E Poulton
Biographic Data
| ID | 58408 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Poulton |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Poulton |
| SIGNATURE | POULTON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8731-8238 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 132 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
“What have 6 million dead people got to do with football?”
Life-story interviews with 39 Jewish supporters of a football club whose quasi-Jewish identity is the catalyst for antisemitic abuse were used to explain the under-researched everyday experiences among members of the Anglo-Jewish community.All interviewees said their experiences of antisemitism within English men's football supporter culture were much worse than in wider society.All interviewees believed references to Hitler and the Holocaust exc…
From Jack Johnson to LeBron James
From Jack Johnson to LeBron James claims to examine the intersection of sports, race, and the media in the twentieth century and beyond. It does, sort of, but there are some serious shortcomings an
Uses and meanings of 'Yid' in English football fandom
This is the first empirical study to explain the contested uses and meanings of 'Yid' in English football fan culture. A pertinent socio-political issue with important policy and legal implications, we explain the different uses of 'Yid', making central the cultural context in which it is used, together with the intent underpinning its usage. Focusing upon Kick It Out's The Y-Word campaign film (which attempted to raise awareness of antisemitism …
Towards understanding
This article addresses an omission in the currently brief body of work on antisemitism in football and contributes to and advances wider sociological debates in the sub-disciplines of race and ethnicity, religion, linguistics and sport. The article examines antisemitic discourse in English football and in doing so, explains the different uses and meanings of 'Yid' in the vernacular culture of fans. While many conceive of 'Yid' as an ethnic epithe…
The culture of production behind the (re)production of football hooligan culture
This article explores the construction and dissemination of media representations of violent crime in popular culture through a case study of Cass (2008), a film adaptation of the autobiography of Cass Pennant, a former football hooligan. Personal biographical research interviews with the film's scriptwriter/director and Pennant himself provided a rare insight into the culture of production underpinning the (re)production of the violent football …
If you Had Balls, You'd be One of Us!' Doing Gendered Research
This article reflects upon being a female academic researcher in the hyper-masculine subculture of 'football hooliganism'. With this subculture being a male-dominated field of study, the article argues that gender blindness has prevailed in most studies conducted by male researchers, with a failure to consider the positioning, practices and performances of the gendered self in the gendered field. Nor has this been a consideration of the rare fema…
This is England’
This essay examines attempts by The Football Association to develop an official supporter’s group for the England men’s national team. It is argued that The FA’s perception of desired fandom relies on the continued imagining of an outdated ‘hooligan’ stereotype, associated with ‘rough’ white working‐class masculinity and related subcultural gatherings such as skinheads. The FA’s quest for a new England fandom articulates with broader public disco…
Toward a Cultural Sociology of the Consumption of “Fantasy Football Hooliganism”
Football hooliganism has a wide appeal within popular culture. Numerous books, films, documentaries, digital games, and even stage plays have featured representations of the phenomenon. All are presentations of what could be termed “fantasy football hooliganism” in that they are attempts by the entertainment industry to represent, reproduce, or simulate football-related disorder for our leisure consumption. This article offers a conceptual framew…
Fantasy football hooliganism’ in popular media
Mediated Patriot Games
This article explores the relationship between national identity and media sport, focusing specifically on the construction and representations of national identities in the television coverage of the (men's) 1996 European Football Championships (Euro '96). While Anderson's and Hobsbawm's respective concepts of 'imagined communities' and 'invented traditions' are useful in this regard, the process-sociological perspective is also particularly hel…
The War of the Words
This article is broadly concerned with the role that the sports press plays in the construction and representation of national identity and of identity politics. More specifically, it highlights the nature and form of media reporting within the German and English press during the 1996 European Football Championships, EURO 96. This is examined through the use of a quantitative content analysis supported and illustrated by qualitative discourse exa…
European Identity Politics in Euro 96
This article analyses the relationships between sport, national identity and the media in the English press during the European Football Championship, EURO 96. Our objective is to highlight some of media representations that surround and underpin sport in general and (association) football in particular in the context of contemporary European politics. This is done primarily through a qualitative discourse analysis of some the English newspaper c…
Weltkrieg III
This article examines past and present identity politics issues between England and Germany and considers the role of sport and the media in perpetuating national habitus. A qualitative case study of English and German media coverage of their semifinal match in the 1996 European Football Championships is used to illustrate the key issues. The Eliasian concepts of sleeping memories, imagined charisma, and fantasy shields are employed to construct …
European Identity Politics in Euro 96
This article analyses the relationships between sport, national identity and the media in the English press during the European Football Championship, EURO 96. Our objective is to highlight some of media representations that surround and underpin sport in general and (association) football in particular in the context of contemporary European politics. This is done primarily through a qualitative discourse analysis of some the English newspaper c…
Weltkrieg III
This article examines past and present identity politics issues between England and Germany and considers the role of sport and the media in perpetuating national habitus. A qualitative case study of English and German media coverage of their semifinal match in the 1996 European Football Championships is used to illustrate the key issues. The Eliasian concepts of sleeping memories, imagined charisma, and fantasy shields are employed to construct …
If you Had Balls, You'd be One of Us!' Doing Gendered Research
This article reflects upon being a female academic researcher in the hyper-masculine subculture of 'football hooliganism'. With this subculture being a male-dominated field of study, the article argues that gender blindness has prevailed in most studies conducted by male researchers, with a failure to consider the positioning, practices and performances of the gendered self in the gendered field. Nor has this been a consideration of the rare fema…
Uses and meanings of 'Yid' in English football fandom
This is the first empirical study to explain the contested uses and meanings of 'Yid' in English football fan culture. A pertinent socio-political issue with important policy and legal implications, we explain the different uses of 'Yid', making central the cultural context in which it is used, together with the intent underpinning its usage. Focusing upon Kick It Out's The Y-Word campaign film (which attempted to raise awareness of antisemitism …
Mediated Patriot Games
This article explores the relationship between national identity and media sport, focusing specifically on the construction and representations of national identities in the television coverage of the (men's) 1996 European Football Championships (Euro '96). While Anderson's and Hobsbawm's respective concepts of 'imagined communities' and 'invented traditions' are useful in this regard, the process-sociological perspective is also particularly hel…
The War of the Words
This article is broadly concerned with the role that the sports press plays in the construction and representation of national identity and of identity politics. More specifically, it highlights the nature and form of media reporting within the German and English press during the 1996 European Football Championships, EURO 96. This is examined through the use of a quantitative content analysis supported and illustrated by qualitative discourse exa…
Toward a Cultural Sociology of the Consumption of “Fantasy Football Hooliganism”
Football hooliganism has a wide appeal within popular culture. Numerous books, films, documentaries, digital games, and even stage plays have featured representations of the phenomenon. All are presentations of what could be termed “fantasy football hooliganism” in that they are attempts by the entertainment industry to represent, reproduce, or simulate football-related disorder for our leisure consumption. This article offers a conceptual framew…
Towards understanding
This article addresses an omission in the currently brief body of work on antisemitism in football and contributes to and advances wider sociological debates in the sub-disciplines of race and ethnicity, religion, linguistics and sport. The article examines antisemitic discourse in English football and in doing so, explains the different uses and meanings of 'Yid' in the vernacular culture of fans. While many conceive of 'Yid' as an ethnic epithe…
Fantasy football hooliganism’ in popular media
This is England’
This essay examines attempts by The Football Association to develop an official supporter’s group for the England men’s national team. It is argued that The FA’s perception of desired fandom relies on the continued imagining of an outdated ‘hooligan’ stereotype, associated with ‘rough’ white working‐class masculinity and related subcultural gatherings such as skinheads. The FA’s quest for a new England fandom articulates with broader public disco…
The culture of production behind the (re)production of football hooligan culture
This article explores the construction and dissemination of media representations of violent crime in popular culture through a case study of Cass (2008), a film adaptation of the autobiography of Cass Pennant, a former football hooligan. Personal biographical research interviews with the film's scriptwriter/director and Pennant himself provided a rare insight into the culture of production underpinning the (re)production of the violent football …
From Jack Johnson to LeBron James
From Jack Johnson to LeBron James claims to examine the intersection of sports, race, and the media in the twentieth century and beyond. It does, sort of, but there are some serious shortcomings an
The War of the Words
This article is broadly concerned with the role that the sports press plays in the construction and representation of national identity and of identity politics. More specifically, it highlights the nature and form of media reporting within the German and English press during the 1996 European Football Championships, EURO 96. This is examined through the use of a quantitative content analysis supported and illustrated by qualitative discourse exa…
European Identity Politics in Euro 96
This article analyses the relationships between sport, national identity and the media in the English press during the European Football Championship, EURO 96. Our objective is to highlight some of media representations that surround and underpin sport in general and (association) football in particular in the context of contemporary European politics. This is done primarily through a qualitative discourse analysis of some the English newspaper c…
Weltkrieg III
This article examines past and present identity politics issues between England and Germany and considers the role of sport and the media in perpetuating national habitus. A qualitative case study of English and German media coverage of their semifinal match in the 1996 European Football Championships is used to illustrate the key issues. The Eliasian concepts of sleeping memories, imagined charisma, and fantasy shields are employed to construct …
Mediated Patriot Games
This article explores the relationship between national identity and media sport, focusing specifically on the construction and representations of national identities in the television coverage of the (men's) 1996 European Football Championships (Euro '96). While Anderson's and Hobsbawm's respective concepts of 'imagined communities' and 'invented traditions' are useful in this regard, the process-sociological perspective is also particularly hel…
Fantasy football hooliganism’ in popular media
This is England’
This essay examines attempts by The Football Association to develop an official supporter’s group for the England men’s national team. It is argued that The FA’s perception of desired fandom relies on the continued imagining of an outdated ‘hooligan’ stereotype, associated with ‘rough’ white working‐class masculinity and related subcultural gatherings such as skinheads. The FA’s quest for a new England fandom articulates with broader public disco…
Toward a Cultural Sociology of the Consumption of “Fantasy Football Hooliganism”
Football hooliganism has a wide appeal within popular culture. Numerous books, films, documentaries, digital games, and even stage plays have featured representations of the phenomenon. All are presentations of what could be termed “fantasy football hooliganism” in that they are attempts by the entertainment industry to represent, reproduce, or simulate football-related disorder for our leisure consumption. This article offers a conceptual framew…
If you Had Balls, You'd be One of Us!' Doing Gendered Research
This article reflects upon being a female academic researcher in the hyper-masculine subculture of 'football hooliganism'. With this subculture being a male-dominated field of study, the article argues that gender blindness has prevailed in most studies conducted by male researchers, with a failure to consider the positioning, practices and performances of the gendered self in the gendered field. Nor has this been a consideration of the rare fema…
The culture of production behind the (re)production of football hooligan culture
This article explores the construction and dissemination of media representations of violent crime in popular culture through a case study of Cass (2008), a film adaptation of the autobiography of Cass Pennant, a former football hooligan. Personal biographical research interviews with the film's scriptwriter/director and Pennant himself provided a rare insight into the culture of production underpinning the (re)production of the violent football …
Uses and meanings of 'Yid' in English football fandom
This is the first empirical study to explain the contested uses and meanings of 'Yid' in English football fan culture. A pertinent socio-political issue with important policy and legal implications, we explain the different uses of 'Yid', making central the cultural context in which it is used, together with the intent underpinning its usage. Focusing upon Kick It Out's The Y-Word campaign film (which attempted to raise awareness of antisemitism …
Towards understanding
This article addresses an omission in the currently brief body of work on antisemitism in football and contributes to and advances wider sociological debates in the sub-disciplines of race and ethnicity, religion, linguistics and sport. The article examines antisemitic discourse in English football and in doing so, explains the different uses and meanings of 'Yid' in the vernacular culture of fans. While many conceive of 'Yid' as an ethnic epithe…
From Jack Johnson to LeBron James
From Jack Johnson to LeBron James claims to examine the intersection of sports, race, and the media in the twentieth century and beyond. It does, sort of, but there are some serious shortcomings an
“What have 6 million dead people got to do with football?”
Life-story interviews with 39 Jewish supporters of a football club whose quasi-Jewish identity is the catalyst for antisemitic abuse were used to explain the under-researched everyday experiences among members of the Anglo-Jewish community.All interviewees said their experiences of antisemitism within English men's football supporter culture were much worse than in wider society.All interviewees believed references to Hitler and the Holocaust exc…
Media studies (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (12 works) · Football (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (8 works) · Law (7 works) · History (6 works)