Monumental changes: Archives of community in leisurescape
In: Annals of leisure research: the journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Leisure Studies, Band 12, Heft 3-4, S. 350-376
ISSN: 2159-6816
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In: Annals of leisure research: the journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Leisure Studies, Band 12, Heft 3-4, S. 350-376
ISSN: 2159-6816
In: International review for the sociology of sport: irss ; a quarterly edited on behalf of the International Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA), Band 36, Heft 1, S. 25-40
ISSN: 1461-7218
This article traces some administrative and media constructions of Australian surfing subculture in the early 1970s. Foucault's concept of `governmentality', which is concerned with techniques and technologies of discipline, is deployed to interpret the administrative categorization process that was used to distinguish legitimate from illegitimate unemployment benefit claims. Particular attention is paid to how some of the discourses surrounding unemployment benefit compared the unemployed surfing subject unfavorably with the idealized working citizen. Not only was `the surfie element' an object of discipline but, more importantly, `youths' as a social category were made to know themselves as potentially irresponsible at a time of growing unemployment.
In: Loisir & société: Society and leisure, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 283
ISSN: 1705-0154
In: The international journal of social psychiatry, Band 45, Heft 3, S. 216-229
ISSN: 1741-2854
Programmes to destigmatise 'mental illness' have traditionally been based on the 'mental illness is an illness like any other' metaphor and have been largely unsuccessful. By measuring attitudes towards, and etiology beliefs about, 'mental illness' before and after a series of four undergraduate lectures presenting the psychosocial causes of, and solutions to, severe mental health problems, this study (a) replicated previous studies demonstrating a relationship between biogenetic causal beliefs and negative attitudes towards 'mental patients'; (b) found that following the lectures attitudes improved, particularly around the key variables of dangerousness and unpredictability; and (c) demonstrated that amount of contact with people who had received psychiatric treatment was an even stronger predictor of positive attitudes than acceptance of a psychosocial perspective.
In: Annals of leisure research: the journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Leisure Studies, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 249-251
ISSN: 2159-6816
In: Epitheōrēsē koinōnikōn ereunōn: The Greek review of social research, Band 136, Heft 136
ISSN: 2241-8512
In: International review for the sociology of sport: irss ; a quarterly edited on behalf of the International Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA), Band 37, Heft 3-4, S. 279-302
ISSN: 1461-7218
The current frenzy of megamergers and acquisitions creating giant media/entertainment conglomerates has been described in the sociology of sport literature as one of the key aspects of sport globalization processes now unfolding. In this literature three usual suspects are mostly pointed out: Disney, News Corp and AOL–Time Warner. This article argues that one must look beyond these in order to get a clearer picture of the emerging media/sport complex. By examining the corporate structure of six major media/entertainment conglomerates, this article reveals some of the intricacies of these holdings which unpack the 'circuits of promotion' being formed through media platforms and content convergence. Moreover, the analysis of these corporate holdings show how these competitors are also involved in several joint ventures that connect them together, thus forming a dense web despite their rivalries. The article concludes that unless democratic interventions are enabled at the national and global levels sport media consumers will remain easy targets of the global media/ entertainment oligopoly.