A Companion to Sport

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 INDICE: Introduction: Sports as Escape, Struggle and Art David L. Andrews and Ben Carrington Part One: Sporting Structures and Historical Formations 1. Constructing Knowledge: Histories of Modern Sport Douglas Booth 2. Sport and Globalization Roland Robertson and Richard Giulianotti 3. The Sport/Media Complex: Formation, Flowering and Future David Rowe 4. Political Theories of Social Class, Sport, and the Body Joshua T. Newman and Mark Falcous 5. Gender, Feminist Theory and Sport Sheila Scraton and Anne Flintoff 6. Sports Medicine, Health, and the Politics of Risk Parissa Safai 7. Sport, Ecological Modernization, and the Environment Brian Wilson and Brad Millington Part Two: Bodies and Identities 8. Paradox of Privilege: Sport, Masculinities, and the Commodified Body Jeffrey Montez de Oca 9. Racism, Body Politics, and Football Mark Q. Sawyer and Cory Charles Gooding 10. Physical Culture, Pedagogies of Health and the Gendered Body Emma Rich and John Evans 11. Gay Male Athletes and  Shifting Masculine Identities Eric Anderson 12. Sport, the Body and the Technologies of Disability P. David Howe Part Three: Contested Space and Politics 13. US Imperialism, Sport, and “The most famous soldier in the war” Toby Miller 14.  The Realities of Fantasy: Politics and Sports Fandom in the Twenty First Century Michael Bérubé 15. Sport, Palestine and Israel Tamir Sorek 16. Cities and the Cultural Politics of Sterile Sporting Space Michael L. Silk 17. Swimming Pools, Civic Life and Social Capital Jeff Wiltse Part Four: Cultures, Subcultures and (Post)Sport 18. Sports Fandom Edwin Amenta and Natasha Miric 19. Sporting Violence and Deviant Bodies Kevin Young and Michael Atkinson 20. Dissecting Action Sports Studies: Past, Present and Beyond Holly Thorpe and Belinda Wheaton 21. Heidegger, Parkour, Post–sport and the Essence of Being Michael Atkinson 22. Race–ing Men: Cars, Identity and Performativity Amy Best 23. Chess as Art, Science, and Sport Antony Puddephatt and Gary Alan Fine Part Five: Sport, Mega Events, and Spectacle 24. Sport Mega–Events as Political Mega–Projects: A Critical Analysis of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Scarlett Cornelissen 25. Sporting Mega–Events, Urban Modernity and Architecture John Horne 26. Sports, the Beijing Olympics, and Global Media Spectacles Douglas Kellner and Hui Zhang 27. Always Already Excluded: The Gendered Facts of Anti–Blackness and Brazil’s Male seleção Joâo Vargas 28. To Be Like Everyone Else, Only Better: The US’s Men’s Football Team as New Cultural Icon Grant Farred 29. Sport, Spectacle and the Political Economy of Mega Events: The Case of the Indian Premier League Ian McDonald and Abilash Nalapat Part Six: Sporting Celebrities/Cultural Icons 30. Global Sporting Icons: Consuming Signs of Economic and Cultural Transformation Barry Smart 31. Embodying American Democracy: Performing the Female Sporting Icon C.L. Cole and Michael D. Giardina 32. Monty Panesar and the New (Sporting) Asian Britishness  Daniel Burdsey 33. Earl’s Loins – Or, Inventing Tiger Woods Davis W. Houck 34. Deleuze and the Disabled Sports Star Pirkko Markula

• ISBN: 978-1-4051-9160-9
• Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 628
• Fecha Publicación: 30/08/2013
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés