Steve Redhead

Steve Redhead (January 1952 – 8 March 2018) was the Professor of Jurisprudence and Head of Law in the Faculty of Arts at Charles Sturt University. He was also an adjunct professor at York University (Toronto) and was visiting Professor of Accelerated Culture at the University of Bolton.

Career Redhead held professorships in Canada and the United Kingdom, and a Visiting Professorship at Murdoch University in Australia. While his later scholarship focused on Paul Virilio and theories of accelerated modernity, he was known for his research on post-youth culture, law, critical criminology, and popular culture and football fanzines.

He held an LLB and LLM from Manchester University, and a PhD from the University of Warwick. Combining law and cultural studies, his scholarship focused on theories of deviance in both football fandom and dance cultures, along with current interests in speed, terrorism, football memoirs, war and theories of social change.

Redhead was known for a series of scholarly innovations, in theories of deviance, (post) youth culture and accelerated modernity.

While later working in Bathurst in regional New South Wales, Australia, most of his career was spent at Manchester Metropolitan University where he was Co-Director of the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture with Derek Wynne.

A media commentator, he appeared on the BBC4 programme, Dance Britannia. He was also a podcaster and developed a series of micro interviews with Tara Brabazon.

Redhead died on 8 March 2018. Football and Accelerated Culture: This Modern Sporting Life (Routledge, 2015) End of the Century Party: Youth, Pop and the Rise of Madchester (Manchester University Press, 2019)