Doidge, M., Rodrigo-Jusue, I., Black, J., Fletcher, T., Sinclair, G., Rosati, P., ... Lynn, T. (2024). “Kneeling only goes to highlight your ignorance. England is NOT! a #racist country”: Aversive racism, colour-blindness, and racist temporalities in discussions of football online. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. http://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2377775

Black, J., & Reynoso, J.S. (2024). Just a game? Sport and psychoanalytic theory. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 29, 145-159. http://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-024-00436-6

Black, J. (2023). Success in failure: from the destruction of the tragic to the self-negation of the comic. Crisis & Critique, 10 (2), 30-54. https://www.crisiscritique.org/storage/app/media/2023-17-11/jack-black.pdf

Black, J. (2023). The dialectic of desire: AI chatbots and the desire not to know. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41282-023-00406-4#:~:text=Exploring%20the%20relationship%20between%20humans,the%20subject%20not%20to%20know

Kearns, C., Sinclair, G., Black, J., Doidge, M., Fletcher, T., Kilvington, D., ... Santos, G.L. (2023). 'Best Run Club in the World': Manchester City Fans and the Legitimation of Sportswashing? International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 59 (4), 479-501. http://doi.org/10.1177/10126902231210784

Black, J., Fletcher, T., Doidge, M., Kearns, C., Kilvington, D., Liston, K., ... Sinclair, G. (2023). 'Let the tournament for the Woke begin!': Euro 2020 and the reproduction of Cultural Marxist conspiracies in online criticisms of the 'Take the Knee' protest. Ethnic and Racial Studies. http://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2023.2263069

Black, J. (2023). Review of the book Algorithmic Desire: toward a new structuralist theory of social media, by Matthew Flisfeder. Postdigital Science and Education. http://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-023-00428-2

Cherrington, J., & Black, J. (2023). The electric mountain bike as pharmakon: examining the problems and possibilities of an emerging technology. Mobilities. http://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2023.2186800

Black, J. (2023). 'Love Thy Social Media!': Hysteria and the Interpassive Subject. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 24 (4). http://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.4019

Black, J., & Cherrington, J. (2022). Posthuman to Inhuman: mHealth technologies and the digital health assemblage. Theory & Event, 25 (4), 726-750. http://doi.org/10.1353/tae.2022.0039

Kearns, C., Sinclair, G., Black, J., Doidge, M., Fletcher, T., Kilvington, D., ... Rosati, P. (2022). A Scoping Review of Research on Online Hate and Sport. Communication & Sport, 11 (2), 402-430. http://doi.org/10.1177/21674795221132728

Black, J. (2022). A hole that does not speak: covid, catastrophe and the impossible. Philosophy World Democracy. https://www.philosophy-world-democracy.org/articles-1/a-hole-that-does-not-speak-covid-catastrophe-and-the-impossible

Black, J. (2022). On reflexive racism: disavowal, deferment and the lacanian subject. Diacritics, 48 (4), 76-101. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/845150

Black, J. (2021). Slipping on Banana Skins and Falling Through Bars: “True” Comedy and the Comic Character. Galactica Media: Journal of Media Studies, 3 (3), 110-121. http://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.172

Black, J., Lake, R.J., & Fletcher, T. (2021). An Unnerving Otherness: English Nationalism and Rusedski’s Smile. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. http://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-021-00235-3

Black, J., & Cherrington, J. (2021). Temporal Ontology in Ecology: Developing an ecological awareness through time, temporality and the past-present parallax. Environmental Philosophy. http://doi.org/10.5840/envirophil202135102

Black, J. (2020). Sport and the ‘National Thing’: Exploring Sport’s Emotive Significance. Sport in Society. http://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2020.1865928

Black, J. (2020). ‘I Am (big) M(Other)’: Lacan’s big Other and the Role of Cynicism in Grant Sputore’s I Am Mother. Free Associations: Psychoanalysis and Culture, Media, Groups, Politics, (80), 121-131. http://doi.org/10.1234/fa.v0i80.372

Black, J. (2020). COVID-19: Approaching the In-Human. Contours: Journal of the SFU Humanities Institute, 10 (Fall). http://www.sfu.ca/content/dam/sfu/humanities-institute/Images/contours/issue10/10.5.pdf

Black, J. (2020). Reflexivity or orientation? Collective memories in the Australian, Canadian and New Zealand national press. Memory Studies. http://doi.org/10.1177/1750698017749978

Black, J. (2020). Retroactive causation and the temporal construction of news: contingency and necessity, content and form. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 1-16. http://doi.org/10.1080/1600910x.2020.1792957

Black, J. (2020). “A form of socially acceptable insanity”: Love, comedy and the digital in Her. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. http://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-020-00193-2

Black, J. (2020). COVID-19 and the Real Impossible. International Journal of Žižek Studies, 14 (2), 1-22. http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/IJZS/article/view/1173

Black, J. (2020). Football is “the most important of the least important things”: The Illusion of Sport and COVID-19. Leisure Sciences, 1-7. http://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2020.1773989

Black, J., Fletcher, T., & Lake, R.J. (2020). ‘Success in Britain comes with an awful lot of small print’: Greg Rusedski and the precarious performance of national identity. Nations and Nationalism, 1-20. http://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12614

Cherrington, J., & Black, J. (2020). Spectres of nature in the trail building assemblage. International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, 3 (1), 71-93. http://doi.org/10.1007/s41978-019-00048-w

Black, J., & Cherrington, J. (2020). ‘Nature doesn’t care that we’re there’: Re-Symbolizing Nature’s ‘Natural’ Contingency. International Journal of Žižek Studies, 14 (1), 1-26. http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/IJZS/article/view/1139

Whigham, S., & Black, J. (2019). London 2012, Glasgow 2014 and athletes as political symbols – the precarious positioning of athletes within the evolving contemporary politics of the United Kingdom. European Journal for Sport and Society. http://doi.org/10.1080/16138171.2019.1706249

Cherrington, J., & Black, J. (2019). Mountain bike trail building, ‘dirty’ work and a new terrestrial politics. World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research. http://doi.org/10.1080/02604027.2019.1698234

Black, J. (2019). Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School. Rethinking Marxism, 31 (4), 532-535. http://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2019.1650572

Black, J. (2019). “You ain’t gonna get away wit’ this, Django”: Fantasy, fiction and subversion in Quentin Tarantino’s, Django Unchained. Quarterly review of film and video. http://doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2019.1593026

Black, J. (2019). Conviviality and Parallax in David Olusoga’s Black and British: A Forgotten History. European Journal of Cultural Studies. http://doi.org/10.1177/1367549419844451

Black, J. (2018). From mood to movement: English nationalism, the European Union and taking back control. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research. http://doi.org/10.1080/13511610.2018.1520080

Black, J. (2018). The subjective and objective violence of terrorism: analysing “British values” in newspaper coverage of the 2017 London Bridge attack. Critical Studies on Terrorism. http://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2018.1498191

Cherrington, J., Black, J., & Tiller, N. (2018). Running away from the taskscape : ultramarathon as ‘dark ecology’. Annals of Leisure Research, 1-21. http://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2018.1491800

Whigham, S., & Black, J. (2018). Glasgow 2014, the media and Scottish politics – the (post)imperial symbolism of the Commonwealth Games. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 20 (2), 360-378. http://doi.org/10.1177/1369148117737279

Black, J. (2018). The United Kingdom and British Empire: A Figurational Approach. Rethinking History, 22 (1), 3-24. http://doi.org/10.1080/13642529.2017.1419446

Black, J., & Whigham, S. (2017). ‘Team GB’ or ‘Team Scotland’? Media representations of ‘Britishness’ and ‘Scottishness’ at London 2012 and Glasgow 2014. Journalism. http://doi.org/10.1177/1464884917736002

Black, J., & Fielding-Lloyd, B. (2017). Re-establishing the ‘outsiders’: English press coverage of the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup. International Review for the Sociology of Sport. http://doi.org/10.1177/1012690217706192

Black, J. (2016). The reification of celebrity : global newspaper coverage of the death of David Bowie. International Review of Sociology, 27 (1), 202-224. http://doi.org/10.1080/03906701.2016.1254393

Black, J. (2016). 'As British as fish and chips': British newspaper representations of Mo Farah during the 2012 London Olympic Games. Media, Culture & Society, 38 (7), 979-996. http://doi.org/10.1177/0163443716635863

Black, J. (2016). Celebrating British multiculturalism, lamenting England/Britain’s past. Nations and Nationalism, 22 (4), 786-802. http://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12164

Maguire, J., Black, J., & Darlington, B. (2015). ‘The Day the Flame Came to Town’: The Olympic flame, symbol, community and commodification. Sociology of Sport Journal, 32 (2), 117-139. http://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2014-0093

Black, J., & Ewen, N. (2013). Team GB, or no Team GB, that is the Question: Olympic football and the Post-War Crisis of Britishness. Sport in History, XXII, 302-324. https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2012.681357

Book chapters

Black, J., Fletcher, T., Kearns, C., Kilvington, D., Sinclair, G., Lynn, T., ... Rosati, P. (2025). Social media and online hate in sport: A case study of association football. In Billings, A., & Hardin, M. (Eds.) Routledge Handbook of Sport and Social Media. Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Sport-and-Social-Media/Billings-Hardin/p/book/9781032666198?srsltid=AfmBOoo_vkYJay6yyuQTZdXSWGroilupjDDNcMaUGWAxfy4wxxEygDIn

Black, J. (2024). Play, sport, and the creativity of sublimation: Understanding the importance of unimportant activities. In Black, J., & Reynoso, J.S. (Eds.) Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears. (pp. 245-265). Lanham: Lexington Books: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666938432/Sport-and-Psychoanalysis-What-Sport-Reveals-about-Our-Unconscious-Desires-Fantasies-and-Fears#:~:text=Thomas%20and%20Hub%20Zwart,underpinning%20the%20experience%20of%20sport

Black, J. (2024). Play, sport, and the creativity of sublimation: Understanding the importance of unimportant activities. In Black, J., & Reynoso, J.S. (Eds.) Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears. (pp. 245-265). Lanham: Lexington Books: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666938432/Sport-and-Psychoanalysis-What-Sport-Reveals-about-Our-Unconscious-Desires-Fantasies-and-Fears#:~:text=Thomas%20and%20Hub%20Zwart,underpinning%20the%20experience%20of%20sport

Black, J., & Reynoso, J.S. (2024). Introduction: Sport—A Psychoanalytic Inquiry. In Black, J., & Reynoso, J.S. (Eds.) Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears. (pp. 1-22). Lanham: Lexington Books: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666938432/Sport-and-Psychoanalysis-What-Sport-Reveals-about-Our-Unconscious-Desires-Fantasies-and-Fears#:~:text=Thomas%20and%20Hub%20Zwart,underpinning%20the%20experience%20of%20sport

Black, J., & Reynoso, J.S. (2024). Introduction: Sport—A Psychoanalytic Inquiry. In Black, J., & Reynoso, J.S. (Eds.) Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears. (pp. 1-22). Lanham: Lexington Books: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666938432/Sport-and-Psychoanalysis-What-Sport-Reveals-about-Our-Unconscious-Desires-Fantasies-and-Fears#:~:text=Thomas%20and%20Hub%20Zwart,underpinning%20the%20experience%20of%20sport

Black, J. (2024). Sport and the ‘national Thing’: exploring sport’s emotive significance. In Whigham, S. (Ed.) Sport and Nationalism: Theoretical Perspectives. (pp. 118-132). London: Routledge: http://doi.org/10.4324/9781032680163

Kilvington, D., Black, J., Doidge, M., Fletcher, T., Kearns, C., Liston, K., ... Sinclair, G. (2023). A Critical Analysis of Past and Present Campaigns to Challenge Online Racism in English Professional Football. In Hate Crime in Football. Policy Press

Cherrington, J., Black, J., & Tiller, N. (2023). Running Away From the Taskscape: Ultramarathon as 'Dark Ecology'. In Melo, R., Van Rheenen, D., & Gammon, S. (Eds.) Nature Sports: Concepts and Practice. Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Nature-Sports-Concepts-and-Practice/Melo-Rheenen-Gammon/p/book/9781032558530#

Black, J. (2023). ‘It’s (not) coming home’: desire, drive and the melancholy of English football. In Roberts, W., Whigham, S., Culvin, A., & Parnell, D. (Eds.) Critical Issues in Football: A Sociological Analysis of the Beautiful Game. Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Critical-Issues-in-Football-A-Sociological-Analysis-of-the-Beautiful-Game/Roberts-Whigham-Culvin-Parnell/p/book/9781032183091

Cherrington, J. (2022). Mountain biking in the (Neg)Anthropocene. Encountering, witnessing, and reorienting to, the end of the ‘natural’ world. In Black, J., & Cherrington, J. (Eds.) Sport and Physical Activity in Catastrophic Environments. (pp. 129-147). Abingdon: Routledge: http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003225065

Cherrington, J., & Black, J. (2022). Introduction: Sport and physical activity in catastrophic environments – Tuning to the ‘weird’ and the ‘eerie’. In Cherrington, J., & Black, J. (Eds.) Sport and Physical Activity in Catastrophic Environments. (pp. 1-18). Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Sport-and-Physical-Activity-in-Catastrophic-Environments/Cherrington-Black/p/book/9781032125411

Cherrington, J., & Black, J. (2022). Introduction: Sport and physical activity in catastrophic environments – Tuning to the ‘weird’ and the ‘eerie’. In Cherrington, J., & Black, J. (Eds.) Sport and Physical Activity in Catastrophic Environments. (pp. 1-18). Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Sport-and-Physical-Activity-in-Catastrophic-Environments/Cherrington-Black/p/book/9781032125411

Cherrington, J. (2022). Mountain biking in the (Neg)Anthropocene. Encountering, witnessing, and reorienting to, the end of the ‘natural’ world. In Black, J., & Cherrington, J. (Eds.) Sport and Physical Activity in Catastrophic Environments. (pp. 129-147). Abingdon: Routledge: http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003225065

Black, J. (2022). The Appearance of Authority in Health and Wellbeing Media: Analysing Digital Guru Media through Lacan’s 'Big Other'. In Lawrence, S. (Ed.) Digital Wellness, Health and Fitness Influencers. Critical Perspectives on Digital Guru Media. (pp. 35-51). Abingdon: Routledge: http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003256021

Black, J. (2022). Football is 'the most important of the least important things': The Illusion of Sport and COVID-19. In Lashua, B., Johnson, C.W., & Parry, D.C. (Eds.) Leisure in the time of Coronavirus: A Rapid Response. Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Leisure-in-the-Time-of-Coronavirus-A-Rapid-Response/Lashua-Johnson-Parry/p/book/9780367702601

Black, J., & Cherrington, J. (2020). Community as Hyperobject: Exploring the ‘Spectral Plains’ of Leisure. In Glover, T., & Sharpe, E. (Eds.) Leisure and its Communities: Rethinking Mutuality, Collective Expression, and Belonging in the New Century. Routledge

Black, J. (2015). Portraying Britain’s past: English national newspaper coverage of the 2012 London Olympic ceremonies. In Poynter, G., Viehoff, V., & Li, Y. (Eds.) The London Olympics and Urban Development: The Mega-Event City. (pp. 320-334). Abingdon: Routledge

Books

Black, J., & Reynoso, J.S. (Eds.). (2024). Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666938432/Sport-and-Psychoanalysis-What-Sport-Reveals-about-Our-Unconscious-Desires-Fantasies-and-Fears#:~:text=Thomas%20and%20Hub%20Zwart,underpinning%20the%20experience%20of%20sport

Black, J. (2023). The Psychosis of Race. A Lacanian Approach to Racism and Racialization. London: Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003414209/psychosis-race-jack-black

Cherrington, J., & Black, J. (Eds.). (2022). Sport and Physical Activity in Catastrophic Environments. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Sport-and-Physical-Activity-in-Catastrophic-Environments/Black-Cherrington/p/book/9781032125411

Black, J. (2021). Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy A Psychoanalytic Exploration. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Race-Racism-and-Political-Correctness-in-Comedy-A-Psychoanalytic-Exploration/Black/p/book/9780367508937

Reports

Bairner, A., Black, J., Bowes, A., & Whigham, S. (2021). Department for Culture, Media and Sport CommitteeCall for Evidence – May 2021. Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/35824/html/

Matthews, C.R., Channon, A., & Black, J. (2015). Learning & Teaching in Sociology - A Report by the British Sociological Association. The British Sociological Association (BSA).

Internet Publications

Black, J., & Sinclair, G. (2024). Online Abuse and the Challenges Faced by Sports Journalists in the UK and Ireland. https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2024/news/urgent-action-needed-to-tackle-abuse-of-sports-journalists-study-author/

Black, J., Kearns, C., Sinclair, G., Doidge, M., Fletcher, T., Kilvington, D., ... Rosati, P. (2023). How sport became a vehicle for far-right conspiracy theories. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/how-sport-became-a-vehicle-for-far-right-conspiracy-theories/

Kearns, C., Sinclair, G., & Black, J. (2023). What Manchester City fans have to say about sportswashing. https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2023/1127/1418668-manchester-city-fans-sportswashing/

Black, J., Kearns, C., Sinclair, G., Doidge, M., Fletcher, T., Kilvington, D., ... Lynn, T. (2023). What the research says: Confronting online hate in sport. https://tohif.com/blog/

Black, J. (2022). 'Peace at last': Subjective destitution and the end of analysis in Peaky Blinders. https://lackorg.com/2022/06/17/peace-at-last-subjective-destitution-and-the-end-of-analysis-in-peaky-blinders/

Black, J. (2021). Suburban Superheroes: Utopia and Trauma in WandaVision. https://cstonline.net/suburban-superheroes-utopia-and-trauma-in-wandavision-by-jack-black/

Black, J. (2020). Devs and the Parallax Ending. https://cstonline.net/devs-and-the-parallax-ending-by-jack-black/

Black, J. (2020). Mr. Robot – Part Three: ‘...the voyeurs who think they aren’t a part of this...’: Mr. Robot and the Subject. https://cstonline.net/mr-robot-part-three-the-voyeurs-who-think-they-arent-a-part-of-this-mr-robot-and-the-subject-by-jack-black/

Black, J. (2020). Mr Robot - Part Two: ‘Run Away with Me’ – Content, Form and Romantic Failure, an Ideological Critique (Scene Analysis). https://cstonline.net/mr-robot-part-two-run-away-with-me-content-form-and-romantic-failure-an-ideological-critique-scene-analysis-by-jack-black/

Black, J. (2020). Mr. Robot – Part One: ‘Our Democracy has been hacked’ – Critiquing Mr. Robot. https://cstonline.net/mr-robot-part-one-our-democracy-has-been-hacked-critiquing-mr-robot-by-jack-black/

Black, J. (2020). From Fight Club to Gaze – Making Sense of Sam Esmail’s Mr. Robot, An Introduction. https://cstonline.net/from-fight-club-to-gaze-making-sense-of-sam-esmails-mr-robot-an-introduction-by-jack-black/

Black, J. (2020). Watchmen’s Parallax View – handling past traumas and present tensions. https://cstonline.net/watchmens-parallax-view-handling-past-traumas-and-present-tensions-by-jack-black/

Whigham, S., & Black, J. (2018). Glasgow 2014, the media and Scottish politics – the (post)imperial symbolism of the Commonwealth Games and the push for ‘Empire 2.0’. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/the-2014-commonwealth-games-in-the-media/

Presentations

Black, J. (2024). Exploring the Contradictions of Sportswashing in Sports Fandom and Sports Research. Presented at: Media, Film and Communications Research Seminar, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ, 2024

Black, J. (2024). Aesthetical Ethics: Moral, Race, and Storied Imagination-Who believes in race? Exploring the psychosis of race via the belief in disbelief [Abstract only]. Presented at: Psychology & the Other, Northeastern University, London, UK, 2024

Black, J. (2024). Paranoia, perversion, and the subject of desire: A Lacanian exploration of AI chatbots [abstract only]. Presented at: Learning or not learning from experience: Psychosocial approaches to researching and experiential learnings, Twickenham, UK, 2024

Black, J., Sinclair, G., & Kearns, C. (2024). The Fetishization of Sport: Exploring the Effects of Fetishistic Disavowal in Sportswashing. http://doi.org/10.1177/01937235241269906

Black, J. (2023). Beyond race? The radical temporality of the 'post-' [abstract only]. Presented at: "Orphans of the Real: Emerging from the Echo Chambers – Psychosocial Perspectives," Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society Annual Conference, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, 2023

Black, J. (2023). Laundered Hate: Euro 2020 and the Mainstreaming of Alt-Right Conspiracies on Twitter [abstract only]. Presented at: Representations of Race in Sports Journalism and Media, Sheffield, UK, 2023

Black, J. (2023). Mainstreaming the alt-right: sport and the effects of conspiracy during Euro 2020 [abstract only]. Presented at: “The Impact of Professional Sport on Community,” Fourteenth International Conference on Sport & Society, Las Vegas, USA, 2023

Black, J. (2023). Sport and the Alt-Right: Woke Conspiracies during Euro 2020. Presented at: Sport and Physical Activity Research Centre: Research Seminar, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, 2023

Black, J. (2023). Desire, Drive and the Melancholy of English Football: 'It’s (not) Coming Home'. Presented at: Critical Issues in Football: A Sociological Analysis of the Beautiful Games—Book Launch, Oxford, UK, 2023

Cherrington, J., & Black, J. (2022). Sport and Physical Activity in Catastrophic Environments (Book Launch). Presented at: Changing Places Seminar Series, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, 2022

Black, J. (2022). The psychosis of race: racialization, racial anxiety, and the objet a of Race [abstract only]. Presented at: Lacan: clinic & culture conference, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A, 2022

Black, J. (2022). Reassembling mHealth: from 'posthuman' to 'inhuman' [abstract only]. Presented at: Posthuman bodies and embodied posthumanisms: an interdisciplinary conference, Warwick, UK, 2022

Black, J. (2022). The object of horror: gaze and voice in Candyman [abstract only]. Presented at: Candyman and the Whole Damn Swarm – A 30th Anniversary Conference, Sheffield, 2022

Black, J. (2022). What am I for the other? Digital media and its discontents [abstract only]. Presented at: Digital Mediation and Working Through in Times of Denial, Disavowal and Splitting: On the Un/Representable, Twickenham, UK, 2022

Kearns, C., Sinclair, G., Black, J., Doidge, M., Fletcher, T., Kilvington, D., ... Rosati, P. (2022). Online hate and sport: an overview of the key literature. Presented at: The European Association for Sociology of Sport and the International Sociology of Sport Association World Congress of Sociology of Sport, Tübingen, Germany, 2022

Black, J. (2021). ‘It’s (not) Coming Home’: English Football, English Nationalism and the Comedy in English Melancholy. Presented at: Nationalism and Irony Symposium, Sheffield Hallam University, 2021

Black, J. (2021). “The Rusedski smile... Are we really that desperate for success?”: English Nationalism, the Body and the Other – Making Sense of Rusedski’s “Smile” [Abstract only]. Presented at: ‘Psychosocial Bodies’, Association of Psychoanalysis Studies Conference, Virtual, 2021

Black, J. (2021). Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy - A Psychoanalytic Exploration (Book Launch). Presented at: Transnational Popular Culture Seminar Series, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, 2021

Black, J. (2019). Parallax, parapraxis and the multicultural representation of British media events [abstract only]. Presented at: Critical Issues in Contemporary Sport, Oxford, UK, 2019

Black, J. (2018). 'Is it bigger than the bread bin?': Parallax, Parapraxis and the Multicultural Representation of British Media Events. Presented at: Diversity within events, tourism and hospitality, Leeds, UK, 2018

Black, J. (2018). "We’re always looking for females": gender disparities and power dynamics in the sports journalism industry [abstract only]. Presented at: Gender differentiation in media industries, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2018

Black, J. (2018). Media, Memory and Sporting Mega-Events. Presented at: Changing the rules of the game? An interdisciplinary symposium examining the relationship between sport and media, Loughborough University, 2018

Black, J. (2017). Transcending sport: The reification of Muhammad Ali. Presented at: Ali in Un/Expected Spaces, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, 2017

Black, J., & Whigham, S. (2015). "Team GB", "Team England" or "Team Scotland"? Media Representations of "Britishness", "Englishness" and "Scottishness" in London 2012 and Glasgow 2014 [abstract only]. Presented at: BSA Annual Conference 2015, 2015

Black, J. (2014). "They are perhaps the most nationalist people in the world": English nationalism during the 2012 Diamond Jubilee and London Olympic Games [abstract only]. Presented at: BSA Annual Conference 2014, Leeds, UK, 2014

Black, J. (2013). 'Narratives of Empire': An investigation into the English national press coverage of the 2012 London Olympic Ceremonies. Presented at: Olympic Legacies: International Conference – Impacts of Mega-Events on Cities, University of East London, London, UK, 2013

Black, J. (2013). "The Imperial Elephant in the Room": British identification during the 2012 Diamond Jubilee and London Olympic Ceremonies [abstract only]. Presented at: Formations and Representations of British National Identity, Warwick, UK, 2013

Black, J. (2013). 'Narratives of Empire': An investigation into the English national press coverage of the 2012 London Olympic Ceremonies’. Presented at: Britishness in the 21st Century, Keele University, Keele, UK, 2013

Black, J. (2013). 'Narratives of Empire': An investigation into the English national press coverage of the 2012 London Olympic Ceremonies. Presented at: BSA Teaching Group Regional Day Conference, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK, 2013

Other publications

Black, J. (2025). RU324: Jack Black on The Psychosis of Race: A Lacanian Approach to Racism & Racialization. Rendering Unconscious: Podcast hosted by Psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair: http://www.renderingunconscious.org/psychoanalysis/ru324-jack-black-on-the-psychosis-of-race-a-lacanian-approach-to-racism-racialization/

Black, J. (2024). Episode 6: Sportswashing and Online Hate. The TOHIF Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-tohif-podcast/id1763222478?i=1000675801552

Black, J. (2024). Episode 6: Sportswashing and Online Hate. The TOHIF Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-tohif-podcast/id1763222478?i=1000675801552

Black, J. (2024). Episode 5: The Role of Conspiracy Theories in Online Hate in Football. The TOHIF Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-tohif-podcast/id1763222478?i=1000673469928

Black, J. (2024). Episode 5: The Role of Conspiracy Theories in Online Hate in Football. The TOHIF Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-tohif-podcast/id1763222478?i=1000673469928

Black, J. (2024). Can Football Ever Come Home? Nostalgia, melancholia and the beautiful game ft. Jack Black. The FootPoll Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2253650/15390636-can-football-ever-come-home-nostalgia-melancholia-and-the-beautiful-game-ft-jack-black

Black, J. (2024). Episode 2: Dr. Jack Black. Centre for Sport, Physical Activity and Health Equality (SPHERE) Podcast Series: https://on.soundcloud.com/LyNCcQEPzM7gcGqe6

Black, J. (2023). Desire, Drive, and Football with Jack Black. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/zizekandsoon/episodes/UNLOCKED---Desire--Drive---Football-w-Jack-Black-e29uodt

Cherrington, J., & Black, J. (2023). Sport and PA in Catastrophic Environments. The Sport and PA Policy Podcast: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3j5dt-145f7b9?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share

Cherrington, J., & Black, J. (2023). Sport and Nature in Catastrophic Times. https://soundcloud.com/mediasportpodcastseries/episode-42-jim-cherrington-and-jack-black-sport-and-nature-in-catastrophic-times

Black, J. (2022). The Object of Horror: Gaze and Voice in Candyman. Gothic Centre, University of Sheffield: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UpAG05FFag

Black, J. (2022). Zizek and Comedy with Jack Black (Part Two). Zizek & So On: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU5JIDEU2ac&t=250s

Black, J. (2022). Zizek and Comedy with Jack Black (Part One). Zizek & So On: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9V_5fvxD4o

Black, J. (2021). Lacanian Analysis & Racist Jokes. PlasticPills: Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZJYSHHIG7k&t=126s

Black, J. (2021). 'Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy – A Psychoanalytic Exploration', by Jack Black, interviewed by Lee Pierce. New Books Network: https://newbooksnetwork.com/race-racism-and-political-correctness-in-comedy