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Informationen zum 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). Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors ix Introduction: Sport as Escape, Struggle, and Art 1? Ben Carrington and David L. Andrews Part One: Sporting Structures and Historical Formations 17 ?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 Future 61? David Rowe ?4 Political Theories of Social Class, Sport, and the Body 78? 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 Commodifi ed 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 Body 179? 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 in the War" 229? Toby Miller 14 The Realities of Fantasy: Politics and Sports Fandom in the Twenty-fi rst Century 246? Michael B?rub? 15 Sport, Palestine, and Israel 257? Tamir Sorek 16 Cities and the Cultural Politics of Sterile Sporting Space 270? 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 Beyond 341? Holly Thorpe and Belinda Wheaton 21 Heidegger, Parkour, Post-sport, and the Essence of Being 359? ...
