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Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation

Consumption and the Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism

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  1. Joshua I. Newman
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  2. Michael D. Giardina
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Joshua I. Newman, Michael D. Giardina
    Pages 1-18

  3. Sporting Automobility: Contextualizing NASCAR Nation

    • Joshua I. Newman, Michael D. Giardina
    Pages 19-44

  4. The Road and Serfdom: Theorizing the Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism

    • Joshua I. Newman, Michael D. Giardina
    Pages 45-66

  5. Consuming NASCAR Nation: Space, Spectacle, and Consumer-Citizenship

    • Joshua I. Newman, Michael D. Giardina
    Pages 67-91

  6. NASCAR and the “Southernization” of Sporting America

    • Joshua I. Newman, Michael D. Giardina
    Pages 93-118

  7. Racing for Jesus: Sport in Theocratic America

    • Joshua I. Newman, Michael D. Giardina
    Pages 119-149

  8. Part I NASCAR Nation As/In Petrol Empire

    • Joshua I. Newman, Michael D. Giardina
    Pages 151-161

  9. Part II Militarizing NASCAR Nation

    • Joshua I. Newman, Michael D. Giardina
    Pages 162-183

  10. Selling Out NASCAR Nation

    • Joshua I. Newman, Michael D. Giardina
    Pages 185-212

  11. Concluding Thoughts

    • Joshua I. Newman, Michael D. Giardina
    Pages 213-218

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 219-288
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About this book

Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation critically interrogates stockcar racing's ascendance into the upper-echelon of the North American sporting popular. While most contributions to the public discourse gloss over NASCAR's exclusively white racial identity politics, its underlying patriarchal gender politics, its overtly conservative political commitment, its hyper-Christian orthodoxy, and its omnipresent commercialism, this book connects the dots and critically analyzes the problematic nature of this non-natural, strategically-orchestrated sporting spectacle.

Reviews

"This groundbreaking text is more than just a fascinating and well-researched account of one of America s most popular spectator sports; it is also an urgent and necessary explication of the current troubled state of the United States in the context of the recent growth of Christian fundamentalism and militaristic nationalism. Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary American politics and the central role that sport continues to play in reshaping the American Dream. " - Ben Carrington, University of Texas at Austin; author of Race, Sport and Politics: The Sporting Black Diaspora

"Arguably the most comprehensive contextualization of twenty-first century American sport culture; a compelling, powerful, and indeed invaluable antidote to the public pedagogy of the NASCAR spectacle" - David L. Andrews, University of Maryland; author of Sport-Commerce-Culture: Essays on Sport in Late Capitalist America

"Closely argued and deeply researched, this freewheeling study takes readers to the intersections of politics and spectacle, of race and representation, of South and North. It shows how the dizzying speed of the market and the seeming traditionalism of fundamentalist religion coexist in US conservatism." -David R. Roediger, University of Illinois; author of How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon

About the authors

Joshua I. Newman lectures in the areas of sport and physical culture, qualitative research, cultural studies, and critical pedagogy in the School of Physical Education at the University of Otago (New Zealand).Michael D. Giardina is an assistant professor in the Department of Sport Management at Florida State University.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation

  • Book Subtitle: Consumption and the Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism

  • Authors: Joshua I. Newman, Michael D. Giardina

  • Series Title: Education, Politics and Public Life

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230338081

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Education Collection, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-11519-4Published: 08 November 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-29653-8Published: 08 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-33808-1Published: 10 October 2011

  • Series ISSN: 2945-7858

  • Series E-ISSN: 2945-7866

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 288

  • Topics: Sociology of Education, Political Theory

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