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Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation
"Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation"critically interrogates stockcar racing's ascendance into the upper-echelon of the North American sporting popular. While most contributions to the public discourse gloss over NASCAR's exclusively white racial identity politics, its underlying patriarchal gender... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Sport and the Neoliberal University: Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy
by Susan Searls Giroux • Joshua I. Newman • Michael D. Giardina • Ryan King-White • Henry Giroux • Neal C. Ternes • Jaime DeLuca • Callie Batts Maddox • Matthew G. Hawzen • Lauren C. Anderson • Ellen J. Staurowsky • Richard M. Southall • Crystal Southall • Oliver Rick • Adam Beissel • Jacob J. Bustad • Ronald L. MowerCollege students are now regarded as consumers, not students, and nowhere is the growth and exploitation of the university more obvious than in the realm of college sports, where the evidence is in the stadiums built with corporate money, and the crowded sporting events sponsored by large conglomera... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018