A Companion to Sport

Herausgegeben von Andrews, David L.; Carrington, Ben

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Produktbeschreibung

Sport has long been a central element of cultures throughout the world. Yet, it is often viewed by social scientists as a marginal activity. This wide-ranging collection of essays aims to address this inconsistency, exploring the ways in which sport has been marked by the discourses of race, class, gender, sexuality and nation which inform the structure and experience of wider society. Both theoretically ambitious and accessible, it provides an extension to the field, and is set to become a default text for anyone interested in contemporary cultural forms and their political significance.

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A Companion to Sport brings together writing by leading sports theorists and social and cultural thinkers, to explore sport as a central element of contemporary culture.

Positions sport as a crucial subject for critical analysis, as one of the most significant forms of popular culture
Includes both well-known social and cultural theorists whose work lends itself to an interrogation of sport, and leading theorists of sport itself
Offers a comprehensive examination of sport as a social and cultural practice and institution
Explores sport in relation to modernity, postcolonial theory, gender, violence, race, disability and politics

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies .
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1136g
• ISBN-13: 9781405191609
• ISBN-10: 1405191600
• Artikelnr.: 36673028

Autorenporträt

David L. Andrews is Professor of Physical Cultural Studies in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He is the author of Sport-Commerce-Culture: Essays on Sport in Late Capitalist America (2006) and coauthor of Sports Coaching Research: Context, Consequences, and Consciousness (with A. Bush, M. Silk, and H. Lauder, 2013). Ben Carrington teaches sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, USA and is a Carnegie Research Fellow at Leeds Metropolitan University in England. His most recent book is Race, Sport and Politics: The Sporting Black Diaspora (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors ix Introduction: Sport as Escape
Struggle
and Art 1 Ben Carrington and David L. Andrews Part One: Sporting Structures and Historical Formations 17 1 Constructing Knowledge: Histories of Modern Sport 23 Douglas Booth 2 Sport and Globalization 41 Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson 3 The Sport/Media Complex: Formation
Flowering
and Future 61 David Rowe 4 Political Theories of Social Class
Sport
and the Body 78 Joshua I. Newman and Mark Falcous 5 Gender
Feminist Theory
and Sport 96 Sheila Scraton and Anne Flintoff 6 Sports Medicine
Health
and the Politics of Risk 112 Parissa Safai 7 Sport
Ecological Modernization
and the Environment 129 Brian Wilson and Brad Millington Part Two: Bodies and Identities 143 8 Paradox of Privilege: Sport
Masculinities
and the Commodifi ed Body 149 Jeffrey Montez de Oca 9 Racism
Body Politics
and Football 164 Mark Q. Sawyer and Cory Charles Gooding 10 Physical Culture
Pedagogies of Health
and the Gendered Body 179 Emma Rich and John Evans 11 Gay Male Athletes and Shifting Masculine Identities 196 Eric Anderson 12 Sport
the Body
and the Technologies of Disability 210 P. David Howe Part Three: Contested Space and Politics 223 13 US Imperialism
Sport
and "the Most Famous Soldier in the War" 229 Toby Miller 14 The Realities of Fantasy: Politics and Sports Fandom in the Twenty-fi rst Century 246 Michael Bérubé 15 Sport
Palestine
and Israel 257 Tamir Sorek 16 Cities and the Cultural Politics of Sterile Sporting Space 270 Michael L. Silk 17 Swimming Pools
Civic Life
and Social Capital 287 Jeff Wiltse Part Four: Cultures
Subcultures
and (Post)Sport 305 18 Sports Fandom 311 Edwin Amenta and Natasha Miric 19 Sporting Violence and Deviant Bodies 327 Kevin Young and Michael Atkinson 20 Dissecting Action Sports Studies: Past
Present
and Beyond 341 Holly Thorpe and Belinda Wheaton 21 Heidegger
Parkour
Post-sport
and the Essence of Being 359 Michael Atkinson 22 Race-ing Men: Cars
Identity
and Performativity 375 Amy L. Best 23 Chess as Art
Science
and Sport 390 Antony Puddephatt and Gary Alan Fine Part Five: Sport
Mega-events
and Spectacle 405 24 Sport Mega-events as Political Mega-projects: A Critical Analysis of the 2010 FIFA World Cup 411 Scarlett Cornelissen 25 Sporting Mega-events
Urban Modernity
and Architecture 427 John Horne 26 Sports
the Beijing Olympics
and Global Media Spectacles 445 Douglas Kellner and Hui Zhang 27 Always Already Excluded: The Gendered Facts of Anti-Blackness and Brazil's Male Seleção 465 João H. Costa Vargas 28 To Be Like Everyone Else
Only Better: The US Men's Football Team and the World Cup 481 Grant Farred 29 Sport
Spectacle
and the Political Economy of Mega-events: The Case of the Indian Premier League 493 Ian McDonald and Abilash Nalapat Part Six: Sporting Celebrities/Cultural Icons 507 30 Global Sporting Icons: Consuming Signs of Economic and Cultural Transformation 513 Barry Smart 31 Embodying American Democracy: Performing the Female Sporting Icon 532 C.L. Cole and Michael D. Giardina 32 Monty Panesar and the New (Sporting) Asian Britishness 548 Daniel Burdsey 33 Earl's Loins - Or
Inventing Tiger Woods 564 Davis W. Houck 34 Deleuze and the Disabled Sports Star 582 Pirkko Markula Index 602