Hugh O’donnell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4911301 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hugh O’donnell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hugh |
| FAMILY NAME | O’donnell |
| SIGNATURE | O’DONNELL H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Glasgow Caledonian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2610-6965 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Historically-Structured Boardgames and Historical Memory Education: Teaching Contested Histories Through Ludic Simulation
This study examines the pedagogical potential of historically-structured boardgames (HSBGs) for teaching contested histories, addressing a gap in simulation-based approaches to the Northern Ireland Troubles. Using Historical Memory Education (HME) as an analytical framework, the paper evaluates how a representative HSBG, The Troubles: Shadow War in Northern Ireland (2028), aligns with key pedagogical principles for engaging learners with divisive…
Beyond Borders: Teaching the Northern Ireland Troubles in the Social Studies Classroom
The design of The Troubles: Simulating terror in Northern Ireland
Small but perfectly (in)formed? Sustainable development of small heritage sites in Iran
World Heritage sites have been widely studied due to their position in attracting tourists. However, while small heritage sites do not match the popularity of World Heritage Sites, they can have many socio-economic benefits for local communities and help to transfer knowledge of the past to the next generation. Despite these potentials, small heritage sites have been relatively overlooked by researchers. This study, for the first time, conceptual…
Repurposing the (Super)Crip: Media Representations of Disability at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games
Mega-events attract ever larger media audiences, and the 2016 Rio Paralympics were no exception. As audiences grow, media coverage extends to ever more varied domains, which are themselves then colonised by an increasing range of discourses. One of main discourses to develop since the early 2000s has been that of the so-called supercrip, one which challenges the notion of “impairment” often connected with disability by foregrounding the para-athl…
Relocating Persia/Iran in the contemporary British tourist imaginary
This paper examines the construction of three different Persias in British cultural tourists’ accounts of their encounters with Iran and its inhabitants and with its Persian heritage. One – which we call Persia-the-Dead – is materialised in the ancient and monumental, and is at the same time heavily mediated by long-standing discourses of Ancient Persia in British and European cultures more generally. A second – which we call Persia-the-Living – …
UK press and tourist discourses of Iran: A study in multiple realities
The aim of this article is to investigate the competing discourses of Iran currently circulating in British society, and their influence on the tourist destination image of that country. A mixed-methods approach was adopted within a social constructionist perspective: this consisted of a Foucauldian discourse analysis of news reports in a range of British broadsheet newspapers, interviews with tourists who had visited Iran, and analysis of travel…
Elite athletes or superstars? Media representation of para-athletes at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games
This article offers a discourse analysis of media representations of para-athletes before, during and post the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games in print and online sources, drawing on the lens of critical disability theory. We consider the importance of the media–sport cultural complex in influencing public attitudes towards disability. We conclude that whilst the importance of discursive change cannot be underestimated at the level of the media a…
Community as context: EastEnders , public service and neoliberal ideology
This article uses 21 in-depth interviews with viewers of the British soap opera EastEnders to investigate the extent to which it can be described, in particular through its handling of social issues, as a site of cultural citizenship and, via the concept of public service, of resistance to the current neoliberal hegemony. The article’s analysis of viewers’ talk confirms previous claims that EastEnders mobilises a nostalgic sense of community with…
Neighbourhood squabbles or claims of right: Narratives of conflict on Spanish and Catalan television
It is in the explanation of conflicts that narratives of confrontation are most clearly deployed. In the definition of the problems, in the roles embodied by the different subjects, in the lexical choices made when referring to territories or symbolic objects, we establish differences in terms of how such confrontations are (to be) understood. These narratives are articulated through structures which work to construct the origin of the problem, t…
Centres and Peripheries: Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Journalism in the Twenty-First Century
This collection of essays explores centre/periphery relationships in journalism on a wide geographical canvas - the British Isles, Europe, North America and Australasia
Class Warriors or Generous Men in Skirts? The Tartan Army in the Scottish and Foreign Press
A journal at the right time
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Measuring up? Non-profit and commercial language policies in Gaelic-speaking Scotland
The juxtaposition of majority and minority languages gives rise to issues of language rights, maintenance and promotion. Within organisations, language policies can be used to direct language use and encourage bilingual or multilingual practice. However, critical attention to the component parts of language policies is currently fixed on the public governmental sector. This paper presents the findings of a textual analysis of two organisations' G…
Telling it like it is? Social and linguistic realism in Scottish and Catalan soaps
Those involved in the production of soap operas frequently make strong claims regarding the particularly close relationship between their products and ‘reality’, simultaneously distancing themselves from any suggestion of ‘construction’. Perhaps the best-known such claim (in the UK at least) was the assertion made by Julia Smith, then producer of the English soap EastEnders, to the effect that ‘we don’t make life, we reflect it’ (Geraghty, 1991: …
High Drama, Low Key: Visual Aesthetics and Subject Positions in the Domestic Spanish Television Serial
This paper is the (no doubt provisional) result of an attempt to analyse the long-running serials recently and currently available on Spanish television—in both its state-wide and its “autonomous” institutional forms—on the basis of what seemed at first sight to be relatively obvious, and straightforward, stylistic differences. Programmes like Goenkale in the Basque Country, El cor de la ciutat in Catalonia or Arrayaacuten in Andalusia seemed for…
Fitba Crazy? Saturday Super Scoreboard and the Dialectis of Political Debate
Current developments in media sport, and the politics of local identities: A ‘postmodern’ debate
(2000). Current developments in media sport, and the politics of local identities: A ‘postmodern’ debate? Culture, Sport, Society: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 1-22
A semiotics of violent actuality: Encoding football fan behaviour during Euro'92
This paper analyses coverage of a number of incidents of football fan violence on Swedish television during the 1992 European Championship. Concentrating mainly on the technical characteristics of the video footage used — coming mostly from amateur or surveillance sources — it argues that they illustrate an emerging semiotics whereby poor technical quality, far from being a disadvantage, has come to be regarded as a guarantor of actuality. The pa…
Mapping the Mythical: A Geopolitics of National Sporting Stereotypes
This article examines a number of stereotypes of national character which appear regularly in the sports reporting of 15 European countries. Having documented the major stereotypes, it argues that, though apparently independent, they should be seen as local entry-points into a much larger discursive network. This network constitutes a macrodiscourse which is geopolitical in scope, its ideological function being to further local elite interests by…
Mapping the Mythical: A Geopolitics of National Sporting Stereotypes
This article examines a number of stereotypes of national character which appear regularly in the sports reporting of 15 European countries. Having documented the major stereotypes, it argues that, though apparently independent, they should be seen as local entry-points into a much larger discursive network. This network constitutes a macrodiscourse which is geopolitical in scope, its ideological function being to further local elite interests by…
Elite athletes or superstars? Media representation of para-athletes at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games
This article offers a discourse analysis of media representations of para-athletes before, during and post the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games in print and online sources, drawing on the lens of critical disability theory. We consider the importance of the media–sport cultural complex in influencing public attitudes towards disability. We conclude that whilst the importance of discursive change cannot be underestimated at the level of the media a…
Repurposing the (Super)Crip: Media Representations of Disability at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games
Mega-events attract ever larger media audiences, and the 2016 Rio Paralympics were no exception. As audiences grow, media coverage extends to ever more varied domains, which are themselves then colonised by an increasing range of discourses. One of main discourses to develop since the early 2000s has been that of the so-called supercrip, one which challenges the notion of “impairment” often connected with disability by foregrounding the para-athl…
Community as context: EastEnders , public service and neoliberal ideology
This article uses 21 in-depth interviews with viewers of the British soap opera EastEnders to investigate the extent to which it can be described, in particular through its handling of social issues, as a site of cultural citizenship and, via the concept of public service, of resistance to the current neoliberal hegemony. The article’s analysis of viewers’ talk confirms previous claims that EastEnders mobilises a nostalgic sense of community with…
Neighbourhood squabbles or claims of right: Narratives of conflict on Spanish and Catalan television
It is in the explanation of conflicts that narratives of confrontation are most clearly deployed. In the definition of the problems, in the roles embodied by the different subjects, in the lexical choices made when referring to territories or symbolic objects, we establish differences in terms of how such confrontations are (to be) understood. These narratives are articulated through structures which work to construct the origin of the problem, t…
Small but perfectly (in)formed? Sustainable development of small heritage sites in Iran
World Heritage sites have been widely studied due to their position in attracting tourists. However, while small heritage sites do not match the popularity of World Heritage Sites, they can have many socio-economic benefits for local communities and help to transfer knowledge of the past to the next generation. Despite these potentials, small heritage sites have been relatively overlooked by researchers. This study, for the first time, conceptual…
Relocating Persia/Iran in the contemporary British tourist imaginary
This paper examines the construction of three different Persias in British cultural tourists’ accounts of their encounters with Iran and its inhabitants and with its Persian heritage. One – which we call Persia-the-Dead – is materialised in the ancient and monumental, and is at the same time heavily mediated by long-standing discourses of Ancient Persia in British and European cultures more generally. A second – which we call Persia-the-Living – …
Telling it like it is? Social and linguistic realism in Scottish and Catalan soaps
Those involved in the production of soap operas frequently make strong claims regarding the particularly close relationship between their products and ‘reality’, simultaneously distancing themselves from any suggestion of ‘construction’. Perhaps the best-known such claim (in the UK at least) was the assertion made by Julia Smith, then producer of the English soap EastEnders, to the effect that ‘we don’t make life, we reflect it’ (Geraghty, 1991: …
High Drama, Low Key: Visual Aesthetics and Subject Positions in the Domestic Spanish Television Serial
This paper is the (no doubt provisional) result of an attempt to analyse the long-running serials recently and currently available on Spanish television—in both its state-wide and its “autonomous” institutional forms—on the basis of what seemed at first sight to be relatively obvious, and straightforward, stylistic differences. Programmes like Goenkale in the Basque Country, El cor de la ciutat in Catalonia or Arrayaacuten in Andalusia seemed for…
A semiotics of violent actuality: Encoding football fan behaviour during Euro'92
This paper analyses coverage of a number of incidents of football fan violence on Swedish television during the 1992 European Championship. Concentrating mainly on the technical characteristics of the video footage used — coming mostly from amateur or surveillance sources — it argues that they illustrate an emerging semiotics whereby poor technical quality, far from being a disadvantage, has come to be regarded as a guarantor of actuality. The pa…
Mapping the Mythical: A Geopolitics of National Sporting Stereotypes
This article examines a number of stereotypes of national character which appear regularly in the sports reporting of 15 European countries. Having documented the major stereotypes, it argues that, though apparently independent, they should be seen as local entry-points into a much larger discursive network. This network constitutes a macrodiscourse which is geopolitical in scope, its ideological function being to further local elite interests by…
A semiotics of violent actuality: Encoding football fan behaviour during Euro'92
This paper analyses coverage of a number of incidents of football fan violence on Swedish television during the 1992 European Championship. Concentrating mainly on the technical characteristics of the video footage used — coming mostly from amateur or surveillance sources — it argues that they illustrate an emerging semiotics whereby poor technical quality, far from being a disadvantage, has come to be regarded as a guarantor of actuality. The pa…
Current developments in media sport, and the politics of local identities: A ‘postmodern’ debate
(2000). Current developments in media sport, and the politics of local identities: A ‘postmodern’ debate? Culture, Sport, Society: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 1-22
Fitba Crazy? Saturday Super Scoreboard and the Dialectis of Political Debate
High Drama, Low Key: Visual Aesthetics and Subject Positions in the Domestic Spanish Television Serial
This paper is the (no doubt provisional) result of an attempt to analyse the long-running serials recently and currently available on Spanish television—in both its state-wide and its “autonomous” institutional forms—on the basis of what seemed at first sight to be relatively obvious, and straightforward, stylistic differences. Programmes like Goenkale in the Basque Country, El cor de la ciutat in Catalonia or Arrayaacuten in Andalusia seemed for…
A journal at the right time
Preview this article: A journal at the right time, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/cjcs/1/1/s1-1.gif
Measuring up? Non-profit and commercial language policies in Gaelic-speaking Scotland
The juxtaposition of majority and minority languages gives rise to issues of language rights, maintenance and promotion. Within organisations, language policies can be used to direct language use and encourage bilingual or multilingual practice. However, critical attention to the component parts of language policies is currently fixed on the public governmental sector. This paper presents the findings of a textual analysis of two organisations' G…
Telling it like it is? Social and linguistic realism in Scottish and Catalan soaps
Those involved in the production of soap operas frequently make strong claims regarding the particularly close relationship between their products and ‘reality’, simultaneously distancing themselves from any suggestion of ‘construction’. Perhaps the best-known such claim (in the UK at least) was the assertion made by Julia Smith, then producer of the English soap EastEnders, to the effect that ‘we don’t make life, we reflect it’ (Geraghty, 1991: …
Class Warriors or Generous Men in Skirts? The Tartan Army in the Scottish and Foreign Press
Neighbourhood squabbles or claims of right: Narratives of conflict on Spanish and Catalan television
It is in the explanation of conflicts that narratives of confrontation are most clearly deployed. In the definition of the problems, in the roles embodied by the different subjects, in the lexical choices made when referring to territories or symbolic objects, we establish differences in terms of how such confrontations are (to be) understood. These narratives are articulated through structures which work to construct the origin of the problem, t…
Centres and Peripheries: Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Journalism in the Twenty-First Century
This collection of essays explores centre/periphery relationships in journalism on a wide geographical canvas - the British Isles, Europe, North America and Australasia
Community as context: EastEnders , public service and neoliberal ideology
This article uses 21 in-depth interviews with viewers of the British soap opera EastEnders to investigate the extent to which it can be described, in particular through its handling of social issues, as a site of cultural citizenship and, via the concept of public service, of resistance to the current neoliberal hegemony. The article’s analysis of viewers’ talk confirms previous claims that EastEnders mobilises a nostalgic sense of community with…
Elite athletes or superstars? Media representation of para-athletes at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games
This article offers a discourse analysis of media representations of para-athletes before, during and post the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games in print and online sources, drawing on the lens of critical disability theory. We consider the importance of the media–sport cultural complex in influencing public attitudes towards disability. We conclude that whilst the importance of discursive change cannot be underestimated at the level of the media a…
UK press and tourist discourses of Iran: A study in multiple realities
The aim of this article is to investigate the competing discourses of Iran currently circulating in British society, and their influence on the tourist destination image of that country. A mixed-methods approach was adopted within a social constructionist perspective: this consisted of a Foucauldian discourse analysis of news reports in a range of British broadsheet newspapers, interviews with tourists who had visited Iran, and analysis of travel…
Relocating Persia/Iran in the contemporary British tourist imaginary
This paper examines the construction of three different Persias in British cultural tourists’ accounts of their encounters with Iran and its inhabitants and with its Persian heritage. One – which we call Persia-the-Dead – is materialised in the ancient and monumental, and is at the same time heavily mediated by long-standing discourses of Ancient Persia in British and European cultures more generally. A second – which we call Persia-the-Living – …
Repurposing the (Super)Crip: Media Representations of Disability at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games
Mega-events attract ever larger media audiences, and the 2016 Rio Paralympics were no exception. As audiences grow, media coverage extends to ever more varied domains, which are themselves then colonised by an increasing range of discourses. One of main discourses to develop since the early 2000s has been that of the so-called supercrip, one which challenges the notion of “impairment” often connected with disability by foregrounding the para-athl…
Small but perfectly (in)formed? Sustainable development of small heritage sites in Iran
World Heritage sites have been widely studied due to their position in attracting tourists. However, while small heritage sites do not match the popularity of World Heritage Sites, they can have many socio-economic benefits for local communities and help to transfer knowledge of the past to the next generation. Despite these potentials, small heritage sites have been relatively overlooked by researchers. This study, for the first time, conceptual…
The design of The Troubles: Simulating terror in Northern Ireland
Beyond Borders: Teaching the Northern Ireland Troubles in the Social Studies Classroom
Historically-Structured Boardgames and Historical Memory Education: Teaching Contested Histories Through Ludic Simulation
This study examines the pedagogical potential of historically-structured boardgames (HSBGs) for teaching contested histories, addressing a gap in simulation-based approaches to the Northern Ireland Troubles. Using Historical Memory Education (HME) as an analytical framework, the paper evaluates how a representative HSBG, The Troubles: Shadow War in Northern Ireland (2028), aligns with key pedagogical principles for engaging learners with divisive…
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