Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Dr Jon Dart
Senior Lecturer
Jon Dart is a Senior Lecturer in Sports Policy and Sociology in the Carnegie School of Sport at Leeds Beckett University.
His research interests focus on the critical study of sport, focusing on intersection of politics and protest.
His research and teaching interests centre on sport and social inequality with particular attention given to the impact of social class, gender, and ethnicity on access to, and participation, in all forms of sport and physical activity.
Current Teaching
- Sport and Social Science
- Sport Development
Research Interests
Jon has also researched and published on the pedagogy and disciplinary borders of sociology of sport, and on the representation of sport in film and popular literature.
His work has been published in leading sport journals including the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, the Sociology of Sport Journal, Leisure Studies, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, and Sport, Education and Society. He has also co-edited, with Stephen Wagg, Sport, Protest and Globalisation: Stopping Play for Palgrave Macmillan.
Ask Me About
- Sport science
Selected Outputs
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Dart J (In press) Showing Israel the red card. Activists engaged in pro-Palestinian sport-related campaigns. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 9 (3), pp. 521-539.
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Dart J (2022) “Giving PUMA the boot” – A case study of a contemporary consumer sports boycott. International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship
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Dart J (2022) ‘And Now, No Word from Our Sponsors’: Yorkshire cricket, the Azeem Rafiq controversy and the silence of the University. Sport in Society, pp. 1-17.
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Dart J (2021) From Ferguson to Gaza. Sport, political sensibility, and the Israel/Palestine conflict in the age of Black Lives Matter. European Journal for Sport and Society
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Dart J; Long J (2020) British Jews, sport and antisemitism. European Journal for Sport and Society, pp. 1-19.
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Dart J (2020) Sport and British Jewish identity. International Review for the Sociology of Sport
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Dart JJ (2019) Sport and Peacebuilding in Israel/Palestine. Journal of Global Sport Management
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Dart J (2019) Commentary: The first 20 years of Soccer and Society. Soccer and Society, 20 (4), pp. 704-710.
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Dart J (2016) ‘Brand Israel’: hasbara and Israeli sport. Sport in Society, pp. 1-17.
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Dart J (2015) Sports tribes and academic identity: teaching the sociology of sport in a changing disciplinary landscape. Sport, Education and Society
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Dart J (2015) Israel and a sports boycott: Antisemitic? Anti-Zionist?. International Review for the Sociology of Sport
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Dart J (2014) New Media, Professional Sport and Political Economy. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 38 (6), pp. 528-547.
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Dart J (2014) Sports review: A content analysis of the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, the Journal of Sport and Social Issues and the Sociology of Sport Journal across 25 years. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 49 (6), pp. 645-668.
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Dart J (2013) Representations of sport in the revolutionary socialist press in Britain, 1988–2012. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 50 (8), pp. 993-1015.
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Dart JJ (2013) Sports sociology, journals and their editors. World Leisure Journal
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Dart JJ (2009) Blogging the 2006 FIFA World Cup Finals. Sociology of Sport Journal, 26 (1), pp. 107-126.
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Dart JJ (2009) Confessional tales from former football hooligans: a nostalgic, narcissistic wallow in football violence. Soccer & Society, 9 (1), pp. 42-55.
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Dart J (2022) ‘Snipers Stop Play’: The Israeli Defence Force and the Shooting of Palestinian Footballers. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Sport, Politics and Harm. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 515-534.
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Dart JJ (2016) Messing about on the river. Trenton Oldfield and the Possibilities of Sports Protest. In: Dart JJ; Wagg S ed. Sport, Protest and Globalisation: Stopping Play.. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 289-310.
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Dart JJ (2013) In Defense of Sport. In: Lavalette M ed. Capitalism and Sport. Politics Protest People and Play. London: Bookmarks, pp. 30-36.