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The Cultural Politics of Post-9/11 American Sport - Power, Pedagogy and the Popular (Paperback)
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The Cultural Politics of Post-9/11 American Sport - Power, Pedagogy and the Popular (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
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Much of the writing on the post-9/11 period in the United States
has focused on the role of "official" Government rhetoric about
9/11. Those who have focused on the news media have suggested that
they played a key role in (re)defining the nation, allowing the
citizenry to come to terms with 9/11, in providing 'official'
understandings and interpretations of the event, and setting the
terms for a geo-political-military response (the war on terror).
However, strikingly absent from post-9/11 writing has been
discussion on the role of sport in this moment. This text provides
the first, book-length account, of the ways in which the sport
media, in conjunction with a number of interested parties -
sporting, state, corporate, philanthropic and military - operated
with a seeming collective affinity to conjure up nation, to define
nation and its citizenry, and, to demonize others. Through analysis
of a variety of cultural products - film, children's baseball, the
Super Bowl, the Olympics, reality television - the book reveals
how, in the post-9/11 moment, the sporting popular operated as a
powerful and highly visible pedagogic weapon in the armory of the
Bush Administration, operating to define ways of being American and
thus occlude other ways of being.
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