Malcolm Maclean
Biographic Data
| ID | 4013050 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Malcolm Maclean |
| GIVEN NAMES | Malcolm |
| FAMILY NAME | Maclean |
| SIGNATURE | MACLEAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gloucestershire |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5750-4670 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1934 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rugby, Rebellion, and Copaganda
During the southern winter of 1981, some of the most sustained anti-apartheid protests outside South Africa took place in Aotearoa/New Zealand during the eight-week visit of the Springbok rugby team. Despite the significance and intensity of these protests, they have had a low profile in New Zealand historical and other social scientific analyses. Aside from their appearance in media commentaries and reportage, there seem to be two primary sites …
The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean Volume 1
Review of: The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean Volume 1: The Pacific Ocean to 1800 , Ryan Tucker Jones And Matt K. Matsuda (eds), Paul D’Arcy (General Ed.) (2023) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 851 pp., ISBN 987 1 10842 393 9 (hbk), £125 The Cambridge History of The Pacific Ocean Volume 2: The Pacific Ocean Since 1800 , Anne Perez Hattori and Jane Samson (eds), Paul D’Arcy (General Ed.) (2023) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,…
Histories of Sport in Central and Southern Africa
Sea People
Review of: Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific , Christina Thompson ([2019] 2020) London: William Collins, 384 pp., ISBN 978 0 00833 905 0 (pbk), £9.99 Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific , Nicholas Thomas (2021) New York: Basic Books, 224 pp., ISBN 978 1 54161 983 8 (hbk), US$25.00
Rethinking British sport history for a decolonising present
The Empire’s subaltern peoples and its justification in coloniality are strangely absent from British sport history, despite a key strand of the field being grounded in links between Empire, masculinity and sport: in this the subject reflects gaps and silences in British social history more generally. This paper that is both theoretical and historiographical explores this absence and considers ways that it might be addressed. It first sketches th…
Flashpoint
Visualising Sport
Local, National and Global Histories of Netball
Despite its notable global presence as one of the most popular sports for women, netball has almost no profile within sports history and only a very limited body of scholarly work exploring its historical and socio-cultural presence. The game, developed in the 1890s as an off-shoot of basketball consistent with prevailing gender ideologies of the era, took hold in British Physical Training Colleges before being taken up as a team sport suitable f…
Marxism, Colonialism and Cricket
Book Review| April 01 2020 Marxism, Colonialism and Cricket: C. L. R. James’s “Beyond a Boundary” Featherstone, David, Christopher Gair, Christian Høgsberg, and Andrew Smith, eds. Marxism, Colonialism and Cricket: C. L. R. James’s “Beyond a Boundary”. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2018. Pp. viii + 295. Notes, index. $99.95, hb. $26.95, pb. Malcolm MacLean Malcolm MacLean The University of Queensland/De Montfort University Search for other wo…
(Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph
Engaging (with) Indigeneity
The drive to decolonize the academy has led to the reconstruction of old understandings, yet much of the critical studies tradition does little more than add “data” from colonially suppressed peoples without re-examining the dominant discursive narratives. This paper explores the historiography of indigenous sport to pose questions about the ways the Imperial Archive has shaped our understandings and the manner of access to that source material, …
Embodied Nation
Ambiguity within the Boundary
The Philosophy of Play as Life
It is now widely acknowledged that play is central to our lives. As a phenomenon, play poses important questions of reality, subjectivity, competition, inclusion and exclusion. This international collection is the third in a series of books (including The Philosophy of Play and Philosophical Perspectives on Play) that aims to build paradigmatic bridges between scholars of philosophy and scholars of play. Divided into four sections (Play as Life, …
Moments of impact
Book Review
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Sports heroines on film
Book review
The Sports Film
One of the effects of the ‘cultural turn’ in sport studies is that we have started taking more notice of sport's place in other cultural industries, including its textual (re)production across a ra
Activism and the Olympics
Book Review of Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London, Jules Boykoff (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2014).Pp.xiv + 226 (pb, 978-0-8135-6201-8
Indigenous Sport, Race Relations and Australian Sport
Making Sport History
As scholarly sub-disciplines emerge, we mark our difference and disciplinary integrity, usually by claims to a distinctive field of study or methodological style, and often assert a distinctive pla
Surfing Life
From a team captain's (not so muttered) comments about the ‘old farts’ in control of the game to erudite philosophical discussions about the ‘owners’ of sport to a seeming presumption among academi
Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games
Review of Jules Boykoff, Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games (London: Routledge, 2014) Pp 170
Rooting for the Home Team
While it is easy to overstate or romanticize sport's associative opportunities, there is little doubt that it is one of the most powerful community-building sites in the late capitalist world. This
Representing the Sporting Past in Museums and Halls of Fame
In the entry foyer in my local museum, before it closed for its recently completed renovation, there was a cabinet containing, from memory, some cricket memorabilia – bat, ball, gloves, scorebook a
The New Oxford History of New Zealand
Distance and News Interest
This is the first report on one phase of an extensive study of mass media intake and attitudes in a small Italian community. The authors are seeking to establish a means of predicting a person's reading or listening habits on the basis of his expressed interest in news about far places
Revisiting (and Revising?) Sports Boycotts
For the first time in nearly 30 years, 2013 saw increasing public awareness of calls for a comprehensive boycott of and sanctions on a state based on questions of an ‘entrenched system of racial discrimination’. The call to boycott South African sport emerged in the 1950s as the apartheid state was developing and refining its comprehensive and systematic legal form amid growing international pressure for decolonisation. This is a different social…
Visualising Sport
Fan culture in European football and the influence of left wing ideology
Book review of Fan Culture in European Football and the Influence of Left Wing Ideology 2014 Routledge Edited by Peter Kennedy and David Kennedy
Cracks in the (Self-Constructed?) Ghetto Walls? Comments on Paul Ward's ‘Last Man Picked’
This paper addresses issues raised in Paul Ward's essay ‘Last man picked’, focusing on methodological and discipline-refining questions to call for a more open dialogue between sports historians and others in the discipline. The argument includes a call on the wider discipline to both recognise the need for and participation in sub-discipline specific debates
Football as social critique
During the 1970s and 1980s New Zealand was the site of an array of social and political struggles over issues centred on colonisation, gender politics, economic and social policies, international relations and state power. The single biggest protest movement centred on the question of sporting contact with South Africa and found full force during the 1981 Springbok rugby tour. This paper considers the range of protest movements and campaigns duri…
The silent centre
In 1989 my friend Leslie Parr, in frustration at the rather trite comments of a seminar speaker about our need to become bicultural, leaned over and whispered in my ear "I've been bicultural all my life, and that's a long time". She was right, Maori are already likely to be bicultural. It is we Pakeha - New Zealanders of European extraction - who have to become bicultural. Leslie died three years ago. This paper is for her
The Canadian Born in the United States
Local, National and Global Histories of Netball
Despite its notable global presence as one of the most popular sports for women, netball has almost no profile within sports history and only a very limited body of scholarly work exploring its historical and socio-cultural presence. The game, developed in the 1890s as an off-shoot of basketball consistent with prevailing gender ideologies of the era, took hold in British Physical Training Colleges before being taken up as a team sport suitable f…
Engaging (with) Indigeneity
The drive to decolonize the academy has led to the reconstruction of old understandings, yet much of the critical studies tradition does little more than add “data” from colonially suppressed peoples without re-examining the dominant discursive narratives. This paper explores the historiography of indigenous sport to pose questions about the ways the Imperial Archive has shaped our understandings and the manner of access to that source material, …
A Gap but Not an Absence
Although sports organisations dominate and shape the provision of sport and provide the level and form of institutionalisation which is one of the defining characteristics of modern sport and although the history of sports organisations influences both the current shape and provision of sport as well as our image and understanding of specific sports as cultural practice, we know very little about sports' basic institutional unit, the sports club.…
But what sort of value? A polemic provoked by John Frow's cultural studies and cultural value
The University of Gloucestershire has a vibrant academic community where creative research and cutting-edge scholarship are conducted at a high level. Our learning-led environment enables research to thrive, providing the best support for students
The Mass Media and an Informed Public
Opinion surveys have frequently disclosed disquietingly wide gaps in the general public's information about matters and personalities presumed to be of public importance. The studies reported in this article confirm earlier results of this kind with respect to personalities and suggest that variations in information levels are to some extent concomitant with exposure to written media. Sex differences, education, occupation, income, and social par…
A College of 1934
A BOUT the faculty of the General College, a faculty without which it would fizzle and snuff out in short order, much can be said in few words. We have no faculty exclusively our own. All are members of the staffs of various colleges and departments. All are teaching because they see the problems presented by the College and wish to share in their solution, and because they are known for their teaching powers and are willing to accept the invitat…
A Wise Book
A Wise Book
A Wise Book: Democracy Enters College: Study of the Rise and Decline of the Academic Lockstep." The Journal of Higher Education, 8(5), pp. 283–284
The General College of the University of Minnesota
F OR the past eight years the General College of the University of Minnesota has been asking its students what they really need in general education. Many of the seven thousand students who have taken work here during these years have helped us to see these needs more clearly. A representative group of one hundred students and their families gave even more generously of their time and thinking to provide information helpful in build
Informal Essays
Informal Essays
The Impact of World War II Upon Institutions for the Higher Education of the Negro
Malcolm S. MacLean, The Impact of World War II Upon Institutions for the Higher Education of the Negro, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 11, No. 3, Negro Higher Education in the War and Post-War Reconstruction (Jul., 1942), pp. 338-345
The Canadian Born in the United States
Military Government-Fact and Fancy
A Compendium of Information
A Compendium of Information
A Compendium of Information: American Junior Colleges." The Journal of Higher Education, 20(4), pp. 223–224
The Mass Media and an Informed Public
Opinion surveys have frequently disclosed disquietingly wide gaps in the general public's information about matters and personalities presumed to be of public importance. The studies reported in this article confirm earlier results of this kind with respect to personalities and suggest that variations in information levels are to some extent concomitant with exposure to written media. Sex differences, education, occupation, income, and social par…
Distance and News Interest
This is the first report on one phase of an extensive study of mass media intake and attitudes in a small Italian community. The authors are seeking to establish a means of predicting a person's reading or listening habits on the basis of his expressed interest in news about far places
Use and Evaluation of the Mass Media in an Italian Commune
Journal Article USE AND EVALUATION OF THE MASS MEDIA IN AN ITALIAN COMMUNE Get access Malcolm S. MacLean, Jr. Malcolm S. MacLean, Jr. Communications Research Center Michigan State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 22, Issue 2, SUMMER 1958, Pages 195–196, https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/22.2.195 Published: 01 January 1958
Questions of Evaluation of Instructional Simulations and Games
Communication Theory, Research and the Practical Affairs of Man
But what sort of value? A polemic provoked by John Frow's cultural studies and cultural value
The University of Gloucestershire has a vibrant academic community where creative research and cutting-edge scholarship are conducted at a high level. Our learning-led environment enables research to thrive, providing the best support for students
The silent centre
In 1989 my friend Leslie Parr, in frustration at the rather trite comments of a seminar speaker about our need to become bicultural, leaned over and whispered in my ear "I've been bicultural all my life, and that's a long time". She was right, Maori are already likely to be bicultural. It is we Pakeha - New Zealanders of European extraction - who have to become bicultural. Leslie died three years ago. This paper is for her
Football as social critique
During the 1970s and 1980s New Zealand was the site of an array of social and political struggles over issues centred on colonisation, gender politics, economic and social policies, international relations and state power. The single biggest protest movement centred on the question of sporting contact with South Africa and found full force during the 1981 Springbok rugby tour. This paper considers the range of protest movements and campaigns duri…
Brawling in Berne
This article explores the use of national and racial stereotypes in the moral panic surrounding a case of athlete violence at the 1954 football World Cup, focusing on the differences in mediation of this event across three nations with different forms of involvement in or connection with the match. Texts are analysed from Norwegian and English national newspapers, and Swiss newspapers of German origin using Fairclough's (1995a, 1995b, 2003) criti…
Where the ‘Real’ Meets the ‘Conceptual’
The New Oxford History of New Zealand
Ambiguity within the Boundary
The literary turn in cultural and historical analysis has introduced a suite of new perspectives, theoretical approaches, and analytical techniques to the humanities and social sciences. The emergence of post-colonial modes of analysis, related to this literary turn, has increased our awareness and interpretation of various representational techniques in and approaches to colonial cultures. One theoretical approach has shaped a major strand of th…
Cracks in the (Self-Constructed?) Ghetto Walls? Comments on Paul Ward's ‘Last Man Picked’
This paper addresses issues raised in Paul Ward's essay ‘Last man picked’, focusing on methodological and discipline-refining questions to call for a more open dialogue between sports historians and others in the discipline. The argument includes a call on the wider discipline to both recognise the need for and participation in sub-discipline specific debates
Philosophy of Play
Sociology (38 works) · Political science (28 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (28 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (27 works) · History (22 works) · History (20 works) · Art (18 works) · Law (16 works) · Law (16 works) · Psychology (15 works)