Table of Contents
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-first Century 246 Michael Bérubé
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 Michael Atkinson
22 Race-ing Men: Cars, Identity, and Performativity 375 Amy L. Best
23 Chess as Art, Science, and Sport 390 Antony Puddephatt and Gary Alan Fine
Part Five: Sport, Mega-events, and Spectacle 405
24 Sport Mega-events as Political Mega-projects: A Critical Analysis of the 2010 FIFA World Cup 411 Scarlett Cornelissen
25 Sporting Mega-events, Urban Modernity, and Architecture 427 John Horne
26 Sports, the Beijing Olympics, and Global Media Spectacles 445 Douglas Kellner and Hui Zhang
27 Always Already Excluded: The Gendered Facts of Anti-Blackness and Brazil’s Male Seleção 465 João H. Costa Vargas
28 To Be Like Everyone Else, Only Better: The US Men’s Football Team and the World Cup 481 Grant Farred
29 Sport, Spectacle, and the Political Economy of Mega-events: The Case of the Indian Premier League 493 Ian McDonald and Abilash Nalapat
Part Six: Sporting Celebrities/Cultural Icons 507
30 Global Sporting Icons: Consuming Signs of Economic and Cultural Transformation 513 Barry Smart
31 Embodying American Democracy: Performing the Female Sporting Icon 532 C.L. Cole and Michael D. Giardina
32 Monty Panesar and the New (Sporting) Asian Britishness 548 Daniel Burdsey
33 Earl’s Loins – Or, Inventing Tiger Woods 564 Davis W. Houck
34 Deleuze and the Disabled Sports Star 582 Pirkko Markula
Index 602