Lincoln Allison (born 5 October 1946 in

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) is an English academic and essayist.

Life and career

Allison grew up in

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, and was educated at

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, and at

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and Nuffield Colleges,

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. He was a research scholar at

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before taking up a position at the

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, where he taught from 1969 to 2004. Retired from full-time teaching, he is now

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Reader in Politics at the University of Warwick and visiting professor in the politics of sport at the

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. Commenting in 2023 on new rules which aim to restrict relationships between university staff and students, Allison said that as a young lecturer he "played sport with students, got drunk with students and made love with students. All of this seemed entirely normal on the campus of a new university in the late 1960s and early 1970s." He is most noted for his work on the politics of sport, for which he was awarded a

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in 2003, but he has also produced books on a number of other topics and been a prolific writer for magazines and newspapers since the 1970s. He married Ann McDonnell in 1975; they have three sons.

Books

* ''Environmental Planning: A Political and Philosophical Analysis'' 1975 * ''Condition of England: Essays and Impressions'' 1981 * ''Right Principles: A Conservative Philosophy of Politics'' 1984 * ''The Politics of Sport'' (edited) 1986 * ''A Journey Quite Different: Collected Walks'' 1987 * ''The Utilitarian Response: Essays on the Contemporary Viability of Utilitarian Political Philosophy'' (edited) 1990 * ''Ecology and Utility: The Philosophical Dilemmas of Planetary Management'' 1991 * ''The Changing Politics of Sport'' (edited) 1993 * ''Taking Sport Seriously'' (edited) 1999 * ''Amateurism in Sport: An Analysis and a Defence'' 2000 * ''The Global Politics of Sport: The Role of Global Institutions in Sport'' 2005 * ''The Disrespect Agenda: Or How the Wrong Kind of Niceness Is Making Us Weak and Unhappy'' 2008 * ''My Father's Bookcase: A Version of the History of Ideas'' 2011 * ''Understanding International Sport Organisations: Principles, Power and Possibilities'' (with Alan Tomlinson) 2017

References

External links

Personal website
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