Sport is a geographic phenomenon. The physical and organizational infrastructure of sport occupies a prominent place in our society. This important book takes an explicitly spatial approach to sport, bringing together research in geography, sport studies and related disciplines to articulate a critical approach to sports geography. Critical Geographies of Sport illustrates this approach by engaging directly with a variety of theoretical traditions as well as the latest research methods.
Each chapter showcases the merits of a geographic approach to the study of sport ranging from football to running, horseracing and professional wrestling. Including cases from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, the book highlights the ways that space and power are produced through sport and its concomitant infrastructures, agencies and networks. Holding these power relations at the center of its analysis, it considers sport as a unique lens onto our understanding of space.
Truly global in its perspective, it is fascinating reading for any student or scholar with an interest in sport and politics, sport and society, or human geography.
1. Introduction: Critical geographies of sport in global perspective (Natalie Koch) PART I: Sports, geopolitics, and state space 2. Geopolitics, identity, and horse sports in Finland (Pauliina Raento) 3. Spreading the game or reproducing hegemony? The United States and the regional geopolitics of womens football in the Americas (Jon Bohland) 4. Nation-building and sporting spectacles in authoritarian regimes: Turkmenistans Aziada-2017 (Slavom?r Hor?k) 5. Sports and politics in Israel: Settler colonialism and the native Palestinians (Magid Shihade) 6. Sports fields and corporate governmentality: Gazproms all-Russlc'
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