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This book explores the intersection of contemporary sport, advertising, promotional culture and wider society.
List of contents
1 The Contemporary Landscape of Sport Advertising and Promotional Culture
STEVEN J. JACKSON AND DAVID L. ANDREWS
PART I
Signs, Economies and Spaces
2 The Sign of the
Swoosh Within 21st¿Century Economies of Sign Value
ROBERT GOLDMAN
3 The Nike
Swoosh and the Cultural Politics of Sign Economies
ROBERT GOLDMAN
4 Sports Gambling Cultivation: The Sports¿MediäGambling Industrial Complex and the Rise of Integrative Media
BRODY J. RUIHLEY AND ADAM BEISSEL
5 The Paradoxical Politics of
Barstool Sports' Branding and Advertising in the Penn Entertainment Era
KYLE W. KUSZ AND MATTHEW R. HODLER
6 Environmental Pretense: Sport, Advertising and Greenwashing
TOBY MILLER
PART II
Identities, Commodities and Advertising
7 Selling the Revolution: The Accommodation of Radical Politics in Sport Advertising
BRANDON WALLACE
8 The Big Game (Parental Consent Advised): Marketing Directly to Kids to Create Consumer Citizens
RYAN KING¿WHITE, MATT HAWZEN AND BRETT GEAMAN
9
Valuing Disability: Economies of Visibility, Paralympic Cripvertising and the Disabled Body Politic
EMMA PULLEN AND MICHAEL SILK
10 Corporate Cosmopolitanism, Glocalization and Cyber Ethno¿Nationalism: Production and Consumption of Nike Japan's Advertisement '
You Can't Stop Us: The Future Isn't Waiting'
KOJI KOBAYASHI
11 Sport and Corporate Nationalism in India: Nike, Cricket and the Representation and Commodification of Indian Identity
SUDDHABRATA DEB ROY AND STEVEN J. JACKSON
PART III
Gendered/Sexed Subjectivities and Advertising
12 "If You Let Me Play": Girls' Empowerment and Transgender Exclusion in Sports
JENNIFER McCLEAREN
13 (Post)Feminism and Football: An Exploration of Transnational Advertising at the FIFA23 Women's World Cup
ANNA POSBERGH, JULIE E. BRICE AND DAVID L. ANDREWS
14 "
Earnin' It": NFL Promotional Strategies to Engage Female Fans
DAFNA KAUFMAN
15 "Playing For Our Team": The WNBA, LGBTQ+ Advertising and Neoliberal Capitalism
MARY G. McDONALD AND SARAH BARNES
16 Sport, Beer Advertising and Corporate Nationalism in Canada: Three Decades of Molson Beer Advertising's Articulation of National Identity, Masculinityand Consumer Citizenship
STEVEN J. JACKSON
About the author
Steven J. Jackson is Professor in the SociöCultural Analysis of Sport at the University of Otago, New Zealand, where he is CöDirector of the New Zealand Centre for Sport Policy and Politics. His research interests include globalization; national identity; sport and alcohol policy; and sport advertising. Steven is a past president of the International Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA) and a Corresponding Editor for the
International Review for the Sociology of Sport.
David L. Andrews is Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland, USA, where he is Director of the Physical Cultural Studies Program. His research interests include sports and late capitalism; contemporary cultural theory; globalization and sport; social injustices and inequalities; and the sociology of sport, health and physical activity. David serves as Assistant Editor of the
Journal of Sport and Social Issues and as editorial board member of the
Sociology of Sport Journal,
Leisure Studies,
Quest and
Sport Management Review. He is an elected fellow in the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education (AAKPE).
Summary
This book explores the intersection of contemporary sport, advertising, promotional culture and wider society.
