Senior Lecturer, Carnegie School Of Sport, Leeds Beckett University
Jon Dart entered higher education as a mature student after number of years working and living abroad. Completed undergraduate and post-graduate degrees at Leeds Metropolitan University. Taught at McMaster University in Canada and Leeds Trinity and All Saints before rejoining Leeds Beckett University as a Lecturer in 2011. Currently teaching and researching the (indivisible) socio-cultural and political aspects of sport.
His areas of specialisation are:
- Sport, politics and protest
- The sociology of sport (pedagogy and disciplinary borders)
- Representation of sport in film and popular literature
Sport may be an opium of the people – but it matters
Jul 09, 2018 14:49 pm UTC| Insights & Views Sports
Many on the political left, including the linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky, view sport as serving the interests of capitalism, in part by entertaining, pacifying and disciplining the working class. The French...
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