David L. Andrews is Professor of Physical Cultural Studies in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He is the author of Sport-Commerce-Culture: Essays onSport in Late Capitalist America (2006) and coauthor ofSports Coaching Research: Context, Consequences, and Consciousness (with A. Bush, M. Silk, and H. Lauder, 2013).

Ben Carringtonteaches sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, USA and is a Carnegie Research Fellow at Leeds Metropolitan University in England. His most recent book isRace, Sport and Politics: The Sporting Black Diaspora (2010).

Notes on Contributors ix

Introduction: Sport as Escape, Struggle, and Art 1Ben Carrington and David L. Andrews

Part One: Sporting Structures and Historical Formations 17

 1 Constructing Knowledge: Histories of Modern Sport 23Douglas Booth

 2 Sport and Globalization 41Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson

 3 The Sport/Media Complex: Formation, Flowering, and Future 61David Rowe

 4 Political Theories of Social Class, Sport, and the Body 78Joshua I. Newman and Mark Falcous

 5 Gender, Feminist Theory, and Sport 96Sheila Scraton and Anne Flintoff

 6 Sports Medicine, Health, and the Politics of Risk 112Parissa Safai

 7 Sport, Ecological Modernization, and the Environment 129Brian Wilson and Brad Millington

Part Two: Bodies and Identities 143

 8 Paradox of Privilege: Sport, Masculinities, and the Commodifi ed Body 149Jeffrey Montez de Oca

 9 Racism, Body Politics, and Football 164Mark Q. Sawyer and Cory Charles Gooding

10 Physical Culture, Pedagogies of Health, and the Gendered Body 179Emma Rich and John Evans

11 Gay Male Athletes and Shifting Masculine Identities 196Eric Anderson

12 Sport, the Body, and the Technologies of Disability 210P. David Howe

Part Three: Contested Space and Politics 223

13 US Imperialism, Sport, and the Most Famous Soldier in the War 229Toby Miller

14 The Realities of Fantasy: Politics and Sports Fandom in the Twenty-fi rst Century 246Michael Bérubé

15 Sport, Palestine, and Israel 257Tamir Sorek

16 Cities and the Cultural Politics of Sterile Sporting Space 270Michael L. Silk

17 Swimming Pools, Civic Life, and Social Capital 287Jeff Wiltse

Part Four: Cultures, Subcultures, and (Post)Sport 305

18 Sports Fandom 311Edwin Amenta and Natasha Miric

19 Sporting Violence and Deviant Bodies 327Kevin Young and Michael Atkinson

20 Dissecting Action Sports Studies: Past, Present, and Beyond 341Holly Thorpe and Belinda Wheaton

21 Heidegger, Parkour, Post-sport, and the Essence of Being 359Michael Atkinson

22 Race-ing Men: Cars, Identity, and Performativity 375Amy L. Best

23 Chess as Art, Science, and Sport 390Antony Puddephatt and Gary Alan Fine

Part Five: Sport, Mega-events, and Spectacle 405

24 Sport Mega-events as Political Mega-projects: A Critical Analysis of the 2010 FIFA World Cup 411Scarlett Cornelissen

25 Sporting Mega-events, Urban Modernity, and Architecture 427John Horne

26 Sports, the Beijing Olympics, and Global Media Spectacles 445Douglas Kellner and Hui Zhang

27 Always Already Excluded: The Gendered Facts of Anti-Blackness and Brazils Male Seleção 465João H. Costa Vargas

28 To Be Like Everyone Else, Only Better: The US Mens Football Team and the World Cup 481Grant Farred

29 Sport, Spectacle, and the Political Economy of Mega-events: The Case of the Indian Premier League 493Ian McDonald and Abilash Nalapat

Part Six: Sporting Celebrities/Cultural Icons 507

30 Global Sporting Icons: Consuming Signs of Economic and Cultural Transformation 513Barry Smart

31 Embodying American Democracy: Performing the Female Sporting Icon 532C.L. Cole and Michael D. Giardina

32 Monty Panesar and the New (Sporting) Asian Britishness 548Daniel Burdsey

33 Earls Loins Or, Inventing Tiger Woods 564Davis W. Houck

34 Deleuze and the Disabled Sports Star 582Pirkko Markula

Index 602