James Cherrington

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Dr James Cherrington

Senior Lecturer


Summary

Jim is a senior lecturer in the Academy of Sport and Physical Activity. His research explores how identity, bodies, knowledges and objects are materialised in/through everyday life, with much of his recent work dedicated to investigating the socio-historical, socio-technical and political conditions of 'nature' (sport). His most recent research project examines the impact that electric mountain bikes are having on health and the environment. Jim currently teaches on undergraduate and postgraduate modules relating to sport and social theory, alternative physical activities and sport branding. He welcomes applications from potential PhD students with an interest in the relationships between sport, physical activity and society, especially those that relate to green exercise, technology and society, or extreme/alternative sport. 

 

 

Teaching

School of Sport and Physical Activity

College of Health, Wellbeing and Life Sciences

  • BSc Physical Activity, Sport and Health
  • BSc Sport Business Management
  • BSc Sport Development with Coaching
 

 

Understanding Physical Activity, Alternative Physical Activities, Football and Society

Research

Defining the Social, Cultural and Political Impact of Outdoor Activities in Sheffield

Publications

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

Cherrington, J. (2021). The Ontopolitics of Mountain Bike Trail Building: Addressing Issues of Access and Conflict in the More-than-Human English Countryside. Somatechnics, 11 (3). http://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2021.0363

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

Cherrington, J. (2021). The Myth of the Repack Group: Some Problems and Provocations from an Actor-Network Perspective. Leisure Sciences: an interdisciplinary journal. http://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2020.1870587

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

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

Cherrington, J. (2019). Media Review: Joe Bowman and Aaron Bartlett (Directors/Producers), "Gamble", Steel City Media/Creative Concept. International review for the sociology of sport. http://doi.org/10.1177/1012690219843666

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

Cherrington, J. (2014). 'It's just superstition I suppose ... I've always done something on game day': The construction of everyday life on a university basketball team. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 49 (5), 509-525. http://doi.org/10.1177/1012690212461632

Cherrington, J., & Watson, B. (2010). Shooting a diary, not just a hoop: using video diaries to explore the embodied everyday contexts of a university basketball team. Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise, 2 (2), 267-281. http://doi.org/10.1080/19398441.2010.488036

Book chapters

Cherrington, J. (2024). Introduction: Mountain bike culture as a ‘structure of feeling’. In Cherrington, J. (Ed.) Mountain Biking, Culture and Society. Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Mountain-Biking-Culture-and-Society/Cherrington/p/book/9781032421919#

Cherrington, J. (2024). Introduction: Mountain bike culture as a ‘structure of feeling’. In Cherrington, J. (Ed.) Mountain Biking, Culture and Society. Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Mountain-Biking-Culture-and-Society/Cherrington/p/book/9781032421919#

Cherrington, J. (2023). Running away from the taskscape: ultramarathon as ‘dark ecology’. In Nature Sports: Concepts and Practice. Routledge

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#

Cherrington, J. (2022). The myth of the repack group: some problems and provocations from an actor-network perspective [Book chapter]. In Leisure Myths and Mythmaking. Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Leisure-Myths-and-Mythmaking/Lashua-Baker-Glover/p/book/9781032285771#

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. In Sport and Physical Activity in Catastrophic Environments. (pp. 1-17). Routledge: http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003225065-1

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

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

Woodhouse, D., & Cherrington, J. (2018). Walking in the shoes of others: Critical reflection in community sport management and physical activity. In Wilson, R., & Platts, C. (Eds.) Managing and developing community sport. (pp. 30-44). London: Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Managing-and-Developing-Community-Sport/Wilson-Platts/p/book/9781138674332

Cherrington, J., & Gregory, M. (2017). Where nature and culture coalesce: The social, cultural and political impact of outdoor recreation in Sheffield. In Turner, D., & Carnicelli, S. (Eds.) Lifestyle sports and public policy. (pp. 100-116). London: Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Lifestyle-Sports-and-Public-Policy/Turner-Carnicelli/p/book/9781138652217

Cherrington, J. (2015). Basketball, embodiment and the everyday. In Wellard, I. (Ed.) Researching Embodied Sport : Exploring Movement Cultures. (pp. 101-116). London: Routledge: http://doi.org/10.4324/9781315761121

Books

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

Cherrington, J. (n.d.). Mountain Biking, Culture and Society. Routledge. http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003361626

Cherrington, J. (n.d.). Mountain Biking, Culture and Society. Routledge. http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003361626

Reports

Cherrington, J., Winter, D., Dawes, S., Ross, W., & Twigge, A. (2023). Downhill from here: How climate change threatens cycling as we know it. Protect Our Winters. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1neIbFM8yxElveFvnXY91H8id5Ke6-p_o/view

Internet Publications

Cherrington, J. (2021). Are e-bikes ruining mountain biking? https://theconversation.com/are-e-bikes-ruining-mountain-biking-166121

Cherrington, J. (2020). Mountain bikers can strengthen the connection between humans, nature and recreational space. https://theconversation.com/mountain-bikers-can-strengthen-the-connection-between-humans-nature-and-recreational-space-137206

Presentations

Cherrington, J. (2024). E-Mountain Bikes, Disability and Green Exercise: A Stieglerian Analysis. Presented at: Leisure Studies 2024, Paisley, Scotland

Cherrington, J. (2024). The Weird and the Eerie in Mountain Bike Landscape Photography. Presented at: Cultures of Mountain Biking (CoMTB) Seminar Series, Online

Cherrington, J. (2024). Understanding the Relationship Between E-MTB, Disability and Green Exercise. Presented at: Reframing MTB, Sheffield

Cherrington, J. (2024). EMTB, Disability and Green Exercise. Presented at: Cultures of Mountain Biking Seminar Series, Online

Cherrington, J. (2023). Mountain Biking, Culture and Society (Book Launch). Presented at: Space and Place Seminar Series, Online

Cherrington, J. (2023). Book Launch: Mountain Biking, Culture and Society Book Launch. Presented at: Space and Place Research Seminar Series, Sheffield Hallam University

Cherrington, J. (2023). The Social, Cultural, and Political Importance of Mountain Biking (Keynote Presentation). Presented at: IMBA Annual Summit, Valposhiavo, Switzerland

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

Cherrington, J. (2022). The Electric Mountain Bike as Pharmakon: Examining the Problems and Possibilities of an Emerging Technology. Presented at: Whose Body Is it? Sport and the Problem of Autonomy, Aarhus, Denmark

Other publications

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

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