Education, Politics and Public Life: Consumption and the Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism

Newman, J.; Giardina, M.

Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation critically interrogates stockcar racing's ascendance into the upper-echelon of the North American sporting popular. While most contributions to the public discourse gloss over NASCAR's exclusively white racial identity politics, its underlying patriarchal gender politics, its overtly conservative political commitment, its hyper-Christian orthodoxy, and its omnipresent commercialism, this book connects the dots and critically analyzes the problematic nature of this non-natural, strategically-orchestrated sporting spectacle.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2011-11-08

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230115194

DOI: 10.1057/9780230338081

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 288