Sport and neoliberalism : politics, consumption, and culture / edited by David L. Andrews and Michael L. Silk.
Offering new approaches to thinking about political ideologies and sports, this book explores the structures, formations, and mechanics of neoliberalism. The editors and contributors to this volume examine the intersection of sport as a national pastime, but also as an engine for urban policy.
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Sporting (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Table of Contents:
- Sport and the neoliberal conjuncture: complicating the consensus / Michael L. Silk, David L. Andrews
- A Distorted playing field: neoliberalism and sport through the lens of economic citizenship / Toby Miller
- Advanced liberal government, sport policy, and "building the active citizen" / Mick Green
- Race, class, and politics in post-Katrina America / Michael D. Giardina, C.L. Cole
- Nike U: full-program athletics contracts and the corporate university / Samantha King
- Growth and nature: reflections on sport, carbon neutrality, and ecological modernization / Brian Wilson
- The uncanny of Olympic time: Michael Phelps and the end of neoliberalism / Grant Farred
- The governance of the neoliberal sporting city / Michael L. Silk, David L. Andrews
- Governing play: moral geographies, healthification, and neoliberal urban imaginaries / Caroline Fusco
- Neoliberal redevelopment, sport infrastructure, and the militarization of U.S. urban terrain / Kimberly S. Schimmel
- Economies of surf: evolution, territorialism, and the erosion of localism / Leslie Heywood, Mark Montgomery
- Free Running: post-sport liminality in a neoliberal world / Michael Atkinson
- Out-of-bounds plays: the women's national basketball association and the neoliberal imaginings of sexuality / Mary G. McDonald
- Pedagogies of fat: the social currency of slenderness / Jessica M. Francombe, Michael L. Silk
- Technologies of the south: sport, subjectivity, and "swinging" capital / Joshua I. Newman
- Hijacking Canadian identity: Stephen Harper, hockey, and the terror of neoliberalism / Jay Scherer, Lisa McDermott
- Global Smackdown: Vince McMahon, world wrestling entertainment, and neoliberalism / Ted Butryn
- Afterword: Sport and neoliberalism / Norman K. Denzin.