Description
- brings together research in geography, sport studies and related disciplines
- includes cases from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas
- fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in sport and politics, sport and society, or human geography
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Critical geographies of sport in global perspective
(Natalie Koch)
PART I: Sports, geopolitics, and state space
2. Geopolitics, identity, and horse sports in Finland
(Pauliina Raento)
3. Spreading the game or reproducing hegemony? The United States and the regional geopolitics of women’s football in the Americas
(Jon Bohland)
4. Nation-building and sporting spectacles in authoritarian regimes: Turkmenistan’s Aziada-2017
(Slavomír Horák)
5. Sports and politics in Israel: Settler colonialism and the native Palestinians
(Magid Shihade)
6. Sports fields and corporate governmentality: Gazprom’s all-Russian gas program as energopower
(Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen)
7. Athletic autocrats: Understanding images of authoritarian leaders as sportsmen
(Natalie Koch)
8. Playing identity politics: The Gaelic Athletic Association in modern Ireland
(Arlene Crampsie)
PART II: Sports, community, and urban space
9. Soccer and the mundane politics of belonging: Latino immigrants, recreation, and spaces of exclusion in the rural US South
(Lise Nelson)
10. Competing visions for urban space in Seoul: Understanding the demolition of Korea’s Dongdaemun Baseball Stadium
(Jung Woo Lee)
11. Running order: Urban public space, everyday citizenship and sporting subjectivities
(Simon Cook, Jon Shaw, Paul Simpson)
12. Mallparks and the symbolic reconstruction of urban space
(Michael Friedman)
13. Sports and the social integration of migrants in South Dublin
(Neil Conner)
14. Spatial maneuvers: Geographies of power and labor practices in professional wrestling’s territorial era
(Bradley Gardener)
15. In the shadow of mega-events: The value of ethnography in sports geography
(Nicholas Wise)
16. Conclusion: Toward a critical geography of sport: Space, power, and social justice
(David Jansson and Natalie Koch)
