Tag: cricket
Call for Papers | “Cricket in 2035: What Could It Look Like?”, Cricket Research Network Annual Conference | National Cricket Performance Centre, Loughborough University, February 13, 2025. Call ends...
Cricket has never stood still, but the pace of change has perhaps never been so great as it is right now. Poised for entry into the Olympics in 2028, with women’s cricket bigger than ever before, but with the future ownership of English counties hanging in the balance and Test cricket under threat, we will gather in Loughborough to discuss the thorny question: What will cricket look like 10 years from now?
Call for Participation | The Cricket Research Network Webinar Series 2024 | March 26, 2024
Join us on 26th March at 7-7:30pm (GMT) for the first in a series of free Network webinars where members will share their research findings. To launch the series, a presentation on The Hundred from Bournemouth University featuring Raf Nicholson and Keith Parry: “Levelling the playing field: The impact of The Hundred on the landscape of English cricket”.
Call for Participation | Russell Holden: Cricket in Modern Britain. The Politics of Crisis, Continuity and Communication | Online seminar March 19, 2024
The Faculty of Business and Communication and the international research network SPRING organize the research seminar “Cricket in Modern Britain. The Politics of Crisis, Continuity and Communication” with Russell Holden. Russell Holden is a writer, researcher and co-founder of The Crickett Research Network #CRN2024. The session will take place online via Zoom. Access is free, no prior registration is necessary.
Call for Participants | Seminar: “Cricket in a post-ICEC World” | Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, February 23, 2024. Book tickets now!
Eight months on from the release of the ICEC’s report, this conference will examine the state of English and Welsh cricket in a post-ICEC world. How has the ECB responded? What still needs to change? And how can cricket writers, researchers and supporters come together to make that change possible? The conference is being organised by the Cricket Research Network, which is chaired by Dr Raf Nicholson. The conference will serve as the launch of the network.
Call for Participation | Book Launch Webinar by the Sport and Politics Research International Network Group (SPRING) | May 23, 2022, at 5PM, UK time (6PM, CET)
During this Zoom book launch the following books will be presented: Cricket and contemporary society in Britain: Crises and Continuity by Russell Holden; Football, Place and National Identity: Transferring Allegiance by David Storey; and La disneyització del futbol by Xavier Ginesta.
Call for Papers | Playing for Nations and/or States: Cricket and Politics in South Asia | Webinar, September 14, 2022. Call ends June 15, 2022
Cricket like Bollywood is eulogized like a religion in South Asia and regarded as one of the most popular sports played in the region. Despite the popularity of the game and its ubiquitous relevance for the nation-states of South Asia, there has been a dearth of scholarly works to understand the game’s inexorable relationship with politics. This webinar is an effort to put the sports-politics nexus in South Asia on the global academic map.
Call for Participation | Book Launch Webinar by by the Sport and Politics Research International Network Group (SPRING) | April 7, 2022, at 6PM, UK time (7PM, CET)
During this Zoom book launch the following books will be presented: Cricket and contemporary society in Britain: Crises and Continuity by Russell Holden; Football, Place and National Identity: Transferring Allegiance by David Storey; and La disneyització del futbol by Xavier Ginesta.
Sport in Society Volume 18, Issue 9, November 2015
The considerable growth of interest in commerce, media and politics and their relationship to sport in international academia has resulted in academics in various disciplines writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life. Special Issue: The Other Side of the Don: Episodes in a Life.
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Special issue: “Cricket, Migration and Diasporic Communities”
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power explores the formation and transformation of racial, ethnic, national, transnational and postcolonial identities in the contemporary world. It locates culture, representations and identities as key sites for processes of domination, struggle and resistance, recognising their intersection with other forms of social division and identification.
Theme of the Month from Routledge in December: Cricket
Welcome to the final theme of the month where we take a look at cricket in the midst of the 2013-14 Ashes, offering free access to selected articles and a 20% discount on related Routledge books.
This campaign spotlights aspects specific to cricket, such as Coaching and Psychology, History and Philosophy, Science and Technology, Sociology and Culture, and Tourism and Events. And what's more...