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Dr Ian Mcdonald

Principal Lecturer

contact:
Sport and Service Management
Gaudick Road
Eastbourne
BN20 7SR

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643852

Email: I.Mcdonald@brighton.ac.uk

Research interests

  • Sport Documentaries
  • Documentary Theory and Practice
  • Sport and India
  • The Politics of Sport Policy

Biography

Ian took his undergraduate degree in Politics at the University of Liverpool, before completing his Masters in the Sociology of Sport at the University of Leicester in 1990.  He was awarded his doctorate (Critiquing Sport: Policies and Practices) by the University of Brighton in 2007.

Ian is currently programme leader for the postgraduate courses in the Centre for Sport Research.

He is co-editor (with Ben Carrington) of Race, Sport and British Society (2001, Routledge), and Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport (2009, Routledge).  He is co-editor (with Jennifer Hargreaves) of the Routledge Critical Studies in Sport Series. Ian is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Sport and Social Issues, and of Sport and Society.  He is currently writing a monograph on Sport Documentaries.

Ian is also a documentary filmmaker.  In 2007, he completed Brighton Bandits, about the city's gay football team and Inside the Kalari, about a martial art from South India called kalarippayattu.  In 2010, he completed Melancholic Constellations: The Art of William Kentridge, and Willem Boshoff: Reflections of a South African Artist.  In 2011, he made Justin, a documentary about a campaign to challenge homophobia in football.  Ian is currently working on his first feature documentary, about young blind chess players in India.  His documentaries have been screened at film festivals, academic conferences and public theatres around the world.

Selected recent publications

McDonald, I (2011) The Olympic documentary and the 'spirit of Olympism' In: Watching the Olympics. Routledge, London, pp. 108-121. ISBN 0415578337

McDonald, I. (2009) 'One Dimensional Sport: Revolutionary Marxism and the Critique of Sport' in  Carrington, B. & McDonald, I. (Eds) (2009) Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport. Routledge, pp 32-47.

McDonald, I. (2008) Critiquing the Olympic Documentary: Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad, Sport in Society, 11:2. Pp. 298-310.

McDonald, I (2007) Situating the Sport Documentary. Journal of Sport & Social Issues, 31 (3). pp. 208-225. ISSN 1552-7638

McDonald, I (2007) Bodily Practice, Performance Art, Competitive Sport: A critique of kalarippayattu, the martial art of Kerala. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 41 (2). pp. 143-168. ISSN 0069-9667

McDonald, I. (2007) One Dimensional Sport  www.idrottsforum.org
http://www.idrottsforum.org/articles/mcdonald/mcdonald071212.html
http://www.idrottsforum.org/articles/mcdonald/mcdonald071212.pdf
ISSN 1652-7224

McDonald, I. (2007) Political Somatics: Fascism, Physical Culture and the Sporting Body' in Hargreaves, J. and Vertinsky, P. (Eds) Physical Culture, Power and the Body, London : Routledge.  pp. 52-73.

McDonald, I. (2005) Theorising partnerships: governance, communicative action and sport policy. Journal of Social Policy, 34 (04). pp. 579-600. ISSN 1469-7823

Ian Mcdonald