Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Sport as Escape, Struggle, and Art -- Introduction: Anti-sport/Pro-sport -- What Is Sport? Some Definitional Observations -- Sports Matter: A Companion to Sport -- References -- Further Reading -- Part One: Sporting Structures and Historical Formations -- Introduction -- Further Reading -- 1: Constructing Knowledge: Histories of Modern Sport -- Introduction -- Questions (and Unstable Answers) -- Origins and causes -- Diffusion -- Reception -- Epistemologies (and Floating Truths) -- Objective knowledge -- Contextualized knowledge -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Further Reading -- 2: Sport and Globalization -- Introduction -- The Historical Aspects of Global Sport: Six Phases -- Germinal phase (1400-1750s) -- Incipient phase (1750s-1870s) -- Take-off phase (1870s-1920s) -- Struggle-for-hegemony phase (1920s-late 1960s) -- Uncertainty phase (late 1960s-2000) -- Millennial phase (from 2001) -- The Sociocultural Aspects of Global Sport -- Universalism, particularism, and relativization -- Homogenization and heterogenization -- Glocalization -- Cosmopolitanism -- Political-economic Aspects of Globalization -- Nation state and globalization -- Sport and the global economic system -- The Emerging Global Civil Society and Sport -- Conclusions: Globalization, Sport, and "Active Glocalism" -- References -- Further Reading -- 3: The Sport/Media Complex: Formation, Flowering, and Future -- Introduction: Three Decades in a Complex Life -- Complex Prehistory -- Television Complex -- Complex Today -- Conclusion: Future Complex -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Further Reading -- 4: Political Theories of Social Class, Sport, and the Body -- Introduction -- Sport, Industrial Capitalism, and Revolution -- Sport and Social Class: A Critical Sociology.

Structural functionalism -- Figurationalism -- Neo-Marxism -- Jockraker activism -- The cultural turn -- Bourdieu's neo-Weberian approach -- Emergent paradigms -- Conclusion: Social Class, the Sporting Body, and Neoliberalism -- References -- Further Reading -- 5: Gender, Feminist Theory, and Sport -- Introduction -- Liberal Feminism -- Radical Feminism -- Marxist/Socialist Feminism -- Black Feminism -- The Impact of Poststructuralism, Queer Theory, and Postcolonialism -- New Avenues and New Questions for Sport Feminism: Middle Ground Theorizing and Intersectional Analysis -- Conclusion: Revisiting "Old" Questions in the Twenty-First Century -- References -- Further Reading -- 6: Sports Medicine, Health, and the Politics of Risk -- Introduction -- Locating Sport in the Risk Society -- Expect the Unexpected: Selling Safety -- Anxiety, Assurance, and the Risk-Caution Citizenship Project -- High Performance Sport and Health within the Risk Society -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- 7: Sport, Ecological Modernization, and the Environment -- Environmental Issues and the Sociology of Sport: The "Early" Years -- Sport, Sociology and the Environment: Contemporary Themes -- Sport, the Environment, and Neoliberalism -- Ecological Modernization and Environmental Sociology -- Environmental Discourses and Promotional Culture: Examples from the Global Forum for Sports and the Environment -- Example 1 - Olympic Park and London 2012 -- Example 2: Formula One and climate change -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Part Two: Bodies and Identities -- Introduction -- Further Reading -- 8: Paradox of Privilege: Sport, Masculinities, and the Commodified Body -- Introduction -- Theoretical Perspectives on Sport and Masculinity -- Media, Nation, and Race -- Commodity Relations of the New Man and the New Lad -- Conclusion -- References.

Further Reading -- 9: Racism, Body Politics, and Football -- Introduction -- The Body Politic and Race -- Citizenship and Race -- Globalized Anti-Black Racism -- Black Athletes and Racial Politics -- Incidents in Western Europe -- Spain -- Italy -- Germany -- United Kingdom -- France -- Incidents in Eastern Europe -- Serbia -- Russia -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- 10: Physical Culture, Pedagogies of Health, and the Gendered Body -- Introduction -- Obesity, Health, and Girlhood -- Healthy Girls, Healthy Futures -- Sculpted Lean Femininity -- The Healthification of Sport and Physical Activity -- Affect, Body Pedagogies, and Gender Differentiation -- From Postergirls to Looters: Physical Culture and Consumption Practices -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- 11: Gay Male Athletes and Shifting Masculine Identities -- Introduction -- The Presence of Gay Men in Sport -- Theoretical Underpinnings into Masculinity and Homophobia -- Orthodox masculine behaviors -- Homohysteria -- Coming Out in Sport -- The segmented identities of openly gay male athletes -- Shifting narratives of gay male athletes -- Heterosexual Team Sport Athletes -- Accepting Gay Athletes in the Heart of America -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- 12: Sport, the Body, and the Technologies of Disability -- Introduction -- Marginal Bodies -- Managing Classified Bodies -- Technology -- Wheelchairs in track and field athletics -- From wooden leg to carbon-fiber blade -- Supercrips, Cyborgs, and Les Autres -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Part Three: Contested Space and Politics -- Introduction -- Further Reading -- 13: US Imperialism, Sport, and "the Most Famous Soldier in the War" -- Professional Sports and the NICL -- Ideological Ramifications - Tillman Time -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Further Reading.

14: The Realities of Fantasy: Politics and Sports Fandom in the Twenty-first Century -- Introduction -- False Sports Consciousness -- Owning the Fantasy -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- 15: Sport, Palestine, and Israel -- Introduction -- Sport in Zionism and the Palestinian National Movement -- Palestinian Sports under Jordanian and Lebanese Rule -- Sports and Arab-Jewish Relations in Israel -- Modernity and Sport: Muting the Protest -- Palestinian Athletes in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip -- Sport and Reconciliation? -- References -- Further Reading -- 16: Cities and the Cultural Politics of Sterile Sporting Space -- Introduction -- Sporting the Late Capitalist Tourist Bubble -- The Model of Urban Renaissance? -- Conclusion: Learning from Baltimore -- References -- Further Reading -- 17: Swimming Pools, Civic Life, and Social Capital -- Introduction -- Swimming Pools and Civic Life in Industrial America -- Swimming Pools and the Social Transformation of Civic Life between the World Wars -- Swimming Pools and the Segmenting of American Society after 1945 -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Part Four: Cultures, Subcultures, and (Post)Sport -- Introduction -- Further Reading -- 18: Sports Fandom -- Introduction -- What Is a Sports Fan? -- On the Supply of Sports Available for Fans: The Historical Trajectories of Sports Cultures -- Why Does Someone Become a Sports Fan? -- The Rise of Player Fans -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- 19: Sporting Violence and Deviant Bodies -- Introduction: Is "Deviance" Still Relevant? -- The Social Control of Deviant Bodies in Sport -- Violence and Aggression Theories -- Subculture Theories -- Identity Politics Theories -- Victimology Theories -- Why is Sports Deviance Wanted? -- 1 Hierarchy of social problems argument -- 2 Internal policing argument -- 3 Mimesis argument.

4 Athletes as a special population argument -- 5 Isolated offender argument -- 6 Impossibility of legal intervention argument -- 7 Overamplification of sport problems argument -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- 20: Dissecting Action Sports Studies: Past, Present, and Beyond -- Introduction -- Understanding the Politics of Action Sports Cultures: From Symbolic Resistance to Social Movements -- The politics of incorporation: from subcultural studies to post-CCCS -- Everyday politics in action sports cultures: identity, representation, experience, and reflexivity -- A "Politics of Hope" for Action Sports Studies: Notes from the Field -- Methodological flexibility and researcher reflexivity -- Theoretical adventures in action sports studies -- Making a difference: Towards a political action sports studies -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- 21: Heidegger, Parkour, Post-sport, and the Essence of Being -- Introduction -- Transhumanism and the Sociology of Sport -- Parkour, Heidegger, and Post-Sport Physical Culture -- Transcendence and the Pursuit of Dasein -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- 22: Race-ing Men: Cars, Identity, and Performativity -- Introduction -- Methods -- The Boys at Freedom High -- Imports versus American Muscle -- Risky Business: Boys Who Race -- The Need for Speed: Masculinity and Performance Vehicles -- American Muscle and Talking Trash -- Conclusion: Masculine Distinctions in a Changing World -- References -- Further Reading -- 23: Chess as Art, Science, and Sport -- Introduction -- Chess as Art -- Chess as Science -- Chess as Sport -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Part Five: Sport, Mega-events, and Spectacle -- Introduction -- Further Reading -- 24: Sport Mega-events as Political Mega-projects: A Critical Analysis of the 2010 FIFA World Cup -- Introduction.

The Politics of Sport Mega-events in the Global South.

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.

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