A Companion to Sport brings together writing by leading sports theorists and social and cultural thinkers, to explore sport as a central element of contemporary culture.

• Positions sport as a crucial subject for critical analysis, as one of the most significant forms of popular culture
• Includes both well-known social and cultural theorists whose work lends itself to an interrogation of sport, and leading theorists of sport itself
• Offers a comprehensive examination of sport as a social and cultural practice and institution
• Explores sport in relation to modernity, postcolonial theory, gender, violence, race, disability and politics

About the Author

David L. Andrews is Professor of Physical Cultural Studies in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He is the author of Sport-Commerce-Culture: Essays on Sport in Late Capitalist America (2006) and coauthor of Sports Coaching Research: Context, Consequences, and Consciousness (with A. Bush, M. Silk, and H. Lauder, 2013).

Ben Carrington teaches sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, USA and is a Carnegie Research Fellow at Leeds Metropolitan University in England. His most recent book is Race, Sport and Politics: The Sporting Black Diaspora (2010).

Reviews

"No doubt, many students will be inspired by it to undertake further research and create yet new and deeper thoughts on the role sport can play in our society." (Reference Reviews, 1 December 2014

Book Information
ISBN 9781405191609
Author David L. Andrews
Format Hardback
Page Count 640
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 1202g
Dimensions(mm) 249mm * 173mm * 38mm