Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport

Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport assesses the contemporary relevance of Marxist approaches and offers a unique and diverse examination of modern sports culture and power relations within sport. It is an invaluable resource for students of sport sociology, Marxism, and cultural studies at all levels"Theoretically provocative and enlightening" --Leisure Studies "Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport is particularly welcome. There can be no better time to examine the ways in which both Marxism and Cultural Studies have enabled an examination of sport that can go beyond the merely biomechanical, the simplistically psychological or sociological descriptions of most sports studies" --New Formations "Including editors Ben Carrington and Ian McDonald, the eleven authors in this collection form an impressive team of sociologists, anthropologists, and media, race, and sports scholars...compared to most anthologies, this collection offers a degree of unity and coherence that is rarely found...Overall, the editors' lofty goals for the volume-to raise the level of theoretical debate within sports studies and to focus the theoretical 'weaponry' of Marxism and Cultural Studies on the field of sport-have been realized." -- Contemporary Sociology, 2010 "Ben Carrington and Ian McDonald's anthology Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport - the eighth volume in Routledge's admirable Critical Studies in Sport series - successfully addresses all three of the aims outlined in the Series Editors' Preface. [...]As a means by which to engage intellectually-curious undergraduates with an interest in the critical study of sport, and as a means for attempting to make sense of current sport policy - whereby the country is spending billions hosting the Olympics and bidding for World Cups while depriving its schools of adequate funding for grassroots sport - this volume is indispensible. - Neil Ewen, Independent Researcher