Journal Articles
Skey, M and Chen, Z (2024)
“I produce songs for her …. In this way, I gradually know her more. The more I know her, the more I like her”: using interactive ritual chains to study the case of virtual idol fandom in China,
Convergence, ISSN: 1354-8565.
Skey, M (2023)
The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media [Book review],
International Journal of Communication, 17, pp.3330-3333.
Skey, M (2022)
Sportswashing: media headline or analytic concept?,
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 58(5), pp.749-764, ISSN: 1012-6902. DOI:
10.1177/10126902221136086.
Skey, M (2022)
Nationalism and media,
Nationalities Papers, 50(5), pp.839-849, ISSN: 0090-5992. DOI:
10.1017/nps.2021.102.
Pocock, M and
Skey, M (2022)
‘You feel a need to inspire and be active on these sites otherwise . . . people won’t remember your name’: elite female athletes and the need to maintain ‘appropriate distance’ in navigating online gendered space,
New Media and Society, 26(2), pp.961-977, ISSN: 1461-4448. DOI:
10.1177/14614448211069343.
Skey, M and Waliaula, S (2021)
A non-media-centric approach to mediatization: digital orientations in the lives of football fans,
International Journal of Communication, 15, pp.2069-2085, ISSN: 1932-8036.
Skey, M (2021)
W(h)ither Media Events? Building a Typology for Theorizing Exceptional Events that Break with the Norm in a Complex Media Landscape,
Communication Theory, ISSN: 1050-3293. DOI:
10.1093/ct/qtaa034.
Jansen, J and
Skey, M (2020)
Who can represent the nation? Elite athletes, global mega events and the contested boundaries of national belonging,
Sociology, 54(6), pp.1194-1211, ISSN: 0038-0385. DOI:
10.1177/0038038520931997.
Antonsich, M and
Skey, M (2020)
Introduction: The Spaces and Politics of Affective Nationalism,
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 38(4), pp.580-582, ISSN: 2399-6544. DOI:
10.1177/2399654420912445a.
Skey, M (2020)
“It is their job to make sure that the long-term vision for the show … stays intact”: Using insights from the television format industry to rethink the concept of media events,
Communications, 47(1), pp.32-49, ISSN: 0341-2059. DOI:
10.1515/commun-2019-0159.
Antonsich, M,
Skey, M, Sumartojo, S, Merriman, P, Stephens, AC, Tolia-Kelly, D, Wilson, H, Anderson, B (2020)
The spaces and politics of affective nationalism,
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 38(4), ISSN: 2399-6544. DOI:
10.1177/2399654420912445.
Skey, M (2020)
Nationalism and media,
Studies on National Movements.
Skey, M (2018)
'If a citizen from the homeland runs quicker or jumps higher than foreigners, I feel pleasure. Why, I do not know': The possibilities and limitations of nationalism,
Nations and Nationalism, 24(4), pp.857-861, ISSN: 1354-5078. DOI:
10.1111/nana.12456.
Skey, M (2018)
‘There are times when I feel like a bit of an alien’: Middling migrants and the national order of things,
Nations and Nationalism, ISSN: 1354-5078. DOI:
10.1111/nana.12422.
Skey, M, Stone, C, Jenzen, O, Mangan, A (2018)
Mediatization & sport: A bottom-up perspective,
Communication and Sport, ISSN: 2167-4795. DOI:
10.1177/2167479517734850.
Antonsich, M and
Skey, M (2017)
Affective nationalism: issues of power, agency and method,
Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities, ISSN: 1477-0288. DOI:
10.1177/0309132516665279.
Kyriakidou, M,
Skey, M, Uldam, J, McCurdy, P (2017)
Media events and cosmopolitan fandom: 'Playful nationalism' in the Eurovision Song Contest,
International Journal of Cultural Studies, ISSN: 1367-8779. DOI:
10.1177/1367877917720238.
Skey, M, Kyriakidou, M, McCurdy, P, Uldam, J (2016)
Staging and engaging with media events: A study of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest,
International Journal of Communication, ISSN: 1932-8036.
Skey, M (2015)
Mindless markers of the nation’: The routine flagging of nationhood across the visual environment,
Sociology, 51(2), pp.274-289, ISSN: 1469-8684. DOI:
10.1177/0038038515590754.
Saey, S and
Skey, M (2015)
The politics of trans-national belonging: A study of the experiences of second-generation Egyptians during a period of socio-political change in Egypt,
Migration Studies, ISSN: 2049-5838. DOI:
10.1093/migration/mnv019.
Skey, M (2014)
'What nationality he is doesn't matter a damn!' International football, mediated identities and conditional cosmopolitanism,
National Identities, 17(3), pp.271-287, ISSN: 1460-8944. DOI:
10.1080/14608944.2014.934214.
Skey, M (2014)
Television and the Moral Imaginary: Society Through the Small Screen,
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION, 29(4), pp.495-503, ISSN: 0267-3231. DOI:
10.1177/0267323114533050.
SKEY, M (2014)
‘How Do You Think I Feel? It's My Country’: Belonging, Entitlement and the Politics of Immigration,
The Political Quarterly, 85(3), pp.326-332, ISSN: 0032-3179. DOI:
10.1111/1467-923x.12094.
Skey, M (2014)
The Mediation of Nationhood: Communicating the World as a World of Nations,
Communication Theory, 24(1), pp.1-20, ISSN: 1050-3293. DOI:
10.1111/comt.12028.
Skey, M (2013)
What does it mean to be cosmopolitan? An examination of the varying meaningfulness and commensurability of everyday ‘cosmopolitan’ practices,
Identities, 20(3), pp.235-252, ISSN: 1070-289X. DOI:
10.1080/1070289x.2013.799476.
Skey, M (2013)
Why do nations matter? The struggle for belonging and security in an uncertain world,
The British Journal of Sociology, 64(1), pp.81-98, ISSN: 0007-1315. DOI:
10.1111/1468-4446.12007.
Skey, M (2012)
We Need to Talk about Cosmopolitanism: The Challenge of Studying Openness towards Other People,
Cultural Sociology, 6(4), pp.471-487, ISSN: 1749-9755. DOI:
10.1177/1749975512445434.
Skey, M (2012)
‘Sod them, I'm English’: The changing status of the ‘majority’ English in post-devolution Britain,
Ethnicities, 12(1), pp.106-125, ISSN: 1468-7968. DOI:
10.1177/1468796811419601.
Skey, M (2011)
‘Thank god, I'm back!’: (Re)defining the nation as a homely place in relation to journeys abroad,
Journal of Cultural Geography, 28(2), pp.233-252, ISSN: 0887-3631. DOI:
10.1080/08873631.2011.583437.
SKEY, M (2010)
‘A sense of where you belong in the world’: national belonging, ontological security and the status of the ethnic majority in England,
Nations and Nationalism, 16(4), pp.715-733, ISSN: 1354-5078. DOI:
10.1111/j.1469-8129.2009.00428.x.
Skey, M (2009)
The National in Everyday Life: A Critical Engagement with Michael Billig's Thesis ofBanal Nationalism,
The Sociological Review, 57(2), pp.331-346, ISSN: 0038-0261. DOI:
10.1111/j.1467-954x.2009.01832.x.
Skey, M (2006)
‘Carnivals of Surplus Emotion?1’ Towards an Understanding of the Significance of Ecstatic Nationalism in a Globalising World,
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 6(2), pp.143-161, DOI:
10.1111/j.1754-9469.2006.tb00154.x.
Books
Skey, M, Thurnell-Read, T, Heřmanová, M (ed) (2022)
Introduction: Cultures of authenticity, Emerald Publishing Ltd, ISBN: 9781801179379. DOI:
10.1108/978-1-80117-936-220221001.
Heřmanová, M,
Skey, M, Thurnell-Read, T (2022)
Cultures of authenticity,ISBN: 9781801179379. DOI:
10.1108/9781801179362.
Antonsich, M and
Skey, M (2017)
Introduction: the persistence of banal nationalism, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN: 9781137570987.
Skey, M (2011)
Introduction: what's going on?, Palgrave Macmillan (© the author), ISBN: 9780230353893. DOI:
10.1057/9780230353893.
Chapters
Thompson, H and
Skey, M (2021)
#ThisMama: the professional athlete, pregnancy and motherhood – the case of Serena Williams. In Bowes, A and Culvin, A (ed)
The Professionalisation of Women’s Sport: Issues and Debates, Emerald Publishing Limited, pp.141-156, ISBN: 9781800431973. DOI:
10.1108/978-1-80043-196-620211009.
Thompson-Radford, H and
Skey, M (2021)
#ThisMama: The Professional Athlete, Pregnancy and Motherhood - The Case of Serena Williams. In
The Professionalisation of Women's Sport: Issues and Debates, pp.141-156, ISBN: 9781800431973. DOI:
10.1108/978-1-80043-196-620211009.
Skey, M (2018)
The politics of belonging in the Indigenous North. In Valkonen, THESVJ (ed)
Knowing from the Indigenous North, Routledge,ISBN: 9780415790734.
Skey, M and Antonsich, M (2017)
The present and future of nationalism. In
Everyday Nationhood: Theorising Culture, Belonging & Identity After Banal Nationalism, © The Editor(s) and The Author(s). Published by Palgrave Macmillan, pp.323-334, ISBN: 9781137570970. DOI:
10.1057/978-1-137-57098-7.
Skey, M (2014)
Boundaries and belonging: dominant ethnicity and the place of the nation in a globalizing world. In Jackson, J and Molokotos-Liederman, L (ed)
Nationalism, Ethnicity and Boundaries
Conceptualising and understanding identity through boundary approaches, Routledge, 6, ISBN: 9781317600008.
Skey, M (2009)
'We wanna show 'em who we are': national events in England. In
National Days Constructing and Mobilising National Identity, Palgrave Macmillan (© the author), pp.41-56, ISBN: 9780230251175.
