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

A Companion to Sport brings together writing by leadingsports theorists and social and cultural thinkers, to explore sportas a central element of contemporary culture.* Positions sport as a crucial subject for critical analysis, asone of the most significant forms of popular culture* Includes both well-known social and cultural theorists whosework lends itself to an interrogation of sport, and leadingtheorists of sport itself* Offers a comprehensive examination of sport as a social andcultural practice and institution* Explores sport in relation to modernity, postcolonial theorygender, violence, race, disability and politics

Notes on Contributors ixIntroduction: Sport as Escape, Struggle, and Art 1Ben Carrington and David L. AndrewsPart One: Sporting Structures and Historical Formations171 Constructing Knowledge: Histories of Modern Sport 23Douglas Booth2 Sport and Globalization 41Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson3 The Sport/Media Complex: Formation, Flowering, and Future61David Rowe4 Political Theories of Social Class, Sport, and the Body78Joshua I. Newman and Mark Falcous5 Gender, Feminist Theory, and Sport 96Sheila Scraton and Anne Flintoff6 Sports Medicine, Health, and the Politics of Risk 112Parissa Safai7 Sport, Ecological Modernization, and the Environment 129Brian Wilson and Brad MillingtonPart Two: Bodies and Identities 1438 Paradox of Privilege: Sport, Masculinities, and the Commodified Body 149Jeffrey Montez de Oca9 Racism, Body Politics, and Football 164Mark Q. Sawyer and Cory Charles Gooding10 Physical Culture, Pedagogies of Health, and the Gendered Body179Emma Rich and John Evans11 Gay Male Athletes and Shifting Masculine Identities 196Eric Anderson12 Sport, the Body, and the Technologies of Disability 210P. David HowePart Three: Contested Space and Politics 22313 US Imperialism, Sport, and "the Most Famous Soldier inthe War" 229Toby Miller14 The Realities of Fantasy: Politics and Sports Fandom in theTwenty-fi rst Century 246Michael Bérubé15 Sport, Palestine, and Israel 257Tamir Sorek16 Cities and the Cultural Politics of Sterile Sporting Space270Michael L. Silk17 Swimming Pools, Civic Life, and Social Capital 287Jeff WiltsePart Four: Cultures, Subcultures, and (Post)Sport 30518 Sports Fandom 311Edwin Amenta and Natasha Miric19 Sporting Violence and Deviant Bodies 327Kevin Young and Michael Atkinson20 Dissecting Action Sports Studies: Past, Present, and Beyond341Holly Thorpe and Belinda Wheaton21 Heidegger, Parkour, Post-sport, and the Essence of Being359Michael Atkinson22 Race-ing Men: Cars, Identity, and Performativity 375Amy L. Best23 Chess as Art, Science, and Sport 390Antony Puddephatt and Gary Alan FinePart Five: Sport, Mega-events, and Spectacle 40524 Sport Mega-events as Political Mega-projects: A CriticalAnalysis of the 2010 FIFAWorld Cup 411Scarlett Cornelissen25 Sporting Mega-events, Urban Modernity, and Architecture427John Horne26 Sports, the Beijing Olympics, and Global Media Spectacles445Douglas Kellner and Hui Zhang27 Always Already Excluded: The Gendered Facts of Anti-Blacknessand Brazil's Male Seleção 465João H. Costa Vargas28 To Be Like Everyone Else, Only Better: The US Men'sFootball Team and the World Cup 481Grant Farred29 Sport, Spectacle, and the Political Economy of Mega-events:The Case of the Indian Premier League 493Ian McDonald and Abilash NalapatPart Six: Sporting Celebrities/Cultural Icons 50730 Global Sporting Icons: Consuming Signs of Economic andCultural Transformation 513Barry Smart31 Embodying American Democracy: Performing the Female SportingIcon 532C.L. Cole and Michael D. Giardina32 Monty Panesar and the New (Sporting) Asian Britishness548Daniel Burdsey33 Earl's Loins - Or, Inventing Tiger Woods564Davis W. Houck34 Deleuze and the Disabled Sports Star 582Pirkko MarkulaIndex 602