James Rosbrook-Thompson's research activity

Monographs and scholarly editions

Rosbrook-Thompson, J. (Forthcoming) Sport, Difference and Belonging. London: Routledge.

Refereed journal articles and chapters in books

Armstrong, G. & Rosbrook-Thompson, J. (2010) 'Warriors and Good Hope: The Pioneering Football Franchise of Ajax Cape Town.' Politique Africaine, 118, pp. 43-62. Paris: Karthala.

Armstrong, G. & Rosbrook-Thompson, J. (2010) 'Coming to America: Historical Ontologies and US Soccer.' Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. 17(4), pp. 348-371. London: Taylor Francis.

Armstrong, G. & Rosbrook-Thompson, J. (2010) 'The Revolutionary Path: Ghanaian Soccer the 'African Personality'. Africa e Mediterraneo. 71(1), pp. 17-23. Bologna: Lai-momo.

Armstrong, G & Rosbrook-Thompson, J. (2011) 'Football Policy and Paranoia in 'Post-conflict' Liberia, West Africa.' In Cereijo-Roibás, A., Stamatakis, E. & Black, K. (Eds.) Design for Sport. London: Gower.

Armstrong, G & Rosbrook-Thompson, J. (2011) 'Managing Urban Disorder? 'The Street' and its Malcontents in the London Borough of Camden.' In Dyck, N. (Ed.) Young Men in Uncertain Times. Oxford & New York: Berghahn.

Rosbrook-Thompson, J. & Armstrong, G. (2010) 'Fields and Visions: Ghanaian Soccer and the 'African Personality''. Du Bois Review. 7(2), pp. 73-95. Cambridge, Mass: Cambridge University Press.

Armstrong, G & Rosbrook-Thompson, J. (2012) 'Terrorizing Defences: Sport in the Liberian civil conflict.' International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 47: 358-378.

Conference/seminar papers and presentations

Rosbrook-Thompson, J. (2006) 'Warriors and Good Hope: The Pioneering Football Franchise of Ajax Cape Town.' Paper presented to Sport and Development International Conference, Swiss Academy for Development in conjunction with United Nations, Cape Town, South Africa, 20-23 March.

Rosbrook-Thompson, J. (2007) 'Understanding the implications of the world's first football franchise.' Paper presented to Fourth Conference of the European Association for the Sociology of Sport (EASS), Munster, Germany, 1-3 June.

Rosbrook-Thompson, J. (2007) 'Global Franchise, Local Resistance: The Story of Ajax Cape Town.' Paper presented to Inaugural Conference of Is Football the New Slavery?, London South Bank University in conjunction with Let's Kick Racism Out of Football, 20-21 September.

Rosbrook-Thompson, J. (2010) 'Instinct, Industry and Imperialism: The History of the 'Impulsive' Black Sportsman.' Paper presented to 15th Annual Congress of the European College of Sports Science (ECSS), Antalya, Turkey, 23-26 June, 2010.



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