Ryan King-White

• Towson University

This commentary provides a brief critique of current research on social media from a critical pedagogical and sociological perspective. It discusses how social media has become important for communities to congregate and share views, beliefs, and culture. Then, it describes how social media research in sport studies has developed in recent years, p...

Changing conceptions about parenthood has become a topic to come under recent critical examination in academic circles. Thomas Fletcher’s (2020) book Negotiating Fatherhood is one of the first to extend this to the relationship between fatherhood and sport. The studies he cites in conjunction with his own research provide a thorough analysis about...

This critical examination, based on in-depth interviews with current and former students from sport management academic programs in the United States, provides insight into how the academic internship is being reconfigured at the nexus of higher education and the sport industry. Drawing on the concept of hope labour, the analysis illustrates that s...

As a cisgendered White male who emerged from a decidedly working-class family, the national fantasy of achieving the prototypical “American Dream” (i.e., working a white-collar job, getting married and raising children in “good” neighborhoods, and an opportunity at a better quality of life for our offspring) has long been socialized into my life. H...

Neoliberalism on American college campuses has undoubtedly shaped the way administrators, faculty, staff, and students experience contemporary education. This manuscript utilizes extensive archival research at Towson University to examine the inception of neoliberalism influenced leadership by the President, his staff, faculty, and students in the...

This project will specifically focus on the symbiotic relationship between the intercollegiate athletics program and corporatization of educational functions and leadership at Towson University as emblematic of the influence that neoliberal corporate capitalism has had on institutions of higher education and its stakeholders. We offer a genealogy o...

On November 9, 2015, the president and chancellor at the University of Missouri resigned in response to protests and threat of the football team’s boycott (Svrluga, 2015). The unrest and racial disharmony that surfaced at Mizzou had been building for years and, in fact, has been evidenced since on many other campuses across the United States (Gross...

Critical interventionist ethnography has recently come into vogue within the Sociology of Sport. More specifically, many in our field believe that merely studying and writing up studies on physical culture is not enough, and that work within the field needs to be more impactful, meaningful, and exact various forms of social justice. As such, in thi...

Over the past 30 years Physical Cultural Studies (PCS) (Andrews, 2008) has grown in the United States. This form of radical inquiry has been heavily influenced by the British Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies. PCS research has focused on the various ways the corporeal has been a/effected by, and, indeed, (re)informs the contemporary socioeco...

When teaching in Sport Management programs professors are often forced to respond to the actions and teachings of professionals in the field. According to the study by Kincheloe & Steinberg many of these normalized and, indeed celebrated, behaviors are actions that are part and parcel of the ‘recovery movement’ which (re)inscribe new forms of colon...

In this project I will trace former Little League Baseball star, Danny Almonte's, celebrity identity and flexible citizenship with particular regard to the way that he has been used as both an exemplary Dominican immigrant and later a cautionary tale. As such this critical biography of Almonte's rise and fall in American popular culture-informed by...

As I write this chapter in the fall of 2008 the baseball world seems asunder. The Tampa Bay Rays lead the American League East, a division dominated over the past fifteen seasons by the struggling third-place New York Yankees. Hank Steinbrenner's aforementioned quote reflects the recent frustrations felt by the most successful American sporting fra...