Thomas F. Carter – författare

As an avid baseball fan, Carter draws on his experiences listening to and participating in discussions of baseball in Cuba (particularly in Havana) and among Cubans living abroad to describe how baseball provides the ground for negotiations of national, masculine, and class identities wherever Cubans gather. He considers the elaborate spectacle of Cuban baseball as well as the relationship between the socialist state and the enormously popular sport. Carter provides a detailed history of baseball in Cuba, analyzing players, policies, rivalries, and fans, and he describes how the sport has forged connections (or reinforced divisions) between Cuba and other nations. Drawing on insights from cultural studies, political theory, and anthropology, he maintains that sport and other forms of play should be taken seriously as crucibles of social and cultural experience.

Sport sociology has a responsibility to engage critically with the accepted wisdom of those who govern and promote sport. This challenging collection of international research is a clear call for enacting the transformation of sport. The contributing authors argue that it is not enough to merely advocate for change. Rather, they insist that scholars need to take an active political stance when conducting research with the explicit purpose of attempting to transform the practices, structures, and the ways in which knowledge is produced about sport.

By exposing and challenging the power relations which perpetuate discrimination and inequality within sport, it becomes possible to catalyse wider societal changes. Drawing on a diversity of topics including sport for development and peace, transnational feminism, disability sport, refugees and football activism, FIFA, the Olympics, sports journalism and digital sports media, this book makes a case for sport sociology as an agent of positive change in the hierarchies and institutional structures of contemporary sport.

Transforming Sport: Knowledges, Practices, Structures provides valuable insights for all students and scholars interested in the sociology of sport and its transformative potential.

Sport sociology has a responsibility to engage critically with the accepted wisdom of those who govern and promote sport. This challenging collection of international research is a clear call for enacting the transformation of sport. The contributing authors argue that it is not enough to merely advocate for change. Rather, they insist that scholars need to take an active political stance when conducting research with the explicit purpose of attempting to transform the practices, structures, and the ways in which knowledge is produced about sport.

By exposing and challenging the power relations which perpetuate discrimination and inequality within sport, it becomes possible to catalyse wider societal changes. Drawing on a diversity of topics including sport for development and peace, transnational feminism, disability sport, refugees and football activism, FIFA, the Olympics, sports journalism and digital sports media, this book makes a case for sport sociology as an agent of positive change in the hierarchies and institutional structures of contemporary sport.

Transforming Sport: Knowledges, Practices, Structures provides valuable insights for all students and scholars interested in the sociology of sport and its transformative potential.

Peu d’activités associent le corps, les émotions, la politique, l’argent et la morale de manière aussi spectaculaire que le sport. Que ce soit dans les stades au Brésil ou les parcs en Chine, sur les terrains de base-ball à Cuba ou de rugby aux Fidji, des êtres humains testent leurs limites physiques, investissent de l’énergie affective, parient de l’argent, s’adonnent à la sorcellerie ou ingèrent des stimulants. Le sport est un microcosme de ce qui fait la vie. On analyse ici comment, à la fois, il façonne et est façonné par les contextes sociaux, culturels, politiques et historiques dans lesquels nous vivons. En examinant des sujets aussi divers et essentiels que le corps, le genre et la sexualité, la modernité, le nationalisme, l’État, la citoyenneté, le transnationalisme et la globalisation.

Peu d’activités associent le corps, les émotions, la politique, l’argent et la morale de manière aussi spectaculaire que le sport. Que ce soit dans les stades au Brésil ou les parcs en Chine, sur les terrains de base-ball à Cuba ou de rugby aux Fidji, des êtres humains testent leurs limites physiques, investissent de l’énergie affective, parient de l’argent, s’adonnent à la sorcellerie ou ingèrent des stimulants. Le sport est un microcosme de ce qui fait la vie. On analyse ici comment, à la fois, il façonne et est façonné par les contextes sociaux, culturels, politiques et historiques dans lesquels nous vivons. En examinant des sujets aussi divers et essentiels que le corps, le genre et la sexualité, la modernité, le nationalisme, l’État, la citoyenneté, le transnationalisme et la globalisation.