Les Back
Impact in
- Gender Studies top 1%
- Sports, Gender, and Society
- Sociology and Political Science top 0.5%
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
- Critical Race Theory in Education
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Papers in
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- Social and Cultural Dynamics 12
- Race, History, and American Society 7
- Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice 7
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration 7
- Sport and Mega-Event Impacts 5
- Music 12
- Music History and Culture 12
- Co-authors
- John Solomos (27 shared papers)Shamser Sinha (5 shared papers)Colleen D Greer (1 shared paper)Michael Keith (8 shared papers)Nirmal Puwar (1 shared paper)Tim Crabbe (4 shared papers)Kalbir Shukra (7 shared papers)Vron Ware (2 shared papers)
- Journals
- Sociological Research Online (7 papers)The Sociological Review (6 papers)Ethnic and Racial Studies (4 papers)Sociology (4 papers)Theory Culture & Society (3 papers)
- Partner nations
- United KingdomUnited StatesIreland
In The Last Decade
Les Back
92 papers receiving 2.3k citations
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 103
- Gender Studies 456
- Sociology and Political Science 2.1k
- Music 140
- Urban Studies 211
- Demography 286
Countries citing papers authored by Les Back
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Fields of papers citing papers by Les Back
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Co-authors
The 24 scholars most cited alongside Les Back, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 107 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Ethnicities and Urban Culture: Racisms and Multiculture in Young Lives | 1996 | 380 |
| 2 | 2001 | 239 | |
| 3 | 1996 | 204 | |
| 4 | 2003 | 139 | |
| 5 | 2012 | 114 | |
| 6 | 2002 | 114 | |
| 7 | 2002 | 111 | |
| 8 | 2015 | 110 | |
| 9 | 2012 | 106 | |
| 10 | 2012 | 105 | |
| 11 | The Changing Face of Football: Racism, Identity and Multiculture in the English Game | 2001 | 105 |
| 12 | 2016 | 99 | |
| 13 | 2002 | 74 | |
| 14 | 2002 | 70 | |
| 15 | 1994 | 66 | |
| 16 | 2013 | 57 | |
| 17 | 2009 | 53 | |
| 18 | 2019 | 52 | |
| 19 | 1999 | 50 | |
| 20 | 2009 | 42 |
About Les Back
Les Back is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Music, Political Science and International Relations, Gender Studies and Cultural Studies, having authored 107 papers that have together received 2.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Social and Cultural Dynamics (12 papers), Music History and Culture (12 papers), Race, History, and American Society (7 papers), Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (7 papers), Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 papers), Sports, Gender, and Society (5 papers), Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (5 papers) and Political and Economic history of UK and US (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Gender Studies (456 citations), Sociology and Political Science (2.1k citations), Music (140 citations), Urban Studies (211 citations) and Demography (286 citations). Les Back has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Ireland. Frequent co-authors include John Solomos, Shamser Sinha, Colleen D Greer, Michael Keith, Nirmal Puwar, Tim Crabbe, Kalbir Shukra, Vron Ware, Azra Khan and Sarah Susannah Willie. Their work appears in journals such as Sociological Research Online, The Sociological Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociology and Theory Culture & Society.
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