Richard Gruneau

Education

publications

Books, Edited Books\Collections

2006 (ed. with David Whitson) Artificial Ice: Hockey, Culture and Commerce. Toronto: Garamond Press, 282 pp.
2000. R. Hackett and R. Gruneau, with D. Gutstein, T. Gibson and NewsWatch Canada. The Missing News: Filters and Blind Spots in Canada’s Press . Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives/Toronto: Garamond Press. 258 pp.
1999. Class, Sports and Social Development (2nd edition). Urbana, Ill: Human Kinetics Press.

Book Chapters

(in press) “Sport, Development and the Challenge of Slums.” In Russell Field (ed.) Sport as Contested Terrain: Essays in Honour of Brude Kidd. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2012 (with Robert Neubauer) “A Gold Medal for the Market: The 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, the Reagan Era and the Politics of Neoliberalism.” In Helen Lenskyj and Stephen Wagg (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies. Houndmills U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 134-162.
2008. “Amateurism as a Sociological Problem: Some Reflections Inspired by Eric Dunning.” In Dominic Malcolm and Ivan Waddington (eds.) Matters of Sport: Essays in Honour of Eric Dunning. Milton Park U.K.: Routledge, pp 57-80.

Recent Presentations

2011. “Consumption Based Development in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization.” Invited presentation, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, Concordia University, November.
2011 “Reported Deaths and Premature Burials: Rethinking the Concept of Ideology in Contemporary Social Analysis.” Invited presentation, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society in Culture and the Department of Sociology, Concordia University, November.

research

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