Sport and Militarism: Contemporary Global Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781138690202 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 292 str.

Opis

The institutional relationship between sport and the military appears to be intensifying. In the US, for example, which faced global criticism for its foreign policy during the "war on terror," militaristic images and discourses are commonplace at sporting events. This critical, interdisciplinary and international volume seeks to identify intersections of sport and militarism as a means to interrogate, interrupt, and intervene on behalf of democratic, peaceful politics. Viewing sport as a crucial site in which militarism is made visible and legitimate, it explores the connections between sport, the military and the state, and their impact on wider society and culture.

Recenzje

"Required reading for those that study sport as a sociocultural fact, it is also indispensable to those that believe, naively, that sport and politics do not mix, and that the function of the present security forces, or military agents, in this scenery aims ‘only’ to ensure the continuity of this spectacle." - Prof Dr Katia Rubio, School of Physical Education and Sport, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

O autorze

Michael L. Butterworth is Director and Associate Professor in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University, USA. His research investigates the relationships between rhetoric, democracy and sport. In particular, he is interested in the extent to which commercialized sport may enrich or diminish democratic culture. He is the author of Baseball and Rhetorics of Purity: The National Pastime and American Identity during the War on Terror (2010) and co-author of the textbook Communication and Sport: Surveying the Field (2014). He has published in journals such as Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Communication and Sport, Communication, Culture & Critique, the　International Review for the Sociology of Sport, the　Journal of Communication, and the　Quarterly Journal of Speech