Professor Jim McKay
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities

Researcher biography
Jim has taught at American, Australian, British and Canadian universities and received an Excellence in Teaching Award from The University of Queensland. He has published widely on topics such as gender, race, nationalism, globalisation and popular culture and is also a former editor of the International Review for the Sociology of Sport and on the editorial board of Men & Masculinities.
Jim McKay's engagement activities can be found here.
Books
McKay, Jim (2018). Transnational tourism experiences at Gallipoli. City of Singapore, Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-0026-4
Miller, T., Lawrence, G. A., McKay, J. and Rowe, D. (2001). Globalization and Sport: Playing the World. London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications.
Book Chapters
McKay, Jim and Harman, Serhat (2016). “It was like swimming through history”: tourist moments at Gallipoli. War Memory and Commemoration. (pp. 17-36) edited by Brad West. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315572802
McKay, James and Johnson, Helen (2015). Pornographic eroticism and sexual grotesquerie in representations of African American sportswomen. Gender, race, and class in media : a critical reader. (pp. 118-127) edited by Gail Dines and Jean M. Humez. Thousand Oaks, CA United States: Sage.
McKay, James and West, Brad (2015). Gallipoli, tourism and Australian nationalism. The Routledge companion to global popular culture. (pp. 436-448) edited by Toby Miller. New York, NY, United States: Routledge.
McKay, Jim and Brooks, Karen (2013). "Wayne's World": media narratives of the downfall and redemption about Australian football "King," Wayne Carey. Fallen Heroes: Sport, Media, and Celebrity Culture. (pp. 236-250) edited by Lawrence A. Wenner. New York , NY, USA: Peter Lang Publishers.
Rowe, David and McKay, Jim (2012). Torchlight temptations: hosting the Olympics and the global gaze. Watching the Olympics: politics, power and representation. (pp. 122-137) edited by John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Emmison, Michael, McKay, Jim and Mikosza, Janine (2009). Lads,larrikins and mates: Hegemonic masculinities in Australian beer advertisements. Sport, Beer, and Gender: Promotional Culture and Contemporary Social Life. (pp. 163-179) edited by Lawrence A Wenner and Steven J Jackson. New York , U.S.A.: Peter Lang Publishing.
McKay, Jim, Mikosza, Janine and Hutchins, Brett (2005). "Gentlemen, the lunchbox has landed": Representations of masculinities and men’s bodies in the popular media. Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities. (pp. 270-288) SAGE Publications Inc.. doi: 10.4135/9781452233833.n16
Mckay, J. (2005). Enlightened Racism and Celebrity Feminism in Contemporary Sports Advertisements. Sport, Culture and Advertising: Identities, Commodities, and the Politics of Representation. (pp. 81-99) edited by S. J. Jackson and D. L. Andrews. New York, NY: Routledge.
Mckay, Jim, Mikosza, Janine and Hutchins, Brett (2005). "Gentlemen, the lunchbox has landed"; Representations of masculinities and men's bodies in the popular media. Handbook of studies on men and masculinities. (pp. 270-288) edited by Michael S. Kimmel, Jeff Hearn and R. W. Connell. Thousand Oaks, CA, United States: Sage Publications.
Hutchins, Brett, McKay, James and Mikosza, Janine (2005). 'Gentlemen, the lunchbox has landed': representations of masculinities and men's bodies in the popular media. Handbook on men and masculinities. (pp. 270-288) Thousand Oaks, C.A., U.S.A.: Sage Publications Inc..
Mckay, James (2005). Enlightened Racism and Celebrity Feminism in Contemporary Sports Advertisements.. Sport, Culture and Advertising: Identities, Commodities, and the Politics of Representation. (pp. 81-99) edited by Jackson, Steven J and Andrews, David L. Abington, Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge.
Miller, T., Lawrence, G. A., Mckay, J. and Rowe, D. (2004). Sports media sans frontieres. Critical Readings: Sport, Culture and the Media. (pp. 84-98) edited by D. Rowe. Maidenhead, UK: Open University Press, McGraw Hill.
Rowe, D. and Mckay, J. (2003). A man's game: Sport and masculinities. Male Trouble: Looking at Australian Masculinities. (pp. 200-216) edited by M. Donaldson and S. Tomsen. Melbourne: Pluto Press.
Mckay, J. (2003). Hegemonic masculinity, the State and the politics of gender equity policy research. Critical Cultural Policy Studies: A Reader. (pp. 202-209) edited by Justin Lewis and Toby Miller. UK: Blackwells. doi: 10.1002/9780470690079.ch16
Mckay, J. (2002). A learner-centered, media-based and profeminist approach to gender and nonviolence in sport. Paradoxes of Youth and Sport. (pp. 102-118) edited by M. Gatz, M. Messner and S. Ball-Rokeach. USA: State Univ New York Press.
McKay, J., Lawrence, G., Miller, T. and Rowe, D. (2001). Gender equality, hegemonic masculinity and the governmentalisation of Australian amateur sport. Culture in Australia. (pp. 233-251) edited by Bennett, T. and Carter, D.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hughson, J., Lawrence, G. W., McKay, J. and Rowe, D. (2000). Sport and Australian society. A Sociology of Australian Society. (pp. 275-300) Melbourne: MacMillan.
McKay, J., Miller, T. and Rowe, D. (2000). Panic sport and the racialized masculine body. Masculinities, Gender Relations and Sport. (pp. 245-262) Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
McKay, J., Messner, M. A. and Sabo, D. (2000). Introduction: Studying sport, men and masculinities from feminist standpoints. Masculinities, Gender Relations and Sport. (pp. 1-12) Thousand Oaks: Sage.
McKay, J. (1999). Gender and organizational power in Canadian sport. Sport and Gender in Canada. (pp. 197-214) Toronto: Oxford University Press.
McKay, J. and Rowe, D. (1999). Field of soaps: Rupert v. Kerry as masculine melodrama. SportCult. (pp. 191-210) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Journal Articles
McKay, Jim (2015). Assessing the sociology of sport: on revisiting the sociological imagination. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 50 (4-5), 547-552. doi: 10.1177/1012690214539342
McKay, Jim (2013). 'We didn't want to do a dial-a-haka': Performing New Zealand nationhood in Turkey. Journal of Sport and Tourism, 18 (2), 117-135. doi: 10.1080/14775085.2013.846229
McKay, Jim (2013). A Critique of the Militarisation of Australian History and Culture Thesis: The Case of Anzac Battlefield Tourism. PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies,, 10 (1). doi: 10.5130/portal.v10i1.2371
Lamont, Matthew and McKay, Jim (2012). Intimations of postmodernity in sports tourism at the Tour de France. Journal of Sport and Tourism, 17 (4), 313-331. doi: 10.1080/14775085.2012.760935
Mckay, Jim and Roderick, Martin (2010). 'Lay Down Sally': Media narratives of failure in Australian sport. Journal of Australian Studies, 34 (3), 295-315. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2010.498094
Mackay, J. and Johnson, H. (2008). Pornographic eroticism and sexual grotesquerie in representations of African American sportswomen. Social Identities, 14 (4), 491-504. doi: 10.1080/13504630802211985
Lafferty, Yvonne and McKay, Jim (2004). “Suffragettes in satin shorts”? Gender and competitive boxing. Qualitative Sociology, 27 (3), 249-276. doi: 10.1023/B:QUAS.0000037618.57141.53
Lafferty, Y. and Mckay, J. (2004). “Suffragettes in Satin Shorts”? Gender and Competitive Boxing. Qualitative Sociology, 27 (3), 249-276. doi: 10.1023/B:QUAS.0000037618.57141.53
Miller, Toby, Rowe, David, McKay, Jim and Lawrence, Geoffrey (2003). The over-production of US sports and the new International Division of Cultural Labor. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 38 (4), 427-440. doi: 10.1177/1012690203384004
Krenske, Leigh and McKay, Jim (2000). 'Hard and heavy': Gender and power in a heavy metal music subculture. Gender, Place and Culture, 7 (3), 287-304. doi: 10.1080/713668874
McKay, Jim, Hutchins, Brett and Mikosza, Janine (2000). 'Shame and scandal in the family': Australian media narratives of the IOC/SOCOG scandal spiral. Olympika, IX, 25-48.
McKay, Jim and Ogilvie, Emma (1999). New age: Same old men: Constructing the 'New Man' in the Australian media. Mattoid, 54, 18-35.
Rowe, David and McKay, Jim (1999). Sport: Still a man's game. Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, 3 (2), 113-128.
Rowe, D, McKay, J and Lawrence, G (1997). Out of the shadows: The critical sociology of sport in Australia, 1986 to 1996. Sociology of Sport Journal, 14 (4), 340-361. doi: 10.1123/ssj.14.4.340
Mckay, Jim and Emmison, Michael (1995). Using learner-centred learning (LCL) in undergraduate sociology courses. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, 31 (3), 94-103. doi: 10.1177/144078339503100308
Mckay J. (1995). ‘Just Do It’: Corporate Sports Slogans and the Political Economy of ‘Enlightened Racism’. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 16 (2), 191-201. doi: 10.1080/0159630950160203
Rowe, David, Lawrence, Geoffrey, Miller, Toby and McKay, Jim (1994). Global sport? Core concern and peripheral vision. Media, Culture & Society, 16 (4), 661-675. doi: 10.1177/016344379401600408
McKay J. and Huber D. (1992). Anchoring media images of technology and sport. Women's Studies International Forum, 15 (2), 205-218. doi: 10.1016/0277-5395(92)90101-Z
Mckay J. (1986). Leisure and Social Inequality in Australia. Journal of Sociology, 22 (3), 343-367. doi: 10.1177/144078338602200301
McKay, J. (1985). Religious diversity and ethnic cohesion: a three generational analysis of Syrian-Lebanese Christians in Sydney. International Migration Review, 19 (2), 318-334. doi: 10.2307/2545775
McKay J. and Pearson K. (1984). Objectives, strategies, and ethics in teaching introductory courses in sociology of sport. Quest, 36 (2), 134-146. doi: 10.1080/00336297.1984.10483808
McKay J. (1982). An exploratory synthesis of primordial and mobilizationist approaches to ethnic phenomena. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 5 (4), 395-420. doi: 10.1080/01419870.1982.9993387
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Thesis
McKay, James Frederick (1947). The scope and teaching of philosophy in the Scottish universities in the eighteenth century. M.A. Thesis, School of History, Philosophy, Religion, and Classics, The University of Queensland.