Sport and Citizenship

ISBN-13: 9781138898578 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 142 str.

Matthew Guschwan

Opis

Citizenship has become a widely significant and hotly contested academic concept. Though the term may seem obvious, citizenship carries a range of subtle social and political meanings. This volume explores citizenship as it relates to sport, on the micro and macro level of analysis and in a variety of geo-political contexts. Citizenship is a central organizing principle of international competition such as the Olympic Games. Furthermore, sport is used to teach, symbolize and perform citizenship. While related to national identity, citizenship pertains more precisely to how citizens are legally and politically recognized by the state and how citizens engage within the nation state. This volume traces the roots of discourses on citizenship before illustrating a variety of ways in which citizenship and sport impinge upon each other in contemporary contexts.

This bookw as published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

Spis treści

1. Sport and citizenship: introduction  2. The athlete as citizen: judgement and rhetorical invention in sport  3. Stadium as public sphere  4. Globalization, corporate nationalism and masculinity in Canada: sport, Molson beer advertising and consumer citizenship  5. Bending the codes of masculinity: David Beckham and flexible masculinity in the new millennium  6. Rosie the right fielder: citizen of the community, not just a temporary patriot  7. Men of steel: social class, masculinity, and cultural citizenship in post-industrial Pittsburgh  8. Bound to the nation: Pacific Islands rugby and the IRB’s new ‘one-country-for-life’ eligibility rules  9. Epilogue 

O autorze

Matthew Guschwan holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Culture from Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA. His research focuses on the ways in which Italian identity is constructed in and through sport.