Karl Spracklen

2.7k total citations
103 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Karl Spracklen is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies and Music. According to data from OpenAlex, Karl Spracklen has authored 103 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 45 papers in Gender Studies and 24 papers in Music. Recurrent topics in Karl Spracklen's work include Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (45 papers), Sports, Gender, and Society (36 papers) and Music History and Culture (24 papers). Karl Spracklen is often cited by papers focused on Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (45 papers), Sports, Gender, and Society (36 papers) and Music History and Culture (24 papers). Karl Spracklen collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, India and Canada. Karl Spracklen's co-authors include Jonathan Long, Kevin Hylton, Brett Lashua, Peter Millward, Daniel Parnell, Ben Carrington, Thomas Fletcher, Stephen Henderson, Paul Robinson and Aarti Ratna and has published in prestigious journals such as Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and Leisure Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Karl Spracklen

93 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karl Spracklen United Kingdom	22	930	507	309	243	181	103	1.3k
Steve Redhead Australia	18	667 0.7×	437 0.9×	102 0.3×	305 1.3×	100 0.6×	62	1.1k
Brett Lashua United Kingdom	14	420 0.5×	110 0.2×	227 0.7×	136 0.6×	105 0.6×	55	684
Susan A. Dumais United States	14	762 0.8×	108 0.2×	110 0.4×	186 0.8×	95 0.5×	19	1.4k
Michael D. Giardina United States	16	581 0.6×	336 0.7×	85 0.3×	27 0.1×	19 0.1×	61	936
Mimi Schippers United States	10	453 0.5×	614 1.2×	202 0.7×	82 0.3×	32 0.2×	15	972
Roberta Sassatelli Italy	12	324 0.3×	161 0.3×	79 0.3×	12 0.0×	70 0.4×	52	768
Helena Wulff Sweden	14	448 0.5×	78 0.2×	43 0.1×	94 0.4×	51 0.3×	40	905
Julian B. Roebuck United States	15	742 0.8×	125 0.2×	128 0.4×	26 0.1×	33 0.2×	52	1.0k
Betsy Wearing Australia	15	796 0.9×	289 0.6×	531 1.7×	5 0.0×	76 0.4×	22	1.1k
Anna Hickey‐Moody Australia	17	621 0.7×	187 0.4×	67 0.2×	36 0.1×	43 0.2×	60	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karl Spracklen

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All Works

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Spracklen, Karl, et al.. (2025). ‘Reimagining rugby league’ and performative masculinities: the politics of rugby league fan spaces in Northern England. European Journal for Sport and Society. 23(1). 21–39.

Spracklen, Karl & Ian R. Lamond. (2025). The Discworld Mapp’d: Constructing Competing Narratives of Inequality in Science-Fiction Fandom. Leisure Sciences. 1–16.

Lashua, Brett, et al.. (2024). Khat-Chewing, Adiaphorisation and Morality: Rethinking Ethics in the Age of the Synopticon. Critical Criminology. 32(2). 425–439. 3 indexed citations

Spracklen, Karl. (2023). Hegemony in Postmodernity: Lifeworld Colonization and the Instrumentalization of Leisure. Leeds Beckett Repository (Leeds Beckett University). 6(3). 283–296. 1 indexed citations

Lashua, Brett, et al.. (2021). Khat-chewing, Moral Spacing and Belonging: Sociological Insights into the Cultural Space of the mafrish in the Leisure Lives of Older and Middle-aged British-Somali Males. Leeds Beckett Repository (Leeds Beckett University). 4(3). 1–22. 3 indexed citations

Spracklen, Karl. (2020). Populism, Nationalism and Masculinity Today: A Review. 29–42.

Spracklen, Karl. (2020). Metal Music and the Re-imagining of Masculinity, Place, Race and Nation. 12 indexed citations

Spracklen, Karl & Ian R. Lamond. (2020). Spaces of fandom: Critical reflections on fan events and tourism. 8(1). 3–7. 2 indexed citations

Robinson, David & Karl Spracklen. (2019). Music, Beer and Performativity in New Local Leisure Spaces: Case Study of a Yorkshire Dales Market Town. Leeds Beckett Repository (Leeds Beckett University). 2(4). 329–346. 10 indexed citations

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Spracklen, Karl. (2017). The future of work and leisure. Annals of Leisure Research. 20(3). 394–396. 2 indexed citations

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Henderson, Stephen & Karl Spracklen. (2017). ‘Plus ça Change, Plus C'est la Même Chose’: Music Promoting, Digital Leisure, Social Media and Community. Leisure Sciences. 40(4). 239–250. 6 indexed citations

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Brown, Andy, et al.. (2016). Global Metal Music and Culture : Current Directions in Metal Studies. Directory of Open access Books (OAPEN Foundation). 7 indexed citations

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Lashua, Brett, Karl Spracklen, & Stephen Wagg. (2014). Sounds and the city : popular music, place, and globalization. Palgrave Macmillan eBooks. 7 indexed citations

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Henderson, Stephen & Karl Spracklen. (2014). From serious leisure to serious work, or, when folk music struck a chord: careers, Habermasian rationality and agency. Leisure/Loisir. 38(3-4). 207–224. 4 indexed citations

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Spracklen, Karl, Jonathan Long, & Kevin Hylton. (2014). Leisure opportunities and new migrant communities: challenging the contribution of sport. Leisure Studies. 34(1). 114–129. 57 indexed citations

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Parnell, Daniel, Peter Millward, & Karl Spracklen. (2014). Sport and austerity in the UK: an insight into Liverpool 2014. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism Leisure and Events. 7(2). 200–203. 33 indexed citations

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Lashua, Brett, et al.. (2013). Female, Mosher, Transgressor: A 'Moshography' of Transgressive Practices within the Leeds Extreme Metal Scene. IASPM Journal. 4(1). 87–100. 6 indexed citations

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Spracklen, Karl, et al.. (2012). Pagans and Satan and Goths, oh my: dark leisure as communicative agency and communal identity on the fringes of the modern Goth scene. World Leisure Journal. 54(4). 350–362. 21 indexed citations

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Spracklen, Karl, et al.. (2009). "They'll never play rugby league in Kazakhstan": expansion, community and identity in a globalised and globalising sport.. 121–141. 2 indexed citations

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Spracklen, Karl, et al.. (2008). Negotiations of Being and Becoming. International Review for the Sociology of Sport. 43(2). 201–218. 8 indexed citations

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