A Companion to Sport

A Companion to Sport brings together writing by leading sports theorists and social and cultural thinkers, to explore sport as a central element of contemporary culture. Positions sport as a crucial subject for critical analysis, as one of the most significant forms of popular culture Includes both well-known social and cultural theorists whose work lends itself to an interrogation of sport, and leading theorists of sport itself Offers a comprehensive examination of sport as a social and cultural practice and institution Explores sport in relation to modernity, postcolonial theory, gender, violence, race, disability and politics

Notes on Contributors ix Introduction: Sport as Escape, Struggle, and Art 1  Ben Carrington and David L. Andrews Part One: Sporting Structures and Historical Formations 17  1 Constructing Knowledge: Histories of Modern Sport 23  Douglas Booth  2 Sport and Globalization 41  Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson  3 The Sport/Media Complex: Formation, Flowering, and Future 61  David Rowe  4 Political Theories of Social Class, Sport, and the Body 78  Joshua I. Newman and Mark Falcous  5 Gender, Feminist Theory, and Sport 96  Sheila Scraton and Anne Flintoff  6 Sports Medicine, Health, and the Politics of Risk 112  Parissa Safai  7 Sport, Ecological Modernization, and the Environment 129  Brian Wilson and Brad Millington Part Two: Bodies and Identities 143  8 Paradox of Privilege: Sport, Masculinities, and the Commodifi ed Body 149  Jeffrey Montez de Oca  9 Racism, Body Politics, and Football 164  Mark Q. Sawyer and Cory Charles Gooding 10 Physical Culture, Pedagogies of Health, and the Gendered Body 179  Emma Rich and John Evans 11 Gay Male Athletes and Shifting Masculine Identities 196  Eric Anderson 12 Sport, the Body, and the Technologies of Disability 210  P. David Howe Part Three: Contested Space and Politics 223 13 US Imperialism, Sport, and “the Most Famous Soldier in the War” 229  Toby Miller 14 The Realities of Fantasy: Politics and Sports Fandom in the Twenty-fi rst Century 246  Michael Bérubé 15 Sport, Palestine, and Israel 257  Tamir Sorek 16 Cities and the Cultural Politics of Sterile Sporting Space 270  Michael L. Silk 17 Swimming Pools, Civic Life, and Social Capital 287  Jeff Wiltse Part Four: Cultures, Subcultures, and (Post)Sport 305 18 Sports Fandom 311  Edwin Amenta and Natasha Miric 19 Sporting Violence and Deviant Bodies 327  Kevin Young and Michael Atkinson 20 Dissecting Action Sports Studies: Past, Present, and Beyond 341  Holly Thorpe and Belinda Wheaton 21 Heidegger, Parkour, Post-sport, and the Essence of Being 359  Michael Atkinson 22 Race-ing Men: Cars, Identity, and Performativity 375  Amy L. Best 23 Chess as Art, Science, and Sport 390  Antony Puddephatt and Gary Alan Fine Part Five: Sport, Mega-events, and Spectacle 405 24 Sport Mega-events as Political Mega-projects: A Critical Analysis of the 2010 FIFA World Cup 411  Scarlett Cornelissen 25 Sporting Mega-events, Urban Modernity, and Architecture 427  John Horne 26 Sports, the Beijing Olympics, and Global Media Spectacles 445  Douglas Kellner and Hui Zhang 27 Always Already Excluded: The Gendered Facts of Anti-Blackness and Brazil’s Male Seleção 465  João H. Costa Vargas 28 To Be Like Everyone Else, Only Better: The US Men’s Football Team and the World Cup 481  Grant Farred 29 Sport, Spectacle, and the Political Economy of Mega-events: The Case of the Indian Premier League 493  Ian McDonald and Abilash Nalapat Part Six: Sporting Celebrities/Cultural Icons 507 30 Global Sporting Icons: Consuming Signs of Economic and Cultural Transformation 513  Barry Smart 31 Embodying American Democracy: Performing the Female Sporting Icon 532  C.L. Cole and Michael D. Giardina 32 Monty Panesar and the New (Sporting) Asian Britishness 548  Daniel Burdsey 33 Earl’s Loins – Or, Inventing Tiger Woods 564  Davis W. Houck 34 Deleuze and the Disabled Sports Star 582  Pirkko Markula Index 602