Emeritus Prof Sara Delamont

2025

• Jennings, G. and Delamont, S. 2025. Creating sticky cultures: a pedagogical strategy. Ethnography and Education 20 (3), pp.254-269. (10.1080/17457823.2025.2501607)

2023

• Delamont, S. and Stephens, N. 2023. Two-handed ethnography. In: Miller, L. and Syring, D. eds. The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance. New York, NY: Routledge. , pp.175-188. (10.4324/b23216-14)
• Jennings, G. and Delamont, S. 2023. Looking east and south: philosophical reflections on Taijiquan and Capoeira. Philosophies 8 (6) 101. (10.3390/philosophies8060101)

2021

• Delamont, S. and Atkinson, P. 2021. Ethnographic engagements: encounters with the familiar and the strange. London: Routledge. (10.4324/9780429056840)
• Delamont, S. et al. 2021. Os joelhos! Os joelhos! Protective embodiment and occasional injury in Capoeira. Frontiers in Sociology 5 584300. (10.3389/fsoc.2020.584300)
• Delamont, S. and Stephens, N. 2021. The belts are set out: The batizado as a symbolic welcome to capoeira culture. Ethnography 22 (3), pp.351-371. (10.1177/14661381211035762)

2019

• Delamont, S. et al. 2019. Lo spirito esplorativo libero La scuola di Etnografia di Cardiff 1974 - 2017, Traduzione di Giuseppina Cersosimo, Chiuso in stampa nel mese di marzo 2019, Presso Creative 3.0 srl - Reggio Calabria. Documentation.
• Smith, R. J. and Delamont, S. 2019. Editorial introduction. In: The Lost Ethnographies: Methodological Insights from Projects that Never Were. Vol. 17, Translated from the original by R. J. Smith and S. Delamont Studies in Qualitative Methodology Emerald Publishing Limited. , pp.1-15.

2018

• Southwood, J. and Delamont, S. 2018. ‘A very unstatic sport’: an ethnographic study of British Savate classes. Societies 8 (4) 122. (10.3390/soc8040122)

2017

• Delamont, S. , Stephens, N. and Campos, C. 2017. Embodying Brazil: an ethnography of diasporic capoeira. London and New York: Routledge. (10.4324/9781315543345)

2016

• Delamont, S. 2016. COM MUITO AXE, Or "can a woman be an intellectual?". In: Sadovnik, A. R. and Coughlan, R. W. eds. Leaders in the Sociology of Education: Intellectual Self-Portraits. Sense Publishers. , pp.57-68.

2014

• Stephens, N. J. and Delamont, S. 2014. 'I can see it in the nightclub': dance, capoeira and male bodies. The Sociological Review 62 (1), pp.149-166. (10.1111/1467-954X.12062)

2013

• Atkinson, P. A. , Watermeyer, R. and Delamont, S. 2013. Expertise, authority and embodied pedagogy: operatic masterclasses. British Journal of Sociology of Education 34 (4), pp.487-503. (10.1080/01425692.2012.723868)

2012

• Atkinson, P. A. and Delamont, S. 2012. From classification to integration: Bernstein and the sociology of medical education. In: Brosnan, C. and Turner, B. S. eds. Handbook of Sociology of Medical Education. London: Routledge. , pp.36-50.

2010

• Atkinson, P. A. and Delamont, S. 2010. Can the silenced speak? A dialogue for two unvoiced actors. International Review of Qualitative Research 3 (1), pp.11-15.
• de Campos Rosario, C. , Stephens, N. J. and Delamont, S. 2010. 'I'm your teacher, I'm Brazilian!' authenticity and authority in European capoeira. Sport, Education and Society 15 (1), pp.103-120. (10.1080/13573320903461061)
• Delamont, S. 2010. Editorial preface. Teaching and Teacher Education 26 (1), pp.1-2. (10.1016/j.tate.2009.10.030)
• Delamont, S. , Atkinson, P. A. and Pugsley, L. A. 2010. The concept smacks of magic: fighting familiarity today. Teaching and Teacher Education 26 (1), pp.3-10. (10.1016/j.tate.2009.09.002)
• Delamont, S. et al. 2010. Review symposium: Martyn Hammersley, Questioning Qualitative Inquiry. Qualitative Research 10 (6), pp.749-758. (10.1177/1468794110380578)
• Stephens, N. J. and Delamont, S. 2010. Roda Boa, Roda Boa: legitimate peripheral participation in diasporic capoeira. Teaching and Teacher Education 26 (1), pp.113-118. (10.1016/j.tate.2009.09.003)

2009

• Delamont, S. 2009. Familiar screams: a brief comment on “Field of screams”. Anthropology Matters 11 (2), pp.1-2.
• Delamont, S. 2009. Neopagan narratives: knowledge claims and other world 'realities'. Sociological Research Online 14 (5) 18. (10.5153/sro.2064)
• Delamont, S. 2009. The only honest thing: autoethnography, reflexivity and small crises in fieldwork. Ethnography and Education 4 (1), pp.51-63. (10.1080/17457820802703507)
• Stephens, N. J. and Delamont, S. 2009. 'They start to get malicia': teaching tacit and technical knowledge. British Journal of Sociology of Education 30 (5), pp.537-548. (10.1080/01425690903101031)
• Stephens, N. J. and Delamont, S. 2009. ‘Vim de Bahia pra lhe ver’: Multiple movements in the Capoeira Batizado. In: Fincham, B. , McGuinness, M. and Murray, L. eds. Mobile Methodologies. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. , pp.85-103.

2008

• Atkinson, P. A. , Delamont, S. and Housley, W. 2008. Contours of culture : complex ethnography and the ethnography of complexity. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press.
• Delamont, S. 2008. For lust of knowing—observation in educational ethnography. In: Walford, G. ed. How to do Educational Ethnography. Tufnell Press. , pp.39-56.
• Delamont, S. 2008. No such thing as a consensus: Olive Banks and the sociology of education. British Journal of Sociology of Education 29 (4), pp.391-402. (10.1080/01425690802160302)
• Delamont, S. and Stephens, N. J. 2008. Up on the roof: the embodied habitus of diasporic capoeira. Cultural Sociology 2 (1), pp.57-74. (10.1177/1749975507086274)

2006

• Delamont, S. 2006. The smell of sweat and rum: teacher authority in capoeira classes. Ethnography and Education 1 (2), pp.161-175. (10.1080/17457820600715380)
• Stephens, N. J. and Delamont, S. 2006. Balancing the Berimbau: Embodied Ethnographic Understanding. Qualitative Inquiry 12 (2), pp.316-339. (10.1177/1077800405284370)

2003

• Atkinson, P. A. , Coffey, A. J. and Delamont, S. 2003. Key themes in qualitative research: continuities and changes. Walnut Creek, CA, USA: AltaMira Press.
• Delamont, S. 2003. Feminist sociology. BSA New Horizons in Sociology London: Sage.

2001

• Delamont, S. et al. 2001. An open exploratory spirit? Ethnography at Cardiff 1974 - 2001. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
• Delamont, S. and Atkinson, P. A. 2001. Doctoring uncertainty: mastering craft knowledge. Social Studies of Science 31 (1), pp.87-107. (10.1177/030631201031001005)

2000

• Delamont, S. , Atkinson, P. A. and Odette, P. 2000. The doctoral experience: success and failure in graduate school. New York ; London: Falmer.