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
Cuprins
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 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 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 Critical Analysis 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’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 Mc Donald 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 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
Despre autor
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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