Political Studies Association 2016 Sport and Politics Conference Programme

Sport and Social Justice, Executive Business Centre, Bournemouth University, Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth

FRIDAY 4TH MARCH / SATURDAY 5TH MARCH
08.30-09.30 / Registration and
Refreshments / 09.30-11.00 / Parallel Session 4
09.30-10.00 / Conference Opening (Room:EB206)
Andrew Adams, Local Organiser
PSA Sport Group
Dr Andrew Main / 11.00-11.20 / Refreshment Break
10.00-11.00 / Keynote Presentation: (Room:EB206)
Louise Mansfield, Brunel University / 11.20- 12.20 / Keynote Presentation: (Room:EB206)
Bryan Clift, University of Bath
11.00-11.30 / Refreshment Break / 12.20-1.00 / Lunch
11.30-1.00pm / Parallel Session 1 / 1.00-3.00 / Workshop: Sport in an age of austerity
1.00-2.00pm / Lunch / 3pm / Close of Conference
2.00-3.30pm / Parallel Session 2 / All refreshments and lunches are in EB 7th Floor
3.40-4.00 / Refreshment Break
4.00-5.30 / Parallel Session 3
5.30 / AGM
7.00pm / Conference Dinner (Zorbas Restaurant, 199 Old Christchurch Road BH1 1JU)
Parallel Session 1: Friday 4th March 11:30-1:00
ROOM EB202 / ROOM EB206 / ROOM EB205
Chair: Pete Millward / Chair: Spencer Harris / Chair: Paul Gilchrist
Football’s new cold war: Soft Power in rogue Russian States
Steve Menary, Freelance journalist and visiting lecture at Southampton Solent and Winchester Universities / The Role of Private Sport Schools in the Norwegian Elite Sport System: Accidental Path Dependency?
Elsa Kristiansen, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
Barrie Houlihan, Loughborough University / Understanding the Gendered Resourcing of Adult Grassroots Cricket in England
Jim Lusted, University of Northampton, UK
Sports Mega Events, Pan-Americanism and Soft Power in Post-Communist Chile
Joel Rookwood, Southampton Solent University / Why do Governments (Still) invest in Elite Sport?
Jonathan Grix, Paul Brannagan, Birmingham University, UK / International relations, Sport and The State: A Constructivist View
Nikos Lekakis, University of Crete
International Sport as a Diplomatic Instrument: Moeen Ali, the use of the Wristband and the Save Gaza and Free Palestine Campaigns
Russell Holden, In the Zone Sport and Politics Consultancy and University of Worcester / Anti-political, A-political and De-political: The Impact of Sport on Contemporary Politics
Andrew Adams, Bournemouth University
Mark Piekarz, University if Worcester / Can Girls Play Sport? An Analysis of Performative Gender Identity in Social Media Responses to the This Girl Can Campaign
Laura Richards, Newcastle University, UK
Parallel Session 2: Friday 4th March 2.00-3.30pm
ROOM EB202 / ROOM EB / ROOM EB204 / ROOM EB206
Chair: Jonathan Grix / Chair: Jim O’Brien / Chair: Jayne Cauldwell / Chair: Jim Lusted
“They Are Just Trying to Contain Us”: Parkour, Counter-Conducts and the Government of Difference in Turin’s Urban Spaces
Nicola De Martini Ugolotti, Bath University, UK / ‘Doing Our Bit By Wearing Our Kit: Liverpool FC, Standard Chartered and the Postcolonial Subjectivities of ‘Ethical’ Football Shirt Sponsorship’
David Webber, University of Warwick / From Empire Pariah to Global Mega-Event? Interrogating the growth of the Commonwealth Games
Marc Keech, University of Brighton / Sport, Politics and Human Rights
Zaghra Savahl., Bennett Bailey Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport, South Africa
Football, Politics and Stakeholder Activism: A Case of Coventry City
Jamie Cleland, Loughborough University, UK / The Historical and Geopolitical Continuity of Russian Sports Mega-Event Controversies: The 1980 Moscow Olympics and the 2014 Sochi Olympics
Nina Kramareva / Racing Philanthropy: ‘Actually Existing’ Charity and the Politics of Significance
Patricia Mooney Nickel, School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech / The Intentions, Hopes, Ambitions and Reality of Creating a Sport for Development Organisation in Cape Town
David Meir, University Centre Blackburn College
Signposting risk: parkour parks and the materialities of regulation
Paul Gilchrist, University of Brighton
Guy Osborn, University of Westminster / The complementarity of motor sports, tradition and politics
Bruce Braham, Bournemouth University / Sport, Politics and Social Justice
Dong-Joo Yang, Center for North Pacific Affairs / World Cup 2022 and Qatar's Construction Projects: Relational Rejections of Responsibilities for the Safety of Migrant Workers
Pete Millward
Parallel Session 3 Friday 4th March 4.00-5.30
ROOM EB202 / ROOM EB204 / ROOM EB206
Chair: Patricia Nickel / Chair: John Harris / Chair: Neil King
The Politics of Participation: Trends, Spend and the Future
Spencer Harris, University of Colorado, USA / Rugby Union, Consent to Bodily Contacts and the Protection of Players’ rights
Louise Taylor., Simon Boyes, Nottingham Trent University / Political Views of Polish Football Fans
Lukasz Bieszke, Gdansk University, Poland
Turkey’s Sport Participation Policies From the Social State Perspective
Selcuk Acikgoz, Marmara University, Turkey
Cem Tinaz – Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey / The Performativity of Sports Statistics: Towards a New Research Agenda
David Yarrow., Mathias Kranke, University of Warwick / Exploring Football Referee’s Perspectives of the Enactment of the Football Association Respect Campaign
Jimmy O’Gorman, Edge Hill University
Tom Webb, Portsmouth University
Jamie Cleland, Loughborough University
Sport and Social Protest: The Case of Feminist Lili Alvarez in Franco’s Spain
Celia Valiente, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain / Developing countries at the Olympic Games – the case of Lebanon
Danyel Reich, AmericanUniversity of Beirut / Cultural Leadership of Elite association Football Referees Across Transnational Boundaries
Tom Webb, Portsmouth University
Parallel Session 4: Saturday 5th March 9:30-11:00
ROOM EB203 / ROOM EB205 / ROOM EB206
Chair: Cem Tinaz / Chair: Andrew Adams / Chair: Louise Taylor
What Makes an Olympian? A Life Story Investigation into Athlete’s Pre- and Post-Olympic Journey
Ceri Wynne., Jonathan Grix, Birmingham University / The European View about Dual Careers of Sportspeople: The Amateurs in Football
Jesus, R Alexandre, Portugese Association of Non-Professional Football Players / Primary Physical Education: By the way and buy the rest
Gerald Griggs, University of Wolverhampton
Print Media Discourses of Scottishness at the 2015 Rugby World Cup; Some Preliminary Observations
John Cullen, John Harris, Glasgow Caledonian University / Russian Football Fans: Identity and Self-identity (Political Aspect)
Lyubov A. Tsyganova, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. / Using Human Rights as a framework to interrogate the politics of sex work and sport events.
Jayne Cauldwell, Bournemouth University
Revealing Further Utility of Bourdieu’s Relational Sociology through a Case of Institutional Change in Sport
Paul Kitchen, Ulster University
P David Howe, Loughborough University / FC Barcelona, Catalanism and Cultural Identity
Jim O’Brien, Southampton Solent University / Political expedience over historical debate: The suppression of the official History of the Gaelic Athletic Association of 1934
Anthony Keating, Edge Hill University
Workshop: Sport in a time of austerity
ROOM EB202/206
Chair: Dan Parnell
Creating community sport sites: the challenges in delivering sustainability in an era of austerity
Daniel Parnell, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Ed Cope, University of Hull, UK
Paul Widdop, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK
Richard Bailey, International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education, Berlin, Germany
Anthony May, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK / Semi-professional Football Clubs in a Time of Austerity: Examining the 3G Business Model
Anthony May, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK / Olympic Legacies and the Impact of Austerity on Sport Participation in England
Paul Widdop, Leeds Beckett University,
Dave, Cutts, University of Bath,
Pete Millward, Liverpool John Moores University
Neil King, Edge Hill University
Dan Parnell, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Austerity, Sport Participation and the Forgotten Art of Researching Poverty
Rein Haudenhuyse, Vrije Univeriteit, Brussels, Belgium / Austerity, Resource Constraints and what comes ‘next’ for Community Coaches: The use of Meaningful Participation and Incrementally given Roles of Responsibility
Philippe Crisp, University of Chichester, UK / Navigating Austerity: Desirability versus Viability, a Third sector Sports Organisation’s Response
Cath Walker, John Hayton, Liverpool John Moores University