- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
For many fans and casual observers, professional sports and violence are deeply connected. Violence on the field has real consequences for players, notably in the form of life-altering injuries from concussions. Off the field, in the last several decades, scores of athletes have committed violent acts, from domestic abuse and sexual assault to animal abuse and murder. Beyond athletes, sport also serves as a site of political and structural violence, from the displacement and hyperpolicing of everyday people for mega-events to the “sportswashing” of environmentally harmful industries.
Daniel Sailofsky examines the endemic violence in professional sports and argues that—while related to masculinity, misogyny, and individual factors like alcohol consumption and gambling—it is most intimately tied to capitalism and to capitalist modes of consumption and profit. Sailofsky explains how capitalism creates the conditions for violence to thrive and uncovers how sports leaders—coaches, league officials, and team owners—obfuscate these relationships to avoid accountability.
From minor league baseball exploitation to spectator hooliganism, Sailofsky shows the connections between the business of sports and violence, but also, more importantly, he imagines new forms of sport that are not places of harm.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One. The Point Is to Change It: A Marxist Theoretical Framework
- Chapter Two. In-Game Violence: Concussions, Injury, and the Consequences
- Chapter Three. Outside the Lines: Violence against Athletes outside of the Field of Play
- Chapter Four. (In)Action Speaks Louder than Words: How Sport Organizations Respond to Athlete-Perpetrated Violence against Women
- Chapter Five. Labor and Violence: American College Sports and Minor League Baseball Exploitation
- Chapter Six. Crowd Violence: Winning at All Costs and Imagined Communities under Capitalism
- Chapter Seven. Mega-Events and Mega-Harm: Structural and Environmental Violence, Sportswashing, and Celebration Capitalism
- Chapter Eight. The Way Forward: Reimagining Sport Now and for the Future
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index