Artificial Ice

David Whitson is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. He is co-author, with Richard Gruneau, of the widely acclaimed Hockey Night in Canada: Sport, Identities, and Cultural Politics (Garamond Press, 1993).Richard Gruneau is a Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. In addition to co-authoring Hockey Night in Canada, he is the author of Class, Sports, and Social Development (University of Massachusetts Press, 1983).

The one-two punch of David Whitson and Richard Gruneau is fast gaining the reputation of being the academic equivalent of the New York Islanders' prolific on-ice tandem of Bryan Trottier and Mike Bossy. Following upon their ealier collaboration, Hockey Night in Canada, the duo assembled a gifted cast of academics to write Artificial Ice. The final product is a set of twelve well-crafted essays that are informative and insightful. This edited volume shows the cultural implications of hockey, not only in Canada but globally, as well as the economic and political side of the sport.- American Review of Canadian Studies

• Foreword, Roy MacGregorAcknowledgementsIntroduction Part I: Hockey in Contemporary Canadian Culture1. Whose Sweater Is This? The Changing Meanings of Hockey in Quebec Jean Harvey   2. Selective Memory in a Global Culture: Reconsidering Links between Youth, Hockey, and Canadian Identity Brian Wilson  3. The Game of Whose Lives? Gender, Race, and Entitlement in Canada's "National" Game  Mary Louise Adams 4. Women's Hockey in Canada: After the "Gold Rush"Julie Stevens   5. Hockey Canada and the Bodychecking Debate in Minor Hockey Michael Robidoux and Pierre Trudel   6. Racialization and Hockey in Canada: From Personal Troubles to a Canadian Challenge Robert Pitter Part II: The Political Economy of Hockey7. Playing with the Big Boys: Smaller Markets, Competitive Balance, and the Hope for a Championship Team Mark Rosentraub  8. Hockey Night in the United States? The NHL, Major League Sports, and the Evolving Television/Media Marketplace Robert Bellamy and Kelly Shultz  9. Expanding the Footprint? Questioning the NHL's Expansion and Relocation Strategy Dan Mason  10. From Maple Leaf Gardens to the Air Canada Centre: The Downtown Entertainment Economy in "World Class" Toronto  John Hannigan11. Have Skates, Will Travel: Canada, International Hockey, and the Changing Hockey Labour Market  Hart Cantelon 12. Globalization in Professional Sport: Comparisons and Contrasts between Hockey and European Football Julian AmmiranteContributorsIndex