David L. Andrews 
Making Sport Great Again [PDF ebook] 
The Uber-Sport Assemblage, Neoliberalism, and the Trump Conjuncture

Support

Blending critical theory, conjunctural cultural studies, and assemblage theory,  Making Sport Great Again introduces and develops the concept of uber-sport: the sporting expression of late capitalism’s conjoined corporatizing, commercializing, spectacularizing, and celebritizing forces.  On different scales and in varying spaces, the uber-sport assemblage is revealed both to surreptitiously reinscribe the neoliberal preoccupation with consumption and to nurture the individualized consumer subject. Andrews further probes how uber-sport normalizes the ideological orientations and associate affective investments of the Trump assemblage’s authoritarian populism. Even as it articulates the regressive politicization of sport,  Making Sport Great Again serves also as a call to action: how might progressives rearticulate uber-sport in emancipatory and actualizing political formations? 

€64.19
payment methods

Table of Content

Chapter 1: Introduction.-Uber-Sport as Culture Industry.- Chapter 2: Assembling Uber-Sport.- Chapter 3: Uber-Sporting Neoliberalisms.- Chapter 4: Trumping the Uber-Sport Assemblage.- Chapter 5: Conclusion.-How and Why to Read Uber-Sport?

About the author

David L. Andrews is Professor of Physical Cultural Studies in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.

Buy this ebook and get 1 more FREE!
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 167 ● ISBN 9783030150020 ● File size 2.4 MB ● Publisher Springer International Publishing ● City Cham ● Country CH ● Published 2019 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6952671 ● Copy protection Social DRM

More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor

8,088 Ebooks in this category