Full Description
Athletes across the globe have engaged in high profile protests against state violence since NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick's refusal to stand during the US national anthem in protest of state violence against Black communities. There is, however, a much longer global history that precedes and follows Kaepernick's protest. This series of sport protests, across both professional and amateur levels, has invigorated progressive politics around the world and drawn attention to ongoing authoritarianism, state violence, and vigilante violence, as well as the role sport can play in both exposing and combatting such issues.
Challenging the dominant Global North narrative, Athletic Activism: Global Perspectives on Social Transformation demonstrates how athletic activism can not only impact global discourse about inequity, but also foster institutional change that advances social justice. This volume uses the term 'athletic activism' to understand how athletes, coaches, and sports professionals use sports, sporting institutions, and athletics to engage in conscious, concerted, and sustained efforts to transform the world they inhabit. Borrowing both historical and contemporary approaches to examine grassroots youth sports, quotidian sites of amateur sport, and mega-sporting events, chapters expand on how we conceptualize athletic activism and theorize the transformative potential of sport and sporting participants.
Rooting athletic activism in a global, transnational perspective, Athletic Activism: Global Perspectives on Social Transformation broadens the focus on athletic activism from highly publicized, performative forms of protest on the pitch to local grassroots efforts that seek to address issues of race, violence, gender, sexuality, sustainability, identity, and community development.
Contents
Introduction; Jeffrey Montez de Oca and Stanley Thangaraj
Chapter 1. Listen to Athletes for a Change: From Raised Fists to Bended Knee; Amy Bass
Chapter 2. Why We Must #SayHerName: A Black Feminist Look at Athlete Activism; Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown
Chapter 3. Who Am 'I': Muslim LGBTQ+ Athletes Identity Development and Social Activism; Umer Hussain and George B. Cunningham
Chapter 4. Protest at the Olympic Games: How Political Movements Scythe Space for Athlete-Activist Moments; Jules Boykoff
Chapter 5. Conceptualizing and Recognizing Eco-Activism within Sport; Brian P. McCullough, Natasha T. Brison, and Anne Dietrich
Chapter 6. All in Their Heads: Sport Activism and the Fight against Race Norming in the NFL Concussion Settlement; Lucia Trimbur
Chapter 7. Activism as Collective Care: Football Practices in Malabar, Kerala; Veena Mani
Chapter 8. Champions of the Pacific: Exploring Sport Activism through a Pacific Lens; Lisa Uperesa, Caleb Marsters, Siaosi Gavet, Sierra Keung, David Lakisa, and Caroline Scott F. Matamua
Chapter 9. Embracing and Resisting a Social Justice Approach in Coaching: An Auto-Ethnography of Club Basketball; Edwardo L. Portillos
Chapter 10. Three Perspectives on the Political and Aesthetic Potentials of the Basketball Court; Kyle Green and Abigail Smithson
