Making Sport Great Again

The Uber-Sport Assemblage, Neoliberalism, and the Trump Conjuncture

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology, Marriage & Family, Sports, Reference
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Author: David L. Andrews ISBN: 9783030150020
Publisher: Springer International Publishing Publication: April 5, 2019
Imprint: Palgrave Pivot Language: English
Author: David L. Andrews
ISBN: 9783030150020
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Publication: April 5, 2019
Imprint: Palgrave Pivot
Language: English

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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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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