Ruling Passions: Essays on Just About Everything by Nick Perry

Kicking off the essays collected together in Nick Perry’s new book, Ruling Passions: essays on just about everything, is one devoted to rugby and the media, with the title ‘Sport: Media 5, Rugby 1’.

Perry is a professor in Film, Television and Media Studies at Auckland University and one of Australasia’s leading media and social science intellectuals. Rugby is just one of the things he is interested in and writes about.

Often ‘culture’ is seen as somehow elevated above daily life, in a rarefied realm, or set apart from our modern concerns, as in anthropology. But for people such as Nick Perry, a media sociologist, culture is the matter-of-fact practice and taken-forgranted
nature of everyday life. It is inherent in how knowledge is produced, how society functions, and how we create meaning about what is going on.

With a foreword by Ian Wedde.

About Nick Perry
Nick Perry is Professor in Film, Television and Media Studies at The University of Auckland. A former President of the Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand, he has published extensively, including contributing to and being advisory editor for the media section of the eleven-volume 3.5 million-word Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2007).

He is the author or co-editor of five books.

Book details
Ruling Passions: Essays on Just About Everything
by Nick Perry
Published by Otago University Press
ISBN 9781877372896