David Howe BSc(Hons)(Trent, Canada) MA(Toronto) PhD(University College London)
Senior Lecturer
Contact details
Room: JB.0.07
Phone: +44 (0)1509 226389
Fax: +44 (0)1509 226301
Email: P.D.Howe@lboro.ac.uk
Background
David is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology of Sport. He graduated from Trent University (Canada) with an BSc honours in general anthropology in 1989. In 1991 David was awarded a MA in social/cultural anthropology at the University of Toronto. After moving to the UK to undertake a PhD in medical anthropology at UCL he was awarded this degree in 1997 for his work examining the social implications of the professionalisation of sports medicine. He joined the staff of Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education (subsequently the University of Gloucestershire) in 1997 in the School of Sport and Leisure as Lecturer then Senior Lecturer in the Anthropology of Sport. Before arriving at Loughborough in January 2006 David spent two years as Senior Lecturer in Sport and Leisure Cultures at the Chelsea School, University of Brighton.
Research Interests
David's teaching
interests are broadly focused on cultural politics and sociology/anthropology
of the body in sport and leisure. He teaches across a range of modules that are
the responsibility of the Division of Social Sciences within the School.
His research interests comprise two related strands, both of which are theoretically informed by social theories of embodiment, notably those developed by Bourdieu, Foucault and Merleau-Ponty. The first of these strands concerns the impaired sporting body, health and identity. This area of work is being developed through a life long involvement in, and commitment to, the Paralympic sporting movement. Long-term participant observation as athlete and administrator and latterly journalist and coach, has facilitated access to this rapidly changing sporting environment. His first major publication in this area came out in 2008 entitled The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic Movement: Through the Anthropological Lens. London: Routledge. David is currently Deputy Director of the Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport.
The second strand of David's research is concerned with the relationship between the sporting body, professionalism and medicine. Publication in 2004 of his first book entitled Sport, Professionalism and Pain: Ethnographies of Injury and Risk (Routledge) is the culmination of work in this area to date and more research and publications related to this theme are in the planning stages.
Selected Publications
Books
Howe, P.D. (2008) The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic Movement: Through the
Anthropological Lens. London: Routledge.
Bale, J. and Howe, P. D. eds. (2009) Historical and Cultural Interpretations of a Sporting Barrier: the four minute mile. London: Routledge.
Howe, P. D. (2004) Sport,
Professionalism and Pain: Ethnographies of Injury and Risk. London: Routledge.
Refereed Journal Articles
Howe, P. D. (2007) 'Integration of Paralympic Athletes into Athletics Canada', in International Journal of Canadian Studies. Vol. 35:133-150.
Howe, P. D. (2006) 'Habitus,
Barriers and the Ab/use of the Science of Interval training in the 1950s', in
Sport in History. Vol. 26 (2): 325-344.
Howe, P. D. and Jones, C. (2006) 'Classification of Disabled Athletes:
(Dis)empowering the Paralympic Practice Community' in Sociology of Sport
Journal. Vol. 23. 29-46.
Jones, C. and Howe, P. D. (2005) 'The Conceptual Boundaries of Sport for the Disabled: Classification and Athletic Performance', Journal of Philosophy of Sport. Vol. 32:133-146.
You can view a fuller publications list on the University Publications Database.
External Activities
Selected External
Research-Related Roles:
Visiting Lecturer on the Erasmus
Mundus Masters in Adaptive Physical Activity at the Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven, Belgium (2007-2009)
Member of International Paralympic Committee's Development Committee, 2005-.
Member of the ad-hoc committee advising the UN on article 30 (regarding sport
and leisure provision) for the Treaty on Rights for the Disabled of 2006.
Guest co-editor: Leisure Studies, due October 2009; Sport in History, August
2006
Conference Keynote and
Speaker Presentations:
February 2009 ''Paralympic Sport and Social Justice'', Donald MacIntosh Lecture, Queens University, CANADA.
June 2009‘Anthropology and Sociology in Adapted Physical Activity’ International Symposium on Adapted Physical Activity (ISAPA) Gävle, SWEDEN.