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This article traces the origins and consequences of the book Rethinking Industrial Relations and then explores some of the conceptual and empirical issues raised since its publication.

A number of culturally significant practices have become incorporated into promoting and normalising British militarism in the face of increasing controversies surrounding Britain's role in the 'War on Terror'. Utilising a critical discourse analysis, this article draws on Goffman's deference and demeanour work and asserts that in conjunction with other popular cultural practices, sport is being co-opted into a multi-agency strategy that positions the military, government, media and citizens in a joint ceremony of supportive affirmation of UK militarism. A discursive formation, which circumscribes legitimate discourses around the 'War on Terror', is shown to symbolically annihilate critical opposition to British aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan whilst normalising the joint ceremony of support.

This article provides a critical discourse analysis of Scottish newspaper reports relating to football and 'sectarianism' in Scotland. It claims that there is a powerful and longstanding ideological 'framing' of sectarianism in sections of the Scottish press that is latently power-laden. This discourse attempts to construct and reaffirm a unified non-sectarian core identity that 'real' and 'authentic' Scots (should) share in opposition to a set of sectarian 'others'. The various connotations attached to sectarian and sectarianism, together with their use in particular ways that reflect an ideological hegemony, are illustrated. Much of the press treatment of sectarianism is shown to lack sensitivity to the historical, hierarchical and relational aspects of religious, political and ethnic identities in Scotland.