Blending critical theory, conjunctural cultural studies, and
assemblage theory, Making Sport Great Again introduces and develops
the concept of uber-sport: the sporting expression of late
capitalism’s conjoined corporatizing, commercializing,
spectacularizing, and celebritizing forces. On different scales and
in varying spaces, the uber-sport assemblage is revealed both to
surreptitiously reinscribe the neoliberal preoccupation with
consumption and to nurture the individualized consumer subject.
Andrews further probes how uber-sport normalizes the ideological
orientations and associate affective investments of the Trump
assemblage’s authoritarian populism. Even as it articulates the
regressive politicization of sport, Making Sport Great Again serves
also as a call to action: how might progressives
rearticulate uber-sport in emancipatory and actualizing political
formations?
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The Uber-Sport Assemblage, Neoliberalism, and the Trump Conjuncture
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9783030150020
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Palgrave Pivot
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter