D Malcolm
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 47626 |
|---|---|
| NOME | D Malcolm |
| PRENOMES | D |
| SOBRENOME | Malcolm |
| ASSINATURA | MALCOLM D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5898-2911 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 65 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 343 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Engaging Teenage Grassroots Soccer Players in Sports‐Related Concussion Education
‘ I think I could see the turning point … people just came for good cricket ’
In this article, we discuss elite female cricketers’ experiences of playing during a period of rapid organisational and commercial change. As the first article to centre research specifically on the women who are playing cricket through this period, we draw on the wider lens of research on gender and professionalisation to document how elite female cricketers experience the global game. Utilising semi-structured, online interviews with elite fema…
Sport-related concussion research agenda beyond medical science
The Concussion in Sport Group guidelines have successfully brought the attention of brain injuries to the global medical and sport research communities, and has significantly impacted brain injury-related practices and rules of international sport. Despite being the global repository of state-of-the-art science, diagnostic tools and guides to clinical practice, the ensuing consensus statements remain the object of ethical and sociocultural critic…
The health-physical activity entanglement in a neoliberal landscape
Health-physical activity (PA) seem to be inseparable undisputed partners in the incessant quest for increased well-being, prosocial behaviors, motor competence and positive mental health. However, it should be noted this is not an innocent partnership that simply aims to create a healthier and therefore more just world. Neoliberal and capitalistic health-PA seeks not only to achieve economic and political gains but also to instill standards, prog…
Changes in Sports Participation Trends
This paper seeks to test the explanatory potential of different sociological perspectives in relation to the development of new sport models that reflect the growth of leisure sport participation in urban outdoor places and the decline in traditional practices in associations and clubs. In this regard, this study employs an analytical framework to examine global trends, with a particular focus on the specific context of the municipality of Zarago…
Sport, concussion and student subcultures
Reconsidering anthropocentrism
Sport mega-events such as the Olympic Games can bring both socio-economic benefits and environmental risks to hosts. While literature on the environmental impacts of mega-events has focused on contemporary capitalism and its human-centred imperatives as causal sources of environmental degradation, analysis remains relatively indifferent to how people at the scene view the outcomes of these events. Drawing upon two competing environmental ethics (…
A ‘cannibalised’ cricket event? Mediatisation, innovation and The Hundred
Attending and consuming events are integral to many peoples’ leisure lives. However, as the literature attests, events represent significant sites of contestation over who does and does not belong. This paper explores such contestation in the notoriously elitist and traditionally exclusionary sport of cricket, and specifically The Hundred; the most recent attempt to democratise the sport by appealing to a more demographically diverse spectator ba…
Concussion in professional wrestling
In this article, we utilise the social dynamics of concussion in professional wrestling to examine and critique calls for cultural change as a solution to the crisis of concussion in sport. Drawing on interview data from wrestlers, promoters, referees and healthcare providers in UK professional wrestling, we illustrate the experiences, attitudes and subcultural norms exhibited in relation to concussion. Despite increasing concerns that brain inju…
Cricket is Perfectly Suited to the Chinese People’
This article illustrates the contemporary development of Chinese cricket since the sport was incorporated into the Chinese sport system from the early 2000s. Drawing on existing literature and interview data, this article problematizes the established essentialist perspectives to explicate the contemporary development of Chinese cricket and (re)constructs the process according to five periods. By providing more subtle distinctions between differe…
Qualitative research capacity building
Researchers have emphasised the practicalities associated with building global research partnerships, including ensuring good communication and having equitable relationships [1-3]. These challenges are\ncomplicated by cross-national inequities and perceived power dynamics, further impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic [4]. However, the existing literature on the challenges of global health partnership working largely avoids ‘the elephant in the room…
Qualitative research in sports studies
Qualitative social scientific research in sport, exercise and other contemporary forms of physical movement has made considerable strides in recent years, such that it is not an unreasonable claim
The Impact of the Concussion Crisis on Safeguarding in Sport
OPINION article Front. Sports Act. Living, 25 February 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2021.589341
Post-Truth Society? An Eliasian Sociological Analysis of Knowledge in the 21st Century
This article draws on Elias's sociology of knowledge to delineate the social processes that have culminated in the development of the post-truth phenomenon. It argues that technological and social changes have led to a complex commingling of increased emotion and increasingly 'rational' debating techniques. These have been accompanied by an increasing human capacity to consider issues on multiple 'levels' and anticipate the varied ways in which d…
Covid-19, Exercise and bodily self-control
This article is part of the discussion section "Sport and COVID-19" of Volume 1, Number 1, of Sports Sociology (SD)
Soccer, CTE, and the Cultural Representation of Dementia
This article deploys a qualitative media content analysis to examine discourses linking sport, head injury, and longer term neurocognitive decline. It draws on a seminal British television documentary and associated print media coverage to demonstrate that the representation of sport-related brain injury is intricately connected to both conceptions of risk in sport and a wider social response to aging and dementia. The article augments existing N…
Everything I enjoy doing I just couldn't do
This article draws on interview data with a population of non-elite sport/exercise participants (n = 20) to illustrate the interrelationship between biographical disruption and sport-related injury. It argues that contrary to the significance implied by their lack of prominence on current public health agendas, sport-related injuries can have a devastating personal impact, comparable to the more extreme variants of biographical disruption depicte…
Theorizing physical activity health promotion
This article seeks to advance our understanding of the convergence of physical activity and public health through a novel theorization drawing upon, applying and developing figurational sociological principles of Norbert Elias. More specifically, we focus on four core aspects of Elias’ theoretical corpus: interdependencies; forethought (as an aspect of civilizing processes); the interaction of “fact” and emotion in socially determining knowledge;…
The social management of medical ethics in sport
This paper examines one of the major ethical challenges in the practice of sports medicine, confidentiality. Drawing on interview and questionnaire data with doctors and physiotherapists working in English professional football clubs, it explores the degree to which ethical compliance has improved since the publication of, and publicity surrounding, an earlier study of medical practice in professional football conducted by Waddington and Roderick…
Introduction to figurational research in sport, leisure and health
This chapter introduces the reader to the key concepts of figurational sociology and how these are applied throughout Figurational Research in Sport, Leisure and Health. After presenting a brief biography of Elias, we then locate Elias’s key concepts in relation to five sociological dualisms: macro-micro sociology; objectivity-subjectivity; structure and agency; past and present; and nature and nurture. We discuss how these concepts are applied t…
Assessing the side effects of the ‘exercise pill’
The Exercise is Medicine movement, centralised in Physical Activity Health Promotion (PAHP) policy, is illustrative of neoliberal health governance that acts to sustain the population’s regular participation in physical activity (PA) through the logics of self-care, productivity, personal responsibility and choice. One way this is propagated is through the promotion of exercise as the ‘best buy’ (AMRC 2015 AMRC, 2015. Exercise: the miracle cure a…
Learning from history and acting politically
This article reflects on the history of the International Sociology of Sport Association and the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and the words and deeds of previous editors, to illustrate both the perennial challenges and future prospects facing the sociology of sport. In light of neoliberal higher educational trends, and the interplay of the politics of language and knowledge in 'post-truth' societies, it explores how the sociol…
On being 'head strong
In recent years there has been growing concern about concussion in sport in general and rugby union in particular. The qualitative study reported here draws on interviews ( n=20) with adult players in non-elite club rugby union in Ireland in order to explore the frames of reference within which they perceive, give meaning to and manage concussion. Within a sporting subculture which emphasizes lay sporting values - particularly the value of 'playi…
Test Cricket
Invited editorial
Decivilizing, civilizing or informalizing? The international development of Mixed Martial Arts
This article contributes to ongoing debates about trends in violence in sport through an examination of the emergence of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). The article counters suggestions that the rise of MMA is indicative of a decivilizing and/or de-sportizing process, arguing instead that the development of MMA can best be explained with reference to the concepts of informalization and the 'quest for excitement'. More particularly, the article argues t…
Medical Uncertainty and Clinician–Athlete Relations
This article addresses clinical practice in sport medicine. Combining notions of medical uncertainty with a figurational sociological emphasis on interdependence, the article illustrates how uncertainty characterizes the medical understanding, clinical treatment, and patient experience of concussion. Faced with uncertainty, the clinician’s desire for recognition and validation through athletes’ dependence on them enables medically based diagnosti…
It's not Cricket
Cricket has been historically significant in defining notions of English national identity and continues to feature in debates over the inclusion/exclusion of immigrants in British society. British-African-Caribbean players are well represented in the English game but participation appears mediated by ethnic group membership. This contemporary pattern can only be understood when contextualized within the historical development of cricket in the C…
Unprofessional Practice? The Status and Power of Sport Physicians
In this article I examine the role and working practice of rugby union club doctors in England. While medicine is widely perceived to be one of the most powerful professions in Western societies, sociologists of sport have argued that sport clinicians often wield relatively limited power over their athlete-patients. In this article I therefore attempt to shed further light on the “peculiar” character of sports medicine. Using data drawn from inte…
Women’s Experiences in the Mixed Martial Arts
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), like the majority of relatively violent sports, has mainly been organized around the capabilities of the male body. However various indices suggest that women’s engagement with MMA is growing. The purpose of this paper is to offer an analysis of women’s involvement in MMA using a figurational sociological approach. In doing so, we draw on interview data with “elite” female mixed martial artists to explore the extent to w…
Woolmergate
This article illustrates how the media represent Islam and Muslims in the post-9/11 context through an examination of British newspaper coverage of the death of Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer at the 2007 Cricket World Cup. The article argues that key elements of the cultural stereotyping of Islam and Muslims identified in Said's Orientalism-namely, violence, irrationality, and backwardness-were reproduced. These ideas stem from, and reinforce, a narr…
Pain in the Assets”
This paper examines the management of injuries in men’s elite rugby union in England and, in particular, how this has altered as a consequence of the (formal) professionalization of the game in 1995. Data are drawn from 42 in-depth, semistructured interviews, conducted with seven coaches/directors of rugby, nine rugby club doctors, ten physiotherapists, and sixteen players. Partly as a consequence of examining pain and injury developmentally, our…
Gender Stereotyping and Physical Education
This paper presents the findings of a survey of physical education (PE) teachers, the central object of which was to examine teachers' involvement in, and attitudes towards, the teaching of the six areas of activity contained in the National Curriculum for Physical Education (NCPE). A total of 207 questionnaires was issued to heads of departments and teachers of PE in secondary schools in the county of Nottinghamshire in England, of which 84 were…
On being 'head strong
In recent years there has been growing concern about concussion in sport in general and rugby union in particular. The qualitative study reported here draws on interviews ( n=20) with adult players in non-elite club rugby union in Ireland in order to explore the frames of reference within which they perceive, give meaning to and manage concussion. Within a sporting subculture which emphasizes lay sporting values - particularly the value of 'playi…
The people's game? Football spectatorship and demographic change
(2000). The people's game? Football spectatorship and demographic change. Soccer & Society: Vol. 1, The Future of Football: Challenges for the Twenty‐First Centu, pp. 129-143
Stacking in Cricket
This paper examines the phenomenon of stacking in the sport of cricket. It is argued that cricket is a particularly revealing case study of “race” relations in Britain because of the diversity of “racial” groups that play it and the variety of national identities that are expressed through it. Data presented show that the two minority “racial” groups in British cricket are stacked in different positions; Asians as high-status batters, and Blacks …
Concussion in Sport
This article explores the emerging agenda in relation to concussion in sport to illustrate the threats and opportunities currently faced by the sociology of sport as an academic sub-discipline. The article begins by delineating aspects of the “crisis” in sociology, Burawoy’s call for an enhanced public sociology as a (part) solution, and responses to these ideas within the sociology of sport. It then identifies how the engagement of sociologists …
Professional relations in sport healthcare
Post-Truth Society? An Eliasian Sociological Analysis of Knowledge in the 21st Century
This article draws on Elias's sociology of knowledge to delineate the social processes that have culminated in the development of the post-truth phenomenon. It argues that technological and social changes have led to a complex commingling of increased emotion and increasingly 'rational' debating techniques. These have been accompanied by an increasing human capacity to consider issues on multiple 'levels' and anticipate the varied ways in which d…
Gymnastics and child abuse
The growing competitiveness of modern sport means that children, from very early ages, are increasingly submitted to intensive training programmes. These programmes are problematic for young athletes not only because their developing bodies are particularly susceptible to different kinds of injuries, but because athletes are also particularly vulnerable to experiences of different kinds of abuses. Using data collected through semi-structured inte…
Sport Medicine, Injured Athletes and Norbert Elias's Sociology of Knowledge
This paper seeks to develop understanding of both clinician-patient encounters within sport and Elias's sociology of knowledge. Premised on a belief that there is a relatively high degree of consensus between figurational and "non-figurational" research on the social organization of sport medicine, and that such a consensus contrasts with the rather acrimonious relations which have characterized similar perspectival relations in the past, a revie…
England's Barmy Army
This article examines a group of English cricket supporters known as the Barmy Army which explicitly and self-consciously challenges the traditions of spectatorship in English cricket. Following a discussion of who the Barmy Army are and a description of the distinctive characteristics of the style of their support, we seek to examine the factors which have led to the group's development at this particular time and in this specific sporting conte…
A ‘cannibalised’ cricket event? Mediatisation, innovation and The Hundred
Attending and consuming events are integral to many peoples’ leisure lives. However, as the literature attests, events represent significant sites of contestation over who does and does not belong. This paper explores such contestation in the notoriously elitist and traditionally exclusionary sport of cricket, and specifically The Hundred; the most recent attempt to democratise the sport by appealing to a more demographically diverse spectator ba…
The social construction of the sociology of sport
This paper presents a historical sociological analysis of the sociology of sport. It draws on theoretical insights from the sociology of professions to examine 'state-of-the-field' reviews written by sociologists of sport. The paper argues that in establishing why the sociology of sport emerged, how people identified its earliest manifestations, and how the subdiscipline's boundaries were drawn, the political dynamics and consequences of the soci…
Cricket and Civilizing Processes
This article examines Ruud Stokvis's contention that the tendency of figurational sociologists to focus on violence and its control would be unproductive in the study of the development of non-contact sports such as cricket and that the formal organization and standardization of modern sports are their defining features. Following a brief outline of Elias's theory of civilizing processes, the relatively violent tenor of early (pre-1850s) cricket …
Theorizing physical activity health promotion
This article seeks to advance our understanding of the convergence of physical activity and public health through a novel theorization drawing upon, applying and developing figurational sociological principles of Norbert Elias. More specifically, we focus on four core aspects of Elias’ theoretical corpus: interdependencies; forethought (as an aspect of civilizing processes); the interaction of “fact” and emotion in socially determining knowledge;…
Football business and football communities in the twenty‐first century
(2000). Football business and football communities in the twenty‐first century. Soccer & Society: Vol. 1, The Changing Face of the Football Business: Supporters Direct, pp. 102-113
Sport, Health and Physical Education
This paper seeks to: (i) outline and critically evaluate the widely accepted idea that exercise and sport are beneficial for health; (ii) examine the different patterns of social relations associated with exercise and sport; (iii) examine some of the health consequences of these social differences; and (iv) explore the implications of this analysis for physical education. No simple generalisations can adequately encapsulate the complexity of the …
Qualitative research in sports studies
Qualitative social scientific research in sport, exercise and other contemporary forms of physical movement has made considerable strides in recent years, such that it is not an unreasonable claim
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), illness narratives and Elias's sociology of knowledge
Lead in human blood and in the environment near a battery factory
Samples of blood, air, dust, soil, vegetation, and tap water were examined between 1973 and 1975 to determine whether a large battery factory (with a smelter) was contributing to lead in the environment and to lead absorption by the local population. Mean blood lead levels in the children of lead workers were about 6 μg/100 ml higher (P<0·001) than in otherwise comparable children. Capillary blood samples in wives of lead workers were 1·7 μg/100 …
Sport, Health and Physical Education
This paper seeks to: (i) outline and critically evaluate the widely accepted idea that exercise and sport are beneficial for health; (ii) examine the different patterns of social relations associated with exercise and sport; (iii) examine some of the health consequences of these social differences; and (iv) explore the implications of this analysis for physical education. No simple generalisations can adequately encapsulate the complexity of the …
Stacking in Cricket
This paper examines the phenomenon of stacking in the sport of cricket. It is argued that cricket is a particularly revealing case study of “race” relations in Britain because of the diversity of “racial” groups that play it and the variety of national identities that are expressed through it. Data presented show that the two minority “racial” groups in British cricket are stacked in different positions; Asians as high-status batters, and Blacks …
Gender Stereotyping and Physical Education
This paper presents the findings of a survey of physical education (PE) teachers, the central object of which was to examine teachers' involvement in, and attitudes towards, the teaching of the six areas of activity contained in the National Curriculum for Physical Education (NCPE). A total of 207 questionnaires was issued to heads of departments and teachers of PE in secondary schools in the county of Nottinghamshire in England, of which 84 were…
The Social Composition of Football Crowds in Western Europe
This paper reviews studies of football fans that were carried out in England, Scotland, Spain, France, Belgium and Austria. The object of these studies was to discover details about the age, sex, occupations and ethnic backgrounds of fans. The data indicated that the fans were predominantly young and male, but that the game's appeal was not limited to particular occupational groups. No clear pattern could be identified according to ethnicity
The changing structure and culture of english rugby union football
The people's game? Football spectatorship and demographic change
(2000). The people's game? Football spectatorship and demographic change. Soccer & Society: Vol. 1, The Future of Football: Challenges for the Twenty‐First Centu, pp. 129-143
Football business and football communities in the twenty‐first century
(2000). Football business and football communities in the twenty‐first century. Soccer & Society: Vol. 1, The Changing Face of the Football Business: Supporters Direct, pp. 102-113
It's not Cricket
Cricket has been historically significant in defining notions of English national identity and continues to feature in debates over the inclusion/exclusion of immigrants in British society. British-African-Caribbean players are well represented in the English game but participation appears mediated by ethnic group membership. This contemporary pattern can only be understood when contextualized within the historical development of cricket in the C…
Ian Taylor in Memoriam
Pain in the Assets”
This paper examines the management of injuries in men’s elite rugby union in England and, in particular, how this has altered as a consequence of the (formal) professionalization of the game in 1995. Data are drawn from 42 in-depth, semistructured interviews, conducted with seven coaches/directors of rugby, nine rugby club doctors, ten physiotherapists, and sixteen players. Partly as a consequence of examining pain and injury developmentally, our…
Clean bowled?' Cricket, racism and equal opportunities
This paper seeks to evaluate the 'racial equality' policy of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). A review of current research illustrates that much of the discrimination in the game is neither recognised nor addressed in this policy document. In light of the evidence presented, the paper concludes by arguing that to move closer towards equality of opportunity within cricket, not only must a range of current practices be reformed, but also …
Cricket and Civilizing Processes
This article examines Ruud Stokvis's contention that the tendency of figurational sociologists to focus on violence and its control would be unproductive in the study of the development of non-contact sports such as cricket and that the formal organization and standardization of modern sports are their defining features. Following a brief outline of Elias's theory of civilizing processes, the relatively violent tenor of early (pre-1850s) cricket …
England's Barmy Army
This article examines a group of English cricket supporters known as the Barmy Army which explicitly and self-consciously challenges the traditions of spectatorship in English cricket. Following a discussion of who the Barmy Army are and a description of the distinctive characteristics of the style of their support, we seek to examine the factors which have led to the group's development at this particular time and in this specific sporting conte…
Sport and Society (Issues in Society)
The Emergence, Codification and Diffusion of Sport
Unprofessional Practice? The Status and Power of Sport Physicians
In this article I examine the role and working practice of rugby union club doctors in England. While medicine is widely perceived to be one of the most powerful professions in Western societies, sociologists of sport have argued that sport clinicians often wield relatively limited power over their athlete-patients. In this article I therefore attempt to shed further light on the “peculiar” character of sports medicine. Using data drawn from inte…
The Diffusion of Cricket to America
This paper examines the historical development of cricket in America and seeks to explain why, despite having a significant initial impact, the game ultimately became culturally marginal. It is argued that class and cricketing relations in England in the mid-nineteenth century had a significant and hitherto unacknowledged impact on the diffusion of the game to America, and that this unplanned social process can only be understood in the light of …
Sports Industry
Sport became an industry at the point at which events (matches, races, bouts) ceased to be oriented solely toward participants and became largely organized so that they could be consumed by spectators. In perhaps the earliest sociological analysis of this process, Gregory P. Stone (1955) argued that consequently “play” (unscripted, spontaneous) became overshadowed by “ dis play” (prearranged, staged, spectacular); that is to say, in some respects…
Soccer
The game of association football, also known as soccer, involves two competing teams of 11 players. The players attempt to maneuver the football into the opposing team's goal, using any part of the body except the hands and arms. Only the goalkeeper is permitted to handle the ball, and then only within the penalty area surrounding the goal. The winning team scores most goals over a set time period, usually 90 minutes
No systematic doping in football’
This essay examines the degree to which football administrators are correct to believe that there is relatively little use of performance‐enhancing drugs in elite football. In contrast to FIFA’s reliance on the results of drug testing as a means of gauging this phenomenon, this essay attempts to triangulate the evidence from the broader spectrum of sources of information about drug use in sport. Though meaningful and accurate data on the use of s…
A Response to Vamplew and Some Comments on the Relationship Between Sports Historians and Sociologists of Sport
This article seeks to refute Wray Vamplew's contention that my work on cricket is flawed by a failure properly to define violence, by the presence of factual errors and misinterpretations of evidence stemming from unchecked secondary sources and because there are limited examples to support my argument. In responding to this critique I point to Vamplew's own errors, misinterpretation and argument by limited example. I further discuss the criteria…
Medical Uncertainty and Clinician–Athlete Relations
This article addresses clinical practice in sport medicine. Combining notions of medical uncertainty with a figurational sociological emphasis on interdependence, the article illustrates how uncertainty characterizes the medical understanding, clinical treatment, and patient experience of concussion. Faced with uncertainty, the clinician’s desire for recognition and validation through athletes’ dependence on them enables medically based diagnosti…
Cricket in Colonial India, 1780-1947
Professional relations in sport healthcare
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