prescription and prohibition in the United States and, to use Jasbir Puar’s ( 2017 ) language, the “work machine” of professional football where injury and maiming are “preordained” and “sanctioned.” Engaging with the less obvious forms that racial capitalism takes brings into focus the promises and limits of
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“Anesthetized Gladiators:” Painkilling and Racial Capitalism in the NFL
Matt Ventresca and Samantha King
The Mäori All Blacks and the Decentering of the White Subject: Hyperrace, Sport, and the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Brendan Hokowhitu and Jay Scherer
In this article we examine a range of media discourses surrounding the continued existence of the Mäori All Blacks, a “racially” selected rugby side, and a specific public controversy that erupted in New Zealand over the selection of former All Black great Christian Cullen for the Mäori All Blacks in 2003. Having never played for the Mäori All Blacks or publicly identified as Mäori, Cullen claimed tangata whenua status via whakapapa (genealogical connection) to his Ngäi Tahu grandfather. We argue that Cullen’s selection emerged as a contentious issue because of the fragmentation that the inclusion of his “Whiteness” within the confines of “an Other” team (i.e., the Mäori All Blacks) brought to bear on traditional colonial binaries of race in the context of late capitalism. Finally, we locate the debates over Cullen’s selection and the continued existence of the Mäori All Blacks in relation to the current racialized political climate that has fueled a Right-wing reaction to the growing Mäori self-determination movement.
Economic Freedom, Climate Culpability, and Physical Activity Indicators Among Children and Adolescents: Report Card Grades From the Global Matrix 4.0
Eun-Young Lee, Patrick Abi Nader, Salomé Aubert, Silvia A. González, Peter T. Katzmarzyk, Asaduzzaman Khan, Wendy Y. Huang, Taru Manyanga, Shawnda Morrison, Diego Augusto Santos Silva, and Mark S. Tremblay
neoliberal capitalism such as deregulation of the financial system, economic austerity, and the proliferation of free trade agreements, 16 is one ideology that is suggested to fuel both climate change and rising health inequities. A recent ecological study on 124 countries 16 reported that neoliberal
Professional Sports Team Ownership and Entrepreneurial Capitalism
William C. Flint and D. Stanley Eitzen
Three arguments concerning the ownership of professional sports are advanced in this paper. First, sports team owners do not maintain the social and corporate linkages found among capitalists in other industries. Second, these owners participate in the sports industry because it is both profitable and secure (a) through tax incentives and (b) because it is a self-regulating monopoly. Finally, the workings of a self-regulating monopoly and the popularity of sport enhance the reproduction of capitalist social relations and ideology. Sport is seen to represent the mythical ideal of meritocracy where hard work can lead to ownership and participation in America’s games. This ideal ignores the reality that sports team ownership is based on enormous wealth, not merit.
Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games
Wade P. Smith
Counterfeit Amateurs: An Athlete’s Journey Through the Sixties to the Age of Academic Capitalism
James T. Reese
The ABC Trust: A Chapter in the History of Capitalism in the Sporting Goods Industry
Lawrence W. Fielding and Lori K. Miller
The Carceral Logic of Female Eligibility Policies: Gender as a Civilizing Narrative, the Science of Sex Testing, and Anti-Trans Legislation 1
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matter? When racial capitalism requires, as Ruth Wilson Gilmore states, “the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death” ( 2007 )? When 2.3 million Palestinian people are being bombed into the ground and bulldozed into the sea
Marketing Politics and Resistance: Mobilizing Black Pain in National Football League Publicity
Jeffrey Montez de Oca
White supremacy and racial capitalism. We can begin this exploration with the NFL’s 2020 season opener. When the NFL announced that it would perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing” before the first game of the 2020 season, many people reacted to the announcement on social media as the NFL pandering to Black
The Case for Marxist–Leninist Sport: Going Beyond the Limitations of Western Liberalism
Munene Mwaniki
, I find the approach to neoliberalism to be divorced from some of the more fundamental problems of U.S./Western liberal capitalism, imperialism, and settler-colonialism. Academia today is often engaged in the latest buzzwords concerning various aspects of inequality—the most common seeming to be anti
