A Companion to Sport (eBook)

David L. Andrews, Ben Carrington (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-32528-5 (ISBN)

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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

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).

Inhalt

Notes on Contributors ix

Introduction: Sport as Escape, Struggle, and Art 1
Ben Carrington and David L. Andrews

Part One: Sporting Structures and Historical Formations17

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 Future61
David Rowe

4 Political Theories of Social Class, Sport, and the Body78
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 Commodified 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 Body179
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 inthe War" 229
Toby Miller

14 The Realities of Fantasy: Politics and Sports Fandom in theTwenty-fi rst Century 246
Michael Bérubé

15 Sport, Palestine, and Israel 257
Tamir Sorek

16 Cities and the Cultural Politics of Sterile Sporting Space270
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 Beyond341
Holly Thorpe and Belinda Wheaton

21 Heidegger, Parkour, Post-sport, and the Essence of Being359
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 CriticalAnalysis of the 2010 FIFA
World Cup 411
Scarlett Cornelissen

25 Sporting Mega-events, Urban Modernity, and Architecture427
John Horne

26 Sports, the Beijing Olympics, and Global Media Spectacles445
Douglas Kellner and Hui Zhang

27 Always Already Excluded: The Gendered Facts of Anti-Blacknessand Brazil's Male Seleção 465
João H. Costa Vargas

28 To Be Like Everyone Else, Only Better: The US Men'sFootball 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 andCultural Transformation 513
Barry Smart

31 Embodying American Democracy: Performing the Female SportingIcon 532
C.L. Cole and Michael D. Giardina

32 Monty Panesar and the New (Sporting) Asian Britishness548
Daniel Burdsey

33 Earl's Loins - Or, Inventing Tiger Woods564
Davis W. Houck

34 Deleuze and the Disabled Sports Star 582
Pirkko Markula

Index 602

Rezensionen

"No doubt, many students will be inspired by it to undertake further research and create yet new and deeper thoughts on the role sport can play in our society." (Reference Reviews, 1 December 2014

"Combining accessible overviews of established fields of
research in sport studies with lively discussions of emergent
ideas, this landmark text is invaluable."

Samantha King, Queen's University

"An outstanding cast of authors has provided a veritable
tour de force of critical inquiry and analysis into the roles of
sport in contemporary society. Cutting edge
scholarship."

Daryl Adair, University of Technology, Sydney

"This collection offers an important resource documenting
the ways in which sport matters culturally as a site of popular
pleasure and identifications fraught with ideological and political
significance."

Mary McDonald, Miami University

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Notes on Contributors

Edwin Amenta is a professor of sociology, political science, and history at the University of California, Irvine. His most recent books are Professor Baseball: Searching for Redemption and the Perfect Lineup on the Softball Diamonds of New York (2007) and When Movements Matter: The Townsend Plan and the Rise of Social Security (2008), and he is coeditor (with Kate Nash and Alan Scott) of the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology (2012).

Eric Anderson is a professor of sport, masculinities, and sexualities at the University of Winchester, UK. He is recognized as an academician of the British Academy of Social Sciences and a fellow of the International Association of Sex Researchers. His research on sport, masculinities, and sexualities shows an increasingly positive relationship between gay male athletes and sport as well as a growing movement of young heterosexual men’s masculinity becoming softer and more inclusive. He also researches matters related to men’s monogamy and the positive function of relationship cheating, men’s improving recognition of bisexuality, and the increased acceptance of young heterosexual men kissing. He has written 12 books and is regularly featured across the media.

David L. Andrews is Professor of Physical Cul­tural Studies in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland at College Park, an affiliate faculty member of the departments of American Studies and Sociology, and a visiting professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Bath. He is an assistant editor of the Journal of Sport & Social Issues, and an editorial board member of the Sociology of Sport Journal, the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and Kinesiological Review. He is coeditor (with Michael L. Silk) of Sport and Neoliberalism: Politics, Consumption, and Culture (2012).

Michael Atkinson is an associate professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto, where he teaches physical cultural studies and is director of the Sport Legacies Research Collaborative. His central areas of interest (both teaching and research) pertain to alternative physical cultures, biopedagogical practices in sport, and issues in bioethics within global and local sport cultures. He is author/editor of seven books, including Battleground Sport (2008), Deviance and Social Control in Sport (with Kevin Young, 2008), and Deconstructing Men and Masculinities (2010).

Michael Bérubé is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University. In 2012 he served as the president of the Modern Language Association. His most recent book is The Left at War (2009), and he is currently working on a book about cognitive disability and narrative theory.

Amy L. Best is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University. Her research focuses on the study of youth, culture, and social inequalities, with a particular interest in how gender, ethnicity, sexuality, race, and class differently shape the social experiences of contemporary American youth. She is interested in qualitative and feminist approaches to social research. She is author of Prom Night Youth, Schools and Popular Culture (2000), selected for the 2002 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award, and Fast Cars, Cool Rides: The Accelerating World of Youth and Their Cars (2006), and editor of Representing Youth: Methodological Issues in Critical Youth Studies (2007).

Douglas Booth is Professor of Sport and Leisure Studies and Dean of the School of Physical Education at the University of Otago. His research interests include historiography, extreme sport, and the politics of sport. He is the author of The Race Game (1998), Australian Beach Cultures (2001), and The Field (2005). He serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals, including Rethinking History, Journal of Sport History, and Sport History Review, and is an executive member of the Australian Society for Sport History.

Daniel Burdsey is Principal Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Brighton. He has written and published widely on sport and popular culture within British Asian communities. He is the author of British Asians and Football: Culture, Identity and Exclusion (2007) and the editor of Race, Ethnicity and Football: Persisting Debates and Emergent Issues (2011). He is also the editor (with Stanley Thangaraj and Rajinder Dudrah) of a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture on “Sport and South Asian diasporas” (2013).

Ben Carrington teaches sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and is a Carnegie Research Fellow at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is author of Race, Sport and Politics: The Sporting Black Diaspora (2010) and editor (with Ian McDonald) of Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport (2009).

C.L. Cole is a professor of gender and women's studies, sociology, and communications research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she teaches courses in feminist cultural studies, critical sexuality and race studies, and body studies. She is the author/editor of four books, including the forthcoming Good Sports? The Boundaries of American Democracy. She is the editor of the Journal of Sport & Social Issues, and serves on the editorial boards of Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, Qualitative Research in Sport & Exercise Science, and the New York University Press book series Biopolitics: Medicine, Technoscience, and Health in the 21st Century.

Scarlett Cornelissen is Professor of Political Science at Stellenbosch University. Her research includes topics on sport and international relations and the politics of sport mega-events. She most recently published Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century (2012, co-edited with Fantu Cheru and Timothy M. Shaw) and Sport Past and Present in South Africa: (Trans)forming the Nation (2012, co-edited with Albert Grundlingh).

João H. Costa Vargas teaches black studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His publications include Catching Hell in the City Of Angels: Life and Meanings of Blackness in South Central Los Angeles (2006) and Never Meant to Survive : Genocide and Utopias in Black Diaspora Communities (2008).

John Evans is Professor of Sociology of Education and Physical Education in the School of Sport, Exercise, and Health Sciences at Loughborough University; Visiting Adjunct Professor, University of Queensland, Australia, and founding editor of the international journal, Sport, Education and Society. He teaches and writes on issues of equity, education policy, pedagogy, identity, and processes of schooling. He has authored and edited many papers, book chapters, and books in the sociology of education and physical education including Education, Disordered Eating and Obesity Discourse (2008, coauthored with Emma Rich, Rachel Allwood, and Brian Davies).

Mark Falcous is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport at the University of Otago. His research focuses on intersections of sport, globalization, national identity, and media. His work has appeared in Sociology of Sport Journal, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Journal of Sport & Social Issues, Media and Cultural Politics, and Sites. He coedited (with Joseph Maguire) Sport and Migration: Borders, Boundaries and Crossings (2011).

Grant Farred teaches at Cornell University. His works include What's My Name? Black Vernacular Intellectuals (2003), Phantom Calls: Race and the Globalization of the NBA (2006), Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football (2008), and In Motion, At Rest: The Event of the Athletic Body (forthcoming) and Conciliation (forthcoming).

Gary Alan Fine is John Evans Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University and a former John Simon Guggenheim fellow. Over the course of his career he has published theoretical and ethnographic accounts of several leisure worlds, including little league baseball, fantasy role-play gaming, mushroom collecting, high-school debate, and art collecting. His current research examines the cultures of competitive chess.

Anne Flintoff is Professor of Physical Education and Sport and Head of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Research Center in the Carnegie Faculty of Sport and Education, Leeds Metropolitan University. Her teaching, research, and consultancy center on issues of equity and social inclusion in physical education and sport, with a particular focus on gender. She publishes regularly in both academic and professional journals, and in key readers and textbooks. She is a member of the advisory board of the journal Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy (PESP), and is an active member in the British Educational Research Association PESP special interest group.

Michael D. Giardina is a professor of physical cultural studies in the Department of Sport Management at Florida State University. He is the author/editor of 12 books, including Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation: Consumption and the Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.6.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Cultural Studies • Kulturwissenschaften • popular culture • Sport Sociology, Sport and gender, sport and globalization, sport and the body, sport and disabilities, social class and sport, modern sport, sport history, sports star, Kinesiology, reference, Sport and Social Issues, physical culture, sport in society, sport studies, sport and race • Volkskultur
• ISBN-10: 1-118-32528-1 / 1118325281
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-32528-5 / 9781118325285