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Sporting Dystopias: The Making and Meaning of Urban Sport Cultures

Sporting Dystopias: The Making and Meaning of Urban Sport Cultures

Wilcox, Ralph C.
Andrews, David L.
Pitter, Robert

Paperback

Series: Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations

General Sociology

ISBN10: 0791456706
ISBN13: 9780791456705
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Mar 27 2003
Pages: 298
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.16
Language: English

Challenges the unexamined belief that sports stadiums, events, and teams in cities are always beneficial to the comunities.

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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