Making Sport Great Again: The Uber-Sport Assemblage, Neoliberalism, and the Trump Conjuncture

by David L. Andrews

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030150011
• ISBN13: 9783030150013
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 167 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"