Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson is a sociologist and professor in the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia. In addition to authoring Sport and Peace: A Sociological Perspective, he is author of Fight, Flight or Chill: Subcultures, Youth and Rave into the Twenty-First Century (McGill-Queen's: 2006) as well as various articles and chapters related to sport, social inequality, environmental issues, mass media, social movements, and youth culture. His most recent work focuses on the ways that the sport of running is used for peace-promotion in Kenya, and on the environmentalist practices of the golf industry.