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Sport and Neoliberalism - Politics, Consumption, and Culture

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor David L. Andrews is a professor in the Physical Cultural Studies Program, Department of Kinesiology, at the University of Maryland, College Park. Michael L. Silk is a reader in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Bath. Klappentext David L. Andrews is a professor in the Physical Cultural Studies Program, Department of Kinesiology, at the University of Maryland, College Park.¿Michael L. Silk is a reader in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Bath. Zusammenfassung How neoliberal politics appropriates sports for its own ends Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Sport and the Neoliberal Conjuncture: Complicating the Consensus • Michael L. Silk • David L. AndrewsPart I  Structures, Formations, and Mechanics of Neoliberalism2 A Distorted Playing Field: Neoliberalism and Sport through the lens of Economic Citizenship • Toby Miller3 Advanced Liberal Government, Sport Policy, and “Building the Active Citizen” • Mick Green4 Race, Class, and Politics in Post-Katrina America • Michael D. Giardina • C. L. Cole5 Nike U: Full-Program Athletics Contracts and the Corporate University • Samantha King6 Growth and Nature: Reflections on Sport, Carbon Neutrality, and Ecological Modernization • Brian Wilson7 The Uncanny of Olympic Time: Michael Phelps and the End of Neoliberalism • Grant FarredPart II  Government, Governance, and the Cultural Geographies of Neoliberalism8 The Governance of the Neoliberal Sporting City • Michael L. Silk • David L. Andrews9 Governing Play: Moral Geographies, Healthification, and Neoliberal Urban Imaginaries • Caroline Fusco10 Neoliberal Redevelopment, Sport Infrastructure, and the Militarization of U.S. Urban Terrain • Kimberly S. Schimmel11 Economies of Surf: Evolution, Territorialism, and the Erosion of Localism • Leslie Heywood • Mark Montgomery12 Free Running: Post-Sport Liminality in a Neoliberal World • Michael AtkinsonPart III  Consuming Pleasure: Citizenship, Subjectivities, and “Popular” Sporting Pedagogies13 Out-of-Bounds Plays: The Women’s National Basketball Association and the Neoliberal Imaginings of Sexuality • Mary G. McDonald14 Pedagogies of Fat: The Social Currency of Slenderness • Jessica M. Francombe • Michael L. Silk15 Technologies of the South: Sport, Subjectivity, and “Swinging” Capital • Joshua I. Newman16 Hijacking Canadian Identity: Stephen Harper, Hockey, and the Terror of Neoliberalism • Jay Scherer • Lisa McDermott17 Global Smackdown: Vince McMahon, World Wrestling Entertainment, and Neoliberalism • Ted ButrynAfterword: Sport and Neoliberalism • Norman K. DenzinContributorsIndex...

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Authors David L. (EDT)/ Silk Andrews, Michael L Silk, Michael L. Silk
Assisted by David L Andrews (Editor), David L. Andrews (Editor)
Publisher Temple University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 13.07.2012
 
EAN 9781439905036
ISBN 978-1-4399-0503-6
No. of pages 310
Series Sporting
Sporting
Subjects Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries

Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Politische Ideologien

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