Psychosocial Studies

Making men: the unlikely and ambiguous tale of Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857)

by Andy Harvey

Paper presented at Masculiniities/Femininities conference, Prague, 2012

Thomas Hughes’ idealised vision of life at Rugby public school is one of the best-known novels in the English... more Thomas Hughes’ idealised vision of life at Rugby public school is one of the best-known novels in the English language. It was regarded from the outset as a founding text of ‘muscular Christianity’. Contrary to the intentions of its author, it helped to inaugurate the cult of ‘manly’ athleticism that swept through the English public schools in the second half of the nineteenth-century. I argue that the novel reveals tensions around gender and sexuality that were in play among public schoolboys during the second half of the nineteenth-century. These tensions exploded into full public view in the trial of Oscar Wilde in 1895 and were instrumental in helping to establish a structure of homophobia within homosocial settings that has lasted through to the present day.

Team work? Using sporting fiction as a traditional historical archive and source of post-structuralist theory.

by Andy Harvey

Presented at Society of Social History Conference, Brighton University, April 2012

The ‘racialized’ other: Intolerance and Political Equality in Brazil and the United Kingdom

by Prof. Joao Angelo Fantini

Departmental Research Seminar scheduled for Monday 14th May, from 2:00 to 3:30pm in room B13, 43 Gordon Square.

‘Passions, Dependencies, Selves: A Theoretical Psychoanalytic Account of Relational Responsibility’. In: Lind,C., Bridgeman, J., Keating, H., Eds. Taking Responsibility: Law And The Changing Family. (2011)

by Polona Curk

War and the politics of sexual violence

by Silvia Posocco

A EPIDEMIA DA DOENÇA MENTAL: Por que cresce assombrosamente o número de pessoas com transtornos mentais e de pacientes tratados com antidepressivos e outros medicamentos psicoativos. por Marcia Angell

by Prof. Joao Angelo Fantini

More of the ‘Christian’ and less of the ‘muscular’: a re-evaluation of sport in Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857):

by Andy Harvey

Paper given at British Society of Sports History Conference in September 2011

This paper re-evaluates the role of sport in Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857). Many scholars (e.g. J. A. Mangan and James... more This paper re-evaluates the role of sport in Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857). Many scholars (e.g. J. A. Mangan and James Walvin) have commented extensively on the novel as a founding text of ‘muscular Christianity’ that was promoted in the public schools in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Although it is widely acknowledged that Thomas Arnold, the headmaster of Rugby, had scant interest in games, there is little doubt that Tom Brown’s Schooldays was influential in regards to the cult of athleticism that swept across the public schools later in the century. Sports scholars such as Garry Whannel have contended that the novel promotes athleticism and valorises team sports. In this paper I suggest that such readings are in contradiction to the intention of Thomas Hughes, who was later to complain in The Manliness of Christ (1879) that, 'athleticism is a good thing if kept in its place, but it has come to be very much over-praised and over-valued amongst us' (pp. 21 – 22). I argue that an early misreading of this well-known text as a tribute to athleticism in general and team sports in particular has served to over-emphasise the place of sport in the novel and that a re-evaluation is overdue.

Intimate Citizenship: Statistical and Contextual Background

by Mariya Stoilova

FEMCIT Working Paper, Co-Authors: Sasha Roseneil, Isabel Crowhurst, Ana Cristina Santos

Changing Cultural Discourses about Intimate Life in Bulgaria: The Demands and Actions of Women’s Movements and Other Movements for Gender and Sexual Equality and Change

by Mariya Stoilova

FEMCIT Working paper; co-authors: Sasha Roseneil, Isabel Crowhurst, Tone Hellesund, Ana Cristina Santos

Policy contexts and responses to changes in intimate life in Bulgaria

by Mariya Stoilova

FEMCIT working paper; co-authors Sasha Roseneil, Isabel Crowhurst, Tone Hellesund, Ana Cristina Santos

2 Eco-Leadership

by Simon Western

A Privileged Conversation

by Simon Western

Pairing for Leadership: Leadership Exchanges and the Hope for Learning

by Simon Western

Where's Daddy? Integrating the Paternal Metaphor within the Maternal, Tavistock tradition of Organizational thinking

by Simon Western

Eco-Leadership: Towards a new paradigm

by Simon Western

This powerpoint outlines some of the key themes from 'Leadership a critical text' Sage (2012)

Expedientes: Fissured Legality and Affective States in the Transnational Adoption Archives in Guatemala

by Silvia Posocco

Ethnography and Incommensurability in the Aftermath of Insurgency

by Silvia Posocco

Regulating Homophobic Hate Speech

by Andy Harvey

This is a short version of my paper and was delivered to the Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference in Brighton on 13th April 2011

Globalisation, Governmentality and Failure through the prism of Petén, Guatemala

by Silvia Posocco

Empire of love: toward a theory of intimacy, genealogy and carnality by Elizabeth Povinelli [Book Review]

by Silvia Posocco