Citations:sportocratic

English citations of sportocratic

• 2001, Eric Richardson, “Sportocracy: a familiar phenomenon”, in Agenda, volume 16, number 47, →DOI, page 45:

  Although the role of schools in the gendering process is complex, one would not expect a sportocratic school to be very supportive of male learners who resist and refuse to be ‘masculinised’, as encouraging a range of ways of ‘being male’ would undermine the school's attempts to socialise male learners through sport to be ‘masculine’ and not ‘feminine’. […] By arbitrating between different kinds of masculinity and femininity, sportocratic schools provide the context for the masculinity associated with certain ‘male sports’ to become dominant or hegemonic (Kidd, 1990).

• 2007, Gamal Abdel-Shehid, “Welcome to the ‘sportocracy’: ‘Race’ and sport after innocence”, in Jennifer Hargreaves, Patricia Vertinsky, editors, Physical Culture, Power, and the Body (Routledge Critical Studies in Sport), London: Routledge, →ISBN, pages 196–198:

  It is thus no accident that the re-emergence of United States’ imperialism has taken a ‘sportocratic’ tone. […] Thus the singular nature of ‘sportocratic’ thinking cannot consider the ways that identity cuts across all of the presumably discrete fields of identity – such as religion, history, class, ‘race’, and sexuality.

• 2010, Sean Smith, “Sport in the Wires: Abstraction, Integration, Efficiency”, in Marina Levina, Grant Kien, editors, Post-Global Network and Everyday Life, New York: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 136:

  While statistics became even more relevant to the economic system of baseball and assumed greater significance in creating the sportocratic vitae of this newly mobile labour, an increase in labour mobility also meant that a greater number of athletes would end up wearing a particular jersey number for a given team over a period of time, which challenged its usefulness as an administrative solution, particularly in creating and maintaining archival data over longer periods of time.

• 2006 November 28, Patricia Vertinsky, Jennifer Hargreaves, Physical Culture, Power, and the Body, Routledge, →ISBN, page 200:

  Gilroy calls upon our humanist consciousness in order to work against the 'sportocratic' idea of singularity altogether, and to focus more on the multiple and polyvalent nature of 'race' in [...] This concept is crucial to moving away from the 'sportocratic' singularization of black male bodies in sport. Such a move would open up the discussion about sport and […]

• 2011 June 29, Steve Redhead, We Have Never Been Postmodern, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 103:

  Some might even argue that the twenty-first century is an era of 'sportocratic condition', but that would be to compound the essentialism associated with those who would endorse the idea of a 'dromocratic condition' or a 'postmodern condition'. Nonetheless, the notion of 'sportocracy' may prove […]