A ‘home away from home’: the (London) Jaguars and the NFL’s established international presence—a<i>semi-deterritorialization</i>approach

Wise, Nicholas; Kirby, Seth I.

doi:10.1080/17430437.2018.1555220

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“…For example, examining how features of metropolitan urban design and built environments contribute to the surveillance, control and production of citizen's sport and leisure experiences. This is witnessed in places such as Shanghai, China, (Kohe, Nehring & Tu, 2019), or, in the translocation of professional sport practices in 'foreign' contexts as with the (London) Jaguars NFL promotion (Wise & Kirby, 2020). Accordingly, in what follows we first contextualise the teaching of sports geography against wider Higher Education forces.…”

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Spatialising Sport Management

Kohe

Wise

2023

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

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Sport and geography may be considered allied and complementary disciplines. They share, variously, interests in ideological and physical spaces, political and socio-cultural processes of space-and place-making, historical dis-/continuities, individual and collective identity formation, demography and topographies and representational practices therein. Additionally, sports geography has also emerged as a distinct field of study. Notwithstanding the diversity and strength of activities undertaken within sports geography, and substantive research foundations, the subject still sits uneasily within Higher Education degree programmes. Sports geography modules may, for example, be taught independently within Geography, Sport Management/Studies/Science, Urban Studies, Development or Liberal Arts programmes, or form a bridge across shared degree/honours courses as a way of attracting an interdisciplinary audience of students. Regardless of institutional 'home', sports geography, we believe, affords a rich context for engaging students with critical contemporary issues, global-local analysis, and socio-cultural complexities and social justice concerns, guided by spatial theorists. We argue in this paper for a more pronounced place for sports geography -specifically, critical spatial studies -within Sports Management. In doing so, we draw on our professional and personal experiences teaching sport and geography related courses in the United Kingdom and wider Europe, USA, New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan. First, we contextualise the teaching of sports geography against wider Higher Education forces. Second, we provide pedagogical illustrations of the benefits of a sports geography focus. Finally, we offer some recommendations and reflections. Ultimately, we advocate for improved collaboration between Sports Management and Geography fields, and call for continued scholarly and pedagogical symbiosis and play that might produce new and creative interdisciplinary inquiry.

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Spatialising Sport Management

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Wise

2023

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

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“…TripAdvisor is aware of this and clearly notes that reviews are subjective opinions made by the user. Qualitative content analyses challenge researchers to seek meanings and determine themes extracted from texts and/or relate content to new conceptual understandings (Lehtonen, 2000; Wise and Kirby, 2018). Qualitative content analyses are thus about highlighting issues and narratives embedded in the texts (Lehtonen, 2000).…”

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User-generated insight of Rio’s Rocinha favela tour: Authentic attraction or vulnerable living environment?

Wise

Polidoro

Hall

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Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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Urban transformations help shape new opportunities and create/re-create awareness in everyday living environments. It is not transformation in the infrastructural sense, but transformation in the form of a service industry producing socio-economic change that can result in inclusion and exclusion of people in the community, thus affecting the everyday living environment. Within this, we need to consider the tourist gaze and how users who visit/tour vulnerable living environments report perceptions of their experiences on forums such as TripAdvisor, which helps researchers frame understandings of commodification, opportunities/awareness and even authenticity (each addressed in this paper). This paper evaluates TripAdvisor posts of ‘Rio’s Rocinha Favela Tour’. In many respects, the notion of commodification, and even authenticity, runs through each theme, but the analysis and data posted to TripAdvisor challenges us to consider how a favela becomes a consumer product or a tourist attraction. The Rocinha Favela tour is widely publicised to prospective visitors as a chance to experience a living and working favela, the focus of the first theme presented in this paper. Given Rocinha has become a popular attraction in Rio, this leads to the second theme: opportunity or awareness. Opportunities do exist for people in the community to get involved in tourism, and turning the favela into a product helps shape and maintain awareness. The third theme builds on and relates to the previous two, but focuses more on the semblances of authenticity that emerges. To link the points highlighted in this paper, a discussion of soft power concerns relationships bonded through economic and cultural influence. Because favelas have become distinct attractions, it is cultural appeal and a different (residential) side of the city that persuades travellers to visit. Online and social media platforms for more than a decade now have played an important role today in projecting images and promoting authentic experiences based on user-perceptions, and this paper looks at how the users communicate their experiences.

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“…Despite extensive research on the geographies of sport (for a multi-sport overview see Koch, 2017; for specific US sports, see Alderman et al, 2003;Wise & Kirby, 2020), and specifically football (Baker, 2018;Conner, 2014;Lawrence, 2016), there is only limited examination of the names of the venues in which these activities are, quite literally, played out. In relation to football stadia naming, such work (see Church & Penny, 2013;Vuolteenaho & Kolamo, 2012;and Medway et al, 2019, on which this paper builds) is grounded in critical toponymy (Rose-Redwood et al, 2010).…”

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‘To us it’s still Boundary Park’: fan discourses on the corporate (re)naming of football stadia

Gillooly

Medway

Warnaby

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Social & Cultural Geography

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This paper explores how the corporate (re)naming of football stadia and their urban environs is negotiated through fans' toponymic discourses and associated commemoration. Critical toponymy research emphasises oppositional toponymic tensions between sovereign authorities and citizens, which can result in competing inscriptions of space. Adopting a quasi-ethnographic approach, we reveal a more complex picture by exploring the variegated toponymic discourses of football fans. The findings demonstrate intricate entanglements in how fans reluctantly accept a corporate stadium name, yet also actively resist it through counter-performative utterances, often imbued with commemorative intent. Alternatively, fans passively ignore a corporate stadium name, using a former toponym in quotidian and habitual speech. We conclude by considering the implications of these findings for the influence of corporate power in urban toponymic inscription.

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A ‘home away from home’: the (London) Jaguars and the NFL’s established international presence—asemi-deterritorializationapproach

Cited by 8 publications

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Spatialising Sport Management

Spatialising Sport Management

User-generated insight of Rio’s Rocinha favela tour: Authentic attraction or vulnerable living environment?

‘To us it’s still Boundary Park’: fan discourses on the corporate (re)naming of football stadia

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