Dr Malcolm Maclean

Research Interests

Dr Malcolm MacLean is an experienced academic researcher with engagements across a range of social science and humanities disciplines. His work focuses on historical and contemporary patterns and discourses of power that define sport, play and leisure, locating sport in a wider network of cultural meaning and cultural industries, with an emphasis on colonial relationships. Dr MacLean has a particular expertise in research design, application and impact, and in research ethics and integrity. Alongside this he remains actively involved in community activities on workers’ rights in the fashion and textile industries.

Research Ethics / Historical Analysis / Textual Criticism / Social Theory / Cultural Studies / Anthropological Theory / Gender Studies / Postcolonialism / Colonialism

Selected Publications

MacLean, M. (2019). ‘Settler colonialism and the decolonisation of sociology’. British Sociological Association Study Group on Postcolonial and Decolonial Transformations, London.

MacLean, M. (2019).Rethinking settler colonial rugby: problematizing sport through a decolonial lens. North American Society for the History of Sport.

MacLean, M.  (2019). Theorising sports boycotts: a provisional view from South Africa. Global Histories: Sport and Apartheid South Africa. Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania.

MacLean, M. (2019). Boycotting Apartheid Sport. Historical Association. Gloucestershire.

MacLean, M. (2019). Engaging (with) Indigeneity: Decolonization and Indigenous/Indigenizing Sport History.  Journal of Sport History 46. 2. 189-207.

MacLean, M. & Field,. (2014). Performing nations, disrupting states: sporting identities in nations without states. National Identities. 16. DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2014.930427. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2014.930427]

 MacLean, M. (2014). Truth and Reality in Screening Sports’ Pasts: Sports Films, Public History, and Truthfulness. Journal of Sport History. 41. 47-54.

 MacLean, M. (2014). (Re)Occupying a Cultural Commons: reclaiming the labour process in critical sports studies. Sport in Society. DOI:  10.1080/17430437.2014.849449. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2014.849449]

 MacLean, M. (2013). A Gap but Not an Absence: Clubs and Sports Historiography. International Journal of the History of Sport. 30. 1687-1698. DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2013.831346. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2013.831346]

 MacLean, M. _2014). Revisiting (and revising?) sports boycotts: from rugby against South Africa to soccer in Israel’ International Journal of the History of Sport. 31. 5. 1832-51. [ http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2014.934680]