Publication record
Research in print
Books, peer-reviewed articles, chapters and public reports spanning psychoanalysis, digital media, race, nationalism, ecology and sport.
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Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears
Co-edited with Joseph S. Reynoso. Lexington Books.
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The Psychosis of Race: A Lacanian Approach to Racism and Racialization
Routledge.
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Sport and Physical Activity in Catastrophic Environments
Co-edited with Jim Cherrington. Routledge.
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Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy: A Psychoanalytic Exploration
Routledge.
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How Do Football Fans Experience Online Abuse? Impacts, Responses and Implications
With Colm Kearns et al. Leisure Studies.
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The Ethics of Outrage: Holocaust Memory and the Case of Gary Lineker
With Theo Lynn. Holocaust Studies.
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When a Foul Is Not a Foul: Strategic Fouling and the Creativity of Self-Limitation
Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.
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Exploring Online Sexism and Misogyny in Women’s Professional English Football
With Daniel Kilvington et al. Soccer and Society.
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Paranoia, Delusion, and Doubt: A Lacanian Analysis of Race, Hip-Hop, and Kendrick Lamar
Howard Journal of Communications 37(4), 1076–1094.
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#JewGoal: Language, Enjoyment, and the Persistence of Antisemitism in Online Gaming and Sports Communities
With Theo Lynn, Itoiz Rodrigo-Jusué and Daniel Kilvington. New Media and Society.
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Revisiting the Sport Ethic: A Psychoanalytic Consideration of Sport’s Contradictions
Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.
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Haunted Spaces and Unsettling Predicaments: An Interrogation of (Capitalist) Sport via the Work of Mark Fisher
With Jim Cherrington and Samuel M. Clevenger. European Journal of Cultural Studies.
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#SeAcabó: How a Mass-Mediated ‘Social Drama’ Made Visible and Confronted Violence in Women’s Football in Spain
With Itoiz Rodrigo-Jusué et al. Feminist Media Studies.
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The Subject of AI: A Psychoanalytic Intervention
With Jacob Johanssen. Theory, Culture and Society 43(2), 59–76.
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The Violence of Online Hate: Cultivating Antagonism through Subjective and Objective Violence
The Communication Review 29(1), 72–97.
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What Does It Mean to Psychoanalyse Sport? Reflections from the Field
With Joseph S. Reynoso et al. Cogent Social Sciences: Sport and Psychoanalysis 11(1).
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From Local Fields to Global Spectacles: Sport in the Shadow of the Anthropocene
With Jim Cherrington, Billy Graeff, Brendan Hokowhitu and Holly Thorpe. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 60(8), 1553–1569.
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Sport and the Anthropocene
With Jim Cherrington. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 60(8), 1417–1427.
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Exploring the Psychoanalytic Dimensions of Sport: An Introduction to Sport and Psychoanalysis
With Joseph S. Reynoso. Cogent Social Sciences: Sport and Psychoanalysis 11(1), 1–6.
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Examining the Mechanism of Disavowal and Its Two Forms: Cynical Disavowal and Fetishistic Disavowal
Theory and Psychology 35(1), 117–135.
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Online Abuse, Emotion Work and Sports Journalism
With Gary Sinclair et al. Journalism Studies 26(1), 101–119.
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Can AI Lie? Chatbot Technologies, the Subject, and the Importance of Lying
Social Science Computer Review 43(6), 1147–1158.
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The Fetishization of Sport: Exploring the Effects of Fetishistic Disavowal in Sportswashing
With Colm Kearns and Gary Sinclair. Journal of Sport and Social Issues 48(3–4), 145–164.
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‘[K]neeling Only Goes to Highlight Your Ignorance’: Aversive Racism, Colour-Blindness, and Racist Temporalities in Discussions of Football Online
With Mark Doidge et al. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 50(20), 5067–5084.
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‘Let the Tournament for the Woke Begin!’: Euro 2020 and Cultural Marxist Conspiracies in Criticisms of ‘Take the Knee’
With Thomas Fletcher et al. Ethnic and Racial Studies 47(10), 2036–2059.
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Just a Game? Sport and Psychoanalytic Theory
With Joseph S. Reynoso. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society 29(2), 145–159.
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‘Best Run Club in the World’: Manchester City Fans and the Legitimation of Sportswashing?
With Colm Kearns et al. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 59(4), 479–501.
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Success in Failure: From the Destruction of the Tragic to the Self-Negation of the Comic
Crisis and Critique 10(2), 30–54.
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The Dialectic of Desire: AI Chatbots and the Desire Not to Know
Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society 28(4), 607–618.
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A Scoping Review of Research on Online Hate and Sport
With Colm Kearns et al. Communication and Sport 11(2), 1–29.
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The Electric Mountain Bike as Pharmakon: Problems and Possibilities of an Emerging Technology
With Jim Cherrington. Mobilities 18(6), 1000–1015.
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‘Love Thy Social Media!’: Hysteria and the Interpassive Subject
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 24(4), 1–10.
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Posthuman to Inhuman: mHealth Technologies and the Digital Health Assemblage
With Jim Cherrington. Theory and Event 25(4), 726–750.
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A Hole That Does Not Speak: Covid, Catastrophe and the Impossible
Philosophy World Democracy, 28 May.
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An Unnerving Otherness: English Nationalism and Rusedski’s Smile
With Robert J. Lake and Thomas Fletcher. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society 26(4), 452–472.
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Slipping on Banana Skins and Falling Through Bars: ‘True’ Comedy and the Comic Character
Galactica Media: Journal of Media Studies 3(3), 110–121.
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Sport and the ‘National Thing’: Exploring Sport’s Emotive Significance
Sport in Society 24(11), 1956–1970.
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Temporal Ontology in Ecology: Developing an Ecological Awareness through Time, Temporality and the Past-Present Parallax
With Jim Cherrington. Environmental Philosophy 18(1), 41–63.
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‘A Form of Socially Acceptable Insanity’: Love, Comedy and the Digital in Her
Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society 26(1), 25–45.
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Retroactive Causation and the Temporal Construction of News
Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory 22(1), 44–59.
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Football Is ‘the Most Important of the Least Important Things’: The Illusion of Sport and COVID-19
Leisure Sciences 43(1–2), 97–103.
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On Reflexive Racism: Disavowal, Deferment and the Lacanian Subject
Diacritics 48(4), 76–101.
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COVID-19: Approaching the In-Human
Contours: Journal of the SFU Humanities 10, 1–10.
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‘I Am (Big) M(Other)’: Lacan’s Big Other and Cynicism in Grant Sputore’s I Am Mother
Free Associations 80, 121–131.
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‘Team GB’ or ‘Team Scotland’? Media Representations at London 2012 and Glasgow 2014
With Stuart Whigham. Journalism 21(10), 1450–1467.
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Reflexivity or Orientation? Collective Memories in the Australian, Canadian and New Zealand National Press
Memory Studies 13(4), 519–536.
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COVID-19 and the Real Impossible
International Journal of Žižek Studies 14(2), 1–22.
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‘Success in Britain Comes with an Awful Lot of Small Print’: Greg Rusedski and National Identity
With Thomas Fletcher and Robert J. Lake. Nations and Nationalism 20(4), 1104–1123.
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‘Nature Doesn’t Care That We’re There’: Re-Symbolizing Nature’s ‘Natural’ Contingency
With Jim Cherrington. International Journal of Žižek Studies 14(1), 1–26.
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‘Running Away from the Taskscape’: Ultramarathon Running as ‘Dark Ecology’
With Jim Cherrington and Nicholas Tiller. Annals of Leisure Research 23(2), 243–263.
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Mountain Bike Trail Building, ‘Dirty’ Work and a New Terrestrial Politics
With Jim Cherrington. World Futures 76(1), 39–61.
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London 2012, Glasgow 2014 and Athletes as Political Symbols
With Stuart Whigham. European Journal for Sport and Society 17(1), 47–65.
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Spectres of Nature in the Trail Building Assemblage
With Jim Cherrington. International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure 3(1), 71–93.
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‘You Ain’t Gonna Get Away Wit’ This, Django’: Fantasy, Fiction and Subversion in Django Unchained
Quarterly Review of Film and Video 36(7), 611–637.
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Conviviality and Parallax in David Olusoga’s Black and British: A Forgotten History
European Journal of Cultural Studies 22(5–6), 979–996.
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Re-establishing the ‘Outsiders’: English Press Coverage of the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup
With Beth Fielding-Lloyd. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 54(3), 282–301.
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From Mood to Movement: English Nationalism, the European Union and Taking Back Control
Innovation 32(2), 191–210.
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The Subjective and Objective Violence of Terrorism: ‘British Values’ and the 2017 London Bridge Attack
Critical Studies in Terrorism 12(2), 228–249.
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The United Kingdom and British Empire: A Figurational Approach
Rethinking History 22(1), 3–24.
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Glasgow 2014, the Media and Scottish Politics
With Stuart Whigham. British Journal of Politics and International Relations 20(2), 360–378.
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The Reification of Celebrity: Global Newspaper Coverage of the Death of David Bowie
International Review of Sociology 27(1), 202–224.
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Celebrating British Multiculturalism, Lamenting England/Britain’s Past
Nations and Nationalism 22(4), 786–802.
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‘As British as Fish and Chips’: Newspaper Representations of Mo Farah during London 2012
Media, Culture and Society 38(7), 979–996.
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‘The Day the Flame Came to Town’: The Olympic Flame, Symbol, Community and Commodification
With Joseph Maguire and Beth Darlington. Sociology of Sport Journal 32(2), 117–139.
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Social Media and Online Hate in Sport: A Case Study of Association Football
With Thomas Fletcher et al. In Routledge Handbook of Sport and Social Media. Routledge.
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Play, Sport, and the Creativity of Sublimation
In Sport and Psychoanalysis. Lexington Books.
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Introduction: Sport—A Psychoanalytic Inquiry
With Joseph S. Reynoso. In Sport and Psychoanalysis. Lexington Books.
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A Critical Analysis of Campaigns to Challenge Online Racism in English Professional Football
With Daniel Kilvington et al. In Hate Crime in Football. Policy Press.
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Desire, Drive and the Melancholy of English Football: ‘It’s (Not) Coming Home’
In Critical Issues in Football. Routledge, 53–65.
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Introduction: Sport and Physical Activity in Catastrophic Environments
With Jim Cherrington. In Sport and Physical Activity in Catastrophic Environments. Routledge, 1–18.
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The Appearance of Authority in Health and Wellbeing Media
In Critical Perspectives on Internet Celebrity Culture. Routledge, 35–51.
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Football Is ‘the Most Important of the Least Important Things’
In Leisure in the Time of Coronavirus. Routledge.
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Community as Hyperobject: Exploring the ‘Spectral Plains’ of Leisure
With Jim Cherrington. In Leisure and Its Communities. Routledge.
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Portraying Britain’s Past: Newspaper Coverage of the 2012 London Olympic Ceremonies
In The London Olympics and Urban Development. Routledge, 320–334.
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Online Abuse in Sport
With Gary Sinclair et al. United Nations General Assembly Human Rights Council.
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Football and the Problem of Online Hate
With Katie Liston et al. Tackling Online Hate in Football.
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The Sports Media, Online Harms and Response(s) to It
With Daniel Kilvington et al. Report for Sky Sports News.
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Major Cultural and Sporting Events Inquiry
With Alan Bairner, Alexandra Bowes and Stuart Whigham. Evidence to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee.
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Teaching and Learning Issues in the Disciplines: Sociology
With Christopher R. Matthews and Alex Channon. Higher Education Authority.
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