Raw Toast
13-12-2008, 07:12 PM
As many of you know I've found a way of combining work and play by writing about footy in my life as an academic.
I recently published a piece on the way footy fans experience particularly distressing finals defeats as if they were tragedies, and as some of the members of WOOF helped me out by letting me interview them, I thought the piece might be of interest to some of the denizens here.
A word of warning first though, much of my paper deals with the fall-out of an event that occurred in 1997, so read it at your own risk. It also contains a bit of theory, but you can skip over that if you wish.
The piece was published in Traffic the Uni of Melbourne's graduate student journal, and you can access it by going to:
http://www.umpa.unimelb.edu.au/traffic/trafficten/issuetrafficten.htm
and clicking on the link to the piece titled:
‘Each time I'm reminded of it, I feel as though I need therapy’: Australian Football, Tragedies and the Question of Catharsis
I've recently also had something published in The International Journal of the History of Sporton the way footy fans love their club. It'll be a bit harder to get permission to re-print that here, but if people are interested I'll try for that as well.
I recently published a piece on the way footy fans experience particularly distressing finals defeats as if they were tragedies, and as some of the members of WOOF helped me out by letting me interview them, I thought the piece might be of interest to some of the denizens here.
A word of warning first though, much of my paper deals with the fall-out of an event that occurred in 1997, so read it at your own risk. It also contains a bit of theory, but you can skip over that if you wish.
The piece was published in Traffic the Uni of Melbourne's graduate student journal, and you can access it by going to:
http://www.umpa.unimelb.edu.au/traffic/trafficten/issuetrafficten.htm
and clicking on the link to the piece titled:
‘Each time I'm reminded of it, I feel as though I need therapy’: Australian Football, Tragedies and the Question of Catharsis
I've recently also had something published in The International Journal of the History of Sporton the way footy fans love their club. It'll be a bit harder to get permission to re-print that here, but if people are interested I'll try for that as well.