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

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Synopsis:

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.
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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. Reiss
  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 ... et al. --New politics of urban consumption : Hoop Dreams, Clockers, and "America" /C.L. Cole and Samantha King.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780791456699
Subtitle:
(the making and meaning of urban sport cultures )
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
Location:
Albany
Subject:
City and town life
Subject:
Sports
Subject:
Sociology - Urban
Subject:
Popular Culture - General
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series:
Suny Series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
Series Volume:
107-292
Publication Date:
c2003
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
vi, 292 p.
Dimensions:
9.40x6.08x.84 in. 1.16 lbs.
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