Michael Silk

Broschiertes Buch

The Cultural Politics of Post-9/11 American Sport

Power, Pedagogy and the Popular

Beschreibung

This book uncovers how political, economic and military trajectories in the post-9/11 era have been normalized, reduced to the affective realm of popular culture, and nurtured and expressed in, and through, commercial media sporting spectacles.

Autor

Michael Silk is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Bath and Associate Professor in Physical Cultural Studies at the University of Maryland. His research and scholarship centers on the production and consumption of space, the governance of bodies, and, the performative politics of identity within the context of neo-liberalism. He has published a number of book chapters and journal articles in Media, Culture, Society, Organisational Research Methods, American Behavioral Scientist, the Journal of Sport and Social Issues, the Sociology of Sport Journal, the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Sport, Culture and Society, the International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, and the Journal of Sport Management .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 287g
• ISBN-13: 9780415719643
• ISBN-10: 041571964X
• Artikelnr.: 42480828