G Armstrong
Biographic Data
| ID | 8229 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Armstrong |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Armstrong |
| SIGNATURE | ARMSTRONG G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brunel University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4155-0813 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 161 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1939 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Integrated Through Risk: How Actuarial and Epidemiological Approaches to Urban Violence Reduction Interact Within a Multi-Agency Gangs Team
Despite the emergence of multi-agency initiatives that seek to integrate actuarial and epidemiological approaches to urban violence reduction, little work has compared and contrasted these approaches and considered the associated implications for their integration. This article begins addressing this research gap with findings from the first academic analysis of an Integrated Gangs Team (IGT) in the United Kingdom. Drawing on interviews with IGT …
Respectability and boundary making on a superdiverse housing estate: The cross-racial deployment of intra-ethnic stereotypes
This article examines how white British residents of a superdiverse London housing estate learn about-and subsequently deploy-the intra-ethnic stereotypes used by their British Pakistani and British Bangladeshi neighbours/flatmates. Building on recent attempts to bring together conviviality and boundary making, along with insights into intra-ethnic othering, we show how, for white British residents, these stereotypes offered the chance to add det…
The Maximum Surveillance Society: The Rise of CCTV
The use of Closed-Circuit Television, or CCTV, has dramatically increased over the past decade, but its presence is often so subtle as to go unnoticed. Should we unthinkingly accept that increased surveillance is in the public's best interests, or does this mean that ‘Big Brother' is finally watching us? This book asks provocative questions about the rise of the maximum surveillance society. Is crime control the principal motivation behind increa…
Policing the Olympic gang: The rise and fall of the Portuguese Mafia
Against a backdrop of rising youth violence in the UK, the issue of gang policing has once more risen to prominence. Intense debates surrounding police cuts have led to renewed calls for a ‘war on gangs’, echoing earlier responses to England’s summer of violent disorder in 2011. Drawing on a long-term ethnographic study of policing in the London Borough of Newham, this paper reports on a case-study of gang policing during a similarly fraught poli…
Mixed-Occupancy Housing in London
Introduction: A Living Tapestry
Squashing the Beef’: Combatting Gang Violence and Reforming Masculinity in East London
The article draws on the findings of two years’ ethnographic fieldwork in exploring how gang activity in Newham, East London is combatted by faith-based organisation, Targeted Against Gangs (TAG). More specifically, the authors examine how TAG seeks to reform the identities of young male gang members according to the principles of what we have called ‘Pentecostal realist masculinity’. The characteristics of this reformed masculinity include an aw…
Football Hooliganism
Few phenomena in contemporary society have elicited such strong sentiments as that labeled “football hooliganism.” The disorder and violence that the phrase encapsulates has been studied, policed, and legislated against from a wide variety of starting points. In this entry the authors contend that the epiphenomena provoked by hooliganism are as worthy of academic inquiry as the “hooligans” themselves. The entry charts the history of football hool…
Global sport mega-events and the politics of mobility: The case of theLondon 2012Olympics
This paper examines the politics of mobility which surrounded theLondon 2012Olympics. We provide a critical discussion of the mobility conflicts, problems and criticisms which emerged from our research with local people in theStratford and widerNewham areas ofLondon, where mostOlympic events were located. The paper is divided into four broad parts. First, we identify and discuss the relevant components of the 'mobilities paradigm' in social scien…
Sport Mega-Events and Public Opposition: A Sociological Study of the London 2012 Olympics
This article examines the diverse forms of public opposition, protest, criticism, and complaint in the United Kingdom on the staging of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London. Our discussion draws heavily on empirical research, primarily fieldwork and interviews in East London with local residents, opposition groups, business people, politicians, and other stakeholders. The article is separated into three main parts. First, we explore th…
The regeneration games: Purity and security in the Olympic city1
This paper examines the wider social impacts of hosting the London 2012 Olympic Games and its 'legacy' ambitions in East London, emphasizing securitization as an inbuilt feature of the urban regeneration project. Drawing on extensive original empirical research, the paper analyses the modalities of Olympic safety and security practices within the Olympic Park itself and their wider impact, while also connecting this research to theorization and d…
We Are Against Islam: The Lega Nord and the Islamic Folk Devil
Since 1995, the Italian Lega Nord (LN) political party has depicted itself as the defender of Padania, a territory that covers the mainly affluent regions of Northern Italy. Around this politico-spatial territory, the LN has shaped an identity based on the notion of Popolo Padano (the Padanian People). Since the new millennium, LN rhetoric has increasingly focused-stemming more from the demands of realpolitik than those of conviction-on opposing …
Terrorizing defences: Sport in the Liberian civil conflict
The democratically elected President of Liberia was between 1997 and 2004 also the country's 'Chief Patron of Sport'. Enjoying tennis more than team games, the one-time President, Charles Taylor, realized that the electorate's enthusiasm for the game of football meant that the game could be a useful vehicle with which to associate. As well as funding the salaries of the national 'Lone Star' football team, Taylor also sponsored a football team in …
Fields and Visions: The ‘African Personality’ and Ghanaian Soccer
The concept of the "African Personality" was celebrated by the continent's first post-colonial President, Kwame Nkrumah. Sweeping to power in Ghana's first general election in 1951, Nkrumah and his Convention People's Party-inspired by Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. Du Bois-espoused the doctrines of nationhood and self-reliance. The conceptual dimensions of Nkrumah's "African Personality" and the role he had in mind for Association Football (soccer) …
Sport, the Military and Peacemaking: History and possibilities
This paper examines the role and contribution of peacemaking to the wider sport, development and peace (sdp) sector. Particular attention is paid to a hitherto under-explored subject: the complex position of the military vis-à-vis sport and sport-related peacekeeping. Through an historical overview of the sport–military intersection, reference to fieldwork in Bosnia and Liberia, and a brief examination of the Conseil Internationale du Sport Milit…
Calling the Shots: The Pre-2012 London Olympic Contest
The Olympic Games promise great things; world peace and the transformation of the host city are but two ambitions of the Olympic Movement. The benefits and changes that the 2012 Olympics are supposed to bring to the London Borough of Newham—which will host some 80 per cent of the Olympic events—have been much lauded by the Olympic apparatchiks who typically proselytise about the transformation of communities, countries and individuals via the sta…
Defence and attack: Empire, nation and resistance in inter-war football in Malta
A nation's politics and socio-cultural identity can sometimes be best considered through the lens of Association Football (soccer). Examining football in the Mediterranean island of Malta in the inter-war years of 1920–1940 this paper focuses its analysis on the phenomenon that is the game of football and the epi-phenomena it provokes and sustains. In the tiny archipelago that constitutes the Maltese islands, the game as it was played and adminis…
Coming to America: Historical Ontologies and United States Soccer
In January 2007, English international soccer star David Beckham announced to a global media that he would be leaving the Spanish giants Real Madrid to join Major League Soccer's (MLS) Los Angeles Galaxy. MLS Commissioner Don Garber feted Beckham as a global sporting icon whose presence attested to America's gradual transformation into a ‘Soccer Nation.’ However, following LA Galaxy's acquisition, a debate surrounding soccer's previous failure to…
The Bing Boys
Three fallacies in the essentialist interpretation of the political thought of R. H. Tawney
This article disputes three positions entrenched in the essentialist interpretation of R. H. Tawney's political thought. First, it contests the notion that Tawney's work is characterized by an overwhelming consistency. Whilst the Tawney canon displays a thematic persistence, a chronological analysis demonstrates that he significantly altered his core political concepts. Second, the article asserts that the prevailing consensus amongst commentator…
Les pionniers de la franchise de football: L'Ajax Amsterdam au Cap
L'accord de franchise conclu entre l'Ajax Amsterdam (AA) et l'Ajax Cape Town (ACT) soulève d'importantes questions sur la valeur du travail, les transferts de jeunes joueurs, les échanges et le développement. Les matériaux de deux séjours effectués à l'Académie de l'ACT sont analysés ici à partir des notions de dépendance et de néocolonialisme. La franchise de l'ACT est ainsi replacée dans un paysage plus global, qui invite à interroger la nature…
Global and Local Football: Politics and Europeanization on the fringes of the EU
What can the history of a nation's football reveal about that nation's wider political and socio-cultural identity? How can the study of local football culture help us to understand the powerful international forces at play within the modern game? Based on long-term and detailed ethnographic research, this book uses Malta as a critical case study to explore the dynamics of contemporary football. Situated on the fringes of the EU, and with an appa…
Words and actions: Italianultrasand neo-fascism
Over the past two decades the link – perceived and actual – between political extremism and football fans has been the subject of academic, political, and policing debate. It is not rare to witness manifestations of intolerance and ideological statements referring to regional, national and international issues at football stadia. In Italian football stadia, political representation has been evident for decades; politics has been integral to all r…
Avenues of contestation. Football hooligans running and ruling urban spaces1
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: GIULIANOTTI, R. and ARMSTRONG, G., 2002. Avenues of contestation: football hooligans running and ruling urban spaces. Social Anthropology, 10 (2), pp. 211-238, which has been published in final form at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8676.2002.tb00055.x. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving
Football Hooliganism
Combine masculinity, physicality, fantasy, and local pride, mix in sporting excitement and collective grievances, and the possible outcome, dating back to the formation of Association Football in the mid‐nineteenth century, has been disorder. Since the mid‐1960s, incidents in Britain involving football spectator disorder and violence have been labeled “hooliganism.” Lacking a precise definition or a legal status, “football hooliganism” has for so…
Sport Mega-Events and Public Opposition: A Sociological Study of the London 2012 Olympics
This article examines the diverse forms of public opposition, protest, criticism, and complaint in the United Kingdom on the staging of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London. Our discussion draws heavily on empirical research, primarily fieldwork and interviews in East London with local residents, opposition groups, business people, politicians, and other stakeholders. The article is separated into three main parts. First, we explore th…
Avenues of contestation. Football hooligans running and ruling urban spaces
Mind your manors'. Football hooligans, space and the academic fieldIn the past thirty years, few issues have attracted the breadth of explanation and intensity of debate as that of football hooliganism. 2Those working from Marxist, 3 social psychological 4 and figurational perspectives 5 have constituted the main protagonists, though others within the overlapping fields of cultural studies, 6 anthropology, 7 and post-structuralist sociology 8 com…
The regeneration games: Purity and security in the Olympic city1
This paper examines the wider social impacts of hosting the London 2012 Olympic Games and its 'legacy' ambitions in East London, emphasizing securitization as an inbuilt feature of the urban regeneration project. Drawing on extensive original empirical research, the paper analyses the modalities of Olympic safety and security practices within the Olympic Park itself and their wider impact, while also connecting this research to theorization and d…
Football Hooligans: Theory and Evidence
This paper describes empirical research amongst hooligans. Such research has not always been valued. The significant factor in hooligan behaviour may be asserted to be the generation of violence in the lower working class and its dissemination amongst football fans. It is commonly asserted that hooligans operate in well-organized groups. It is argued here that such assertions need to be based on better evidence. A detailed account is given of the…
Global sport mega-events and the politics of mobility: The case of theLondon 2012Olympics
This paper examines the politics of mobility which surrounded theLondon 2012Olympics. We provide a critical discussion of the mobility conflicts, problems and criticisms which emerged from our research with local people in theStratford and widerNewham areas ofLondon, where mostOlympic events were located. The paper is divided into four broad parts. First, we identify and discuss the relevant components of the 'mobilities paradigm' in social scien…
Children's Use of Cognitive Defenses Against Television Advertising: A Cognitive Response Approach
This study employs a cognitive response approach using non-directive probes rather than direct questions to assess the effects of advertising knowledge and the presence of a cue on thoughts produced by 9 to 10-year-old children while watching commercials. The number of counterarguments produced indicates children's use of cognitive defenses. The study found that advertising knowledge did not result in increased counterarguments against advertisem…
Words and actions: Italianultrasand neo-fascism
Over the past two decades the link – perceived and actual – between political extremism and football fans has been the subject of academic, political, and policing debate. It is not rare to witness manifestations of intolerance and ideological statements referring to regional, national and international issues at football stadia. In Italian football stadia, political representation has been evident for decades; politics has been integral to all r…
Calling the Shots: The Pre-2012 London Olympic Contest
The Olympic Games promise great things; world peace and the transformation of the host city are but two ambitions of the Olympic Movement. The benefits and changes that the 2012 Olympics are supposed to bring to the London Borough of Newham—which will host some 80 per cent of the Olympic events—have been much lauded by the Olympic apparatchiks who typically proselytise about the transformation of communities, countries and individuals via the sta…
Avenues of contestation. Football hooligans running and ruling urban spaces1
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: GIULIANOTTI, R. and ARMSTRONG, G., 2002. Avenues of contestation: football hooligans running and ruling urban spaces. Social Anthropology, 10 (2), pp. 211-238, which has been published in final form at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8676.2002.tb00055.x. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving
The global footballer and the local war-zone: George Weah and transnational networks in Liberia, West Africa
Elite sport is the vehicle for global interactions via both its shared practices and the relations engendered by its governing bodies and its global tournaments. This capability has attracted the attentions of those seeking both nation-building and reconciliation in war-damaged nations. The narrative that follows has global implications, telling as it does the story of George Weah, a Liberian-born footballer who became a humanitarian ambassador, …
Respectability and boundary making on a superdiverse housing estate: The cross-racial deployment of intra-ethnic stereotypes
This article examines how white British residents of a superdiverse London housing estate learn about-and subsequently deploy-the intra-ethnic stereotypes used by their British Pakistani and British Bangladeshi neighbours/flatmates. Building on recent attempts to bring together conviviality and boundary making, along with insights into intra-ethnic othering, we show how, for white British residents, these stereotypes offered the chance to add det…
We Are Against Islam: The Lega Nord and the Islamic Folk Devil
Since 1995, the Italian Lega Nord (LN) political party has depicted itself as the defender of Padania, a territory that covers the mainly affluent regions of Northern Italy. Around this politico-spatial territory, the LN has shaped an identity based on the notion of Popolo Padano (the Padanian People). Since the new millennium, LN rhetoric has increasingly focused-stemming more from the demands of realpolitik than those of conviction-on opposing …
Fields and Visions: The ‘African Personality’ and Ghanaian Soccer
The concept of the "African Personality" was celebrated by the continent's first post-colonial President, Kwame Nkrumah. Sweeping to power in Ghana's first general election in 1951, Nkrumah and his Convention People's Party-inspired by Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. Du Bois-espoused the doctrines of nationhood and self-reliance. The conceptual dimensions of Nkrumah's "African Personality" and the role he had in mind for Association Football (soccer) …
Defence and attack: Empire, nation and resistance in inter-war football in Malta
A nation's politics and socio-cultural identity can sometimes be best considered through the lens of Association Football (soccer). Examining football in the Mediterranean island of Malta in the inter-war years of 1920–1940 this paper focuses its analysis on the phenomenon that is the game of football and the epi-phenomena it provokes and sustains. In the tiny archipelago that constitutes the Maltese islands, the game as it was played and adminis…
Population predictors of community health and social service use in Northern Ireland
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To investigate the characteristics of elderly populations associated with variations in their use of community health and personal social services and to test the hypotheses that the variations are related to: (a) the age structure of an elderly population; (b) the population's socioeconomic composition, including the level of deprivation; and (c) household or living arrangements. DESIGN: A common file of 1991 population census a…
Policing the Olympic gang: The rise and fall of the Portuguese Mafia
Against a backdrop of rising youth violence in the UK, the issue of gang policing has once more risen to prominence. Intense debates surrounding police cuts have led to renewed calls for a ‘war on gangs’, echoing earlier responses to England’s summer of violent disorder in 2011. Drawing on a long-term ethnographic study of policing in the London Borough of Newham, this paper reports on a case-study of gang policing during a similarly fraught poli…
Terrorizing defences: Sport in the Liberian civil conflict
The democratically elected President of Liberia was between 1997 and 2004 also the country's 'Chief Patron of Sport'. Enjoying tennis more than team games, the one-time President, Charles Taylor, realized that the electorate's enthusiasm for the game of football meant that the game could be a useful vehicle with which to associate. As well as funding the salaries of the national 'Lone Star' football team, Taylor also sponsored a football team in …
Sport, the Military and Peacemaking: History and possibilities
This paper examines the role and contribution of peacemaking to the wider sport, development and peace (sdp) sector. Particular attention is paid to a hitherto under-explored subject: the complex position of the military vis-à-vis sport and sport-related peacekeeping. Through an historical overview of the sport–military intersection, reference to fieldwork in Bosnia and Liberia, and a brief examination of the Conseil Internationale du Sport Milit…
Les pionniers de la franchise de football: L'Ajax Amsterdam au Cap
L'accord de franchise conclu entre l'Ajax Amsterdam (AA) et l'Ajax Cape Town (ACT) soulève d'importantes questions sur la valeur du travail, les transferts de jeunes joueurs, les échanges et le développement. Les matériaux de deux séjours effectués à l'Académie de l'ACT sont analysés ici à partir des notions de dépendance et de néocolonialisme. La franchise de l'ACT est ainsi replacée dans un paysage plus global, qui invite à interroger la nature…
The Teaching of History in Stockton Secondary School for Boys
Health planning: A prescription for health care in the U.S
Detecting and Correcting Deceptive Advertising
This article investigates the use of the salient belief technique for measuring deception and the effectiveness of corrective ads. The technique is applied to Listerine advertising, which has already been found deceptive by the courts. Comparisons between this technique and the normative belief technique yielded similar results except for source effects over time
Socialism and Legal Development
Children's Use of Cognitive Defenses Against Television Advertising: A Cognitive Response Approach
This study employs a cognitive response approach using non-directive probes rather than direct questions to assess the effects of advertising knowledge and the presence of a cue on thoughts produced by 9 to 10-year-old children while watching commercials. The number of counterarguments produced indicates children's use of cognitive defenses. The study found that advertising knowledge did not result in increased counterarguments against advertisem…
Football Hooligans: Theory and Evidence
This paper describes empirical research amongst hooligans. Such research has not always been valued. The significant factor in hooligan behaviour may be asserted to be the generation of violence in the lower working class and its dissemination amongst football fans. It is commonly asserted that hooligans operate in well-organized groups. It is argued here that such assertions need to be based on better evidence. A detailed account is given of the…
Population predictors of community health and social service use in Northern Ireland
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To investigate the characteristics of elderly populations associated with variations in their use of community health and personal social services and to test the hypotheses that the variations are related to: (a) the age structure of an elderly population; (b) the population's socioeconomic composition, including the level of deprivation; and (c) household or living arrangements. DESIGN: A common file of 1991 population census a…
Fanatical football chants: Creating and controlling the carnival
(1999). Fanatical football chants: Creating and controlling the carnival. Culture, Sport, Society: Vol. 2, Football Culture Local Contests, Global Visions, pp. 173-211
Football Hooligans
Selves and others: Reflections on sport in South Asia
Talking Up the Game: Football and the Reconstruction of Liberia, West Africa
Most people will accept the contention that sport has an ideological site. Indeed sport might be considered as the broadest cultural denomination in many nations, capable of creating and sustaining a sense of identity and belonging crucial to national integration. Expressions around sport and, in this instance, specifically Association Football (soccer) appeal to individuals supportive of a variety of ideological perspectives. Thus, the pursuit o…
Avenues of contestation. Football hooligans running and ruling urban spaces
Mind your manors'. Football hooligans, space and the academic fieldIn the past thirty years, few issues have attracted the breadth of explanation and intensity of debate as that of football hooliganism. 2Those working from Marxist, 3 social psychological 4 and figurational perspectives 5 have constituted the main protagonists, though others within the overlapping fields of cultural studies, 6 anthropology, 7 and post-structuralist sociology 8 com…
"We're Not From Norway": Football and Civic Pride in Bergen, Norway
The core meaning of individual and group identities is established by sameness over time and space, sustained by ceremony and ritual. This article illustrates the complex relationship between identities, rituals, and memory by focusing on annual public spectacles in the Norwegian city of Bergen, manifestations of youthful rite de passage, expressions of local and national patriotism, and a variety of practices bound up with support for the city's…
Avenues of contestation. Football hooligans running and ruling urban spaces1
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: GIULIANOTTI, R. and ARMSTRONG, G., 2002. Avenues of contestation: football hooligans running and ruling urban spaces. Social Anthropology, 10 (2), pp. 211-238, which has been published in final form at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8676.2002.tb00055.x. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving
Football Hooliganism
Combine masculinity, physicality, fantasy, and local pride, mix in sporting excitement and collective grievances, and the possible outcome, dating back to the formation of Association Football in the mid‐nineteenth century, has been disorder. Since the mid‐1960s, incidents in Britain involving football spectator disorder and violence have been labeled “hooliganism.” Lacking a precise definition or a legal status, “football hooliganism” has for so…
The global footballer and the local war-zone: George Weah and transnational networks in Liberia, West Africa
Elite sport is the vehicle for global interactions via both its shared practices and the relations engendered by its governing bodies and its global tournaments. This capability has attracted the attentions of those seeking both nation-building and reconciliation in war-damaged nations. The narrative that follows has global implications, telling as it does the story of George Weah, a Liberian-born footballer who became a humanitarian ambassador, …
Global and Local Football: Politics and Europeanization on the fringes of the EU
What can the history of a nation's football reveal about that nation's wider political and socio-cultural identity? How can the study of local football culture help us to understand the powerful international forces at play within the modern game? Based on long-term and detailed ethnographic research, this book uses Malta as a critical case study to explore the dynamics of contemporary football. Situated on the fringes of the EU, and with an appa…
Words and actions: Italianultrasand neo-fascism
Over the past two decades the link – perceived and actual – between political extremism and football fans has been the subject of academic, political, and policing debate. It is not rare to witness manifestations of intolerance and ideological statements referring to regional, national and international issues at football stadia. In Italian football stadia, political representation has been evident for decades; politics has been integral to all r…
Coming to America: Historical Ontologies and United States Soccer
In January 2007, English international soccer star David Beckham announced to a global media that he would be leaving the Spanish giants Real Madrid to join Major League Soccer's (MLS) Los Angeles Galaxy. MLS Commissioner Don Garber feted Beckham as a global sporting icon whose presence attested to America's gradual transformation into a ‘Soccer Nation.’ However, following LA Galaxy's acquisition, a debate surrounding soccer's previous failure to…
The Bing Boys
Three fallacies in the essentialist interpretation of the political thought of R. H. Tawney
This article disputes three positions entrenched in the essentialist interpretation of R. H. Tawney's political thought. First, it contests the notion that Tawney's work is characterized by an overwhelming consistency. Whilst the Tawney canon displays a thematic persistence, a chronological analysis demonstrates that he significantly altered his core political concepts. Second, the article asserts that the prevailing consensus amongst commentator…
Les pionniers de la franchise de football: L'Ajax Amsterdam au Cap
L'accord de franchise conclu entre l'Ajax Amsterdam (AA) et l'Ajax Cape Town (ACT) soulève d'importantes questions sur la valeur du travail, les transferts de jeunes joueurs, les échanges et le développement. Les matériaux de deux séjours effectués à l'Académie de l'ACT sont analysés ici à partir des notions de dépendance et de néocolonialisme. La franchise de l'ACT est ainsi replacée dans un paysage plus global, qui invite à interroger la nature…
Sport, the Military and Peacemaking: History and possibilities
This paper examines the role and contribution of peacemaking to the wider sport, development and peace (sdp) sector. Particular attention is paid to a hitherto under-explored subject: the complex position of the military vis-à-vis sport and sport-related peacekeeping. Through an historical overview of the sport–military intersection, reference to fieldwork in Bosnia and Liberia, and a brief examination of the Conseil Internationale du Sport Milit…
Calling the Shots: The Pre-2012 London Olympic Contest
The Olympic Games promise great things; world peace and the transformation of the host city are but two ambitions of the Olympic Movement. The benefits and changes that the 2012 Olympics are supposed to bring to the London Borough of Newham—which will host some 80 per cent of the Olympic events—have been much lauded by the Olympic apparatchiks who typically proselytise about the transformation of communities, countries and individuals via the sta…
Defence and attack: Empire, nation and resistance in inter-war football in Malta
A nation's politics and socio-cultural identity can sometimes be best considered through the lens of Association Football (soccer). Examining football in the Mediterranean island of Malta in the inter-war years of 1920–1940 this paper focuses its analysis on the phenomenon that is the game of football and the epi-phenomena it provokes and sustains. In the tiny archipelago that constitutes the Maltese islands, the game as it was played and adminis…
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