Cliff Spracklen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4151787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cliff Spracklen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cliff |
| FAMILY NAME | Spracklen |
| SIGNATURE | SPRACKLEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | XIII Actif, UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reimagining rugby league’ and performative masculinities: The politics of rugby league fan spaces in Northern England
Rugby league has been witnessing changes that could decentre its perception as a sport played and followed by ‘hard gritty men’ in mill towns and (ex)-mining communities in Northern England. In this exploratory study, we offer a snapshot into English rugby league terraces and interrogate whether the stereotypes of rugby league as a sport that has struggled to reinvent its northern, (de)-industrial, white, working-class, and (hetero)-masculine ima…
Negotiations of Being and Becoming: Minority Ethnic Rugby League Players in the Cathar Country of France
This article is based on new empirical, qualitative research with minority ethnic rugby league players in the southwest of France. Drawing on similar research on rugby league in the north and the south of England, the article examines how rugby league, traditionally viewed as a white, working-class male game (Collins, 2006; Denham, 2004; Spracklen, 1995, 2001) has had to re-imagine its symbolic boundaries as they are constituted globally and loca…
Negotiations of Being and Becoming: Minority Ethnic Rugby League Players in the Cathar Country of France
This article is based on new empirical, qualitative research with minority ethnic rugby league players in the southwest of France. Drawing on similar research on rugby league in the north and the south of England, the article examines how rugby league, traditionally viewed as a white, working-class male game (Collins, 2006; Denham, 2004; Spracklen, 1995, 2001) has had to re-imagine its symbolic boundaries as they are constituted globally and loca…
Reimagining rugby league’ and performative masculinities: The politics of rugby league fan spaces in Northern England
Rugby league has been witnessing changes that could decentre its perception as a sport played and followed by ‘hard gritty men’ in mill towns and (ex)-mining communities in Northern England. In this exploratory study, we offer a snapshot into English rugby league terraces and interrogate whether the stereotypes of rugby league as a sport that has struggled to reinvent its northern, (de)-industrial, white, working-class, and (hetero)-masculine ima…
Negotiations of Being and Becoming: Minority Ethnic Rugby League Players in the Cathar Country of France
This article is based on new empirical, qualitative research with minority ethnic rugby league players in the southwest of France. Drawing on similar research on rugby league in the north and the south of England, the article examines how rugby league, traditionally viewed as a white, working-class male game (Collins, 2006; Denham, 2004; Spracklen, 1995, 2001) has had to re-imagine its symbolic boundaries as they are constituted globally and loca…
Reimagining rugby league’ and performative masculinities: The politics of rugby league fan spaces in Northern England
Rugby league has been witnessing changes that could decentre its perception as a sport played and followed by ‘hard gritty men’ in mill towns and (ex)-mining communities in Northern England. In this exploratory study, we offer a snapshot into English rugby league terraces and interrogate whether the stereotypes of rugby league as a sport that has struggled to reinvent its northern, (de)-industrial, white, working-class, and (hetero)-masculine ima…
Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · League (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (2 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Art (1 works)