Athletic Activism
eBook - ePub

Athletic Activism

Global Perspectives on Social Transformation

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Athletic Activism

Global Perspectives on Social Transformation

About this book

Athletes across the globe have engaged in high profile protests against state violence since NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick's refusal to stand during the US national anthem in protest of state violence against Black communities. There is, however, a much longer global history that precedes and follows Kaepernick's protest. This series of sport protests, across both professional and amateur levels, has invigorated progressive politics around the world and drawn attention to ongoing authoritarianism, state violence, and vigilante violence, as well as the role sport can play in both exposing and combatting such issues.

Challenging the dominant Global North narrative, Athletic Activism: Global Perspectives on Social Transformation demonstrates how athletic activism can not only impact global discourse about inequity, but also foster institutional change that advances social justice. This volume uses the term 'athletic activism' to understand how athletes, coaches, and sports professionals use sports, sporting institutions, and athletics to engage in conscious, concerted, and sustained efforts to transform the world they inhabit. Borrowing both historical and contemporary approaches to examine grassroots youth sports, quotidian sites of amateur sport, and mega-sporting events, chapters expand on how we conceptualize athletic activism and theorize the transformative potential of sport and sporting participants.

Rooting athletic activism in a global, transnational perspective, Athletic Activism: Global Perspectives on Social Transformation broadens the focus on athletic activism from highly publicized, performative forms of protest on the pitch to local grassroots efforts that seek to address issues of race, violence, gender, sexuality, sustainability, identity, and community development.

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Yes, you can access Athletic Activism by Jeffrey Montez de Oca, Stanley Thangaraj, Jeffrey Montez de Oca,Stanley Thangaraj in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Social Theory. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Editor
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Introduction
  9. Listen to Athletes for a Change: From Raised Fists to Bended Knee
  10. Why We Must #SayHerName: A Black Feminist Look at Athlete Activism
  11. Who Am ‘I’: Muslim LGBTQ1 Athlete Identity Development and Social Activism
  12. Protest at the Olympic Games: How Political Movements Scythe Space for Athlete-Activist Moments
  13. Conceptualizing and Recognizing Eco-Activism Within Sport
  14. All in Their Heads: Sport Activism and the Fight Against Race Norming in the NFL Concussion Settlement
  15. Activism as Collective Care: Football Practices in Malabar, Kerala
  16. Champions of the Pacific: Exploring Sport Activism Through a Pacific Lens
  17. Embracing and Resisting a Social Justice Approach in Coaching: An Auto-Ethnography of Club Basketball
  18. Three Perspectives on the Political and Aesthetic Potentials of the Basketball Court
  19. Index