Tag: Dave Zirin
Useful contribution to the study of race, inequality, and identity in American professional boxing
Professional boxers work inside a capitalistic and neoliberal sports culture that they both challenge and uphold. Rings of Dissent: Boxing and Performances of Rebellion, edited by Rudy Mondragón, Gaye Theresa Johnson & David J. Leonard (University of Illinois Press), delves into professional boxing’s capacity for brilliance, contradiction, resistance, and complicity. Our reviewers Daniele Canini and Anne Tjønndal found several compelling individual contributions, but given the academic provenance would have expected a stronger emphasis on analytical rather than descriptive writing.
Introductory reader on sport and politics that has much to recommend it
Capitalism and Sport: Politics, Protest, People and Play by Michael Lavalette (ed.) examines the relationship between capitalism and sport by exploring the tensions that exist within sport from two distinct perspectives: the politics of sport and the politics in sport. Russell Holden’s review highlights the good points as well as the drawbacks.
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Anders Östnäs
Socialhögskolan i LundD. Stanley Eitzen (red)
Sport in Contemporary Society:
An Anthology
10th ed., 344 sid
Oxford University Press 2014
ISBN 978-0-19-020277-4Denna bok är en klassiker inom det idrottssociologiska fältet i USA. Den...
