Academic publications

Dion Georgiou
Aug 08, 2023
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Most of the material listed here, as well as draft versions of newer pieces of writing, are available from my pages on both Academia.edu and ResearchGate.

Articles:

  • ‘Restaging Mafeking in Muswell Hill: Performing Patriotism and Charitability in London’s Boer War Carnivals’, Historical Research, 91, No. 254 (2018), pp. 744–771.

  • ‘‘Only a Local Affair’? Imagining and Enacting Locality through London’s Boer War Carnivals’, Urban History, Vol. 45, No. 1 (2018), pp. 100–127.

  • ‘Redefining the Carnivalesque: The Construction of Ritual, Revelry and Spectacle in British Leisure Practices through the Idea and Model of ‘Carnival’, 1870–1939’, Sport in History, Vol. 35, No. 3 (2015), pp. 335–363.

  • [with Benjamin Litherland] ‘Introduction: Sport’s Relationship with Other Leisure Industries II – Products, Imagery and Spectacle’, Sport in History, Vol. 35, No. 3 (2015), pp. 323–334.

  • ‘‘The Drab Suburban Streets were Metamorphosed into a Veritable Fairyland’: Spectacle and Festivity in the Ilford Hospital Carnival, 1905–1914’, London Journal, Vol. 39, No. 3 (2014), pp. 227–248.

  • ‘Introduction: Leisure in London’s Suburbs, 1880–1939’, London Journal, Vol. 39, No. 3 (2014), pp. 175–186.

  • [with Benjamin Litherland] ‘Introduction: Sport’s Relationship with Other Leisure Industries – Sites of Interaction, Sport in History, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2014), pp. 183–197.’

Chapters in edited volumes

  • ‘‘…Get Your Adidas Sambas And Floppy Fringes In Place!’: Twenty-First Century Cultural Industries, Heritagisation, Generational Memory, And Britpop’, in Tobias Becker and Dion Georgiou (eds.), The Uses of the Past in Contemporary Western Popular Culture: Nostalgia, Politics, Lifecycles, Mediations, and Materialities (London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).

  • [with Tobias Becker'] ‘‘Do You Know How Nostalgia Works?’ Pop Culture and the Uses of the Past’, in Tobias Becker and Dion Georgiou (eds.), The Uses of the Past in Contemporary Western Popular Culture: Nostalgia, Politics, Lifecycles, Mediations, and Materialities (London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).

  • [with Benjamin Litherland] ‘Introduction: Sport’s Relationship with other Leisure Industries – Historical Perspectives’, in Dion Georgiou and Benjamin Litherland (eds.),  Sport’s Relationship with Other Leisure Industries – Historical Perspectives (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017), pp. 1–22.

  • ‘Weaving Patterns in the Suburban Fabric: Carnival Procession Routes, Mapping Place and Experiencing Space on London’s Changing Periphery, 1890–1914’, in Sam Griffiths and Alexander von Lünen (eds.), Spatial Cultures: Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and Present (Abingdon: Routledge, 2016), pp. 95–113.

Edited volumes:

  • [with Tobias Becker] The Uses of the Past in Contemporary Western Popular Culture: Nostalgia, Politics, Lifecycles, Mediations, and Materialities (London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).

  • [with Benjamin Litherland] Sport’s Relationship with other Leisure Industries: Historical Perspectives (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017).

  • [with Benjamin Litherland] ‘Sport’s Relationship with Other Leisure Industries II: Products, Imagery and Spectacle’, Sport in History, Vol. 35, No. 3 (2015)

  • ‘Leisure in London’s Suburbs, 1880–1939’, special issue of London Journal, Vol. 39, No. 3 (2014).

  • [with Benjamin Litherland] ‘Sport’s Relationship with Other Leisure Industries I: Sites of Interaction’, Sport in History, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2014)

Reviews:

  • ‘Lauren Pikó, Milton Keynes in British Culture: Imagining England (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2019)’, Urban History, Vol. 49, No. 1 (2022),  pp. 240–242 (2022).

  • ‘Peter Burke, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe, 3rd edition (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009)’, Sport in History, Vol. 31, No. 1 (2011), pp. 115–118.