Sports Events, Society and Culture

Katherine Dashper, Thomas Fletcher, Nicola Mccullough

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781134053346
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Hospitality, Travel & Tourism Industry
• Index: Business

This innovative and timely volume moves beyond existing operational and pragmatic approaches to events studies by exploring sports events as social, cultural, political and mediatised phenomena. As the study of this area is developing there is now a need for critical and theoretically informed debate regarding conceptualisation, significance and roles.

This edited collection explores the core themes of consumption, media technologies, representation, identities and culture to offer new insight into how sports events contribute to generation of individual and shared meaning over personal, community and national identities as well as the associated issues of conflict, resistance and power. Chapters promote a critical (re)evaluation of emerging empirical research from a diverse range of sports events and locations from the international to local level. A multi-disciplinary approach is taken with contributions from areas including sports studies, media studies, sociology, cultural studies, communications, politics, tourism and gender studies.

Written by leading academics in the area, this thorough exploration of the contested relationship between sports events, society and culture will be of interest to students, academics and researchers in Events, Sport, Tourism and Sociology.

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Power, Politics and International Events

Edited by Udo Merkel

Event Audiences and Expectations

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Event Portfolio Planning and Management

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Conferences and Conventions

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Judith Mair

Conferences and Conventions

A research perspective

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Fashion, Design and Events

Edited by Kim M. Williams, Jennifer Laing and Warwick Frost

Food and Wine Events in Europe

Edited by Alessio Cavicchi and Cristina Santini

Event Volunteering

Edited by Karen Smith, Leonie Lockstone-Binney, Kirsten Holmes and Tom Baum

The Arts and Events

Hilary du Cros and Lee Jolliffe

Sports Events, Society and Culture

Edited by Katherine Dashper, Thomas Fletcher and Nicola McCullough

Forthcoming:

The Future of Events and Festivals

Edited by Ian Yeoman, Martin Robertson, Una McMahon-Beattie, Elisa Backer and Karen Smith

Exploring Community Events and Festivals

Edited by Allan Jepson and Alan Clarke

Event Design

Edited by Greg Richards, Lénia Marques and Karen Mein

Rituals and Traditional Events in the Modern World

Edited by Warwick Frost and Jennifer Laing

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Sports Events, Society and Culture

Edited by Katherine Dashper, Thomas Fletcher and Nicola McCullough

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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Sports events, society and culture / edited by Katherine Dashper, Thomas

Fletcher and Nicola McCullough.

pages cm. – (Routledge advances in event research series)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Sports – Social aspects – Case studies. 2. Sports – Psychological aspects

–Case studies. 3. Mass media and sports – Case studies. I. Dashper,

Katherine, author, editor of compilation. II. Fletcher, Thomas, author,

editor of compilation. III. McCullough, Nicola, author, editor of

compilation.

GV706.5.S7399 2014

306.4′83–dc23 2014001478

ISBN: 978-0-415-82675-4 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-203-52802-0 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9780203528020

Typeset in Times New Roman

by Wearset Ltd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear

This book is dedicated to Ian, Amanda, William, Matt, Samuel and Abigail

Contents

• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: sports events, society and culture KATHERINE DASHPER, THOMAS FLETCHER AND NICOLA McCULLOUGH
• PART I Inventing, packaging and consuming sport
  • 1 Connecting events to advertising: narrative strategies and dirty logics in Super Bowl commercials LAWRENCE A. WENNER
  • 2 Football fandom in late modernity: alternative spaces and places of consumption MARK TURNER
  • 3 Debating with fists: professional wrestling: sport, spectacle ...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Frontmatter 1
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: sports events, society and culture—KATHERINE DASHPER, THOMAS FLETCHER AND NICOLA McCULLOUGH
• PART I Inventing, packaging and consuming sport
• PART II Media and ‘mediatisation’
• PART III Identities
• PART V Mega-events
• Conclusion: this is just the beginning—KATHERINE DASHPER, THOMAS FLETCHER AND NICOLA McCULLOUGH
• Index