David’s research interests concern the development of interpretive sociological under-standings of the body-self-society relationship in the fields of sport and physical culture. Currently his principle research foci is on Eastern movement forms as body-self transforming practice and the changing relationships between physical cultures and sustainability respectively. Previous research has included enquiry into a range of sporting and physical cultures including, male bodybuilding identity and body projects, the corporeal (and gendered) socialization in surfing culture and Higher Education sports cultures and physical education teacher education.
Refereed Journal Article
Brown, David H. K., & Rhys G. Lloyd. (2024) Using critical social theory as professional learning to develop scholar—practitioners in Physical Education: The example of Bourdieu’s theory of practice. Education Sciences 14, no. 2: 160. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14020160
Harris, M., Jones, C. & Brown, D.H.K. (2023) A case study of alcohol use among male university rugby players,
Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2023.2185281
Xiujie, M., Jennings, G., & Brown, D. (2022). Diffusion, transformation and hybridization: Taijiquan body culture in the United Kingdom. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 19(4), 402–420. https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2022.2128196
Glynn, E., & Brown, D.H.K. (2022) Discrimination on football Twitter: the role of humour in the Othering of minorities,
Sport in Society, DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2022.2144726
Harris, M., Jones, C. & Brown, D.H.K. (2022) Alcohol use by Athletes: Hierarchy, status, and Reciprocity (2022)
Journal of Sport and Social Issues, DOI: 0 10.1177/01937235221144432
Brown, D.H.K., Jennings, G., Contreras Islas, D. S., Yun, Y., Dodd, S. (2022) Sacred Imagery and the Sacralisation of Violence in the Martial Arts. IM@GO: A Journal of Social Imagery. (19): 35-66. Available at: https://cab.unime.it/journals/index.php/IMAGO/article/view/3576
Palmer, F., Howells, K., & Brown, D.H.K. (2022). 'Here we go again': A Singular Life History Study Exploring Adversity. Auto/Biography Review, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.56740/abrev.v3i1.1
Pedrini, L., Brown, D.H.K., & Navarini, G. (2021). The antifascist boxing body: Political somatics in boxe popolare. Ethnography. https://doi.org/10.1177/14661381211036134
Brown, D.H.K. (2020) Embodying Charismatic Affect(if): The example of Bruce Lee. Corpus Mundi, 1(3); 14-52. https://
corpusmundi.com/index.php/cmj/issue/view/3/7. (Please update info here)
Hopkins, E., Bolton, N., Brown, D.H.K, Matthews, N., & Anderson, M. (2020). Beyond TTM and ABC: A Practice Per- spective on Physical Activity Promotion for Adolescent Females from Disadvantaged Backgrounds. Societies, 10(4), 80. DOI: 10.3390/soc10040080
Aldous, D., & Brown, D.H.K. (2020) A critical analysis of CIMSPA's transformative aspirations for UK Higher Education Sport and Physical Activity Vocational Education and Training provision. Sport, Education & Society. DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2020.1786363
Brown, D., Jennings, G. & Pedrini, L. (2019). Introduction: Cultures of Combat - Body, Culture, Identity. Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa, 3(10), 297-316 DOI: 10.3240/95526. Available at: https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.3240/95526
Pedrini, L., Brown, D.H.K., & Aimini, G. (2019) Leading the left: sociability and the micropolitics of cultural reproduction in grassroots boxe popolare coaching, Sport, Education and Society, DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2019.1672147
Brown, D.H.K. (2019) Physical Culture [Editorial]. Societies 2019, 9(1), 23; doi: 10.3390/soc9010023. Available at: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/9/1/23
Rapport, F., Hutchings, H., Doel, M.A,; Wells, B., Clement, C.. Mellalieu, S., Shubin, S., Brown, D., Seah, R., Wright, S., & Sparkes, A. (2018) How Are University Gyms Used by Staff and Students? A Mixed-Method Study Exploring Gym Use, Motivation, and Communication in Three UK Gyms.
Societies 8(1) 15. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc8010015.
Chelsea Cinquegrani & David H. K. Brown (2018): 'Wellness' lifts us above the Food Chaos': a narrative exploration of the experiences and conceptualisations of Orthorexia Nervosa through online social media forums, Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2018.1464501.
Beaumont, E., & Brown, D.H.K. (2018) 'It's the sea and the beach more than anything for me': Local surfer's and the construction of community and communitas in a rural Cornish seaside village. Journal of Rural Studies, 59: 58–66.
Beltrán-Carrillo, V. J. ,Ferriz, R., Brown, D.H.K.,& González-Cutre, D. (2017) Qualitative evaluation of a school intervention for the promotion of physical activity: Learning from the perspective of the target population. .European Journal of Human Movement, 38, 1-21.
Symonds, P., Brown, D.H.K. and Lo Iacono V. (2017) Exploring an absent presence: Wayfinding as an embodied sociocultural experience. Sociological Research Online. , 22 (1), 5. Available at: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/22/1/5.html
Dodd, S.A. Brown, H.K. (2016) Kata – The true essence of Budo martial arts? Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas, 11(1):32-47. [abstract]
Lo lacono, V., & Brown D.H.K. (2016) Heritage as a duality of tangible and intangible: Towards a model of living cultural heritage. Dance Research Journal, 34(1) 84-105.
Lo Iacono, V., Symonds, P., & Brown, D. H. K. (2016) Skype as a Tool for Qualitative Research Interviews.
Sociological Research Online,
21(2), 12. Available at: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/21/2/12.html
Beaumont, E. & Brown, D.H.K. (2014): 'Once a Local Surfer, Always a Local Surfer': Local Surfing Careers in a Southwest English Village, Leisure Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Abstract.
Beaumont, E., & Brown, D.H.K. (2014) ‘It’s not something I’m proud of but it’s ... just how I feel’: Local surfer perspectives of localism, Leisure Studies. [abstract]
Edwards, L. L., Brown, D. H. K., & Smith, L. (2014) "We are getting there slowly": lesbian teacher experiences in the post-Section 28 environment.
Sport, Education and Society, 1–20.
Abstract
Gutiérrez-García, C., Gutiérrez-García,M. Brown, D.H.K.,Álvarez del Palacio, E. (2014) Bibliographies on Asian martial arts: a review. Ido Movement for Culture: Journal of Martial Arts Anthropology.
Pérez-Gutiérrez, M., Brown, D. H. K., Álvarez-del-Palacio, E., & Gutiérrez-García, C. (2014) The (re)emergence of a religio-spiritual self-cultivation focus in Asian martial arts monographs published in Spain (1906–2009).
The International Journal of the History of Sport, 1–18.
Abstract
Brown, D., Jennings, G., & Sparkes, A. (2014). Taijiquan the "Taiji World" Way: Towards a Cosmopolitan Vision of Ecology.
Societies, 4(3), 380–398.
Abstract
Aldous, D., Sparkes, A.C. & Brown, D.H.K. (2014). Trajectories towards Failure: Considerations regarding post-16 transitions within the UK sport-education sector. Sport, Education and Society 1–17.
Abstract
Brown, David H.K. (2013): Seeking spirituality through physicality in schools: learning from 'Eastern movement forms',
International Journal of Children's Spirituality. 18(1) 30-45.
Abstract
Aldous, D.C.R., Sparkes, A.C., & Brown, D.H.K. (2012) Transitional experiences of post-16 sports education: Jack's story,
British Journal of Sociology of Education. Abstract
Vicente J. Beltrán-Carrillo, José Devís-Devís, Carmen Peiró-Velert, and David H.K. Brown (2012) When Physical Activity Participation Promotes Inactivity: Negative Experiences of Spanish Adolescents in Physical Education and Sport.
Youth & Society, 44(1) 3-27.
Abstract
Brown D.H.K. & Jennings, G. (2011) La lignee corporelle: conceptualisation de la transmission des arts martiaux traditionnels en Occident.
STAPS 93, 61 - 71
Brown, D. H. K. (2011) La concezione weberiana del carisma: il caso delle arti marziali.
Religioni e Società, 7, pp.42-60
Sparkes, A.C., Partington, E., & Brown, D.H.K. (2010). The "Jock body" in social space: Capital, culture, and gender.
Space and culture, 13 (3), 333 - 347 [Abstract]
Jennings, G., & Brown, D.H.K., & Sparkes, A.C. (2010). It can be a religion for you if you want it to be": An ethnography of a Wing Chun Kung Fu's club as a body-self transforming cultural practice.
Ethnography, 11 (4), 533 - 557 [Abstract]
Aldous, D., & Brown, D.H.K. (2010) Framing bodies of knowledge within the "acoustics" of the School: Exploring pedagogical transition through Newly Qualified Physical Education Teacher experiences. Submitted
Sport, Education & Society, 15 (4), 411 - 429
Abstract
Brown, D.H.K., & Leledaki, A. (2010) Eastern movement forms as body-self transforming cultural practices in the West: Towards A sociological perspective.
Cultural Sociology 4(1 (1), 123-154.
Abstract
Brown D.H.K, Molle, A, Jennings, G (2009) Belief in the martial arts: Exploring relationships between Asian martial arts and religion.
Stadion, 35, pp.47 - 66.
Smith, B., Allen-Collinson, J., Phoenix, C., Brown, D.H.K., & Sparkes , A. C. (2009). Dialogue, Monologue, and Boundary Crossing Within Research Encounters: A Performative Narrative Analysis International.
Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 7(3), 342-358.
Leledaki, A. & Brown, D.H.K. (2008). 'Physicalisation': A pedagogy of body-mind cultivation for liberation in modern Yoga and Meditation methods.
Asian Medicine Tradition and Modernity, 4(2) 303-337.
Abstract
Brown, D.H.K., Jennings, G., & Leledaki, A. (2008). The changing charismatic status of the performing male body in Asian martial arts films.
Sport in Society, 11(2), 174 - 194.
Abstract
Sicilia-Camacho, A., & Brown, D.H.K. (2008). Revisiting the paradigm shift from the "versus" to the "non-versus" notion of Mosston's Spectrum of teaching styles in physical education pedagogy: a critical pedagogical perspective. Physical Education & Sport Pedagogy, 13(1), 85 - 108.
Abstract
Sparkes, A.C., Partington, S., & Brown, D.H.K. (2007). Bodies as bearers of value and the transmission of jock culture: Some ethnographic insights.
Sport, Education & Society 12(3) 295-316.
Abstract
Brown, D.H.K. (2006). Pierre Bourdieu's "masculine domination" thesis and the gendered body in sport and physical culture.
Sociology of Sport Journal 23(2), 162-188. Abstract
Sparkes, A.C., Batey, J., & Brown, D.H.K. (2005). The muscled self and Its aftermath: A life history study of an elite, black, male bodybuilder.
Auto/Biography, 13, 131-160.
Brown, D.H.K. (2005). An economy of gendered practices? Learning to teach physical education from the perspective of Pierre Bourdieu's embodied sociology.
Sport, Education and Society, 10(1), 3-23.
Abstract
Villamón, M., Brown, D.H.K., Espartero, J., & Gutiérrez, C. (2004). Modernization and the disembedding of Judo from 1946 to the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 39(2), 139-156.
Abstract
Brown, D.H.K., & Evans, J. (2004). Reproducing gender? Intergenerational links and the male PE teacher as a cultural conduit in teaching physical education.
Journal of Teaching Physical Education, 23, 48-70. Abstract
Brown, D.H.K. (2003). El projecto corporal culturista. Construyendo nuevas identidades a través de la supermascularidad.
Ágora: Para la Educación Física y el Deporte, 2-3, 61 - 74.
Brown, D.H.K. (2002). Going digital and staying qualitative: Some alternative strategies for digitizing the qualitative research process,
FQS - Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung (Vol. 3).
Online article
Brown, D.H.K., & Johnson, A. (2000). The social practice of self defence martial arts: Applications for physical education.
Quest, 52(3), 246-259. Abstract
Brown, D.H.K. (1999). Complicity and reproduction in teaching physical education. Sport, Education and Society, 4(2), 143-160.
Abstract
Brown, D.H.K. (1999). Bodybuilders and the social meaning of muscle.
Auto/Biography, 7(1&2), 83-90.
Short Articles
Gardiner, B., Brown, D., & Edwards, L. (2023) Why we need to re-envision the relationship between feminism and environmentalism in sport for a more sustainable sporting future. Sport and Development.org: The International Platform on Sport and Development. Available at: https://www.sportanddev.org/latest/news/why-we-need-re-envision-relationship-between-feminism-and-environmentalism-sport-more
Brown, D. & Jennings, G. (2018). The real-life dangers of learning self-defence from viral videos - martial arts experts. The Conversation. Available at: https://theconversation.com/the-real-life-dangers-of-learning-self-defence-from-viral-videos-martial-arts-experts-99232
Books
Ford N, & Brown, D.H.K. (2006).
Surfing and Social Theory: Experience, Embodiment and Narrative of the Dream Glide. London: Routledge
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Chapters in Books
Jones, C., Brown, D.H.K., Harris, M. (2020) Researching drinking cultures in sport: Making difficult ethical decisions. In S. Gee (Ed) Sport, Alcohol and Social Inquiry: A Global Cocktail (pp. 147-162). London: Emerald Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1476-285420200000014009
Jennings, G., Dodd, S. & Brown, D.H.K. (2020). Cultivation through Asian form-based martial arts pedagogy. In D. Lewin and K. Kenklies (Eds.). East Asian Pedagogies: Education as Transformation Across Cultures and Borders (pp. 63-77). New York: Springer.
Aldous, D., & Brown, D., (2018) Recoding academic expectations: The use of storytelling as pedagogy in supporting transition of level 5 students. In Sue Tangey, Ruth Matheson & Mark Sutcliffe (Eds.) Transition in, through and out of Higher Education: International case studies and best practice (pp.71-75). Oxon: Routledge
Brown, D., Morgan, K.
& Aldous D. (2017) Changing the student teacher habitus: Interweaving Bourdieu's theory of practice, with pragmatism's crisis, creativity, and problem based learning. In Karen Lux Gaudreault & K. Andrew R. Richards (Eds.)
New Perspectives on Teacher Socialization in Physical Education. (pp. 194-211). Oxon: Routledge.
Brown, D. (2016) Taoism through Tai Chi Chuan: Physical Culture as Religious or holistic spirituality? In Marian de Souza, Jane Bone and Jacqueline Watson (Eds)
Spirituality across Disciplines: Research and Practice (pp. 317-330). S.l.: Springer
Brown, David H. K., and Aldous, David C.R. (2015) Challenging the Economy of Gendered Practices in PE Using Bourdieu's Embodied Reflexive Sociology. In lisahunter, Wayne Smith, and elke emerald (Eds.) Fields of Physical Culture: Encounters with and beyond Pierre Bourdieu (pp. 74–83). Oxford: Routledge .
Brown, D.H.K. (2014) Body experience lineages in martial art cultures. In K Gilbert (Ed)
Fighting: Intellectualising Combat Sports. Champaign, Illinois: Common Ground Publishing.
Brown, D.H. K, & Jennings, G. (2013) In search of the martial habitus: Identifying core dispositional schemes, in R. Sanchez, & D. Spencer (Eds)
Fighting Scholars (pp. 33-48). London: Anthem Press.
Brown, D. H. K. (2010). Quality in Publishing: A Qualitative Perspective. In J. V. Valcárcel & J. D. Devís (Eds.),
La Calidad y Evaluación de las Revistas Científicas a Debate: Una mirada desde las Ciencias de la Actividad Fisica y el Deporte (pp. 73-90). Valencia: Publicaciones de la Universitat de València (PUV).
Brown, D.H.K., & Ford, N. J. (2007). The body and extreme Sport. In D. Booth (Ed.),
Berkshire Encyclopedia of Extreme Sport (pp. 36-42).
Brown, D.H.K., & Leledaki, A. (2005). Fitness, health, self defence, spirituality and therapy: Situating Eastern movement forms as body-self transforming practice in the West. In J. A. Diniz, F. De Costa & M. Onoffe (Eds.),
AIESEP 2005 World Congress: Active Lifestyles: The Impact of Education and Sport (pp. 217-230). Lisbon: Universidad Técnica de Lisboa.
Brown, D.H.K. (2005). Cuerpo, cultura y transmisión en la actividad física: Considerando el ejemplo de las artes marciales tradicionales (J. I. B. Gonzalez, Trans.). In N. J. Boris Calle (Ed.),
La Formación De Los Educadores De Las Actividades Físico-Deportivas Extraescolares (pp. 23-36). Palencia: Patronato Municipal de Deportes: Ayunatmiento de Palenica con la Universidad de Valladolid.
Brown, D.H.K. (2003). Using Pierre Bourdieu's embodied sociology to conceptualize the gendered cultural economy in Physical Education. In
Deporte Y Calidad De Vida (Cd). Proceedings of the Congresso Mundial De Ciencias De La Actividad Fisica Y El Deporte (pp. 42-47). Granada (ES).
Brown, D.H.K., & Rich, E. J. (2002). Gender positioning as pedagogical practice in learning to teach Physical Education. In D. Penney (Ed.),
Gender and Physical Education: Contemporary Issues and Future Directions (pp. 80-100). London: Routledge.
Selected Presentations
Brown, D.H.K. & Lloyd, Rhys (2024) Using Critical Social Theory as Professional Learning to Develop Scholar - Practitioners in Physical Education. Invited presentation to the SHEdRC Research Seminar Series, Edith Cowan University, 30th April 2024 (online).
Brown, D.H.K. (2023) Underpinning diversity, equity and inclusion research with principles of sustainability. Invited presented to the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Education Research group, Cardiff Metropolitan University, 8th March 2023 (online).
Brown, D.H.K. (2019)
The ecological habitus and its relationship with eco-spirituality. A practice sociological perspective. Paper presented at the 2019 CESNUR Conference: Re-enchanting the world: Spiritualities and Religions of the Third Millennium. Campus Luigi Einaudi, Università di Torino. Torino, Italy, 5-7 September 2019.
Brown, D.H.K. (2019) Changing Lives Through Leisure: A Practice Sociological Perspective. Opening Keynote address of the Leisure Studies Association Annual Conference: Changing Lives Through Leisure, 9-14th July 2019 Abertay University, Dundee.
Brown, D.H.K. (2017)
Gender in Physical Education from the perspective of Bourdieu's embodied theory of social practice. Closing Keynote presented to the el IV Simposium Internacional de Primavera "Educación Física y Justicia Social: Poblaciones Vulneradas. 5th & 6th May 2017 at the Facultad de Ciencias de la Actividad Física y el Deporte (FCAFE) de la Universitat de València. Valencia Spain.
Brown, D.H.K. (2015) The ecological habitus in sport and physical culture. Paper presented at the 20th annual ECSS conference: Sustainable Sport, Malmo Sweden, 24th-27th June 2015.
Brown, D.H.K. (2012) Seeking spirituality through Physical Education and Sports: Learning from "Eastern Movement Forms". Opening Keynote address of
The 12th International Conference on Children's Spirituality entitled: Spirituality and Physicality: Crossing Thresholds. 1st – 5th July 2012. School of Education and Lifelong Learning and Centre for Spirituality and Religion in Education. University of East Anglia, Norwich UK.
Brown, D.H.K., & Aldous, D. (2011) Strong structuration theory in educational research.
Staff Research Lecture at the School of Lifelong learning, University of East Anglia, Norwich UK.
Brown, D.H.K., Aldous, D. (2010) Strong structuration theory in educational research. Keynote presented at
La Evaluación Formativa en el Contexto Internacional de la Convergencia Europea: V Congreso Internacional de Evaluación Formativa en Docencia Universitaria. Universidad de Alcalá, Quadalajara, Spain, September 2010.
Brown, D.H.K., & Jennings, G. (2009) Social perspectives of tradition martial arts practice.
Total Control! Martial Arts and Science. The Dana Centre, The Science Museum, London. February 24th 2009. (Presented by David Brown)
Brown, D.H.K. (2007) Quality in Publishing: A Qualitative Perspective. Journal Quality Conference. Valencia, Spain. October. (Invited Keynote).
Brown, D.H.K.(2007) Invited lecture: A Multi-dimensional approach to change with regards to training teachers for physical education and physical activity.
PE PAYS lecture series, University of Limerick.
Brown, D.H.K. (2006) ¿Una economía de las prácticas de género? Aprendiendo a enseñar la educación física desde la perspectiva de la sociología corporal de Pierre Bourdieu. Universidad de Almeria, Spain.
Brown, D.H.K. (2006) Holistic Bodies? (What) Can we learn from Eastern movement forms in physical education?
Universitat de Valencia.
Brown, D.H.K. (2005) The body, culture and transmission in physical activity: Considering the example of the traditional martial arts.
La Formación De Los Educadores De Las Actividades Físico-Deportivas Extraescolares (pp. 23-36). La Universidad de Valladolid, Palenica, Spain. (Invited keynote).
