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Sporting Dystopias: The Making and Meanings of Urban Sport Cultures(SUNY series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations)

Sporting Dystopias: The Making and Meanings of Urban Sport Cultures(SUNY series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations)


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Reaching beyond the popular celebration of commercial gains often associated with the proliferation of stadiums, events, and teams in the city, Sporting Dystopias explores the role of sport in the process of community building. Scholars from various fields, including anthropology, cultural studies, history, marketing, media studies, and sociology, examine the cultural, economic, and political interplay of sport and the city. The book systematically challenges the overwhelming claims of sport's benefit to the city as it scrutinizes the various tensions inherent in the relationship. Grounded in economic means, racial and ethnic affiliation, and the contestation for space, sport is seen as precipitating a broad range of human challenges.

Table of Contents:
1. Sport in the City: Cultural, Economic, and Political Portraits Ralph C. Wilcox and David L. Andrews 2. Sport and Community/Communitas Alan G. Ingham and Mary G. McDonald 3. Mediated Sports, Mayors, and the Marketed Metropolis Gene Burd 4. Urban(e) Statuary Times Synthia Sydnor Slowikowski 5. No Christmas Dinner: The Effect of Major Sporting Events on Local Homelessness Robin M. Mathy 6. Rounders or Robin Hoods? Questioning the Role of the Ticket Scalper As Entertainment Outlaw or Free Market Capitalist Michael F. Atkinson 7. Horse Racing in Chicago, 1883–1894: The Interplay of Class, Politics, and Organized Crime Steven A. Riess 8. Athletics in the Ward and Beyond: Neighborhoods, Jews, and Sport in Toronto, 1900–1939 Danny Rosenberg 9. Urban Sanctuary: Youth Culture in a Recreation Drop-in Center Brian Wilson and Phil White 10. Researching Youth Sports Programs in a Metropolitan Setting: Essentials of, Barriers to, and Policy for Achieving a Comprehensive Program Michael A. Clark 11. Soccer, Race, and Suburban Space David L. Andrews, Robert Pitter, Detlev Zwick, and Darren Ambrose 12. The New Politics of Urban Consumption: Hoop Dreams, Clockers, and "America" CL Cole and Samantha King 13. In Place of "Race," Space: "Basketball in Canada" and the Absence of Racism Gamal Abdel-Shehid 14. Driving the Lane against the Raptor: The Production and Racialization of (Transgressive) Subjects on the Streets of Toronto Andrew D. Thornton List of Contributors Index Books in the SUNY series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations

About the Author :
Ralph C. Wilcox is Interim Vice President and Campus Executive Officer of the University of South Florida at St. Petersburg. He is the editor of Sport in the Global Village. David L. Andrews is Associate Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland at College Park. He is the editor of Michael Jordan, Inc.: Corporate Sport, Media Culture, and Late Modern America, published by SUNY Press, and the coeditor (with Steven J. Jackson) of Sport Stars: The Cultural Politics of Sporting Celebrity. Robert Pitter is Assistant Professor of Recreation Management and Kinesiology at Acadia University.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780791456699
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 298
  • Series Title: SUNY series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
  • Sub Title: The Making and Meanings of Urban Sport Cultures
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0791456692
  • Publisher Date: 27 Mar 2003
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 227 gr


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