Companion to Sport

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).

“No doubt, many students will be inspired by it to undertake further research and create yet new and deeper thoughts on the role sport can play in our society.”  (Reference Reviews, 1 December 2014

• Notes on Contributors ixIntroduction: Sport as Escape, Struggle, and Art 1 Ben Carrington and David L. AndrewsPart One: Sporting Structures and Historical Formations 171 Constructing Knowledge: Histories of Modern Sport 23 Douglas Booth2 Sport and Globalization 41 Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson3 The Sport/Media Complex: Formation, Flowering, and Future 61 David Rowe4 Political Theories of Social Class, Sport, and the Body 78 Joshua I. Newman and Mark Falcous5 Gender, Feminist Theory, and Sport 96 Sheila Scraton and Anne Flintoff6 Sports Medicine, Health, and the Politics of Risk 112 Parissa Safai7 Sport, Ecological Modernization, and the Environment 129 Brian Wilson and Brad MillingtonPart Two: Bodies and Identities 1438 Paradox of Privilege: Sport, Masculinities, and the Commodifi ed Body 149 Jeffrey Montez de Oca9 Racism, Body Politics, and Football 164 Mark Q. Sawyer and Cory Charles Gooding10 Physical Culture, Pedagogies of Health, and the Gendered Body 179 Emma Rich and John Evans11 Gay Male Athletes and Shifting Masculine Identities 196 Eric Anderson12 Sport, the Body, and the Technologies of Disability 210 P. David HowePart Three: Contested Space and Politics 22313 US Imperialism, Sport, and “the Most Famous Soldier in the War” 229 Toby Miller14 The Realities of Fantasy: Politics and Sports Fandom in the Twenty-fi rst Century 246 Michael Bérubé15 Sport, Palestine, and Israel 257 Tamir Sorek16 Cities and the Cultural Politics of Sterile Sporting Space 270 Michael L. Silk17 Swimming Pools, Civic Life, and Social Capital 287 Jeff WiltsePart Four: Cultures, Subcultures, and (Post)Sport 30518 Sports Fandom 311 Edwin Amenta and Natasha Miric19 Sporting Violence and Deviant Bodies 327 Kevin Young and Michael Atkinson20 Dissecting Action Sports Studies: Past, Present, and Beyond 341 Holly Thorpe and Belinda Wheaton21 Heidegger, Parkour, Post-sport, and the Essence of Being 359 Michael Atkinson22 Race-ing Men: Cars, Identity, and Performativity 375 Amy L. Best23 Chess as Art, Science, and Sport 390 Antony Puddephatt and Gary Alan FinePart Five: Sport, Mega-events, and Spectacle 40524 Sport Mega-events as Political Mega-projects: A Critical Analysis of the 2010 FIFA World Cup 411 Scarlett Cornelissen25 Sporting Mega-events, Urban Modernity, and Architecture 427 John Horne26 Sports, the Beijing Olympics, and Global Media Spectacles 445 Douglas Kellner and Hui Zhang27 Always Already Excluded: The Gendered Facts of Anti-Blackness and Brazil’s Male Seleção 465 João H. Costa Vargas28 To Be Like Everyone Else, Only Better: The US Men’s Football Team and the World Cup 481 Grant Farred29 Sport, Spectacle, and the Political Economy of Mega-events: The Case of the Indian Premier League 493 Ian McDonald and Abilash NalapatPart Six: Sporting Celebrities/Cultural Icons 50730 Global Sporting Icons: Consuming Signs of Economic and Cultural Transformation 513 Barry Smart31 Embodying American Democracy: Performing the Female Sporting Icon 532 C.L. Cole and Michael D. Giardina32 Monty Panesar and the New (Sporting) Asian Britishness 548 Daniel Burdsey33 Earl’s Loins – Or, Inventing Tiger Woods 564 Davis W. Houck34 Deleuze and the Disabled Sports Star 582 Pirkko MarkulaIndex 602