The history and politics of motor racing : lives in the fast lane / Damion Sturm, Stephen Wagg, David L. Andrews, editors.
Sturm, Damion, editor.; Wagg, Stephen, editor.; Andrews, David L., editor.
2023
GV1019.2
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Title The history and politics of motor racing : lives in the fast lane / Damion Sturm, Stephen Wagg, David L. Andrews, editors.
ISBN 9783031228254 (electronic bk.)
3031228251 (electronic bk.)
3031228243
9783031228247
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22825-4
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxix, 771 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-22825-4 doi
Call Number GV1019.2
Dewey Decimal Classification 796.709
Summary "This expansive volume stands as the definitive scholarly work on the global motorsport industry to date. The broad scope of subject matter is comprehensive, providing significant theoretical and empirical insights into the complex dynamics shaping the relationship between motorsport and society." Mark Lowes, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, University of Ottawa, Canada This compelling collection deftly maps the social, political, and economic contours of racing from local grassroots events to such international spectacles as Formula One racing to provide much-needed, critical attention on motorsportswhich to date have received insufficient scholarly attention. Mary G. McDonald, Homer C. Rice Chair in Sports and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA This book explores the history and politics of motor racing, one of the most popular and lucrative elements in the international sport industry. Written by a group of international scholars and motor racing specialists it discusses the sports origins, the relationship of motor racing to nation building and modernity (noting its links to fascism and dictatorship), the links between motor racing and the automobile industry, motor racing and the politics both of gender and of race, motor racing, the media and postmodernity, and motor racing, the spatial and globalization. This book speaks to scholars in history, politics, sport studies, the sociology of sport, sport management and cultural studies, along with the many lay readers who are interested in the relationship between motor sport and society. Damion Sturm is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Management at Massey University (Auckland, New Zealand).With a specialisation in global sport media cultures (inclusive of celebrity, fan and material cultures), he recently co-edited Sport in Aotearoa New Zealand: Contested Terrain (with Roslyn Kerr, 2022), co-authored Media, Masculinities and the Machine (with Dan Fleming, 2011), and has published works on mediatisation, technological innovations and sporting events (Formula One, the Indy 500, Formula E, Formula One eSports, cricket, rugby league and the Americas Cup). Stephen Wagg retired as Professor of Sport and Society at Leeds Beckett University, UK, in 2019. He is now an Honorary Fellow in the International Centre for Sport History and Culture at De Montfort University in Leicester. He has written widely on the politics of sport, of childhood and of comedy. His latest book is Cricket: A Political History of the Global Game 1945-2017 (2018). David L. Andrews is Professor of Physical Cultural Studies in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. His research contextualizes sport and physical culture in relation to the intersecting cultural, political, economic, and technological forces shaping contemporary society. His books include: Making Sport Great Again?: The Uber-Sport Assemblage, Neoliberalism, and the Trump Conjuncture (2019, Palgrave Macmillan), The Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies (2017), and Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body: Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies (2020).
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Wagg, Stephen, editor.
Andrews, David L., editor.
Series Global culture and sport.
Available in Other Form HISTORY AND POLITICS OF MOTOR RACING.
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1. Introduction
SECTION I: THE ORIGINS OF MOTOR SPORT. 2. The Origins of Motor Sport in France: Sites of Racing Memory
3. The long winding road to stability and innovation. The politics and development of the World Rally Championship
SECTION II: THE EARLY POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF MOTOR RACING - 4. Racing and Racism: German Motorsport and the Third Reich
5. Henry Ford and the Rise of US Motorsport
6. The Fascist Race Par Excellence: Fascism and the Mille Miglia
7. Vargas, Pern and Motor Sport: a Comparative Study of South American Populism
SECTION III: MOTOR RACING AND THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY - 8. Politics, Motor Sport and the Italian Car Industry, 1893-1947
9. British Motor Sport and the Rise of the Garagisti
SECTION IV: MOTOR RACING AND THE POLITICS OF GENDER
10. It Was Ironic He Should Have Died in Bed: Racing Drivers, Masculinity and the Politics of Safety
11. From Power Puff to W Series: The Evolution of Women-Only Racing
12. The Awkward Gender Politics of Formula 1 as a Promotional Space. The Grid Girls issue
SECTION V: MOTOR RACING AND THE POLITICS OF RACE - 13. A Political and Economic Analysis of South Africas Historical Relationship with Formula One Motor Racing, 19341993
14. Recovering the Black Geographies of Motorsports: The Counter-Mobility Work of NASCARs Wendell Scott
15. Can the Formula One Driver Speak? Lewis Hamilton, Race and the Resurrection of the Black Athlete
SECTION VI: MOTOR RACING, THE MEDIA, AND POSTMODERNITY - 16. Formula One as Television
17. The Shifting Landscape of Sponsorship within Formula 1
18. Men love women, but even more than that, men love cars: Motor Racing on Film
19. Who DYou Think You Are? Stirling Moss? British Racing Drivers and the Politics of Celebrity: 1896 to 1992
20. The star in the car: Formula One Stardom, Driver Agency and Celebrity Culture
21. Neoliberal Interpellation in the F1 2018 Video Game
22. Ecclestone out, Liberty Media in. An Analysis of the Shifting Ownership Structure of Formula One
SECTION VII: THE GLOBALISATION OF MOTOR RACING - 23. The Circus Comes to Town: Formula 1, Globalization, and the Uber-Sport Spectacle
24. Circuits of Capital: The Spatial Development of Formula One Racetracks
25. Formula 1 as a Vehicle for Urban Transformation in China: State Entrepreneurialism and the Re-Imaging of Shanghai
26. Event on the Streets: the Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix and the Commodification of Urban Space in Baku
27. Motor Sport in the Middle East: Business and Political Rivalries in the Arabian Gulf
28. Stray dogs and luxury taxes: What happened to the Indian Grand Prix?
29. Formula One and the Insanity of Car-Based Transportation.

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