The I in Team : Sports Fandom and the Reproduction of Identity / Erin C. Tarver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tarver, Erin C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports spectators--United States.

Sports spectators.

Fans (Persons)--United States.

Fans (Persons).

Identity (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

There is one sound that will always be loudest in sports. It isn't the squeak of sneakers or the crunch of helmets; it isn't the grunts or even the stadium music. It's the deafening roar of sports fans. For those few among us on the outside, sports fandom-with its war paint and pennants, its pricey cable TV packages and esoteric stats reeled off like code-looks highly irrational, entertainment gone overboard. But as Erin C. Tarver demonstrates in this book, sports fandom has become extraordinarily important to our psyche, a matter of the very essence of who we are. Why in the world, Tarver asks, would anyone care about how well a total stranger can throw a ball, or hit one with a bat, or toss one through a hoop? Because such activities and the massive public events that surround them form some of the most meaningful ritual identity practices we have today. They are a primary way we-as individuals and a collective-decide both who we are who we are not. And as such, they are also one of the key ways that various social structures-such as race and gender hierarchies-are sustained, lending a dark side to the joys of being a sports fan. Drawing on everything from philosophy to sociology to sports history, she offers a profound exploration of the significance of sports in contemporary life, showing us just how high the stakes of the game are.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Sports Fandom and Identity

1. Who Is a Fan?

2. Sports Fandom as Practice of Subjectivization

3. Putting the "We" in "We're Number One": Mascots, Team, and Community Identity

4. Hero or Mascot? Fantasies of Identifi cation

5. "Honey Badger Takes What He Wants": Southern Collegiate Athletics and the Mascotting of Black Masculinity

6. From Mascot to Danger

7. Women on the Margins of Sports Fandom

Acknowledgments

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

0-226-47013-X

OCLC:

988326285