Bryan Clift

Bio

Bryan C. Clift is Assistant Professor in the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism at North Carolina State University, and an honorary Senior Lecturer at University of Bath. His research is oriented around two interrelated strands, sport, physical activity, and recreation in relation to the cultural economy (e.g., events, communities, urbanism, media) and inequalities, and qualitative research. He recently co-edited with Alan Tomlinson Populism in Sport, Leisure, and Popular Culture (2021), and with colleagues at the Centre for Qualitative Research at the University of Bath Qualitative Researcher Vulnerability: Negotiating, Experiencing and Embracing (2023).

He is open to working with new graduate students.

Education:

Ph.D. Department of Kinesiology (Physical Cultural Studies), University of Maryland, College Park
Graduate Certificate in Critical Theory, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park
M.A. Department of Education, Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Georgia
B.Sc. Recreation, Sport and Tourism, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Books:

Clift, B. C., Batlle, I. C., Bekker, S., & Chudzikowski, K. (Eds.) (2023). Qualitative researcher vulnerability: Negotiating, experiencing, and embracing. Routledge.

Clift, B. C. & Tomlinson, A. (Eds.). (2021). Populism in sport, leisure and popular culture. British Sociological Association’s Sociological Futures Series. Routledge.

Clift, B. C., Gore, J., Gustafsson, S., Bekker, S., & Batlle, I. C. (Eds.). (2021). Temporality in qualitative inquiry: Theories, methods and practices. Routledge.

Select Journal Articles:

Clift, B. C., Andrews, D. L., & Lopes, V. (In Press). “É nossa, é do Brasil inteiro” (It’s ours, it’s for the whole of Brazil): Football, the yellow shirt, and national-politics. Leisure Sciences.

Manley, A. T., Shen, D., & Clift, B. C., Ma, Y., & Zhang, W. (In Press). A new direction for neighborhood governance and community construction in China: The case of Zhejiang province’s ‘future communities’. Space and Polity. DOI: 10.1080/13562576.2024.2388320

Janson, D., Clift, B. C., Dhokia, V. (In Press). PPE: Pockets, Perceptions and Equity – the untold truth of ill-fitting PPE; a reflexive thematic analysis. International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics (JOSE).

Bowles, H., Clift, B. C., & Wiltshire, G. (2024). Joe Wicks, lifestyle capitalism and the social construction of PE (with Joe). Sport, Education and Society, 29(2), pp. 119-131.

Costas Batlle, I., Banks, K., Rodohan, K., Clift, B. C., & Bekker, S. (2024). “Connecting the dots”: Developing a doctoral qualitative community of practice. Qualitative Inquiry, 30(7) 630-640. DOI: 10.1177/10778004231183943

Clift, B. C., Fabian, T., & Andrews, D. L. (2023). Sport in a populist age. Journal of Sport History, 50(2), 139-149.

Clift, B. C., Francombe-Webb, J., & Merchant, S. (2023). (Re)Working the gendered self: Memory work in sport and physical activity. Qualitative Research in Health and Exercise, 15(4), 449-466.

Janson, D. J., Clift, B. C., & Dhokia, V. (2022). PPE fit of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Applied Ergonomics, 99, 103610.

Clift, B. C. (2020). The uses of running: Urban homelessness, creative initiatives, and “recovery” in the neoliberal city. Sociology of Sport Journal, 37(2), 96-107.

Mann, R.H., Clift, B.C., Boykoff, J., & Bekker, S. (2020). Athletes as community; athletes in community: COVID-19, sporting mega-events and athlete health protection. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 54, pp. 10711-1072.

Clift, B. C. (2019). Governing homelessness through running. Body & Society, 25(2), 88-118.

Clift, B. C. & Clift, R. T. (2017). Towards a “pedagogy of reinvention”: Memory work, collective biography, self-study, and family. Qualitative Inquiry, 23(8), 605–617.

Clift, B. C. (2014). Suspect of smiles: Struggle, compassion, and running to reclaim the body in urban Baltimore. Moving Biopolitics, a special issue of Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies, 14(5), 496-505.

Clift, B. C. & Mower, R. L. (2013). Transitioning to an athletic subjectivity: First semester experiences at a corporate (sporting) university. Sport, Education and Society, 18(3), 349-369.

Select Book Chapters:

Andrews, D.L., Clift, B.C., Lopes, V.B., Silk, M.L., & Yang, J. (In Press). The Brazilian (Football) Conjuncture: Neoliberal and Neocolonial Articulations. In L. Lara, V. Marani, & A. De Sa (Eds.). Physical Cultural Studies and decolonial dialogues.

Clift, B. C., Merchant, S., & Francombe-Webb, J. (2024). Participation in sporting collective memory work. In K. Rich, M. Smith, & A. Giles (Eds). Participatory research in sport and exercise (pp. 170-182). London: Routledge.

Manley, A. & Clift, B. C. (2023). Formula 1 as a Vehicle for Urban Transformation in China: State Entrepreneurialism and the Re-Imaging of Shanghai. In S. Wagg, D. Sturm, and D. L. Andrews (Eds) Lives in the fast lane: essays on the history and politics of motor racing. New Jersey, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Rick, O., Bustad, J. B., & Clift, B. C. (2022). The Active Body in Cities. In J. Newman, R. Pitter & D. L. Andrews (Eds.) Sociocultural issues in sport and physical activity. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.

Clift, B. C. (2021). Dilma Rousseff, Brazilian cultural politics, and the Rio 2016 Olympics: Left in Lula’s wake. In B. C. Clift, A. Tomlinson Populism in sport, leisure and popular culture (pp. 136-154). British Sociological Association’s Sociological Futures Series. London: Routledge.

Mann, R. H. & Clift, B. C. (2021). Stammering in academia: Voice in the management of self and others. In N. Brown (Ed.), Lived experiences of ableism in academia: Strategies for inclusion in higher education. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press.

Clift, B. C., Francombe-Webb, J., & Merchant, S. (2021). Time as a conceptual-methodological device: putting time to work in gendered sporting moments, memories, and “experiences”. In Clift, B. C., J. Gore, S. Gustafsson, S. Bekker, I. C. Batlle (Eds) Temporality in qualitative inquiry: Theories, methods and practices (pp. 93-110). London: Routledge.

Clift, B. C., Telles, M. S., & Silva, I. (2020). Working the hyphens of artist-academic-stakeholder in Co-Creation: A hopeful rendering of a community organisation and an organic intellectual. In J. Carpenter, C. Horvath (Eds.), Co-Creation in theory and practice: Exploring creativity in the global north and south. Bristol, UK: Policy Press.

Clift, B. C. & Bustad, J. J. (2018). Moving in the margins: Active urban bodies and the politics of ethnography. In M. D. Giardina & M. K. Donnelly (Eds.), Physical culture, ethnography, and the body (pp. 143-159). New York, NY: Routledge.

Bustad, J. J. & Clift, B. C. (2017). Physical Cultural Communities. In D. L. Andrews, M. Silk, and H. Thorpe (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of physical cultural studies. London, UK: Routledge.

Clift, B. C. & Andrews, D. L. (2012). Living Lula’s passion: The politics of Rio 2016. In H. J. Lenskyi & S. Wagg (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of Olympic studies (pp. 210-232). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.