NASSS 2018 Conference - Vancouver

In the summer of 2018, I completed a university guest professorship at the Technical University of Munich. I decided to leave my family for weeks at a time to teach and research in Germany, while also maintaining my position at NC State. The stress and anxiety caused by my going into... Read More →

In November, 2016, the “Pillars of the community” public art installation was unveiled at the rear of the new state of the art arena, Roger’s Place, in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, home to the National Hockey League’s Edmonton Oilers franchise. In distinct juxtaposition... Read More →

Session: Sport, History, & Settler ColonialismPolicing the New Urban Sporting FrontierIn 2016, Rogers Place, a publicly financed $613.7-million arenathe anchor of a broader entertainment districtopened in downtown Edmonton, Alberta, an area of spatially concentrated racialized... Read More →

Policing the New Urban Sporting FrontierIn 2016, Rogers Place, a publicly financed $613.7-million arenathe anchor of a broader entertainment districtopened in downtown Edmonton, Alberta, an area of spatially concentrated racialized poverty. The prospect of the displacement of... Read More →

The Construction of a New Labor-Capital Relation: Professional Rugby in the United StatesProfessional Rugby Organization (PRO) and Major League Rugby (MLR), the first professional rugby leagues in the United States, were established in 2016 and 2018 respectively. PRO and MLR signal... Read More →

Session: Digital Audio, Sound, and Physical Culture Research PracticeNarratives, Meaning-making, and Community Identity in E-sportsSport sociologists have long studied the extent to and ways in which identities in traditional sport settings are constructed through the media in a global(izing... Read More →

A Fresh Sheet of Ice? Changing Business Models, Arena Developments, and Expansive Subsidy Demands.In his insightful book, Architecture on Ice, Howard Shubert (2016) has suggested that contemporary hockey arenas now need to be understood as the centrepieces of much larger land development... Read More →

Session: Soccer Across the GlobeStreet Soccer Scotland: Social inclusion through sport-based programsAgainst the backdrop of neoliberalism and the expansion of inequality, there has been a marked growth in the number of sport-for-development non-profit organizations that provide a... Read More →

Session: Soccer Across the GlobeStreet Soccer Scotland: Social inclusion through sport-based programsAgainst the backdrop of neoliberalism and the expansion of inequality, there has been a marked growth in the number of sport-for-development non-profit organizations that provide a... Read More →