Carly Adams
Biographic Data
| ID | 4221216 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carly Adams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carly |
| FAMILY NAME | Adams |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lethbridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9220-7169 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An Introduction to Sport Studies as a Public Service
Immediately after Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 United States presidential election, the Democratic Party spent its first days in the opposition asking itself: “Do we need our own Joe Rogan?”1 In 2024, Rogan, a former mixed martial arts commentator turned podcast host, commanded an audience of nearly twenty-two million listeners. His shock-jock-style podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, hit 1.2 billion minutes of watch time in the US alone. Fo…
Indigenous Girls Hockey
Routledge Handbook of Sport History
An Introduction to “50 Years
As with most facets of life, the COVID-19 pandemic changed the annual North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) convention. The abrupt onset of the pandemic forced the cancellation of the 2020 meeting, the first time NASSH did not convene since its inaugural conference in 1973. The continued severity of COVID-19 required NASSH to meet online in 2021, with members signing on to a virtual platform to share their work and engage with colleagu…
Hey, Why Don't We Have a Bonspiel?’ Narrating Postwar Japanese Canadian Experiences in Southern Alberta through Oral Histories of Curling
Southern Alberta is home to Canada’s third largest post-war concentration of Japanese Canadians. Many Japanese Canadians were relocated to this region between 1942 and 1949, and many remained to rebuild their lives and communities during the postwar period. Our study draws on oral histories conducted as part of the Nikkei Memory Capture Project, a multi-year oral history project that initiates the narration and analysis of the cultural and social…
Sport and Oral History
In the introduction to her Oral History and Theory, Lynn Abrams defined oral history as a practice, a method of research. In the simplest terms she stated that oral history is ‘the act of recording
The Girl and the Game
Book Review| April 01 2018 The Girl and the Game: A History of Women’s Sport in Canada Hall, M. Ann. The Girl and the Game: A History of Women’s Sport in Canada. 2nd ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. Pp. 393. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $34.95, pb. Carly Adams Carly Adams University of Lethbridge Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2018) 45 (1): 107–108. https://doi…
It's just girls' hockey
The current historical moment abounds with social ideologies suggesting that girls' and women's sport has come a long way. Narratives of achievement, success and the gains that have ostensibly been made over the last three decades hold up these ideologies. In this interview-based study, we consider girls' minor hockey in Southern Alberta, Canada to examine whether and how historically entrenched inequalities are being challenged, eradicated and/o…
The logic of memory
We seek to engage in this article the current debate in memory studies regarding the definition and nature of the phenomenon of collective memory. Using the controversy over Dow Chemical Corporation’s sponsorship of the London Olympic stadium in 2012 as an example, we theorize memory as inherently logical—that is, as necessary to the maintenance of the overarching logics that govern the political and economic forms of a given society. We suggest …
Reflections on Critical Sport History in the Museum
As sport historians we choose to engage in public history projects and thus are faced with both opportunities and challenges. Our involvement in the Alberta Sports History Project provides an opportunity to engage in the ongoing discussion about how members of the academy can effectively move into the realm of public sport history. By involving oneself with a museum or sports hall of fame a historian must recognize that her/his own expectations f…
Together we can make it better
This paper, drawing on collective action literature and situated within the women's sport movement, offers a case study of a separate girls' minor hockey association that formed in Ontario in the mid-1990s. The analysis explores the process of establishing a girls' hockey association that is separate from the boys' minor hockey umbrella. Two fundamental collective action themes emerged from the data. First, the data revealed the founders of the s…
(Writing Myself into) Betty White’s Stories
In this paper I explore the complexities of feminist sport history research, oral history, and my role as the researcher through an interview encounter I shared with Elizabeth (Betty) White who, in the late 1920s and early 1930s, represented the Thorold and Hamilton, Ontario, athletic clubs in a variety of events. She also competed as part of the Canadian team at the 1934 British Empire Games and the 1934 Women’s World Games. In this paper, I wri…
I Just Felt Like I Belonged to Them”
By the mid 1920s, company-sponsored sport leagues for women were well established in Canadian cities such as London, Ontario, Canada. As both an act of welfarism and convenient brand-identification advertising, London companies such as Kellogg’s, Silverwood Dairy, Smallman & Ingram, and Gorman Eckerts sponsored, and in some cases organized, women’s industrial softball teams for workers from 1923 until 1935. As a part of corporate welfarism, emplo…
It's just girls' hockey
The current historical moment abounds with social ideologies suggesting that girls' and women's sport has come a long way. Narratives of achievement, success and the gains that have ostensibly been made over the last three decades hold up these ideologies. In this interview-based study, we consider girls' minor hockey in Southern Alberta, Canada to examine whether and how historically entrenched inequalities are being challenged, eradicated and/o…
Sport and Oral History
In the introduction to her Oral History and Theory, Lynn Abrams defined oral history as a practice, a method of research. In the simplest terms she stated that oral history is ‘the act of recording
Together we can make it better
This paper, drawing on collective action literature and situated within the women's sport movement, offers a case study of a separate girls' minor hockey association that formed in Ontario in the mid-1990s. The analysis explores the process of establishing a girls' hockey association that is separate from the boys' minor hockey umbrella. Two fundamental collective action themes emerged from the data. First, the data revealed the founders of the s…
(Writing Myself into) Betty White’s Stories
In this paper I explore the complexities of feminist sport history research, oral history, and my role as the researcher through an interview encounter I shared with Elizabeth (Betty) White who, in the late 1920s and early 1930s, represented the Thorold and Hamilton, Ontario, athletic clubs in a variety of events. She also competed as part of the Canadian team at the 1934 British Empire Games and the 1934 Women’s World Games. In this paper, I wri…
I Just Felt Like I Belonged to Them”
By the mid 1920s, company-sponsored sport leagues for women were well established in Canadian cities such as London, Ontario, Canada. As both an act of welfarism and convenient brand-identification advertising, London companies such as Kellogg’s, Silverwood Dairy, Smallman & Ingram, and Gorman Eckerts sponsored, and in some cases organized, women’s industrial softball teams for workers from 1923 until 1935. As a part of corporate welfarism, emplo…
(Writing Myself into) Betty White’s Stories
In this paper I explore the complexities of feminist sport history research, oral history, and my role as the researcher through an interview encounter I shared with Elizabeth (Betty) White who, in the late 1920s and early 1930s, represented the Thorold and Hamilton, Ontario, athletic clubs in a variety of events. She also competed as part of the Canadian team at the 1934 British Empire Games and the 1934 Women’s World Games. In this paper, I wri…
Reflections on Critical Sport History in the Museum
As sport historians we choose to engage in public history projects and thus are faced with both opportunities and challenges. Our involvement in the Alberta Sports History Project provides an opportunity to engage in the ongoing discussion about how members of the academy can effectively move into the realm of public sport history. By involving oneself with a museum or sports hall of fame a historian must recognize that her/his own expectations f…
Together we can make it better
This paper, drawing on collective action literature and situated within the women's sport movement, offers a case study of a separate girls' minor hockey association that formed in Ontario in the mid-1990s. The analysis explores the process of establishing a girls' hockey association that is separate from the boys' minor hockey umbrella. Two fundamental collective action themes emerged from the data. First, the data revealed the founders of the s…
The logic of memory
We seek to engage in this article the current debate in memory studies regarding the definition and nature of the phenomenon of collective memory. Using the controversy over Dow Chemical Corporation’s sponsorship of the London Olympic stadium in 2012 as an example, we theorize memory as inherently logical—that is, as necessary to the maintenance of the overarching logics that govern the political and economic forms of a given society. We suggest …
The Girl and the Game
Book Review| April 01 2018 The Girl and the Game: A History of Women’s Sport in Canada Hall, M. Ann. The Girl and the Game: A History of Women’s Sport in Canada. 2nd ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. Pp. 393. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $34.95, pb. Carly Adams Carly Adams University of Lethbridge Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2018) 45 (1): 107–108. https://doi…
It's just girls' hockey
The current historical moment abounds with social ideologies suggesting that girls' and women's sport has come a long way. Narratives of achievement, success and the gains that have ostensibly been made over the last three decades hold up these ideologies. In this interview-based study, we consider girls' minor hockey in Southern Alberta, Canada to examine whether and how historically entrenched inequalities are being challenged, eradicated and/o…
Sport and Oral History
In the introduction to her Oral History and Theory, Lynn Abrams defined oral history as a practice, a method of research. In the simplest terms she stated that oral history is ‘the act of recording
Hey, Why Don't We Have a Bonspiel?’ Narrating Postwar Japanese Canadian Experiences in Southern Alberta through Oral Histories of Curling
Southern Alberta is home to Canada’s third largest post-war concentration of Japanese Canadians. Many Japanese Canadians were relocated to this region between 1942 and 1949, and many remained to rebuild their lives and communities during the postwar period. Our study draws on oral histories conducted as part of the Nikkei Memory Capture Project, a multi-year oral history project that initiates the narration and analysis of the cultural and social…
Routledge Handbook of Sport History
An Introduction to “50 Years
As with most facets of life, the COVID-19 pandemic changed the annual North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) convention. The abrupt onset of the pandemic forced the cancellation of the 2020 meeting, the first time NASSH did not convene since its inaugural conference in 1973. The continued severity of COVID-19 required NASSH to meet online in 2021, with members signing on to a virtual platform to share their work and engage with colleagu…
An Introduction to Sport Studies as a Public Service
Immediately after Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 United States presidential election, the Democratic Party spent its first days in the opposition asking itself: “Do we need our own Joe Rogan?”1 In 2024, Rogan, a former mixed martial arts commentator turned podcast host, commanded an audience of nearly twenty-two million listeners. His shock-jock-style podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, hit 1.2 billion minutes of watch time in the US alone. Fo…
Indigenous Girls Hockey
Sociology (10 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (10 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works)