examples, and including international perspectives throughout this book to help the reader understand the challenges of research in different social and cultural contexts, this book links …
Sovereign wealth funds, sport, and offshore statecraft: A comparative institutional analysis of Gulf investments in European football
This paper examines the internationalisation of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) through investments in elite sports teams abroad, applying Comparative Institutional Analysis (CIA) to uncover both economic and political motivations. While sports ownership offers stable revenue streams and global commercial opportunities absent in Gulf domestic markets, it also functions as a soft power tool, enabling states to embed themselves in host economies, rep…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (7 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (6 works) · American History and Culture (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Art history (4 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (4 works) · Biography (4 works)