Populism in Sport, Leisure, and Popular Culture

ISBN-13: 9780367741518 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 272 str.

Opis

This book examines and establishes the sociological relevance of the concept of populism and illuminates the ideological use of sport, leisure, and popular culture in socio-political populist strategies and dynamics.

Spis treści

PART 1: Themes, Concepts, Theories  1. Populism, Sport, Leisure, and Popular Culture: Setting the Scene  2. Whither "The People?": Populism, Ideology and the Contested Politics of Sport  3. Populist Elements of SINGO Discourse and Practice: Unravelling the Undercurrents of the Popular Cultural Event  4. Neuro-liberalism: Enterprise, Gender, and the Marketing of the Self  5. The Radical Populist Pitch of U2’s (2009-2011) ‘360°’ Tour  PART 2: National Contexts and Settings  6. Blame Games: Sport, Populism and Crisis Politics in Greece  7. From Fascism to Five Stars: Sport, Populism and the Figure of the Leader in Italy  8. Sport, Music, and Populism in Brazil  9. Dilma Rousseff, Brazilian Cultural Politics, and the Rio 2016 Olympics: Left in Lula’s Wake  10. Populism and Sports in Latin America: Old and New Ways of Narrating the Nation  11. Populism and Political Motives for Hosting the FIFA World Cup: Comparing England 1966 and Russia 2018  PART 3: Trump Times  12. Blue Collar Billionaire: Trumpism, Populism and Uber-Sport  13. A Tale of Two Twitterstorms: The NFL, Donald Trump, and Digital Populism  14. The Gaga and the Global: American Double Articulation at Super Bowl LI  15. Art of the Deal: Donald Trump, the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup, and the Geopolitics of Football Aspiration  16. Afterword: A Sociological Future for Populism?