Full Description
How neoliberal politics appropriates sports for its own ends
Contents
1 Sport and the Neoliberal Conjuncture: Complicating the Consensus • Michael L. Silk • David L. Andrews
Part I Structures, Formations, and Mechanics of Neoliberalism
2 A Distorted Playing Field: Neoliberalism and Sport through the lens of Economic Citizenship • Toby Miller
3 Advanced Liberal Government, Sport Policy, and "Building the Active Citizen" • Mick Green
4 Race, Class, and Politics in Post-Katrina America • Michael D. Giardina • C. L. Cole
5 Nike U: Full-Program Athletics Contracts and the Corporate University • Samantha King
6 Growth and Nature: Reflections on Sport, Carbon Neutrality, and Ecological Modernization • Brian Wilson
7 The Uncanny of Olympic Time: Michael Phelps and the End of Neoliberalism • Grant Farred
Part II Government, Governance, and the Cultural Geographies of Neoliberalism
8 The Governance of the Neoliberal Sporting City • Michael L. Silk • David L. Andrews
9 Governing Play: Moral Geographies, Healthification, and Neoliberal Urban Imaginaries • Caroline Fusco
10 Neoliberal Redevelopment, Sport Infrastructure, and the Militarization of U.S. Urban Terrain • Kimberly S. Schimmel
11 Economies of Surf: Evolution, Territorialism, and the Erosion of Localism • Leslie Heywood • Mark Montgomery
12 Free Running: Post-Sport Liminality in a Neoliberal World • Michael Atkinson
Part III Consuming Pleasure: Citizenship, Subjectivities, and "Popular" Sporting Pedagogies
13 Out-of-Bounds Plays: The Women's National Basketball Association and the Neoliberal Imaginings of Sexuality • Mary G. McDonald
14 Pedagogies of Fat: The Social Currency of Slenderness • Jessica M. Francombe • Michael L. Silk
15 Technologies of the South: Sport, Subjectivity, and "Swinging" Capital • Joshua I. Newman
16 Hijacking Canadian Identity: Stephen Harper, Hockey, and the Terror of Neoliberalism • Jay Scherer • Lisa McDermott
17 Global Smackdown: Vince McMahon, World Wrestling Entertainment, and Neoliberalism • Ted Butryn
Afterword: Sport and Neoliberalism • Norman K. Denzin
Contributors
Index