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Academic Work

Allain, K. A. (2024). Masculinity on ice: Masculinity, friendships, and sporting relationships in midlife and older adulthood. Journal of Gender Studies, 33(2), 218–231.

Allain, K. (interviewer), & Hess, R. (interviewee). (2023). In conversation with Renee Hess of Black Girl Hockey Club. K. Allain (interview and commentary). Journal of Emerging Sport Studies, 8.

Allain, K. A., & Dotto, S. (in press). “She’s twice their age”: Representations of aging and the creation of an age order in women’s gymnastics. Communication & Sport.

Aladejebi, F., Allain, K. A., & George, R. C. & Nzindukiyimana, O. (2022). We the North? Race, nation and the multicultural politics of Toronto’s first NBA championship. Journal of Canadian Studies, 56(1), 1–34. [authors listed alphabetically]

Allain, K. A. (2022). Beating the buzzer: The construction of aging hockey masculinity. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 57(1) 3–18.

Allain, K. A. (2020). Winter of our contentment: Examining risk, pleasure, and emplacement in later-life physical activity. Journal of Aging Studies.

Dotto, S., & Allain, K. A. (2020). Curricular disorder: Disability studies, eating disorders, and health and physical education in Ontario, Canada. Thresholds in Education, 43(1), 19–32.

Allain, K. A. (2020). “They are used to the traditional ways of doing things:” Older men’s experiences of curling’s new rationality. Sociology of Sport Journal, 37(1), 47–56.

Allain, K. A. (2019). Hegemony contests: Challenging the notion of a singular Canadian hockey nationalism. American Review of Canadian Studies, 49(4).

Allain, K. & Marshall, B. L. (2019). “It used to be called an old man’s game:” Masculinity, embodiment, and curling participation amongst men in later life. International Journal of Ageing and Later Life.

Allain, K. A. (2018). Hockey. In M. Dawson, C. Gidney & D. Wright (Eds.), Canadian Symbols. Toronto, ON: Between the Lines Press.

Allain, K. A. (2018). Taking slap shots at the house: An examination of the consequences of representing curlers as hockey players. In J. Anderson & J. Ellison (Eds.), Rethinking Hockey: Repenser à Hockey. Ottawa, ON: University of Ottawa Press.

Allain, K. A. & Marshall, B. (2018). “Buff boys” with brooms: Shifting representations of masculinity within men’s curling. NORMA: International Journal of Men and Masculinities.

Allain, K. A., & Marshall, B. (2017). Foucault retires to the gym: Understanding embodied aging through leisure fitness in the “Third Age.” Canadian Journal on Aging.

Allain, K.A. (2016). “A Good Canadian Boy”: Crisis Masculinity, Canadian National Identity and Nostalgic Longings in Don Cherry’s Coach’s Corner". International Journal of Canadian Studies, 52, 107-132.

Allain, K.A. (2016). ‘The mad Russian’: Representations of Alexander Ovechkin and the creation of Canadian national identity". Sociology of Sport Journal, 33(2).

Allain, K.A. (2014). ‘What happens in the room stays in the room’: Conducting research with young men in elite-level ice hockey." Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 6(2), 205-219.

Allain, K.A. (2011). Kid Crosby or Golden Boy: Sidney Crosby, Canadian national identity, and the policing of hockey masculinity. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 46(1), 3-22.

Allain, K.A. (2008). ‘Real fast and tough’: The construction of Canadian hockey masculinity. Sociology of Sport Journal, 25(4) 462-481.

Popular Work

Allain, K. (2022, July 28). If hockey is our game, then its history of violence is also our legacy – one that Canada must reckon with. The Globe and Mail.

Allain, K. (2021, April 10). Is New Brunswick’s so-called “Double Tax” Increasing Your Rent? [op-ed]. The Telegraph Journal.

Bejan, R., & Allain, K. (2021, Mar 4). Profits trump COVID-19 protections for migrant seafood workers in Atlantic Canada. The Conversation, The Chronicle Herald, Philippian Canadian Inquirer, Latino Rebels, Saltwire Cape Breton, The Guardian PEI, The Telegram St. John’s, Cape Breton Post, Journal Pioneer Summerside.

Allain, K. (2020, September 21). A look at what hockey could learn from senior hockey players. The Conversation. Timmins Today, Collingwood Today, Newmarket Today, Soo Today, Midland Today, Bay Today, Thorold Today, Elliott Lake Today, Guelph Today, Orillia Matters, Sudbury.com, Innisfil Today, Barrie Today, Yahoo News.

Allain, K. (2020, September 15). What does a good teacher sound like? Voicing difference in the virtual classroom [opinion editorial]. University Affairs.

Allain, K., & Dotto, S. (2019, November 11). Don Cherry: A day of reckoning long overdue. Hockey in Society: Exploring Critical Social Issues in Hockey.

Allain, K. (2019, January 15). Gut Checking the Hockey FIT Program [Blog Entry]. Hockey in Society: Exploring Critical Social Issues in Hockey.