A Companion to Sport

Author:   David L. Andrews (University of Maryland, USA) ,  Ben Carrington (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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9781405191609


Pages:   640
Publication Date:   30 August 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   David L. Andrews (University of Maryland, USA) ,  Ben Carrington (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 17.30cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 24.90cm
Weight:   1.202kg
ISBN:  

9781405191609


ISBN 10:   1405191600
Pages:   640
Publication Date:   30 August 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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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


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


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


<p> 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


Author Information

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).

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