Description
| Product ID: | 9780774867795 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CA |
| Series: | Law and Society |
| Title: | Power Played |
| Subtitle: | A Critical Criminology of Sport |
| Authors: | Author: Derek Silva, Liam Kennedy |
| Page Count: | 362 |
| Subjects: | Sociology: sport and leisure, Sociology: sport & leisure, Crime and criminology, Sport and the law, Crime & criminology, Sport & the law |
| Description: | Power Played represents a distinctly critical criminology of sport, blowing the whistle on the harm, violence, and exploitation embedded in contemporary sport and sporting cultures. This innovative collection convincingly argues that modern sport can be characterized by unequal and problematic power relations that are inextricably linked to issues of violence, harm, deviance, and punishment. On the one hand, sport is a mainstay of community building, an expression of solidarity, and a means to mental and social health. On the other, there is the star player who commits sexual violence, the trans athlete whose achievements are dismissed as fraudulent, or the racist and abusive nationalism of the impassioned sports fan. From drawing connections between head trauma and athletic violence to exploring the social meanings of sport in prison, contributors to this volume reimagine sport as an important unit of analysis for critical criminologists. Messages about crime, violence, and punishment in sport mirror broader relations of power that exist off the field. Situated at the intersections of sport, sporting culture, and crime, Power Played blows the whistle on the harm, violence, and exploitation embedded within. |
| Imprint Name: | University of British Columbia Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of British Columbia Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-10-01 |
