Nikolas Dickerson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4157168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nikolas Dickerson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nikolas |
| FAMILY NAME | Dickerson |
| SIGNATURE | DICKERSON N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reconsidering anthropocentrism
Sport mega-events such as the Olympic Games can bring both socio-economic benefits and environmental risks to hosts. While literature on the environmental impacts of mega-events has focused on contemporary capitalism and its human-centred imperatives as causal sources of environmental degradation, analysis remains relatively indifferent to how people at the scene view the outcomes of these events. Drawing upon two competing environmental ethics (…
Ricky and Stick Icky
In this article, I examine the ways the popular press, and two sport documentaries construct narratives of Ricky Williams’ marijuana use, early retirement, and return to the National Football League. I argue that all of the texts in question, work to produce a dominant reading of Williams, as someone who is difficult to define, and it is because of inability to put Williams’s identity into a box, that his marijuana use, “strange” personality, and…
Constructing the Digitalized Sporting Body
In this article, I examine the ways sport fans construct and circulate discourses of race and masculinity in cyberspace. I do this through an examination of a set of Internet memes that juxtapose the bodies of National Hockey League players with National Basketball Association players in one single image. I argue these memes celebrate White masculinity, while at the same time constructing African American athletes as individualistic, selfish, and…
Constructing the Digitalized Sporting Body
In this article, I examine the ways sport fans construct and circulate discourses of race and masculinity in cyberspace. I do this through an examination of a set of Internet memes that juxtapose the bodies of National Hockey League players with National Basketball Association players in one single image. I argue these memes celebrate White masculinity, while at the same time constructing African American athletes as individualistic, selfish, and…
Ricky and Stick Icky
In this article, I examine the ways the popular press, and two sport documentaries construct narratives of Ricky Williams’ marijuana use, early retirement, and return to the National Football League. I argue that all of the texts in question, work to produce a dominant reading of Williams, as someone who is difficult to define, and it is because of inability to put Williams’s identity into a box, that his marijuana use, “strange” personality, and…
Constructing the Digitalized Sporting Body
In this article, I examine the ways sport fans construct and circulate discourses of race and masculinity in cyberspace. I do this through an examination of a set of Internet memes that juxtapose the bodies of National Hockey League players with National Basketball Association players in one single image. I argue these memes celebrate White masculinity, while at the same time constructing African American athletes as individualistic, selfish, and…
Ricky and Stick Icky
In this article, I examine the ways the popular press, and two sport documentaries construct narratives of Ricky Williams’ marijuana use, early retirement, and return to the National Football League. I argue that all of the texts in question, work to produce a dominant reading of Williams, as someone who is difficult to define, and it is because of inability to put Williams’s identity into a box, that his marijuana use, “strange” personality, and…
Reconsidering anthropocentrism
Sport mega-events such as the Olympic Games can bring both socio-economic benefits and environmental risks to hosts. While literature on the environmental impacts of mega-events has focused on contemporary capitalism and its human-centred imperatives as causal sources of environmental degradation, analysis remains relatively indifferent to how people at the scene view the outcomes of these events. Drawing upon two competing environmental ethics (…
Sports, Gender, and Society (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Masculinity (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)