Dr Thomas F Carter
Senior Lecturer
contact:
Sport and Service Management
Gaudick Road
Eastbourne
BN20 7SR
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 641852
Email: T.F.Carter@brighton.ac.uk
Research interests
- Experiences of Transnationalism and labor migration
- Sport and urban gentrification
- Dynamics of spectacle, power and identity
- Interlocutions of the body, space, and place
Biography
Dr. Thomas Carter earned his PhD in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico in 2000. He was a post doctoral Research Fellow at the School of Anthropological Studies at the Queen's University of Belfast.
He has taught at the University of Wales, St. Cloud State University (Minnesota), and University of New Mexico, Los Alamos.
He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the US, Ecuador, and Wales with extensive research being conducted in Northern Ireland and Cuba.
He is the author of two books: The Quality of Home Runs (published by Duke University Press) and In Foreign Fields: The Politics and Experiences of Transnational Sport Migration (published by Pluto Press).
He continues to conduct research on Cuban sport as well as sport-related labor migration. He is working on a newer project on the cultural politics surrounding spatial conceptualizations of the coast. He welcomes students with projects related to Latin America, transnationalism, sport, and the coast as cultural space.
Selected external research-related roles
- US National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program, Proposal Reviewer
- The Sports Council for Wales, Sportlot Cardiff County Council Community Chest, Vice-Chair, 2005 – 2011
- Contributing editor, “Ethnocuba” website for disseminating ethnographic work on Cuba a networking for anthropologists who work in Cuba, www.ethnocuba.ucr.edu.
Selected conference presentations
- On Theoretical Myopia, or how overcorrecting one focal distortion leads to another. Nación o más allá de la nación. Cuba Research Forum, Universidad de la Habana, Havana, Cuba, 2011
- Absence makes the State grow Stronger: On Revolutionary space, spectacle, and state legitimacy. Cuba Futures Past and Present, Bildner Center for Western Hemispheric Studies, City University of New York, New York, NY, 2011
- On Citizenship and Mobility in Transnational Sport Migration. North American Society for the Sociology of Sport annual meeting, San Diego, CA, 2010
- Patterns of Transnational Sport Migration: A Cuban Case Study. World Sociological Congress and International Sociology of Sport Association World Congress, Goteborg, Sweden, 2010
- Reflections on Cuban Transnational Labor Migration and the Negotiations with and of the Revolutionary State. American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 2009
- Wading through Theoretical Mangroves: Exercising ethnography on and of the Coast. Theorizing the Coast, international symposium, University of Brighton, Hastings, UK 2009
Research Publications
CARTER, THOMAS and SUGDEN, JOHN (2012) The USA and sporting diplomacy: comparing and contrasting the cases of table tennis with China and baseball with Cuba in the 1970s International Relations, 26 (1). ISSN 0047-1178
Carter, Thomas F (2011) Absence Makes the State Grow Stronger: Preliminary Thoughts on Revolutionary Space, Spectacle, and State Legitimacy In: Riob, Carlos, ed. Cuban Intersections of Literary and Urban Spaces. State University of New York Press, Albany, pp. 49-64. ISBN 978-1-4384-4257-0
Carter, Thomas F (2011) The Olympics as sovereign subject maker In: Sugden, John and Tomlinson, Alan, eds. Watching the Olympics. Routledge, London, pp. 55-68. ISBN 0415578337
Carter, Thomas F (2011) In Foreign Fields: The Politics and Experiences of Transnational Sport Migration (Anthropology, Culture and Society) Pluto Press, London. ISBN 0745330142
Carter, Thomas F. (2011) Interrogating athletic urbanism: on examining the politics of the city underpinning the production of the spectacle International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 46 (2). pp. 131-139. ISSN 1461-7218
Carter, Thomas F (2011) Considering the Field in and of Play: Using Sport to Reconceptualize an Anthropological Given In: Collins, Peter and Coleman, Simon, eds. Dislocating Anthropology?: Bases of Longing and Belonging in the Analysis of Contemporary Societies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing , Newcastle upon Tyne , pp. 63-80. ISBN 1443828955
CARTER, THOMAS (2011) What happens while the official looks the other way? Citizenship, transnational sports migrants and the circumvention of the state Sport in Society, 14 (2). pp. 223-240. ISSN 1743-0437
CARTER, THOMAS (2009) ¿Hasta La Victoria Siempre? The Evolution and Future of Revolutionary Sport’ Journal Of Iberian & Latin American Studies, 15 (2). pp. 25-43. ISSN 1470-1847
Carter, Thomas F. (2008) The quality of home runs: the passion, politics, and language of Cuban baseball Duke University Press, Durham, USA. ISBN 0822342766
Carter, Thomas F. (2008) Of spectacular phantasmal desire: tourism and the Cuban state's complicity in the commodification of its citizens Leisure Studies, 27 (3). pp. 241-257. ISSN 1466-4496
CARTER, THOMAS (2008) New Rules to the old game: Cuban sport and state legitimacy in the post-Soviet era Identities-Global Studies In Culture And Power, 15 (2). pp. 194-215. ISSN 1070-289X
Carter, Thomas F (2007) Family Networks, State Interventions and the Experiences of Cuban Transnational Sport Migration International Review of the Sociology of Sport, 42 (4). pp. 371-389. ISSN 1461-7218
Carter, Thomas F (2007) A Relaxed State of Affairs: On Leisure, Tourism, and Cuban Identity In: Coleman, S. and Kohn, T., eds. The Discipline of Leisure: Embodying Cultures of "Recreation". Berghahn Books, Oxford, pp. 127-145. ISBN 978-1-84545-372-5
Carter, Thomas F (2007) Pitén en la Plaza: Some preliminary considerations on spatializing culture in Cuba In: Tomlinson, A and Woodham, J, eds. Image, Power, and Space: Studies in Consumption and Identity. Image, Power, and Space: Studies in Consumption and Identity, Aachen, pp. 97-112. ISBN 978-1-84126-244-4
Carter, Thomas F (2006) Cuba: Community, Fans, and Ballplayers In: Gmelch, George, ed. Baseball without borders: the international pastime. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, USA, pp. 147-159. ISBN 0803271255
Carter, Thomas F (2006) The Sport of Cities: Spectacle and the Economy of Appearances City & Society, 18 (2). pp. 255-281. ISSN 1548-744X
Carter, Thomas F (2005) The Manifesto of a Baseball-playing Country: Cuba, Baseball, and Poetry in the Late Nineteenth Century. International Journal of the History of Sport, 22 (2). pp. 246-265. ISSN 1743-9035
Carter, Thomas F (2004) The Migration of Sporting Labour into Ireland In: Sport and the Irish: Histories, Identities, Issues. University College Dublin Press, Dublin, pp. 191-205. ISBN 190455833X
Carter, Thomas F (2003) In the spirit of the game? Cricket and changing notions of being British in Northern Ireland. Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, 3 (1). pp. 14-26. ISSN 1556-5823
Carter, Thomas F (2003) Violent Pastime(s): On the Commendation and Condemnation of Violence in Belfast City and Society, 15 (2). pp. 255-281. ISSN 1548744X
Carter, Thomas F (2002) On the Need for an Anthropological Approach to Sport. Identities: Global Studies on Culture and Power, 9 (3). pp. 405-422. ISSN 1547-3384
Carter, Thomas F (2001) Baseball arguments: aficionismo and masculinity at the core of Cubanidad The International Journal of the History of Sport, 18 (3). pp. 117-138. ISSN 0952-3367
