106-454 Global Sports

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Subject Description

This subject considers a range of international sporting events both thematically and individually. These range from capital intensive projects such as the world heavyweight boxing championship with its emphasis on gender to international cricket with its coded discourse of race and imperialism. The subject looks at how traditional cultures of particular sports resist, adapt to, or are intrinsically amenable to the demands of consumer capitalism and examines the relation between international sport and other forms of popular entertainment. It also looks at how international sports both challenge and confirm stereotypes of race, gender and class and examines international sport as a site which operates through intersecting narratives of class, national identity, race and gender.

Assessment

Written work of not more than 6000 words.