Robert E Washington, David Karen

Sport, Power, and Society

Institutions and Practices: A Reader

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A new reader that illuminates the complex interaction of sports and society and incorporates an engaging interdisciplinary mix of academic perspectives and popular journalism

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 482
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 167mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780813344874
• ISBN-10: 0813344875
• Artikelnr.: 27240236

Autorenporträt

Robert E Washington

Inhaltsangabe

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A NOTE TO THE READER INTRODUCTION: SPORT AS A MODEL OF MERITOCRACY PART I * Raiding the Public Treasury: The Political Economy of Professional Sports 1. PUBLIC DOLLARS
PRIVATE STADIUMS
AND DEMOCRACY
Kevin J. Delaney and Rick Eckstein 2. MAY THE BEST TEAM WIN: MAKING BASEBALL COMPETITIVE
Andrew Zimbalist 3. ROOTING THE HOME TEAM: WHY THE PACKERS WON'T LEAVE--AND WHY THE BROWNS DID
David Morris and Daniel Kraker 4. AMERICA'S FASTEST GROWING SPORT
Brian O'Keefe and Julie Schlosser 5. BUILDING A MINI METROPOLIS KNOWN AS THE U.S. OPEN
Bill Pennington PART I I * The Faustian Bargain: Big-Time Sports and the Media 6. MONEY
MYTH AND THE BIG MATCH: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE SPORTS MEDIA
David Rowe 7. LOSING CONTROL OF THE BALL: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FOOTBALL AND THE MEDIA IN AUSTRALIA
Murray Phillips and Brett Hutchins 8. THE GLOBAL SPORT MASS MEDIA OLIGOPOLY: THE THREE USUAL SUSPECTS AND MORE
Alan Law
Jean Harvey
and Stuart Kemp 9. FOOTBALL
TELEVISION
AND THE SUPREME COURT: HOW A DECISION 20 YEARS AGO BROUGHT COMMERCIALIZATION TO THE WORLD OF COLLEGE SPORTS
Welch Suggs 10. MARKETERS ARE JOINING THE VARSITY
Stuart Elliott PART I I I * True Love
or a Marriage of Convenience? Sports and Education 11. WHO'S PLAYING COLLEGE SPORTS? TRENDS IN PARTICIPATION
John Cheslock 12. THE GAME OF LIFE: TAKING STOCK
James L. Shulman and William G. Bowen 13. RACE
CULTURAL CAPITAL
AND THE EDUCATIONAL EFFECTS OF PARTICIPATION IN SPORTS
Tamela McNulty Eitle and David Eitle 14. HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: DEEP IN THE HEART OF SOUTH TEJAS
Douglas Foley 15. ODD JOBS HELP COLLEGE TEAMS STAY AFLOAT
Teddy Kider PART IV * The Power of Athletics: Sports and Politics 16. WHERE ARE THE JOCKS FOR JUSTICE? Kelly Candaele and Peter Dreier 17. SPORT
MASCULINITY
AND BLACK CULTURAL RESISTANCE
Ben Carrington 18. TELEVISED SPORT
MASCULINIST MORAL CAPITAL
AND SUPPORT FOR THE INVASION OF IRAQ
Carl Stempel 19. GAY GAMES OR GAY OLYMPICS? IMPLICATIONS FOR LESBIAN INCLUSION
Helen Jefferson Lenskyj 20. ARGENTINA'S LEFT-WINGERS
Leslie Ray 21. CARLOS DELGADO STANDS UP TO WAR
Dave Zirin PART V * More Than a Game: Fandom and Community in Sports 22. EMOTIONALITY IN THE STANDS AND IN THE FIELD: EXPRESSING SELF THROUGH BASEBALL
Nick Trujillo and Bob Krizek 23. JOE LOUIS UNCOVERS DYNAMITE
Richard Wright 24. SUPPORTERS
FOLLOWERS
FANS
AND FLANEURS: A TAXONOMY OF SPECTATOR IDENTITIES IN FOOTBALL
Richard Giulianotti 25. SOMETHING ABOUT BASEBALL: GENTRIFICATION
"RACE SPONSORSHIP
" AND COMPETING CLASS CULTURES IN NEIGHBORHOOD BOYS' BASEBALL
Sherri Grasmuck 26. HARDBALL AIN'T THE ONLY GAME IN BROOKLYN ANYMORE
Lee Jenkins and Michael Schmidt PART V I * Socializing the Anatomy: Body Culture and Sport 27. MAKING SENSE OF MUSCLE: THE BODY EXPERIENCES OF COLLEGIATE WOMEN ATHLETES
Molly George 28. MANAGING BODILY CAPITAL
Loic Wacquant 29. HINDU NATIONALISM
CULTURAL SPACES
AND BODILY PRACTICES IN INDIA
Ian McDonald 30. ATHLETES EMBRACE SIZE
REJECTING STEREOTYPES
Jere Longman PART V I I * Giving Up Your Body: Violence and Injuries in Sports 31. MALE ATHLETES
INJURIES
AND VIOLENCE
Michael A. Messner 32. THE STRUCTURE OF SPORT AND PARTICIPANT VIOLENCE
John Schneider and D. Stanley Eitzen 33. ON-FIELD PLAYER VIOLENCE
Randall Collins 34. BACKTALK: VIOLENCE
REDEMPTION AND THE COST OF SPORTS
Robert Lipsyte ABOUT THE EDITORS INDEX