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Index
Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
Series Editors Jennifer Hargreaves and Ian McDonald
University of Brighton
Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport
Edited by Ben Carrington and Ian McDonald
Notes on contributors
Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport
Series editors ’ preface
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Sports?
Harry Cleaver
Play, work and sports
Spectacle and fandom, patriotism and war
Marx
Resistance and self-valorization
Reference
1 Marxism, Cultural Studies and sport
Mapping the field
Ben Carrington and Ian McDonald
Introduction
Three moments of Marxist and Cultural Studies approaches to sport
Sport studies, capital and the absence of Marxism
Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport : rationale and overview
References
2 Sport without final guarantees
Cultural Studies/Marxism/sport
Ben Carrington
Introduction
Marxism/culture
Part I Marxism, Cultural Studies and sport
The key debates
And Marx is claiming that it was offside …
Cell phones for goal posts
Conclusion
Notes
References
3 One-dimensional sport
Revolutionary Marxism and the critique of sport
Ian McDonald
Introduction
The revolutionary Marx
Reformism
Stalinism
Academicism
Post-Marxism and the abandonment of revolution
The deleterious impact of post-Marxism on the Marxist sociology of sport
The relevance of the classical Marxist tradition
Conclusion: one-dimensional sport
Notes
References
4 The urban sport spectacle
Towards a critical political economy of sports
Anouk B é langer
Introduction
The tyranny of the urban sport spectacle: mapping an existing critique
The dominant themes of the urban sport spectacle
The mobilization of spectacle
Part II Political economy, commodification and sport
The spectacle of the commodity
Spectacular resistance and resistance to the spectacle
Towards a critical political economy of sport as popular culture
Concluding remarks
Acknowledgements
Note
References
5 Between culture and economy
Understanding the politics of media sport
Garry Whannel
Introduction
Cultural Studies and Marxist theory
New Times, new theories?
Analysing mediated sport and culture now
Sports chatter on planet sport
Commodity sport celebrities
Advertising and promotional culture
Reflections on the cultural economy of mediated sport
Conclusion
Note
References
6 Marxism, alienation and Coubertin ’ s Olympic project
Rob Beamish
Introduction
Marx ’ s critique of capital and capitalist society
Marx ’ s early work and the questions of freedom and self-determination
Political economy and alienated existence
The Olympic project and human development
Conclusion: high-performance sport as alienated labour
Notes
References
7 Post-Marxism, black Marxism and the politics of sport
Brett St Louis
Introduction
The post-Marxist problematic
Sport and the identity dilemma
Part III The sporting poetics of class, race and gender
Black Marxism and the problem of articulation
Race/class articulation
The political etiology of racism
Racialization, politics and social reproduction
The shamateur ethic and the capitalist-athletic complex
The relations of athletic production and the ‘ public interest ’
‘ Black Marxism ’ in practice: articulating sport, identity and the political
Conclusion
Notes
References
8 Venus and Serena are ‘ doing it ’ for themselves
Theorizing sporting celebrity, class and Black feminism for the Hip-Hop generation
Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe
Introduction
Black Venus strikes back: athleticism and ‘ changing same ’ representations of Black womanhood
Suburban Cinderella and her fairy god-mammies: Black bourgeois feminism and the politics of entitlement
‘ All about the money, honey ’ : transnational corporate patronage and the ‘ perplexities ’ of ‘ giving back ’
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
9 Socratic solitude
The Scouser two-as-one
Grant Farred
Introduction
‘ The aristocrats of labour ’ : the rich from/in our ranks
The three ‘ S ’ s: Socrates, solitude and Stevie G
The other ‘ S ’ : space
In topophilic conclusion
Notes
References
10 Michel Foucault and the critique of sport
Toby Miller
Introduction
… And Marx
Part IV Key concepts, critical theorists
… And sport
… And Miller
Notes
References
11 Re-appropriating Gramsci
Marxism, hegemony and sport
Alan Bairner
Introduction
Gramsci ’ s appeal
Using Gramsci
Marxism, Gramsci and the sociology of sport
Gramsci the Marxist
Uses and abuses of Gramsci ’ s concept of hegemony
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
12 Sport, culture and late capitalism
David L. Andrews
Introduction
Industrializing the sporting superstructure
The corporatist logics of late sporting capital
The integrated sport spectacle
Considering late capitalism
References
Afterword
High-definition sports capitalism
Michael B é rub é
Notes
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