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
Academy 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
Journal articles
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., & 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. (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: 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., & 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. (2022). Electric Mountain Bikes, Ableism, and ‘Enwheelment’ in Outdoor Leisure. In Inclusion and Equity in Outdoor Leisure: Who's Body Belongs?. Wallingford: CABI
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
VAHLQUIST, B.O., & WALLGREN, A. (1964). Nils Rosén von Rosenstein and His Textbook of Pædiatrics. (pp. 482). Wiley: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1651-2227.1964.tb07256.x
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
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., & Black, J. (2022). Sport and Physical Activity in Catastrophic Environments (Book Launch). Presented at: Changing Places Seminar Series, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, 2022
Other publications
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