Youth Culture and Sport Identity, Power, and Politics

Name: Youth Culture and Sport Identity, Power, and Politics
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ISBN: 9780415955805

ISBN-10: 0415955807

ISBN-13: 9780415955805

Edition: 2008

Authors: Michael D. Giardina, Michele K. Donnelly, Michele K. Donnelly, Michele K. Donnelly

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Youth Culturenbsp;and Sport critically interrogates and challenges contemporary articulations of race, class, gender, and sexual relations circulating throughout popular iterations of youth sporting culture in late-capitalism. Written against the backdrop of important changes in social, cultural, political, and economic dynamics taking place in corporate cultures war on kids, this exciting new volume marks the first anthology to critically examine the intersection of youth culture and sport in an age of global uncertainty. Bringing together leading scholars from cultural studies, gender studies, sociology, sport studies, and related fields, chapters range in scope from 'action' sport…

Book details

List price: $195.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/8/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 228
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Series Editor Introduction



Foreword: A Critical Youth Studies for the Historical Present



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Politics of Culture/Culture of Politics



The Little League World Series: Spectacle of Youthful Innocence or Spectre of the American New Right?




Screening Race in America: Sport, Cinema, and the Politics of Urban Youth Culture




Bounding American Empire: Sport, Sex, and Politics




Branding the "Alternative"



Exploiting a New Generation: Corporate Branding and the Co-Optation of Action Sport




To the White Extreme in the Mainstream: Manhood and White Youth Culture in a Virtual Sports World




"You Can Break So Many More Rules": The Identity Work and Play of Becoming Skater Girls




"Take the Slam and Get Back Up": Hardcore Candy and the Politics of Representation in Girls' and Women's Skateboarding and Snowboarding on Television




Racialized Pedagogies



Hostile Environments: Anti-Indian Imagery, Racial Pedagogies, and Youth Sport Cultures




Culture, Colonialism, and Competition: Youth Sport Culture in Canada's North




From Babies to Ballers: Girls' Youth Basketball and the Re-Becoming of U.S. Motherhood



Coda: Youth Sport in the Shadows of American Vertigo



Contributors


Index