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Playing Through Pain: The Violent Consequences of Capitalist Sport

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Availability:In StockContributor:Daniel SailofskyPublish date:2025-05-06Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9781469685878ISBN-10:1469685876UPC:9781469685878Book Category:Social Science, Sports & Recreation, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Violence in Society, History, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:CapitalismSize:9.20 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCZ13VH5G7
For many fans and casual observers, professional sports and violence are deeply connected. Violence on the field has real consequences for players, notably in the form of life-altering injuries from concussions. Off the field, in the last several decades, scores of athletes have committed violent acts, from domestic abuse and sexual assault to animal abuse and murder. Beyond athletes, sport also serves as a site of political and structural violence, from the displacement and hyperpolicing of everyday people for mega-events to the "sportswashing" of environmentally harmful industries.

Daniel Sailofsky examines the endemic violence in professional sports and argues that--while related to masculinity, misogyny, and individual factors like alcohol consumption and gambling--it is most intimately tied to capitalism and to capitalist modes of consumption and profit. Sailofsky explains how capitalism creates the conditions for violence to thrive and uncovers how sports leaders--coaches, league officials, and team owners--obfuscate these relationships to avoid accountability.

From minor league baseball exploitation to spectator hooliganism, Sailofsky shows the connections between the business of sports and violence, but also, more importantly, he imagines new forms of sport that are not places of harm.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9781469685878ISBN-10:1469685876UPC:9781469685878Book Category:Social Science, Sports & Recreation, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Violence in Society, History, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:CapitalismSize:9.20 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCZ13VH5G7
Daniel Sailofsky is assistant professor of kinesiology and physical education at the University of Toronto.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

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