Making Sport Great Again: The Uber-Sport Assemblage, Neoliberalism, and the Trump Conjuncture

ISBN-13: 9783030150013 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 167 str.

David L. Andrews

Recenzje

"This British-born US academic has assembled ...  an intriguing, complex and-blissfully-well-formulated text about the 'assemblage' of sport as an instrument of perpetuating public and private power in American society. ... This is a book about checks and balances, or rather their absence, for what is it that makes uber-sport largely impervious to change ... . makes a sensible contribution to discussions about sports governance, by focusing on the risks of charismatic and, by extension, oligarchical governance." (Jacob Kornbeck, Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, Vol. 15 (2), 2021)

"There is no better scholarly guide to the politicized and politicizing nature and influence of contemporary sports on society than Andrews' perceptive words and always-challenging ideas. Theoretically rich and empirically grounded, Making Sport Great Again is both an intellectual and political intervention into the hyper-commodified, commercialised spectacle that is modern uber-sport, a diagnostic analysis of neo-liberal sports cultures of the highest order that deserves to become an instant classic'." (idrottsforum.org, December 17, 2019)

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction - Uber-Sport as Culture Industry

Situating Uber-Sport

(Re)Turning to Frankfurt

One-Dimensional Uber Sport

Chapter 2: Assembling Uber-Sport

Uber-Sport as Late Capitalism

The Integrated Uber-Sport Spectacle

Of Assemblage and Rhizome

Chapter 3: Uber-Sporting Neoliberalisms

Naming Neoliberalisms

Enmeshed Assemblages

Consuming Spaces and Subjects

Chapter 4: Trumping the Uber-Sport Assemblage

Assemblage and Articulation

A Conjunctural Populism

Making Enemies, and Friends, From Within

Chapter 5: Conclusion - How and Why to Read Uber-Sport?

O autorze

David L. Andrews is Professor of Physical Cultural Studies in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.

Blurb

“With the publication of the brilliant Making Sport Great Again, Professor David L. Andrews firmly establishes himself as the leading social theorist of sport in late-capitalist consumer culture. There is no better scholarly guide to the politicized and politicizing nature and influence of contemporary sports on society than Andrews’ perceptive words and always-challenging ideas. Theoretically rich and empirically grounded, Making Sport Great Again is both an intellectual and political intervention into the hyper-commodified, commercialized spectacle that is modern corporate uber-sport, a diagnostic analysis of neo-liberal sports cultures of the highest order that deserves to become an instant classic.”

—Ben Carrington, Associate Professor of Sociology and Journalism, University of Southern California, USA

“One of the world’s leading scholars in sport and physical cultural studies, Andrews offers an expertly crafted and potent analysis of the complex relationship between sport and politics, with particular focus on the Trump era. Highly recommended as essential reading for anyone and everyone interested in understanding the intricate webs of power relations that weave sport, politics, culture and the economy together in ways that impact bodies and minds, the world over.” 

—Holly Thorpe, Professor of Health, Sport and Human Performance, University of Waikato, New Zealand

 

Blending critical theory, conjunctural cultural studies, and assemblage theory, Making Sport Great Again introduces and develops the concept of uber-sport: the sporting expression of late capitalism’s conjoined corporatizing, commercializing, spectacularizing, and celebritizing forces.  On different scales and in varying spaces, the uber-sport assemblage is revealed both to surreptitiously reinscribe the neoliberal preoccupation with consumption and to nurture the individualized consumer subject. Andrews further probes how uber-sport normalizes the ideological orientations and associate affective investments of the Trump assemblage’s authoritarian populism. Even as it articulates the regressive politicization of sport, Making Sport Great Again serves also as a call to action: how might progressives rearticulate uber-sport in emancipatory and actualizing political formations?