John Kelly
John Kelly is a founding member of the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Sport (ECSS) research group and is a former Director of Postgraduate Research at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research interests are varied and his articles have looked at "sectarianism", Scottish football and the media, sociology of rugby union, symbolic self-representations of ballet dancers, sport and militarism and schoolchildren's virtual idealised body image. His previous books are Sport and Social Theory: An...See more
John Kelly is a founding member of the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Sport (ECSS) research group and is a former Director of Postgraduate Research at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research interests are varied and his articles have looked at "sectarianism", Scottish football and the media, sociology of rugby union, symbolic self-representations of ballet dancers, sport and militarism and schoolchildren's virtual idealised body image. His previous books are Sport and Social Theory: An Introduction (co-written with Gyozo Molnar), Bigotry, Football and Scotland (co-edited with John Flint), and Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics (co-edited with Alan Bairner and Jung Woo Lee). See less
