ISBN:
9780415375405
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (285 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
Parallel Title:
Print version Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport
DDC:
306.483
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
〈P〉〈EM〉Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport〈/EM〉 assesses the contemporary relevance of Marxist approaches and offers a unique and diverse examination of modern sports culture and power relations within sport. It is〈EM〉 〈/EM〉an invaluable resource for students of sport sociology, Marxism, and cultural studies at all levels〈/P〉
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Series editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Foreword: Sports?; 1 Marxism, Cultural Studies and sport: Mapping the field; Part I Marxism, Cultural Studies and sport: The key debates; 2 Sport without final guarantees: Cultural Studies/Marxism/sport; 3 One-dimensional sport: Revolutionary Marxism and the critique of sport; Part II Political economy, commodification and sport; 4 The urban sport spectacle: Towards a critical political economy of sports; 5 Between culture and economy: Understanding the politics of media sport
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Marxism, alienation and Coubertin's Olympic projectPart III The sporting poetics of class, race and gender; 7 Post-Marxism, black Marxism and the politics of sport; 8 Venus and Serena are 'doing it' for themselves: Theorizing sporting celebrity, class and Black feminism for the Hip-Hop generation; 9 Socratic solitude: The Scouser two-as-one; Part IV Key concepts, critical theorists; 10 Michel Foucault and the critique of sport; 11 Re-appropriating Gramsci: Marxism, hegemony and sport; 12 Sport, culture and late capitalism; Afterword: High-definition sports capitalism; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
