On December 11, 2019, Shawn successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, entitled ‘Football and Forlorn Hope: An Ethno-graphic Exploration of the Sporting Utopias Presented by FIFA and a South African Local Football Association’. Shawn’s dissertation can be found here.
New publication from Shawn Forde — “Football and forlorn hope: an ethnographic comic concerning the Grahamstown Soccer Association from 1975 to 1985”
The article appears in Anthropology Southern
Africa. Congratulations Shawn!
Presentations at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference (NASSS) — Devra, Jesse and Jeanette!
Well done Devra, Jeanette and Jesse — on your successful presentations at NASSS, that took place November 6-9, 2019 in Virginia Beach, VA !
Here they are:
Devra Waldman, “Aiming for (the) ‘green’: (post)colonial and aesthetic politics and implications of the production of purified environments in the making of a golf-focused community in Gurgaon, India”
Jeanette Steinmann, Brian Wilson, University of British Columbia, Lyndsay Hayhurst, York University, Mitchell McSweeney, York University — “Experiences of ‘safe space’: From a bicycle program to the road”
Jesse Couture, “Reflections from the ‘Strava’sphere: Preliminary findings from an ethnographic study of a social network for athletes”
Jeanette Steinmann presents at North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) conference!
Last month, Jeanette Steinmann traveled to Boise, ID to share some of her important work on homelessness & bicycling at the North American Society for Sport History conference — #NASSH2019! Excited about Jeanette’s ongoing MA research on this topic!
Jesse Couture presents at Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, held at UBC June 1-7, 2019!
Presenting in sessions hosted by the Canadian Association for Leisure Studies, Jesse Couture ‘s talk was titled: “Community, connectivity, and ‘kudos’: Social self-tracking and the lived experience of digitized leisure.” Well done Jesse!
Liv and Shawn present at World Congress of Sociology of Sport Meetings in Dunedin, NZ!
Liv and Shawn attended World Congress of Sociology of Sport meetings hosted at the University of Otago, April 24-27 2019. Here are their presentation titles:
Liv Yoon & Brian Wilson, “Attempting ‘Environmental Sport
Journalism’: The behind-the-scenes story of the
documentary Mount Gariwang: An Olympic
casualty”
Shawn Forde, “Sporting utopias – development, hope, and
alternative futures“
Congratulations to Liv Yoon — on a successful Ph.D. defense!
On April 11, 2019, Liv successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation, entitled ‘Mount Gariwang: An Olympic Casualty’. Liv’s dissertation can be found here.
Devra presents at American Association of Geographers (AAG) Meetings!
Held in Washington, DC, April 3-7, 2019 — Devra’s talk was titled:
“Architecture, aesthetic governance, and acceptable forms of citizenship in the ‘Millennial City’: an examination of gated community development in Gurgaon, India”. Well done Devra!
Congratulations to Madison Ardizzi — MA thesis defended!
Madison’s thesis, entitled “Bicycles for development in Uganda : A study of perceptions, organizations and globalization,” can be found here
Liv Yoon and Brian’s new article in Communication & Sport now available
Entitled “Journalism, Environmental Issues, and Sport Mega-Events: A Study of South Korean Media Coverage of the Mount Gariwang Development for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games”
Find it here