Sporting Dystopias

<p><b>Challenges the unexamined belief that sports stadiums events and teams in cities are always beneficial to the comunities.</b></p><p>Reaching beyond the popular celebration of commercial gains often associated with the proliferation of stadiums events and teams in the city Sporting Dystopias explores the role of sport in the process of community building. Scholars from various fields including anthropology cultural studies history marketing media studies and sociology examine the cultural economic and political interplay of sport and the city. The book systematically challenges the overwhelming claims of sport's benefit to the city as it scrutinizes the various tensions inherent in the relationship. Grounded in economic means racial and ethnic affiliation and the contestation for space sport is seen as precipitating a broad range of human challenges.</p>