One day in September/a week in February: Mobilizing American (sporting) nationalisms

Article Abstract:

The media representation of two major sporting events Super Bowl and the opening of Salt Lake City Winter Olympics that took place in the first week of February, 2002 focuses on the place of sport as an economy through which power, privilege, politics, and positions are reproduced. The American nation in the wake of the social and historical disruption on 9/11 shows a politicized and militaristic rhetoric within and mobilized through the affective realm of the sporting popular.

Economic aspects, Super Bowl Game (Football), Media coverage, Football teams

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Globetrotters and local heroes? Labor migration, basketball, and local identities

Article Abstract:

The global migration of sports labor is addressed in which the contested presence of North American players in English basketball is considered in the context of questions regarding the reception of migrants in local cultures. Thus, the presence of migrant athletes is viewed specifically through the local lens including the responses, which were shaped, by the varying roles and interpretations of consuming basketball in the lives of local residents.

Influence, Emigration and immigration, Migrant labor, Basketball, Migrant labour

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Response to Helstein's "Seeing your sporting body: Identity, subjectivity, and misrecognition

Article Abstract:

The analysis of identity is discussed in the light of Foucault and Lacan to emphasize the importance of the former's discursive approaches in sociocultural studies of sport. Psychoanalysis does not offer anything useful to studies of sport socioculture.

Psychological aspects, Analysis, Criticism and interpretation, Foucault, Michel, Lacan, Jacques, Self identity

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