CALL FOR PAPERS: Sport and Working-Class Amateurism A symposium to be held at Leeds Metropolitan University, 4th July 2014 Amateurism is an important theme in the history of modern British sport. That it is so often preceded by the word ‘gentlemanly’ is indicative of the way in which most historians have studied it to date: (1) as an ideology associated primarily with aristocratic and/or middle-class sport; (2) as a set of principles which, when embodied in the form of regulations, were designed to underpin the separation of the classes in sport. As a result, our knowledge of amateurism and the way in which it impinged upon the sporting lives of working-class men and women over time is limited. The principal aim of this event is to begin to redress this imbalance within existing research. Abstracts of c.250 words are therefore invited, but not limited to, the following areas of interest: Exclusionist practices and their impact on working-class athletes ‘Shamateurism’ and other subversive strategies Working-class amateur idealism Amateurism in women’s sport Amateurism and recreational sport Amateurism and voluntarism in sport – the legion of unpaid officials The working-class and the Olympic movement To begin proceedings, the writer and researcher Bill Jones will talk about his book The Ghost Runner, his impressive biography of the English long –distance runner John Tarrant. Please submit abstracts / enquiries to Professor Stephen Wagg (Leeds Metropolitan University) at [email protected] by Friday 31 January 2014.
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