Thomas F Carter
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 147118 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Thomas F Carter |
| PRENOMES | Thomas F |
| SOBRENOME | Carter |
| ASSINATURA | CARTER T F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Brighton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5752-4396 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 93 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1923 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Sport as a tool for social justice
This study examines the role of sport in promoting social justice within sport-for-development programmes across Central America. Recognising sport's potential as a tool for addressing social issues and fostering equality, the research explores how it can contribute to building equitable and democratic societies when integrated with educational and participatory frameworks. The primary aim is to assess how sport can be effectively used to promote…
On the Learning, Transmission, and Embodiment of Swimming's Haptic Grammar
This article develops the concept of 'haptic grammar' to encourage greater scholarly focus on the sensory aspects of bodily motion used to generate movement, knowledge of one's body in an environment, and thus being-in-the-world. It ethnographically examines how swimmers learn specific motions - 'the catch', sculling, hand entry - to illustrate broader questions of how we learn to move our bodies. Focusing on these specific motions emphasises the…
Sensory ecologies
Sport is centrally concerned with the human body. Those concerns focus on how bodies move materially in space and in time. In this article, we develop our concept of “Sensory Ecology” to elucidate how one might come to develop and understand the creation of specialist bodily knowledge found in sport. Sensory ecologies are produced through the refinement of enskilled movement of bodily materials in specific spatial and temporal confines. To unders…
The flavor of Cuban movement and the deliciousness of embodied skills
This article explores the Cuban sensorium as revealed through children’s baseball practice. The development of physical skills in any sport are painstakingly learned through repetitive practice. The enskillment of such movements are tasted by coaches, athletes and others through a combination of sensory information. In Cuba, the sensing of movement is understood and evaluated through the flavor of movement. How these children develop the requisit…
Gender and Sport
The intersection of gender and sport in anthropology leaves many questions to be asked and investigated. Most of the ethnographic work done has concentrated on gender ideas and questions about how masculinity is embodied through participating in sport. A second line of inquiry is emerging around how the scientific investigation of the materiality of the human body is used to define “woman” in order to regulate female participation in elite sport.…
The Anthropology of Sport
Few activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport. In Brazil’s stadiums or China’s parks, on Cuba’s baseball diamonds or Fiji’s rugby fields, human beings test their physical limits, invest emotional energy, bet money, perform witchcraft, and ingest substances. Sport is a microcosm of what life is about. The Anthropology of Sport explores how sport both shapes and is shaped by the social, …
Transforming Sport
Human rights abuses at the Rio 2016 Olympics
This article examines activists’ use of human rights as a discourse to contest the impacts of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games by drawing on a wider ethnographic project examining activism at Rio 2016. Focusing on two areas of contention, forced evictions and police brutality, the article considers the way activists framed their grievances and how mainstream international media outlets reported those grievances. While activists fighting against forced …
Disciplinary (Per)Mutations of Ethnography
There has been a veritable explosion across various disciplines 'discovering' ethnography over the past three decades. This article argues that the proliferation of 'ethnography' outside anthropological circles has led to some pervasive interrelated misconceptions about ethnography, misconceptions reinforced by some of the reflective debates within anthropology. Consequently, this article argues that the broadening interdisciplinary discussions o…
Cuba’s Challenges Hosting the 1991 Pan-American Games and the Spectacle of the Revolution’s ‘Soft Power’
This paper examines the confluence of global, regional, and national politics in the lead up to the 1991 Pan-American Games hosted by Cuba. Cuba’s contentious selection as host was wholly underpinned by the international politics of the time. Once selected, the preparations for the Games in Havana were surrounded by an unprecedented domestic economic crisis fueled by shifts in global politics. This paper analyzes how international politics inform…
Game Changer
Sport is generally understood as a conservative social institution that reaffirms the established values and norms of a society. It is not seen as a mechanism for radical political or social change but a means for individual transformation within a society. This article explores that notion by examining how sport has been used by twentieth-century political revolutions. While considering twentieth-century revolutions, it takes the Cuban Revolutio…
The (Soft) Power of Sport
The Cuban government creates and seeks opportunities to engage in collaboration, diplomacy, commerce, and trade in order to pursue its own concepts of progressive international development, which involves garnering much needed hard currency and political benefits for its national interests. Such strategies include the organisation and deployment of sport and physical activity programmes. Based on our analysis of, and interactions with, Cuba's Min…
Re-placing sport migrants
Interest in international sport migration has been burgeoning recently. This article considers the dominant theoretical models used to explore these movements and suggests that it is time to rethink some of our theoretical presumptions. Recent permutations of these theoretical models, shifting from globalization to network theoretical models, make this reconsideration of migration-related theories necessary. Drawing on the groundbreaking work don…
Representing the Nation
The USA and Sporting Diplomacy
When Beijing hosted the Olympic Games in 2008 we were reminded that almost four decades earlier the People's Republic of China's road back to international recognition and acceptance had begun with a chance sporting encounter between two members of the US and Chinese table tennis teams in Japan in 1971. It is less well known that not long after this successful 'ping pong' diplomatic episode, attempts were made by various parties to use baseball i…
God Does Not Play Dice with the Universe, or Does He? Anthropological Interlocutions of Sport and Religion
Religion has been a central object of anthropological inquiry since its earliest days. In contrast, sport has remained an ancillary object of interest at best. Nonetheless, anthropologists have written some provocative analyses that challenge other disciplinary approaches to sport. Principally, those analyses emerged out of anthropological approaches to religion. Concerned with the ways in which anthropology theorizes and analyzes both religion a…
Learning to Salsa
Holiday in Mexico
Interrogating athletic urbanism
Hasta la victoria siempre?The Evolution and Future of Revolutionary Sport
Sport has played an important role throughout the Cuban Revolution. It has fulfilled a number of social and political junctions while serving symbolically as one of the main ‘triumphs’ of the Revolution. As an institutionalised practice, however, sport in Cuba has not remained static but has evolved over the previous five decades, undergoing significant structural changes as both domestic and international circumstances dictated. This article sur…
New Rules to the Old Game
After the collapse of the socialist states of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, the Cuban state faced its greatest crisis. How the state managed to maintain sufficient legitimacy in light of the growing economic hardships and class restructuring Cuban society underwent in these initial post-Soviet years remains somewhat mysterious. A crucial element of the legitimating discourse of the Cuban state, domestically and internationally, has been th…
Of spectacular phantasmal desire
Tourism is a multibillion dollar industry worldwide that has transformed apparently marginalised locations into hotspots of consumerism. Governments seeking low investment, high‐yield industries have turned to this service industry to facilitate the generation of income for state coffers. In doing so, states have become integral players in the selling of their own citizenry. This article uses the emergence of the Cuban tourism industry to explore…
The Quality of Home Runs
In The Quality of Home Runs: The Passion, Politics, and Language of Cuban Baseball, Thomas F. Carter explores the rich and complex relationship between baseball and Cuban identity. He examines how baseball has been used to express both national pride and political dissent, weaving together historical analysis, ethnographic research, and close readings of Cuban baseball literature and journalism. Carter argues that baseball, far from being a mere …
Family Networks, State Interventions and the Experience of Cuban Transnational Sport Migration
There is a growing interest in the transnational movements of sports professionals. Absent from these burgeoning discussions is the impact family plays upon any potential migrant's decision to travel. This article is an initial attempt to address the lack of attention paid to this important area. Using research conducted over the last decade, it examines the influences two Cuban families had upon individual migrants and considers the consequences…
Introduction
Re-placing sport migrants
Interest in international sport migration has been burgeoning recently. This article considers the dominant theoretical models used to explore these movements and suggests that it is time to rethink some of our theoretical presumptions. Recent permutations of these theoretical models, shifting from globalization to network theoretical models, make this reconsideration of migration-related theories necessary. Drawing on the groundbreaking work don…
Family Networks, State Interventions and the Experience of Cuban Transnational Sport Migration
There is a growing interest in the transnational movements of sports professionals. Absent from these burgeoning discussions is the impact family plays upon any potential migrant's decision to travel. This article is an initial attempt to address the lack of attention paid to this important area. Using research conducted over the last decade, it examines the influences two Cuban families had upon individual migrants and considers the consequences…
The Quality of Home Runs
In The Quality of Home Runs: The Passion, Politics, and Language of Cuban Baseball, Thomas F. Carter explores the rich and complex relationship between baseball and Cuban identity. He examines how baseball has been used to express both national pride and political dissent, weaving together historical analysis, ethnographic research, and close readings of Cuban baseball literature and journalism. Carter argues that baseball, far from being a mere …
Human rights abuses at the Rio 2016 Olympics
This article examines activists’ use of human rights as a discourse to contest the impacts of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games by drawing on a wider ethnographic project examining activism at Rio 2016. Focusing on two areas of contention, forced evictions and police brutality, the article considers the way activists framed their grievances and how mainstream international media outlets reported those grievances. While activists fighting against forced …
Violent Pastime(s)
The 1998 Belfast Accord or Good Friday Agreement presented Belfast's civic authorities with an opportunity to rebuild much of the devastated city. Taking this opportunity, they began creating an image of the city that had rid itself of the problem of sectarian violence, even though the city remains a violent urban environment. Civic leaders recast the symbolism of violence to legitimate their gentrification strategies by controlling access to spe…
Sensory ecologies
Sport is centrally concerned with the human body. Those concerns focus on how bodies move materially in space and in time. In this article, we develop our concept of “Sensory Ecology” to elucidate how one might come to develop and understand the creation of specialist bodily knowledge found in sport. Sensory ecologies are produced through the refinement of enskilled movement of bodily materials in specific spatial and temporal confines. To unders…
Of spectacular phantasmal desire
Tourism is a multibillion dollar industry worldwide that has transformed apparently marginalised locations into hotspots of consumerism. Governments seeking low investment, high‐yield industries have turned to this service industry to facilitate the generation of income for state coffers. In doing so, states have become integral players in the selling of their own citizenry. This article uses the emergence of the Cuban tourism industry to explore…
Introduction
God Does Not Play Dice with the Universe, or Does He? Anthropological Interlocutions of Sport and Religion
Religion has been a central object of anthropological inquiry since its earliest days. In contrast, sport has remained an ancillary object of interest at best. Nonetheless, anthropologists have written some provocative analyses that challenge other disciplinary approaches to sport. Principally, those analyses emerged out of anthropological approaches to religion. Concerned with the ways in which anthropology theorizes and analyzes both religion a…
Interrogating athletic urbanism
Islam as a Barrier to Printing
Sport as a tool for social justice
This study examines the role of sport in promoting social justice within sport-for-development programmes across Central America. Recognising sport's potential as a tool for addressing social issues and fostering equality, the research explores how it can contribute to building equitable and democratic societies when integrated with educational and participatory frameworks. The primary aim is to assess how sport can be effectively used to promote…
On the Learning, Transmission, and Embodiment of Swimming's Haptic Grammar
This article develops the concept of 'haptic grammar' to encourage greater scholarly focus on the sensory aspects of bodily motion used to generate movement, knowledge of one's body in an environment, and thus being-in-the-world. It ethnographically examines how swimmers learn specific motions - 'the catch', sculling, hand entry - to illustrate broader questions of how we learn to move our bodies. Focusing on these specific motions emphasises the…
Disciplinary (Per)Mutations of Ethnography
There has been a veritable explosion across various disciplines 'discovering' ethnography over the past three decades. This article argues that the proliferation of 'ethnography' outside anthropological circles has led to some pervasive interrelated misconceptions about ethnography, misconceptions reinforced by some of the reflective debates within anthropology. Consequently, this article argues that the broadening interdisciplinary discussions o…
Cuba’s Challenges Hosting the 1991 Pan-American Games and the Spectacle of the Revolution’s ‘Soft Power’
This paper examines the confluence of global, regional, and national politics in the lead up to the 1991 Pan-American Games hosted by Cuba. Cuba’s contentious selection as host was wholly underpinned by the international politics of the time. Once selected, the preparations for the Games in Havana were surrounded by an unprecedented domestic economic crisis fueled by shifts in global politics. This paper analyzes how international politics inform…
The Manifesto of a Baseball-playing Country
Baseball is the national sport in Cuba, not because of American imperialism or colonialism, but because criollos, nineteenth-century island elites, made deliberate efforts to equate the game with a nascent Cuban nationalism. The game represented one of a set of civilized practices that criollos used to distinguish themselves from the Spanish. As a distinctive practice, baseball provided a symbolic discourse for an independent Cuba, evident not on…
In the Spirit of the Game? Cricket & Changing Notions of Being British in Northern Ireland
This article looks at cricket as a cultural practice that embodies Britishness in Northern Ireland. In general, cricket is mythologically tied to an unchanging, nostalgic vision of quintessential Britishness. As a practice, though, cricket represents varieties of Britishness as well as other identities. In Northern Ireland, being "British" is taken as possessing a specific political position and viewpoint within the context of the sectarian confl…
Me Ti, des Socialethikers und Seiner Schuler Philosophische Werke
Islam as a Barrier to Printing
On the Need for an Anthropological Approach to Sport
Social relations of power are vital, embedded aspects of all sport. The Olympic credo of "Faster, Higher, Stronger" reflects the inherent ideological embodiment of power in sport. Sport, however, does not occur in a social vacuum, and therefore, who participates, and when, where, and how they participate, are all questions of socially embedded power critical to the study of sport. National states, across the entire ideological gamut, from fascist…
In the Spirit of the Game? Cricket & Changing Notions of Being British in Northern Ireland
This article looks at cricket as a cultural practice that embodies Britishness in Northern Ireland. In general, cricket is mythologically tied to an unchanging, nostalgic vision of quintessential Britishness. As a practice, though, cricket represents varieties of Britishness as well as other identities. In Northern Ireland, being "British" is taken as possessing a specific political position and viewpoint within the context of the sectarian confl…
Violent Pastime(s)
The 1998 Belfast Accord or Good Friday Agreement presented Belfast's civic authorities with an opportunity to rebuild much of the devastated city. Taking this opportunity, they began creating an image of the city that had rid itself of the problem of sectarian violence, even though the city remains a violent urban environment. Civic leaders recast the symbolism of violence to legitimate their gentrification strategies by controlling access to spe…
The Manifesto of a Baseball-playing Country
Baseball is the national sport in Cuba, not because of American imperialism or colonialism, but because criollos, nineteenth-century island elites, made deliberate efforts to equate the game with a nascent Cuban nationalism. The game represented one of a set of civilized practices that criollos used to distinguish themselves from the Spanish. As a distinctive practice, baseball provided a symbolic discourse for an independent Cuba, evident not on…
Introduction
Family Networks, State Interventions and the Experience of Cuban Transnational Sport Migration
There is a growing interest in the transnational movements of sports professionals. Absent from these burgeoning discussions is the impact family plays upon any potential migrant's decision to travel. This article is an initial attempt to address the lack of attention paid to this important area. Using research conducted over the last decade, it examines the influences two Cuban families had upon individual migrants and considers the consequences…
New Rules to the Old Game
After the collapse of the socialist states of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, the Cuban state faced its greatest crisis. How the state managed to maintain sufficient legitimacy in light of the growing economic hardships and class restructuring Cuban society underwent in these initial post-Soviet years remains somewhat mysterious. A crucial element of the legitimating discourse of the Cuban state, domestically and internationally, has been th…
Of spectacular phantasmal desire
Tourism is a multibillion dollar industry worldwide that has transformed apparently marginalised locations into hotspots of consumerism. Governments seeking low investment, high‐yield industries have turned to this service industry to facilitate the generation of income for state coffers. In doing so, states have become integral players in the selling of their own citizenry. This article uses the emergence of the Cuban tourism industry to explore…
The Quality of Home Runs
In The Quality of Home Runs: The Passion, Politics, and Language of Cuban Baseball, Thomas F. Carter explores the rich and complex relationship between baseball and Cuban identity. He examines how baseball has been used to express both national pride and political dissent, weaving together historical analysis, ethnographic research, and close readings of Cuban baseball literature and journalism. Carter argues that baseball, far from being a mere …
Hasta la victoria siempre?The Evolution and Future of Revolutionary Sport
Sport has played an important role throughout the Cuban Revolution. It has fulfilled a number of social and political junctions while serving symbolically as one of the main ‘triumphs’ of the Revolution. As an institutionalised practice, however, sport in Cuba has not remained static but has evolved over the previous five decades, undergoing significant structural changes as both domestic and international circumstances dictated. This article sur…
Holiday in Mexico
Interrogating athletic urbanism
Representing the Nation
The USA and Sporting Diplomacy
When Beijing hosted the Olympic Games in 2008 we were reminded that almost four decades earlier the People's Republic of China's road back to international recognition and acceptance had begun with a chance sporting encounter between two members of the US and Chinese table tennis teams in Japan in 1971. It is less well known that not long after this successful 'ping pong' diplomatic episode, attempts were made by various parties to use baseball i…
God Does Not Play Dice with the Universe, or Does He? Anthropological Interlocutions of Sport and Religion
Religion has been a central object of anthropological inquiry since its earliest days. In contrast, sport has remained an ancillary object of interest at best. Nonetheless, anthropologists have written some provocative analyses that challenge other disciplinary approaches to sport. Principally, those analyses emerged out of anthropological approaches to religion. Concerned with the ways in which anthropology theorizes and analyzes both religion a…
Learning to Salsa
The (Soft) Power of Sport
The Cuban government creates and seeks opportunities to engage in collaboration, diplomacy, commerce, and trade in order to pursue its own concepts of progressive international development, which involves garnering much needed hard currency and political benefits for its national interests. Such strategies include the organisation and deployment of sport and physical activity programmes. Based on our analysis of, and interactions with, Cuba's Min…
Re-placing sport migrants
Interest in international sport migration has been burgeoning recently. This article considers the dominant theoretical models used to explore these movements and suggests that it is time to rethink some of our theoretical presumptions. Recent permutations of these theoretical models, shifting from globalization to network theoretical models, make this reconsideration of migration-related theories necessary. Drawing on the groundbreaking work don…
Game Changer
Sport is generally understood as a conservative social institution that reaffirms the established values and norms of a society. It is not seen as a mechanism for radical political or social change but a means for individual transformation within a society. This article explores that notion by examining how sport has been used by twentieth-century political revolutions. While considering twentieth-century revolutions, it takes the Cuban Revolutio…
Cuba’s Challenges Hosting the 1991 Pan-American Games and the Spectacle of the Revolution’s ‘Soft Power’
This paper examines the confluence of global, regional, and national politics in the lead up to the 1991 Pan-American Games hosted by Cuba. Cuba’s contentious selection as host was wholly underpinned by the international politics of the time. Once selected, the preparations for the Games in Havana were surrounded by an unprecedented domestic economic crisis fueled by shifts in global politics. This paper analyzes how international politics inform…
Transforming Sport
Human rights abuses at the Rio 2016 Olympics
This article examines activists’ use of human rights as a discourse to contest the impacts of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games by drawing on a wider ethnographic project examining activism at Rio 2016. Focusing on two areas of contention, forced evictions and police brutality, the article considers the way activists framed their grievances and how mainstream international media outlets reported those grievances. While activists fighting against forced …
Disciplinary (Per)Mutations of Ethnography
There has been a veritable explosion across various disciplines 'discovering' ethnography over the past three decades. This article argues that the proliferation of 'ethnography' outside anthropological circles has led to some pervasive interrelated misconceptions about ethnography, misconceptions reinforced by some of the reflective debates within anthropology. Consequently, this article argues that the broadening interdisciplinary discussions o…
Sociology (22 obras) · Political science (20 obras) · Law (14 obras) · Sports, Gender, and Society (14 obras) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (13 obras) · Politics (11 obras) · Cuban History and Society (9 obras) · Aesthetics (8 obras) · Art (8 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras)