Pub Date : 2022-05-18DOI: 10.1177/01937235221099149
Jorge E. Moraga
Ron Rivera, after eight and a half years as the only Latino Head Coach employed by the NFL, was fired in 2019 by Carolina Panthers’ new ownership. Soon after, Rivera was hired as the new Head Coach of the then-Washington Reds*ins. Empowered to not only coach the team, he has been tasked to shake up the organization's cultural, gendered, and racialized leadership-status-quo. In doing so Coach Rivera threads new ground across the ever evolving color line in U.S. sports, particularly “the brown color line.” This essay explores the life, career, and ongoing-regionally based celebrity stardom of Ronald Eugene Rivera. I argue that Ron Rivera charts pathways forward amidst a U.S. socio-cultural-political climate rooted in anti-Native, anti-Black, anti-immigrant sentiment and a sporting industry embezzled in neoliberal racial politics. The essay theorizes “brownness” in sport from a “Latino masculinity” perspective to situate Rivera's struggles for (in)/(hyper)visibility and the complexed realities of the ongoing gendered color line in U.S. sport amid social pressure and protests for transformation and change.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-16DOI: 10.1177/01937235221098915
A. McGregor
College football coaches often position themselves as defenders of American values. As popular figures with influence, coaches are able to shape public views about a variety of political and social issues. Coaches can also alter the ways fans perceive athletes, many who are racial and ethnic minorities, and understand the inner workings of the sports world. Relying on the popular press, this article explores the rhetoric of big-time white college football coaches and documents instances where they weigh in on social and cultural issues, such as the New Left and Title IX, to gain a fuller appreciation of the political and intellectual role coaches played during the culture wars. It argues that coaches became key conservative voices that adopted an anti-intellectual tone as college football emerged as a front in America’s polarized culture wars.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-12DOI: 10.1177/01937235221099150
Brynn Adamson, M. Adamson, Caitlin Clarke, Emma V Richardson, S. Sydnor
This manifesto reimagines social justice in physical cultural studies by renaming, broadening, and building new characterizations of the body, dis/ability, mental health, exercise, social oppression, and sport. We problematize embedded ‘myths’ in exercise and sports studies scholarship for purposes of informing praxis-based research, and emancipatory practical agendas. These ‘myths’ include the embodied tragedy myth, the myth of bodily control, the sport for peace/development myth, the exercise is medicine myth, the healthism and exercise myth, the compulsory ablemindedness and exercise myth, and the exercise is cost-effective myth. Using intersecting and diverging theories, we propose new ways of knowing these taken for granted notions to springboard a new, socially just, emancipatory approach to research and practice.
{"title":"Social Justice Through Sport and Exercise Studies: A Manifesto","authors":"Brynn Adamson, M. Adamson, Caitlin Clarke, Emma V Richardson, S. Sydnor","doi":"10.1177/01937235221099150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01937235221099150","url":null,"abstract":"This manifesto reimagines social justice in physical cultural studies by renaming, broadening, and building new characterizations of the body, dis/ability, mental health, exercise, social oppression, and sport. We problematize embedded ‘myths’ in exercise and sports studies scholarship for purposes of informing praxis-based research, and emancipatory practical agendas. These ‘myths’ include the embodied tragedy myth, the myth of bodily control, the sport for peace/development myth, the exercise is medicine myth, the healthism and exercise myth, the compulsory ablemindedness and exercise myth, and the exercise is cost-effective myth. Using intersecting and diverging theories, we propose new ways of knowing these taken for granted notions to springboard a new, socially just, emancipatory approach to research and practice.","PeriodicalId":47636,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sport & Social Issues","volume":"25 1","pages":"407 - 444"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91150687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-26DOI: 10.1177/01937235221094063
J. Scherer, Rylan Kafara, Judy Davidson
There is no shortage of sociological research that explores the successes and failures of various sport-related social movements. However, a more capacious approach to understanding the significance of sport-related social movements, their imaginative actions and collective labor, and their impacts on social change, is one that shifts its focus away from binary categories of “success” and “failure”. In this paper, we explore the formation of the short-lived Edmonton Community Benefits Coalition, which emerged in 2016 to oppose the lack of a legally binding Community Benefits Agreement associated with a new publicly financed National Hockey League arena in Edmonton’s gentrifying city center, an area of spatially concentrated racialized poverty. Drawing from our ethnographic research, we examine how coalition members engaged in the collective labor of building solidarity, including the collaborative development of political strategies, while recognizing that the odds of successfully penetrating neoliberal capital and municipal governance were virtually impossible. Finally, given that the coalition ultimately “failed” to secure more significant institutional impacts, we offer an analysis of how this failure engendered several effects, including the cultivation of new relationships and political strategies in the ongoing struggle against gentrification and its related displacements in Edmonton, Alberta.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-19DOI: 10.1177/01937235221094035
Brandon Wallace, D. L. Andrews
Epitomized by the athletic sneaker industry's lucrative mining of Black bodies and Black culture, the colonization of the racial “Other” by the forces of Western consumer culture has become a defining feature of late capitalism. However, we propose that contemporary consumer culture also offers possibilities for everyday decolonizing practices, specifically those associated with sneaker customization. Drawing on 15 interviews with racially-marginalized sneaker customizers, we explored how individuals used sneaker customization to initiate critical and creative dialogues with the sneaker industry and other late colonizing forces. We found that participants used sneaker customization to assert their humanity through: signaling their personal/group identity; articulating political subversions and solidarities; and seeking to uplift disadvantaged communities. We conclude by encouraging sport scholars to critically engage the possibilities for decolonizing politics as infused within everyday popular cultural practices.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-13DOI: 10.1177/01937235221094034
S. Petracovschi
During the Cold War, the Romanian school of gymnastics represented a superpower in the world of WAG and became a part of Romania’s international politics strategy. This ascension started under the supervision of Bela Karolyi, the coach of the Romanian team between 1972 −1981. Bela Karolyi represented the type of coach who used tactics to produce performance. Forced by Securitatea surveillance, the political police of the communist government, Bela Karolyi had to constantly adapt the technologies of power to have the best tactics to win. By using the hierarchical power of communist government against the Romanian Gymnastics Federation, Bela Karolyi was able to build his tactics until the moment it ran against the government strategy. Forced to defect to the other side of the Iron Curtain, Bela Karolyi continued to improve his technologies of power and tactics that transformed the United States WAG team in a superpower.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-23DOI: 10.1177/01937235211067192
R. Purves, N. Critchlow, R. Giulianotti, Kate Hunt, Stephen Morrow, A. Bancroft
Availability of alcohol at football matches in the UK is much debated and subject to multiple restrictions, yet there is little understanding of supporters’ attitudes. A cross-sectional survey of football supporters in Scotland and England (n = 1750) was conducted April–June 2019. Most supporters viewed drinking at matches as acceptable (74.4%) and thought alcohol should be available at grounds (76.0%); around two-fifths thought most supporters consumed alcohol before matches (44.1%); but only a quarter (26.6%) thought disorder at matches was due to alcohol. Attitudes varied by supporter characteristics: supporters who were younger, in England, or more regular match-goers were more favourable towards alcohol consumption and availability at matches. We conclude that alcohol regulations in some nations and sports – where restrictions are based on historical disorder – may no longer be appropriate.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-13DOI: 10.1177/01937235211067190
Connor Penfold, Jamie Cleland
This article explores the views of 906 football fans (96% of whom selfidentified as White), collected via an online survey from May-June 2019, regarding the impact of the leading equality and inclusion organization, Kick It Out, in delivering initiatives to challenge the multifaceted expressions of racism by some White English football fans. Whilst fans recognize the importance of raising awareness of racial discrimination, nearly three quarters of White fans do not engage with any Kick It Out initiatives. In the face of new challenges, including the largely unregulated space of social media, and a socio-political climate that has facilitated the resurgence of overtly expressed bigoted, colour and cultural-based racisms, the article stresses that the English football authorities must support the work of anti-racism organizations to increase their potency amongst White fans if racial discrimination is to be more effectively challenged in the future.
本文探讨了通过2019年5月至6月的在线调查收集的906名球迷(其中96%自认为是白人)对领先的平等和包容组织“踢出去”(Kick It Out)在发起挑战一些英国白人球迷多方面表达种族主义的倡议方面的影响的看法。虽然球迷们认识到提高种族歧视意识的重要性，但近四分之三的白人球迷没有参与任何“踢出去”活动。面对新的挑战，包括很大程度上不受监管的社交媒体空间，以及促进公开表达的偏执，基于肤色和文化的种族主义的社会政治气候，文章强调，如果要在未来更有效地挑战种族歧视，英国足球当局必须支持反种族主义组织的工作，以增加他们在白人球迷中的效力。
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Pub Date : 2021-12-06DOI: 10.1177/01937235211062627
Gabriel A. Torres Colón
Relaying on years of ethnographic research and boxers’ life stories, this article examines how boxers from racialized and marginalized communities hope for family and glory in a Midwestern U.S. gym. Hope for family is embraced by youth and young adults who develop familial ties with trainers and fellow boxers. Hope for glory begins in gyms but ultimately must be sought in competitive arenas of elite amateur tournaments and professional boxing. Competitive arenas, however, exists in sociocultural systems that capitalize on the brutalization and exploitation of racialized bodies as boxing fanatics crave blood, pain, and concussions. In these contexts, boxers’ hope for glory is fulfilled through exploitation—both physical and cultural—of their collective bodies; and hope for glory compromises the relationships and sense of community that are established as boxers pursue hope for family.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-15DOI: 10.1177/01937235211043648
Jayne Caudwell
This paper draws from a research project that was initiated in 2017 and continued in to 2020. It followed on from previous University-LGBT + community projects (e.g., football versus homophobia 2012–2018) and involved working with a local transgender social group, specifically, their engagement with once-a-month recreational swim sessions. The research findings that are discussed come from sixty-three research participant's ‘drawings’, three focus groups including a professionally drawn illustration of two of these focus groups, and nine semi-structured interviews. The analysis of the qualitative data demonstrates the significance of play and pleasure, feeling free, and transgender and non-binary imaginations to physical activity participation, and wellbeing. These three themes are presented through the lens of queer/queering and transfeminism. As such, the paper has two aims: to document the experiences of physical activity by an often-excluded group; and to evaluate the concept of queering to an understanding of indoor recreational swimming and wellbeing.
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