Sporting Pedagogies
Subtitle: Performing Culture & Identity in the Global Arena
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing; Peter Lang
Published: June 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780820471341
Subjects: Sociological aspects; Popular Culture - General; Nationalism and sports; Social Science; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Sports; Sociology; North American; General; Experimental Methods; Cross-cultural studies
Description: "Focusing on such varied sites as British cinema, global celebrity, racialized education policy, and Disney, Sporting Pedagogies illustrates how trans/national sporting cultures, intermediaries, and institutions actively work as pedagogical sites to hegemonically re-inscribe and re-present neo-liberal discourses on sport, culture, nation, and democracy throughout the ascendant global capitalist order. Written in the progressive tradition of Norman K. Denzin, Henry Giroux, Lawrence Grossberg, and Peter McLaren, Michael D. Giardina poignantly - and at times, devastatingly - captures the shifting terrain of social and political contestation and negotiation at play in the modern world. This book is a must-read for students in cultural studies, communications research, sport studies, and globalization."--Jacket.