Ralph C. Wilcox & Robert Pitter 
Sporting Dystopias [PDF ebook] 
The Making and Meanings of Urban Sport Cultures

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Challenges the unexamined belief that sports stadiums, events, and teams in cities are always beneficial to the comunities.

Reaching beyond the popular celebration of commercial gains often associated with the proliferation of stadiums, events, and teams in the city, Sporting Dystopias explores the role of sport in the process of community building. Scholars from various fields, including anthropology, cultural studies, history, marketing, media studies, and sociology, examin...

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Table of Content

1. Sport in the City: Cultural, Economic, and Political Portraits
Ralph C. Wilcox and David L. Andrews
2. Sport and Community/Communitas
Alan G. Ingham and Mary...

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About the author

David L. Andrews is Associate Professor of Sport and Cultural Studies at The University of Maryland, College Park and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at De Montfo...

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 298 ● ISBN 9780791487099 ● File size 2.4 MB ● Editor Ralph C. Wilcox & Robert Pitter ● Publisher State University of New York Press ● City Albany ● Country US ● Published 2012 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7665195 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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