Mark Falcous, Academic staff, School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Otago, New Zealand

Mark Falcous Image Associate Professor
BA (hons), PGCE (De Montfort) MA (Queen's), PhD (Loughborough)
Tel +64 3 479 8944
Email mark.falcous@otago.ac.nz

Background

Associate Professor Mark Falcous has been with the School of Physical education since 2002. His research, teaching and supervision are within the sociology of sport area.

Teaching

SPEX208 Sociology of Sport and Exercise
SPEX312 Advanced Sociology of Sport
SPEX401 Research Methods in Sport, Exercise and Health

Research

Sport and the Media
Globalisation and the Local-Global Nexus
Sport and Social Theory
Interpretive Methodology

Postgraduate Students

Current Students

Sebastian Potgieter, “(Re)Presenting 1981: Deconstructing the Springbok Tour”. Co-supervisor: D Booth, M Falcous.
Lourdes Turconi, “Diversity and inclusion in sport organizations. A critical perspective”. Co-supervisor: S Shaw, M Falcous.

Graduates

Luiz Uehera. Completion date: January 2015.”Examination of the sociocultural constraints influencing development of Brazilian football players”. Co-supervisor: C. Button, M Falcous.
Allen Hill. Completion date: Nov 2011 “re-envisioning sustainable outdoor education in Aotearoa New Zealand”. Co-supervisor: M Falcous, M. Boyes.
Geoffrey Kohe. Completion date: May 2011: "Making it Ordinary: An Unexceptional History of the Early Olympic Movement in New Zealand". Co-supervisor: M Falcous, D. Booth.

^ Top of page

Publications

Falcous, M., & Potgieter, S. (2022). The sporting mythscapes of Aotearoa New Zealand. In D. Sturm & R. Kerr (Eds.), Sport in Aotearoa New Zealand: Contested terrain. (pp. 107-118). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003034445

Falcous, M. (2022). Sports history and the challenge of Physical Cultural Studies. In M. G. Phillips, D. Booth & C. Adams (Eds.), Routledge handbook of sport history. (pp. 41-49). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429318306

Maguire, J., Liston, K., & Falcous, M. (2021). Introduction: Mapping the global sports sphere. In J. Maguire, K. Liston & M. Falcous (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of globalization and sport. (pp. 3-18). London, UK: Palgrave McMillan. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-56854-0_1

Falcous, M. (2021). Global mediasport: Contexts, texts, effects. In J. Maguire, K. Liston & M. Falcous (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of globalization and sport. (pp. 323-340). London, UK: Palgrave McMillan. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-56854-0_15

Uehara, L., Falcous, M., Button, C., Davids, K., Araújo, D., de Paula, A. R., & Saunders, J. (2021). The poor "wealth" of Brazilian football: How poverty may shape skill and expertise of players. Frontiers in Sports & Active Living, 3, 635241. doi: 10.3389/fspor.2021.635241

Maguire, J., Falcous, M., & Liston, K. (Eds.). (2019). The business and culture of sports: Society, politics, economy, environment. Macmillan Reference USA, 1400p.

Edited Book - Research

Maguire, J., & Falcous, M. (Eds.). (2011). Sport and migration: Borders, boundaries and crossings. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 318p.

Edited Book - Research

Chapter in Book - Research

Falcous, M. (2019). Sports and media globalization. In J. Maguire, M. Falcous & K. Liston (Eds.), The business and culture of sports: Society, politics, economy, environment (Vol. 3: Sociocultural perspectives). (pp. 257-266). Macmillan Reference USA.

Chapter in Book - Research

Falcous, M. (2019). Sports, the media, and national identity. In J. Maguire, M. Falcous & K. Liston (Eds.), The business and culture of sports: Society, politics, economy, environment (Vol. 3: Sociocultural perspectives). (pp. 281-294). Macmillan Reference USA.

Chapter in Book - Research

Falcous, M. (2017). Oceania: Football in the Pacific periphery. In J. Hughson, K. Moore, R. Spaaij & J. Maguire (Eds.), Routledge handbook of football studies. (pp. 445-456). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Chapter in Book - Research

Falcous, M. (2017). Rugby league and the negotiation of Englishness. In T. Gibbons & D. Malcolm (Eds.), Sport and English national identity in a 'Disunited Kingdom'. (pp. 79-92). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315651613

Chapter in Book - Research

Booth, D., & Falcous, M. (2015). History, sociology and critical sport studies. In R. Giulianotti (Ed.), Routledge handbook of the sociology of sport. (pp. 153-163). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

Chapter in Book - Research

Falcous, M., & Maguire, J. (2013). Interrogating sporting pasts and presents: Whose Scholarship will count, and what will it count for? In R. Pringle & M. Phillips (Eds.), Examining sport histories: Power, paradigms and reflexivity. (pp. 251-271). Morgantown, WV: Fitness Information Technology.

Chapter in Book - Research

Newman, J. I., & Falcous, M. (2013). Political theories of social class, sport, and the body. In D. L. Andrews & B. Carrington (Eds.), A companion to sport. (pp. 78-95). Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/9781118325261.ch4

Chapter in Book - Research

Falcous, M., & Maguire, J. (2011). Future directions: Sporting mobilities, immobilities and moorings. In J. Maguire & M. Falcous (Eds.), Sport and migration: Borders, boundaries and crossings. (pp. 274-277). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Chapter in Book - Research

Falcous, M., & Maguire, J. (2011). Globetrotters in local contexts: Basketball migrants, fans and local identities. In J. Maguire & M. Falcous (Eds.), Sport and migration: Borders, boundaries and crossings. (pp. 175-188). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Chapter in Book - Research

Maguire, J., & Falcous, M. (2011). Introduction: Borders, boundaries and crossings: Sport, migration and identities. In J. Maguire & M. Falcous (Eds.), Sport and migration: Borders, boundaries and crossings. (pp. 1-12). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Chapter in Book - Research

Falcous, M. (2009). Sport, tourism and cultural encounter: The 2005 Lions tour and the 'Barmy Army' in Aotearoa New Zealand [Case study]. In J. Higham & T. Hinch (Eds.), Sport and tourism: Globalization, mobility and identity. (pp. 223-226). Oxford, UK: Elsevier.

Chapter in Book - Research

Silk, M. L., & Falcous, M. (2009). Sporting spectacle and the post-9/11 patriarchal body politic. In M. J. Morgan (Ed.), The impact of 9/11 on the media, arts, and entertainment: The day that changed everything? (pp. 221-233). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Chapter in Book - Research

Silk, M., Bracey, B., & Falcous, M. (2007). Performing America's past: Cold War fantasies in a perpetual state of war. In S. Wagg & D. L. Andrews (Eds.), East plays West: Sport and the Cold War. (pp. 289-313). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Chapter in Book - Research

Falcous, M. (2005). Global struggles, local impacts: Rugby league, Rupert Murdoch's 'Global Vision' and cultural identities. In J. Nauright & K. S. Schimmel (Eds.), The Political Economy of Sport. (pp. 57-84). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

Chapter in Book - Research

Falcous, M. (2005). Media-sports complex. In D. Levinson & K. Christensen (Eds.), Berkshire encyclopedia of world sport. (pp. 990-996). UK: Berkshire Publishing Group. [Encyclopaedia/Dictionary Entry].

Chapter in Book - Research

Falcous, M., & Maguire, J. (2005). Making it local? National Basketball Association expansion and English basketball subcultures. In M. L. Silk, D. L. Andrews & C. L. Cole (Eds.), Sport and corporate nationalisms. (pp. 13-34). Oxford: Berg.

Chapter in Book - Research

Maguire, J., & Falcous, M. (2005). 'Making touchdowns and hoop dreams': The NFL and the NBA in England. In J. Maguire (Ed.), Power and global sport. (pp. 23-40). Oxon: Routledge.

Chapter in Book - Research

Bruce, T., Falcous, M., & Thorpe, H. (2007). The mass media and sport. In C. Collins & S. Jackson (Eds.), Sport in Aotearoa/New Zealand society. (2nd ed.) (pp. 147-169). Melbourne, Australia: Thomson.

Chapter in Book - Other

Falcous, M. (2002). Rugby league and the media: Power without responsibility. In R. Gent & T. Wilkinson (Eds.), Fanpower: For the love of league. (pp. 122-126). London: London League Publications.

Chapter in Book - Other

Journal - Research Article

Falcous, M., & Masucci, M. (2020). Myth and the narrativization of cycle racing in popular literature. Sport in Society, 23(7), 1146-1162. doi: 10.1080/17430437.2019.1631802

Journal - Research Article

Uehara, L., Button, C., Saunders, J., Araújo, D., Falcous, M., & Davids, K. (2020). Malandragem and Ginga: Socio-cultural constraints on the development of expertise and skills in Brazilian football. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/1747954120976271

Journal - Research Article

Falcous, M., Hawzen, M. G., & Newman, J. I. (2019). Hyperpartisan sports media in Trump’s America:The metapolitics of Breitbart Sports. Communication & Sport, 7(5), 588-610. doi: 10.1177/2167479518801557

Journal - Research Article

Joseph, J., & Falcous, M. (2019). Negotiating the ‘Kiwi Bloke’: Accessing mosaic masculinities through Afro-Brazilian sport in New Zealand/Aotearoa. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise & Health, 11(2), 258-273. doi: 10.1080/2159676X.2017.1380694

Journal - Research Article

Pringle, R., & Falcous, M. (2018). Transformative research and epistemological hierarchies: Ruminating on how the sociology of the sport field could make more of a difference. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 53(3), 261-277. doi: 10.1177/1012690216654297

Journal - Research Article

Falcous, M. (2017). Why we ride: Road cyclists, meaning, and lifestyles. Journal of Sport & Social Issues, 41(3), 239-255. doi: 10.1177/0193723517696968

Journal - Research Article

Falcous, M., & Booth, D. (2017). Contested epistemology: Theory and method of international sport studies. Sport in Society, 20(12), 1821-1837. doi: 10.1080/17430437.2017.1232350

Journal - Research Article

Kumate, J. M., & Falcous, M. (2017). Grappling with judo: Reflections on the complexities of embodied ethnography. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise & Health, 9(2), 200-213. doi: 10.1080/2159676X.2016.1266024

Journal - Research Article

Falcous, M., & Newman, J. I. (2016). Sporting mythscapes, neoliberal histories, and post-colonial amnesia in Aotearoa/New Zealand. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 51(1), 61-77. doi: 10.1177/1012690213508942

Journal - Research Article

Uehara, L., Button, C., Falcous, M., & Davids, K. (2016). Contextualised skill acquisition research: A new framework to study the development of sport expertise. Physical Education & Sport Pedagogy, 21(2), 153-168. doi: 10.1080/17408989.2014.924495

Journal - Research Article

Falcous, M. (2015). White is the new black? Football, media and the New Zealand imagination. Soccer & Society, 16(4), 555-572. doi: 10.1080/14660970.2014.891987

Journal - Research Article

Kumate, J. M., & Falcous, M. (2015). The lived experiences of taibatsu in Japanese high school wrestling. Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport & Physical Education, 6(1), 41-56. doi: 10.1080/18377122.2014.997860

Journal - Research Article

Falcous, M. (2013). The paradoxes of provincialism, nationalism and imperialism: Otago rugby union(s), league and amateurism. Sporting Traditions, 30(2), 15-31.

Journal - Research Article

Falcous, M., & McLeod, C. (2012). Anyone for tennis? Sport, class and status in New Zealand. New Zealand Sociology, 27(1), 13-30.

Journal - Research Article

Grainger, A. D., Falcous, M., & Newman, J. I. (2012). Postcolonial anxieties and the browning of New Zealand rugby. Contemporary Pacific, 24(2), 267-295.

Journal - Research Article

Newman, J. I., & Falcous, M. (2012). Moorings and movements: The paradox of sporting mobilities. Sites, 9(1), 38-58. doi: 10.11157/sites-vol9iss1id161

Journal - Research Article

Falcous, M., & Anderson, W. (2011). Fighting whose corner? Boxing, the sports press and the Australian imagination. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 25(5), 743-753.

Journal - Research Article

Falcous, M., & Silk, M. L. (2010). Olympic bidding, multicultural nationalism, terror, and the epistemological violence of 'making Britain proud'. Studies in Ethnicity & Nationalism, 10(2), 167-186. doi: 10.1111/j.1754-9469.2010.01073.x

Journal - Research Article

Falcous, M., & West, A. (2009). Press narratives of nation during the 2005 Lions tour of Aotearoa-New Zealand. Sport in Society, 12(2), 156-173. doi: 10.1080/17430430802590961

Journal - Research Article

Scherer, J., Falcous, M., & Jackson, S. J. (2008). The media sports cultural complex: Local-Global disjuncture in New Zealand/Aotearoa. Journal of Sport & Social Issues, 32(1), 48-71. doi: 10.1177/0193723507307813

Journal - Research Article

Falcous, M. (2007). Rugby league in the national imaginary of New Zealand Aotearoa. Sport in History, 27(3), 423-446.

Journal - Research Article

Falcous, M. (2007). The decolonizing national imaginary: Promotional media constructions during the 2005 Lions tour of Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of Sport & Social Issues, 31(4), 374-393.

Journal - Research Article

Falcous, M., & Maguire, J. (2006). Imagining ′America′: The NBA and local-global mediascapes. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 41(1), 59-78.

Journal - Research Article

Falcous, M., & Silk, M. (2006). Global regimes, local agendas: Sport, resistance and the mediation of dissent. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 41(3), 317-338.

Journal - Research Article

More publications...