We need to take sports seriously. Football, baseball, mixed martial arts, hockey, and beyond: these are arenas of immense power, with a mass appeal. Yet intellectuals have long since abandoned the sporting world as a legitimate site of contestation and innovation. Why? What do we gain by handing over the persuasive power of sports to the worst elements of our culture, by allowing sports to become plagued by hyper-consumption, militarism, violence, sexism, and homophobia? According to Matt Hern, not a whole lot.
In a series of interconnected narratives from his forty-plus years of sports fanaticism, Hern makes an impassioned and entertaining plea for a more active engagement with sports, physically and intellectually. Hern’s eye is critical and his analysis sharp, but this book is more than a critique—it’s a celebration of what sports have taught us, and a suggestion of how much more we still have to learn.
Fun, engaging, and fast-paced, One Game at a Time is for anyone willing to get their head into the game.
Matt Hern lives and works in east Vancouver, where he founded the Purple Thistle Center and Car-Free Vancouver Day. A former sportswriter and a radical urbanist whose writing has been published on six continents and in ten languages, he is the author of Common Ground in a Liquid City (AK Press, 2010), which was shortlisted for the Vancouver Book Award.
Innehållsförteckning
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD, by TK
CHAPTER ONE They’re running the score up on us: Sports as a field of radical possibilities
CHAPTER TWO A rough beast slouching: Authenticity, the real, im/materiality and physicality
CHAPTER THREE Chipping away at a big lead: Bodies of work, gender and sexuality
CHAPTER FOUR Leaving the field under our own power: Violence, collisions and everyday life
CHAPTER FIVE Getting our game faces on: In/difference, racialized conversations in play
CHAPTER SIX Levelling the playing field: Meritocracies, class, competition and solidarity
CHAPTER SEVEN Blowing the game wide open: Art, creativity, narrative, belonging, community
Om författaren
Matt Hern is a radical urbanist and deschooling advocate who lives and works in East Vancouver, where he founded the Purple Thistle Centre and Car-Free Vancouver Day. He holds a Ph D in Urban Studies and lectures as Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia. His books and articles have been published on all six continents and translated into ten languages, the most recent of which, Common Ground in a Liquid City (AK Press), was shortlisted for the City of Vancouver Book Award. A former sportswriter and talk radio host, Hern continues to obsessively watch sports and participate as much as his body will allow. More information is available at www.mightymatthern.com.
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