Contributor
Andrews, David L., 1962-
ImprintHoboken : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
Descriptionxiv, 613 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Note:PART ONE: SPORTING STRUCTURES AND HISTORICAL FORMATIONS. Constructing knowledge: histories of modern sport / Douglas Booth -- Sport and globalization / Rishard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson -- The sport/media complex: formation, flowering, and future / David Rowe / Political theories of social class, sport, and the body / Joshua I. Newman and Mark Falcous -- Gender, feminist theory, and sport / Sheila Scraton and Anne Flintoff -- Sports medicine, health, and the politics of risk / Parissa Safai -- Sport, ecological modernization, and the environment / Brian Wilson and Brad Millington -- PART TWO: BODIES AND IDENTITIES. Paradox of privilege: sport, masculinities, and the commodified body / Jeffrey Montez de Oca -- Racism, body politics, and football / Mark Q. Sawyer and Cory Charles Gooding -- Physical culture, pedagogies of health, and the gendered body / Emma Rich and John Evans -- Gay male athletes and shifting masculine identities / Eric Anderson -- Sport, the body, and the technologies of disability / P. David Howe -- PART THREE: CONTESTED SPACE AND POLITICS. US imperialism, sport, and "the most famous soldier in the war" / Toby Miller -- The realities of fantasy: politics and sports fandom in the twenty-first century / Michael Berube -- Sport, Palestine, and Israel / Tamir Sorek -- Cities and the cultural politics of sterile sporting space / Michael L. Silk -- Swimming pools, civic life, and social capital / Jeff Wiltse -- PART FOUR: CULTURES, SUBCULTURES, AND (POST)SPORT. Sports fandom / Edwin Amenta and Natasha Miric -- Sporting violence and deviant bodies / Kevin Young and Michael Atkinson -- Dissecting action sports studies: past, present, and beyond / Holly Thorpe and Belinda Wheaton -- Heidegger, Parkour, post-sport, and the essence of being / Michael Atkinson -- Race-ing men: cars, identity, and performativity / Amy L. Best -- Chess as art, science, and sport / Antony Puddephatt and Gary Alan Fine -- PART FIVE: MEGA-EVENTS, AND SPECTACLE. Sport mega-events as political mega-projects: a critical analysis of the 2010 FIFA World Cup / Scarlett Cornelissen -- Sporting mega-events, urban modernity, and architecture / John Horne -- Sports, the Beijing Olympics, and global media spectacles / Douglas Kellner and Hui Zhang -- Always already excluded: the gendered facts of anti-blackness and Brazil's male Selecao / Joao H. Costa Vargas -- To be like everyone else, only better: the US men's football team and the World Cup / Grant Farred -- 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. Global sporting icons: consuming signs of economic and cultural transformation / Barry Smart -- Embodying American democracy: performing the female sporting icon / C.L. Cole and Michael D. Giardina -- Monty Panesar and the new (sporting) Asian Britishness / Daniel Burdsey -- Earl's loins, or, inventing Tiger Woods / Davis W. Houck -- Deleuze and the disabled sports star / Pirkko Markula.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
